ElMi logs

I woke up and went downstairs to the bathroom. Mimi kept running into the bathroom to give me "大机器。" Probably referring to the 小人儿帮藏书 book's construction machines. She would count from 1 to 20, skipping many in the middle, then say "站起来" or "立起来。" Possibly referring to the construction scenes. The girls play pretended hai bao ba ba and hai bao ma ma. Mimi would throw hai bao down somewhere and run some distance away, Ella would pick hai bao up, repeat "抚摸海豹", "海豹爸爸没了", "wah wah", "我带你去找爸爸", pet hai bao with squeezed face, deliver to Mimi. A few times after Ella presented Mimi the hai bao, Ella wouldn't let go, but after some tucks would give to Mimi. The girls ate frozen berries. After eating Ella refused to wash hands, she de de de ran around the dining table. She plopped down by the 14只老鼠 book by the wall. I warned her to not touch the book with her dirty hands. She poked the book with her foot, said ...

Mimi started bawling around 2. She writhed on the ground, very loud, so I dragged her into the bathroom. After a few minutes, I opened the door, Mimi cried "花被被。" I showed her her blue flower blanket, she reluctantly came back to bed. She asked for ba ba, I said he was sick and couldn't open his eyes, Mimi said "爸爸在地牢里睡觉呢。" Sometime after 5 Mimi started bawling again. I went to their room, Ella was sitting in bed trying to dodge Mimi's kicks, who had gone horizontal with legs on Ella's pillow. I put Mimi in the bathroom again. She again asked for hua bei bei. I lifted her blanket and she crawled back. When I went to leave Ella asked me to sleep beside her. I did and fell asleep soon. I woke up with Ella crawling on me laughing. I left. Sometime after 6 Ella started crying, ba ba went to get her. I heard her cry for ma ma and went into the room. Both girls perked up and ran out of the room. They came downstairs to wild, and lao lao and lao ye came to ...

In the morning Ella came in the bathroom with hai bao, a mischievous smiling face, and closed the door shut. She asked for "要暖和一点", and pointed at the heater. I turned it on. She plopped in front of it chuckling. She then requested me to unfold the ladder, so hai bao could "打开灯关上灯打开灯关上灯打开灯关上灯。" I did and she climbed up, but got distracted by the dragon picture. I finished cleaning up and we came out of the bathroom. I pack my lunch and got James, we headed to the door. Ella stood at the coffee table by the sofa, said "不要打扰我。" I bid her goodbye. She stretched her arms open, said "我们抱抱亲亲拜拜吧。来我的办公室抱抱亲亲吧。" I went over and she gave me a neck hug and lots of kisses, said "我们在我的臭！办公室。" I left, she said "我会想念你的。" Lao lao reminded Mimi we were leaving, Mimi de de de flew ran to us, gave ba ba a huge hug, then give my legs a huge hug. I bent down and brushed her hair and her cheek, so soft. She said in the softest cute voice "我会想念你...

We played at the slides in the toddler room. Mimi went down first. Ella stood at the top, said 我不滑。我在滑梯上面。There was a little boy who spoke Chinese too, and repeated 滑滑。Ella said Mimi在下面哟。你不要下去哟。你不要踢他哟。 We ate corn for lunch. For the first piece, Ella took two bites, then asked for 新的。She ate well on the 2nd and on, finishing all the seeds. Mimi finished all the sandwiches, left thin stripes of the sides. Mimi handed me apple and said she wanted to 去玩水。 Apparently remembered when they peeked after they came in. I asked her if she became wet, play time was over. In that case would she like to play something else. She said 我不想玩儿别的呀。 I informed her to go ahead and I'll catch up with Ella. She waved me bye and slowly went downstairs, they ran towards the water room. Ella showed some indecision about eating apple or going. Eventually decided to give me apple and went after Mimi. After I cleaned up, I noticed Mimi at the bottom of the stairs. I asked her if she wanted to go to the wat...

Lao lao mentioned two weeks ago when Ella was sick, Ella said she wanted to go to sleep, so lao lao took her up to bed. Ella laid in bed, lao lao sat by the bed and pet her. Mimi started repeatedly calling lao lao, lao lao from downstairs. Ella said 姥姥，Mimi在叫你呢。你去吧。Lao lao was touched and went downstairs to tend to Mimi. In the morning Ella asked where we were going today, I asked her to check the calendar. I went to see her staring at the calendar, she said "我要把这个ms haleemah贴上。我们已经去过很多次幼儿园了。" She was pointing to a ms haleemah from January though. I informed her if we sticker over that ms haleemah, we'd sticker a lao lao too. Ella said "但是ms haleemah会冷的。她不喜欢硬邦邦。" It was Mimi who said something like this yesterday, when she wanted to sticker over lao lao, stating it was because lao lao was cold. Ella asked for 花被子, so I got both girls' blankets and put them in the car. I came back to get Ella to the car. She gave me a half eaten cracker, said "你帮我拿着。但是...

