happy easter!

Didn't make it to any Easter egg hunt this year....But we did get dressed up for Easter Sunday! We had a late night on Saturday and had to get up super early to make it to worship practice on Sunday morning. Mak was very reluctant to put on her Easter outfit. She wanted to remain in her Elmo PJs and stay in bed. Fortunately, with a few words of encouragement/praise (ie: wow, you look soooo pretty in that dress! Oh, see you have three flowers!) and some bribery (ie: want chocolate milk? how about chocolate cheerios? want iPhone?), we were able to get dressed and get out the door in a semi-timely manner for Easter Sunday worship rehearsal! Phew! :)

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! :)

learning to pray

Makayla has always been really good with praying - doing praying hands, sitting quiet and still even if the prayer is long. Recently, she's learned to close her eyes too! And depending on what language the prayer is, she'd say "Amen" or "Ah moon" afterwards. Here's a video of Mak praying with a group of Chinese aunties and uncles from her great grandma's church during our visit to Vancouver BC last weekend.

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.

Now I know my ABCs...

Mak has mastered the ABCs (toddler style). She can recognize all the letters and pronounce them well enough so you know what she's trying to say. Whenever she sees letters, she'd start reading them and singing The ABC song.

She also associates letters with words. A apple...W walrus...Z zebra...Between the alphabet puzzle, YouTube videos and kumon flash cards (which she still thinks are fun) she's picked up a lot of new words lately.

She's also starting to put words together and make short sentences like...

"More yok yok (meat), no rice"
"Play food"
"two bears"

These last couple of days, she said several Chinese words that I was surprised she knew...

Choh - sit
Toh jue - hold hands
Cheui - take off (clothes for bath)

Mak also picked up some Cantonese intonations at the end of verbs like...

wahn AH - let's play
bao LA - I'm full
po AH - pick me up

It's amazon how fast the little brain is learning and absorbing every day!

dress up