A conversation between mommy and jade.
- You are my favorite, jade! 妈妈最喜欢你了！
- No, that's not correct. 不对不对
- Then who's my favorite? 那妈妈最喜欢谁呢？
- Daddy is your favorite! 妈妈最喜欢爸爸。
爱上我的家
Monday, October 29, 2012
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Heehaw Farm 2012
Hee Haw Farm is still fun this year, especially because we won a free pass :-)
Here's the ranking of Jade's favorite activities. The ranking is based on how much she talked about it during her chat with mommy before bed.
#1 Corn Box
#2 Water pump
# 3 Animal Farm
#4 Giant Slide
#5 Watching people throwing pumpkins from the sky
#6 Tractor Ride
#7 Horse swing
Friday, October 26, 2012
Last October Weekend
Last weekend in October, we had the first snow of the year.
Uncle Owen came to SLC for an interview, and we got to visit him for a couple days.
Jade had fun at the Halloween party in the mall.
She got to play with glue sticks, listen to Halloween stories, and sit on giant pumpkins.
We even got a free family pass to Heehaw Farm :)
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Nice little weekend
Jade and Eli went on a little date to the Farmer's market.
They are so cute handing hands together.
Jade played with mommy's chap stick very happily.
Now that the weather is colder, hotpot is back on table, almost every week.
Megan bought this sticky fruit, called Durian. It tastes like stinky tofu.
John doesn't think so. He thinks it's creamy sweet nastiness.
He tried some and didn't throw up.
Jade came back from church and found herself a nice spot in daddy's truck.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
The Promised Ice Cream
Here's daddy's facebook post about the whole event.
"I had promised Jade ice cream with lunch, and I had a free frappe from McDonald's coming to me. So we went to the play place and I got a caramel frappe and gave it to Jade. Most of you are probably already sighing at my stupidity. She drank about a quarter of it with her chicken nuggets and then went off to play. When we were leaving she wanted some more. Not having had a single sip myself, I gave
FYI jade, here're people's comments.
"I had promised Jade ice cream with lunch, and I had a free frappe from McDonald's coming to me. So we went to the play place and I got a caramel frappe and gave it to Jade. Most of you are probably already sighing at my stupidity. She drank about a quarter of it with her chicken nuggets and then went off to play. When we were leaving she wanted some more. Not having had a single sip myself, I gave
it to her to have a little more. I planned to dump it in the trash on the way to the car. Well I had won a free redbox movie so we stopped there and while I found Kung Fu Panda 2 for her she managed to drain the rest of the frappe. At that point I was thinking, wow that's a lot of sugar I hope I can still get her to take a nap in an hour. Well, she had missed her nap the day before, and an hour later the sugar crash was in full effect. It was a fight, but she went down for a nap. Although she should have been really tired she only slept for half the time she usually does. No big deal. 9pm rolls around and this girl is still bouncing off the walls. I'm thinking that it can't possibly be the sugar. It's been 8 hours since she ate that. Then it hit me, I quickly Googled it, and my fears were confirmed. Blame my sheltered Mormon life if you want, but I didn't realize that the caramel frappe would have caffeine in it. I gave my toddler 16 ounces of caffeinated caramel ice cream. She is beyond giddy. If she took an ADD test right now she would set new records."
FYI jade, here're people's comments.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Little smartie pants
As part of Jade's bed time routine, we talk about what she did during the day. I apply the Berlitz method of language teaching in our conversation, which is to ask lots of wh- questions. She can pretty accurately recount her whole day activity with lots of details. I'm amazed at how quickly her language is developing. I'm also amazed by the fact that she can carry on a nice long conversation with me. Such a smart kid!
Monday, October 8, 2012
Conference Weekend
Mommy took Friday off and took the FSO test with daddy. It's daddy's third try and mommy's first. Mommy will probably fail miserably this time. Hopefully third time is the charm for daddy.
We continued our conference week end tradition and made a big breakfast while listening to conference. We also made dumplings for lunch. Poor Daddy is feeling sick. And he even got a flu shot. Hopefully we won't all get his germs.
Love the fall colors, the coolness during the day, but not the cold air in the morning and at night.
We continued our conference week end tradition and made a big breakfast while listening to conference. We also made dumplings for lunch. Poor Daddy is feeling sick. And he even got a flu shot. Hopefully we won't all get his germs.
Love the fall colors, the coolness during the day, but not the cold air in the morning and at night.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Finally some pics of John on his bike
Our neighbor and former landlord Braxton Wilhelmson is a photographer. He had an assignment to photograph a bunch of different sports. I volunteered to do a shoot with him of me riding the trails at The Canyons Bike Park in Park City. I wound up pushing my bike up the same small sections of trail a few dozen times trying to get decent shots. In the end we did OK. Next time, and I hope there is a next time, I'll be a much more exciting model to shoot :)
Pushing the bike back up the hill for yet another take.
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