10/12/2018

We continued offering 360 cups to the girls for milk. Mimi pointed at the baby bottles and "wahh wahh" wailed. She refused to drink. We gave them straws with open cup. The girls would sip, but not swallow. They shared 1/2 cup milk.

I played some new music videos in the morning, the girls were intrigued. Mimi like the 小兔子乖乖 with new video. After the wolf was turned away and bunny ma ma walked towards the house, she lifted her fist to her cheek, pointed out one finger, said sternly "兔妈妈回来了, 她不许大灰狼来的".

I played even more new music videos in the car, the girls were very intrigued. Every time a video ended, ella said "要等时间哦". One time she lifted a finger and wiggled.

James started drinking coffee. Ella immediately asked "这是什么味道?". We had a conversation about coffee. Afterwards, Ella sat back, said "Ella用Ella的鼻子闻了一下", she then took a deep sniff. I asked what she smelt. She said "是爸爸咖啡的味道".

At work, ba ba received phone call from Haleemah. Apparently Ella was very distraught at daycare, kept repeating what sounded like "tissue". Ba ba guessed it might have been "吃圈" and she was hungry. Haleemah called back after a bit and and reported Ella had calmed down.

At the daycare gate, as usual Mimi requested me to pick blackberry. She asked for red. I picked one for her and one for Ella. Ella wouldn't touch hers, said "Ella现在讨厌红的".

When putting Ella in the car, I brushed her cheek. She said "no no". I asked if I could play with her little checks. She said  "我的可爱小脸儿不给你玩儿". Then, "我玩儿你的可爱小脸儿". And poked me on the cheek.

We arrived at Microsoft. I carried Ella out of the car. She held my neck, softly said "我想看鱼". I asked her to call Mimi. She loudly yelled "Mimi 我们去看鱼吗."  Mimi was near building 36 door. Mimi yelled "看鱼看鱼" and ran back. 

We went to the pond. The girls searched for fish, found one swimming towards them. Ella yelled "鱼姥姥! 找到鱼姥姥了"。 After some time, she said "我看到了一条鱼孤单。孤单没有朋友了"。 Mimi kept yelling "大鱼! 太大了". Another fish swan towards us. The girls called it "姥爷鱼". 

We found a table near the pond and had some snacks. We first had oranges. When Ella saw the oranges, she happily said said "两个小人儿想吃橘子". She dropped her boot from bouncing excitedly. She looked down, said "这个小人儿的靴子掉了". After orange we had some bread. At last I offered them a kind bar. The girls seemed to love it, crackled and ate. Mimi said "la la 好甜甜".  She said it so cutely, I brushed her cheek. She said "不可以摸脸蛋儿。 被妈妈摸痛了"。Ella asked "这是microsoft的吗". The girls finished the bar. I asked Mimi if she could finish more of the previous food. She said "可以". I asked "可以吃旧的苹果吗?" Mimi said "不可以吃旧的苹果。也不可以吃旧的面包". We concluded snack and made our way back to 36 to meet lao lao.  

Ella was running to lao lao. She suddenly stopped, looked around herself, said "Ella没有影子". Her shadow was right behind her.

We forced the girls to use new bottles for milk again. Again much struggle. Ella spilled some. She said "oh, 对不起小脸蛋儿, 对不起小下巴". I showed her she spilled on the ground too and offered her some tissues. She said "oh? .. oh? .. oh!". Took the tissue, cleaned extremely diligently. She pushed and rubbed fast and hard, cleaned up all of it.

The girls fought while watching ipad at the window, it was a fight about screen angle as usual. The ipad fell from the window sill. Ella picked it up, said "oh, sowry 小pad pad". She grabbed it from the short sides, and couldn't figure out how to put it back horizontally. She tiled the ipad left and right, her whole body left and right. After some tries she looked at me and cerned. I put the ipad back. The girls resumed watching.