Bento

Natalie has been staying at daycare all by herself for almost a month (my nanny used to stay there with her before she resigned). Besides she doesn't like going to daycare (I have been avoiding to talk about this topic because this is a very long one to blog ), one of the challenges is she doesn't eat her lunch. Sometimes she eats only a few bites and the lunch box looks untouched, sometimes she eats about half of it. So, every night when I prepare her lunch box, I try to put in many varieties and hoping that she will be interested in at least one of them the next day. However, it is quite hard to figure out what she'll eat. I see her eating one thing one day, when I give the same thing to her again the following week, she doesn't eat it anymore .

I have also tried making the lunch looks cute (like the picture shown here). As you see, there's scallion pancake, pork w/ mushroom, sweet potato (cut in flower shape and bear shape), edamame and salmon rice ball. But she only ate about 1/3 of it, and most of what she ate was scallion pancake (she likes anything that's similar to pizza).

Sigh ... I guess I just have to keep trying until I have figured out a set of food items that she will definitely eat at daycare ... .

Our First Christmas Tree

From November2008

What did you do on Thanksgiving Day? We put up our first X'mas tree. This is not only Natalie's first X'mas tree, but it's also my first X'mas tree. I have never put up a X'mas tree in my life. It's a good time to put it up this year because I read a couple books to Natalie about X'mas that have X'mas tree in them. She got interested in X'mas trees and she always wants to check them out while we're in stores that sell X'mas trees. It was fun hanging the ornaments on the tree, we also asked Natalie to help hanging the ornaments. She seemed having a lot of fun with it .

What do you think about our first X'mas tree? Not bad, huh?

Goodbye Kwan Yee

From November2008

Kwan Yee was our nanny. Her last day of work was on November 26. But even about a week ago, Natalie had sensed that Kwan Yee would be leaving her for good. So, every evening when Kwan Yee went home, Natalie would hold on to Kwan Yee's finger and wouldn't let go. She would say, "Kwan Yee, Kwan Yee" sentimentally, and she would ask Kwan Yee to sleep with her. It was really tough for Natalie to lose her nanny. Even now (which is almost 2 weeks already), Natalie still sometimes says, "I want Kwan Yee" (in Cantonese).

On Kwan Yee's last day of work, she asked Natalie to sing for her. Natalie was really good and sang whatever Kwan Yee asked for (she sang about 5 to 6 songs). Below are 3 of them, one English song, one Mandarin song and one Cantonese song.

From November2008

From November2008

From November2008