Chinese New Year

Here are a few pictures from Chinese New Year. Alex is in such high motion these days that it is hard to get her to slow down to take a good picture. Her little Rock My Bao Bao class got up on stage and did 2 songs. Now usually during class she doesn't have much of an attention span so when we are doing songs she will do half and then she is wanting to go play with all the toys in the classroom so really I did not have high expectations for her during the performance on stage.
WOW-- did she surprise me. She got up on that stage and put on a performance that rivaled Liza Minelli. She danced and sang and had no stage fright whatsoever. I thought she would be shy and I would have to hold her the whole time. No way!!!
We had a great time and all the little girls looked so cute in their "Chinese Silks". I got Alex's dress when we were in China.

Chinese New Year 2008 (Toddler performance)

First Haircut

Alex had her first haircut yesterday. I must say Todd and I had high hopes but low expectations on how she would do for the whole thing. She is really hit or miss with new people and if she gets it in her mind that she does not want to do something she won't do it. And sometimes she is really standoffish with new people and sometimes she just warms right up to them. So we were a little leery. I also had been preparing Alex for a few days beforehand talking it up and telling her they had balloons and suckers if she was a good girl. I had also packed her backpack full of snacks in an effort to bribe her to goodness if necessary (yes I did-- sometimes a mom has to do what a mom has to do).

But it was all for naught-- she was the perfect little angel. The hairdresser asked her if she wanted to watch Dora and I think that was all it took. She climbed right up in that chair, TALKED to the girl, COOPERATED fully, smiled for pictures, watched the video, let them put the "princess"cape on her and then they cut her hair. Todd and I were like-- who is this little sweetheart. She is usually pretty good but this was amazing. I definitely think it helped that they had all the goodies for kids (it was a kid's hair place). We were in and out of there in 30 minutes. Yea!!!!

Here she is doing "crab pinchers" to the Dora show that was on. She was so good.


Here is Alex with her new hairdresser Amy. Thank you Amy. You were awesome.

A girl after my own heart

My daughter loves chocolate. We shared a piece of chocolate cake and she ate with gusto. Her favorite part is the frosting, of course. The picture below she is actually saying "Cheese".

2 Cute Girls

For any of you that read the Buckeyes and Eggrolls Blog, we got to meet them today. Alex loved Maddy. As you can see below, they were giving each other hugs and kisses galore. It was very cute. We had a great time getting to know them.

Hats

Alex loves hats. She will ask me for a hat all the time and then keep it on for quite a while. Here we are just getting ready to go to our Rock My Bao Bao class and then meet our new Blogger friends for lunch. I asked Alex if I could take her picture and she surprisingly said yes and posed. I just love that smile.

I hate Chucky Cheese

So my friend Cara and I decided to take our kids to Chucky Cheese on a Saturday at noon. Why did no one warn me of the horribleness of it all. The line was out the door and it was about 7 degrees out. There were kids just running all over and the parents just let them. It was so obnoxious I don't know if I can bring myself to ever go back. But our kids seemed to have fun and we did get some cute pictures. So here are Dayle, Alex, and Myles whooping it up at Chucky Cheese.

This is what I get

This is what I get when I say "let me take your picture". If 2 is this can you imagine what 15 will be like?

How cute is this????

Whipped Cream

I must say this is a new favorite thing at our house. Alex goes to the refrigerator, opens it, points to the can of spray whip cream, points to her mouth and makes the crrrrrrrrr sound. It is so funny. I think I may have created a monster. I also put it on her finger and she says " taaaa Mommy" to you lay people that means tall. She wants it very tall. I just crack up.

Glitter Girls

I watched my friend Cara's kids the other day and her daughter Dayle brought her new makeup with her to play with. Needless to say, Alex was in heaven as she LOVES any kind of makeup be it lipstick, eyeshadow, blush, eyelash curler, perfume-- anything. So they had fun applying the makeup to themselves and me. I think I found glitter on me for at least 3 days. It was very fun. I love this picture-- it doesn't quite show the amount of glitter they have on but you get the general idea.

Mommy-- backpack, bus

Yes, those 3 words I hear about 200 times a day. My daughter is obsessed with her backpack and wants to go to school on the bus. She says it constantly. I guess it could be worse. At least she is not using cuss words constantly. Anyway-- here are 2 cute pictures of the girl who hates to pose for the camera, posing because she loves her backpack.
(She got 3 backpacks for Christmas, 2 different Dora ones and this one which I got at the Chinese Christmas party for the local FCC group. It has one of the characters that is on all the products from the Beijing Olympics this year.)