Fei wore this pink dress to pre-school. It was a bit short on Missy.
Princess Lili
Princess Fei
Opps, wrong end baby.
How hillarious is that?!
Eric's younger sister and family moved in for a few days last week and now they're in their RV at our place. The first week was crazy busy with five kids and three dogs in the house. Now that they have their own space and we have ours it's getting better. I have no idea how long they'll be there. While they're there we're getting our front retaining wall done with rocks. They have an excavator. The old wooden wall was pushed out by our neighbor and it's now dangerously close to falling over into the other neighbors front yard. Not a job I'm excited about and not one I like paying for but it's got to be done.
The girls had two B-day parties to go to last weekend, one was bowling for Meili and Jia thought that was pretty cool. She didn't bowl but she wanted to! When we were leaving the lanes had switched to Rock and Glow and the girls have been bugging me to go to Rock and Glow so we have five girls going tonight. Then on Sunday we went to Deanna's party at Lizzie Lee and Me. Awesome. The girls both really enjoyed the Princess theme. Jia will SOOO have a party there one day.
This weekend kicks off our Chinese New Year celebrations. Busy, busy days. We decorated this week and filled our red envelopes, 85 of them this year. While I had the girls working so diligently last night on the red envelopes I snuck in valentines too. They got it all done! All in bags ready to go to their classrooms.
Jia is changing so much. She is full on walking now and is starting to run. I have to chase her occassionally! She has learned that 'dis' is the thing in your hand and 'dat' is the thing you are pointing at. She's added some more words, hot, shhhh, baby, Bel (for Isabel) and the cutest one is 'paweejsh' (please). She still won't say 'no' but she shakes her head no now. She is soooo busy. She's still eating everything in sight and it's still common for her to sit and eat for a whole hour. She loves her high chair and rarely fusses when she is sitting there. She's moved into size 4 pampers. Lili and Fei never moved out of 3's. Yesterday Lili reminded me of a tlc show we watched with the worlds tallest girl and she was genuinely concerned that this is what was going to happen to Jia. Funny. I was happy to reassure her that Jia wouldn't get that tall. It's hard to explain that their 12mo. old sister who is 90% on the chart is likely a few months older and really only 25% on the chart, so possibly a small girl.
We've been working with an interventionist with Fei for a few weeks now. Lisa comes on Tuesdays. We had our doubts but she has totally pinpointed the areas that Fei needs help with and does games, stories and strategies designed to help. I'm impressed and feeling hopeful.
Plans are underway for Fei's 8th Birthday. We took some great photos of her with a bunch of polar bears to use on her invite. We do have fun times around our place.
Now to figure out how to get the traditional hair cuts done on this busy weekend. Oh, and we have to color our Kitchen Gods still. The girls are really into the celebrations and traditions this year. That does make it so much more fun.
Miss Fei lost another tooth, that's two in the last week. Oh and the big girls babysat Grandma's dogs and got paid. They spent their money right away. Lili bought a webkinz wolf. Not because she wanted a webkinz, she just wanted a wolf. Fei bought a webkinz hamster. She was loving him like crazy until Isabel took him and now apparently the hamster 'Cheeky' smells like Isabel's mouth and she won't touch him. I did give him a wash but I'm going to have to really bathe Cheeky this weekend apparently.
