Happy Birthday my love!! The girl’s transformation during her life time:
Today baby girl started in K3, the oldest classroom in her preschool.
It still seems like yesterday that I was pregnant with her and how she decided to come out when I was in 32 weeks. This tiny tiny baby with a huge personality is now over 4 years old!
The big girl is a dry duck. It took her two summer worth of pool days for her to let go of our necks in the water. Even though she knows how to swim now, she is never that comfortable in the water. In many ways, I am glad that she is as cautious as she is.
Baby girl is completely opposite. Olivia is fearless and she is all about just pushing people away and dive into the water all by herself. I don’t know what possess me to let her go into the water without her floatie yesterday. She was beaming with glee like she has found her new freedom.
The delight in her eyes concerned me a great deal and I asked Joe to teach her how to swim as if it is his highest priority in parenting. Guess what I found after coming back from Maddy’s piano lesson:
Ahgoon came to swim with us on Sat. Maddy was really looking forward to it because I joked about having them complete in swimming.
It’s these captured moments that I am so very grateful that God has blessed us to have ahgoon/ah-ma so close by:
We’re enjoying the nice spring weather here. The girls schooled, ate dinner, scooted around, chalked drawing in the driveway. They are covered in dusts but as cute as they can be.
We finally made the trip to MD and visited our new cousin Levi. He is a cutie with two big beautiful eyes in blue tints. Big eyes don’t go with Chinese not to mention colors other than brown. As expected, my sister Betty handles motherhood with grace and calm.
Levi is a typical healthy baby. He sleeps, drinks, and pees/poops in the baby 3-hr cycles. The little boy has an obsession with ceiling light and he gets so mad if he can’t see the light. Their two doggies Tanner and Peanut are sweet to the baby. The girls have much more interests with the dogs than Levi. Poor Peanut is traumatized by Livy because all she wanted to do is following her and brush her like a baby doll.
We had a wonderful time with the Curry’s and were sad that the weekend ended rather quickly. I do have to admit that while Levi is as cute as a baby can get, I am glad that I’ve passed that stage of life. All power to you, Auntie Betty!!
March is “Music In School” Month, and Maddy performed one of her piano pieces today in school:
Madison turns 6 1/2 years old today. We went out and celebrated in our favorite Korean Restaurant and she got their big shaved ice for dessert (which she shared with all of us).
Happy Half Birthday to you, my sweet girl!
Livy started P3 (the 4 yr olds) class this week. She walked into her new class, full of confidence packed in that little petite body. The child even got a new backpack to replace her school tote.
Here she is carrying the backpack as big as she is, and sporting her new short do. Our baby is all grown up.
First grade has been a signaficant milestone for Maddy when it comes to reading. She has really changed from this timid, afraid to sound out new words child to a confident and almost fluent reader. Her latest book is Amelia Bedelia, stories of a silly housekeeper who takes every request ‘literally’. It is wonderful to watch the girl enjoy the book rather than labor in reading.
