sing-along with Mak (cont'd)

Silent Night


Deep and Wide (3yrs)

compared to Deep and Wide at 2yrs old

I Love You (3yrs)

compared to I Love You at 2yrs old

sing-along with Mak: Chinese version

Me: Makayla, what's Barbie in Chinese? (a question she asked me before)
Mak answered with this completely unrelated orginal song ("ching wah" = frog in Chinese)



Humpty Dumpty is one of Makayla's favorite nursery rhymes. And she loves to create new verses to it like this one. ("mah lau" = monkey in Chinese)

 

read-along with Mak: How Much Do I Love You?

Here's Makayla reading one of her favorite books.

sing-along with Mak (con't)

Compared to ABCs at 2.5yrs

sing-along with Mak - nursery rhyme edition

Makayla has been in love with nursery rhymes lately. At any given time of the day, you can catch her reciting, watching, singing, dancing to (with or without music), or acting out a nursery rhyme...yes, I was assigned to be Humpty Dumpty once and was instructed to fall off the bed. I had to veto her idea of making Maya next so we used Elmo instead. Sometimes she switches melodies or words and make up her own song/rhyme.

For bedtime stories, guess what we've been reading every day? "Mother Goose", "My First Mother Goose Book" and what ever other nursery rhyme book we have. Yup, never gets old! One night we decided to record our readings for the night. Enjoy! (more to come)

Mary Had a Little Lamb


Hot Cross Buns


To Market To Market


Jack & Jill


Pat-A-Cake



Jack Be Nimble

...more to come...

Baa Baa Black Sheep
Humpty Dumpty

imagine children's museum

We had a great time celebrating our friend, Jubiliee's 5th birthday and playing at the Imagine Children's Museum. There were lots of really cool stuff everywhere...much newer and cleaner than the Seattle Children's Museum. The only drawback is it's bit far (Everett)...but we're definitely going to go back to again! Three hours of playing later, Mak said, "I had so much fun!"

more painting fun!

This is a special request from Mak to draw the song "Jesus Loves the Little Children". I'm sure I didn't do Jesus justice but I hope he'll understand.

homemade playdoh

Mak loves playing playdoh so we tried making some at home. Overall, it was pretty successful except for the excessive oil (should have used 2/3 as much oil than what the recipe asks for). Oh well, added more flour and now we have enough playdoh to last for a whole year! Check out Mak's favorite things to make - pizza and sandwich/burgers!

Maya had a good time watching all the playdoh action!

mak-o-lantern

our little artist in residence

"Gung Gung"

"Mommy & Daddy"

"Untitled"

"Ice Cream & Sprintles 1" - Mak pronounces her 'k' sound as 't'

"Ice Cream & Sprintles 2"

self portraits

By our little artist in residence...

dancing mak...funky town

Age: 2yrs 4 months
Song: Funky Town
Location: Yeye mama's house

 

sing-along with mak (part 2)

Do Re Mi

Deep and Wide

Edelweiss

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

sing-along with mak (part 1)

A surprisingly cooperative (and strapped in with no where to go) Makayla actually let me record her sing (almost) all the songs she knows! Here's the first of two series of songs! Enjoy and sing-along! :)

ABC
  

Baba Black Sheep

 B-I-B-L-E


 Head Shoulders Knees & Toes


 I Love You


Itsy Bitsy Spider


 Jesus Loves the Little Children


...to be continued...

dancing mak...firework

Age: 2yrs 3 months
Song: Firework
Location: Radio Disney event at Factoria Mall

Mak had a great time dancing at Radio Disney event last Sat with cousins, Marvin & Mavis. Check out Marvin's awesome moves half way into the video!

dancing mak...poker face

Age: 2yrs 3 months
Song: Poker Face
Location: Grandma/pa Wong's

Amateur iPhone user/videographer (ie: me) covered the mic so volumne is way down. Just sing it in your head and imaging Mak dancing along! :)

strawberries

Makayla loves fruit, but she definitely goes crazy over strawberries. If we left her alone with a 1 lb box of strawberries, she'd eat the whole thing by herself. We have to show her that there's actually no more left before she stops asking for more.

Today she counted the strawberries in her bowl (6 of them) and then found the biggest one, held it up and said "big!" She kept holding it up and I finally realized that she wanted to give it to me. So cute.

flower girl

Mak was invited to be a flower girl at her first cousins' Ian & Kyla's wedding on June 10, 2012. (Thanks Ian & Kyla!!!)

Usually, Mak doesn't like putting on dresses but this time, she willingly let me put this on her. I think she realizes it's a special dress because she immediately broke out in dance and twirls. She enjoyed posing in front of the mirror and the camera for the next 20-30 minutes.

dancing mak (con't)

age: 23.5 months
song: Poison (Dance Central)

Fast forward original video to 1:29 and play Mak's video for an interesting comparison!

Original video:


Mak's version:

Makayla dances to "Poison" from Jeremy Wong on Vimeo.

bun in the oven

"What?!" you ask, but it's not what you think, it's more like this:


Mak did this on her own. I have no idea how she thought about doing this because normally she only re-enacts something that she's seen someone do. This time it's a Mak original.