Ella was playing filling me as train up with gas. The holiday train arrived at the other side of the street. The girls both went to the fence to look. Ella turned first, looked at Mimi, who was standing still at the fence, said "嗯。。你也是一辆小火车吗。你也坏了吗。" Then she tried to lead Mimi back to fill gas, but Mimi went wild, then Ella went wild. At night ba ba and I took the girls upstairs. I tucked Ella in, ba ba laid on the guest bed after tucking Mimi in. Ella said "妈妈去大床上睡吧。和孤单的爸爸一个人在大床上睡吧。"

We came home to angry girls crowding around lao lao. Lao lao told the girls she was going back to Surrey to see doctor. Mimi said "mimi ella的医生呢。" Lao lao said she needed Surrey doctor. Ella said "圣诞节Ella咳嗽了怎么办。" We wondered if she remembered we were going to Surrey for Christmas. Lao lao said she could go back to Redmond doctor. At bed time Ella and I went upstairs, she instructed me to lay on the guest bed and I did. Ba ba stopped on the stairs with Mimi, apparently found a row of nails poking out. He got a hammer and started hammering them down. Ella started asking "Mimi在干什么呢？爸爸和Mimi在哪里呢？" She then got up, stood by the guest bed, said "我要去偷看！" excitedly. I said please let me know what happened. She went out, and I heard ba ba telling the girls to stand further away from him, and more hammering sounds. After some time Ella came back into the room, faced me on the foot of the guest bed, said "爸爸说地毯里有刺儿！" I asked if she was poked, sh...

It was time to change Ella's diaper. She said "我要臭屁屁。我要屁屁上的小虫咬我。" She whined and kicked. Then said "我要在下面换。" Ba ba took her down. She then asked for me to change her diaper, and chuckled while I changed her. It was time to go to bed. Ella had a container in her hand, she put a lanyard in it, asked me to 关上。 Ba ba said ok and turned off the light. Ella said "hmmmm. 我要打开灯。你把我开的灯都闭了。我要保护我的灯。"

In the morning I finally crawled up at 8:30. I found a just awoke Mimi with ba ba at the kitchen table, ba ba reported he'd like to take a sick day. I went to the girls room and found a sleeping Ella. I laid by her. We slept, with intermittent wake ups. Ella brushed my face a lot, it was soft and sticky and nice. After some small talk I fell asleep again, then awoke to find Ella looking at me. She said "妈妈我要吃东西。" I asked if we should go downstairs. She sweetly said "好的。" Stood up and waited for me. I got up and we came down, it was a little pass 10:40. The girls were very energetic after snack/lunch. So I took them to RTC. They were wide awake when we got there. We had a fun time there, with many carousel rides. At the last ride after we ate at crepe. Mimi could not keep her hands on the bar, looked kind of spaced out, but was humming a song. Afterwards they agreed when I said we'll go home to watch some videos. After walking a meter, Ella started crying. ...

I heard downstairs 得得得得 sound in the morning. It was 8. I came downstairs, found a koon Mi running around the kitchen island, avoiding ba ba brushing teeth. Ba ba reported she had been up since 7. I went to poop. Mimi followed me. She saw I had pad on for my period. She said "我帮你。" Stood up quickly, went to the cabinet, threw the door open, burried herself inside, came up with three pads, put on my leg. I took one pad and brushed my face. She said "你刷" while chuckling, with a mischievous tone. She went back into the cabinet and put four more pads on my leg. She went back into the cabinet, came up with a tampon, the tip of the packaging torn, she repeated "这个怎么啦这个怎么啦。" I said it was broken. Mimi said "姐姐把他撕坏的。" I'm not sure who did it. She watched me change out my pad for a new one. She then gave me another pad, said "脏了，换新的， 换新的。" When I said mine was clean already, she started trying to tear it off. When I said lets keep it on my p...

We decided to take Ella to the doctor today, and her appointment was at 11. Lao lao was reading the 卡梅利多 story, kai mei li duo's ba ba called back the sun, lao lao said 爸爸好伟大。 Ella said "我的爸爸不伟大。他。。只是。。棒！" Mimi wanted to go outside. So when Frank went out to poop, she followed me out. I put jacket on her. Mimi was playing with the car. I noticed the front yard was full of sun, so I brought the car to the front, put on the grass. Mimi said "不能在上面玩儿。去下面玩儿。上面太陡峭。" Mimi played nicely in the front, pushing hai bao in car, till appointment time. Ella was very good at the doctor. She even regained energy and took hai bao when Mimi was not looking. She made hai bao climb the ladder, until Mimi noticed. Ella stretched hai bao to the side back, away from Mimi, gave Mimi a squeezed face. When Mimi whined, Ella took the hai bao and put it on the window sill behind her, then she made a fist, pointed at Mimi while saying "ENNNN" menacingly. Ella was pronounced...

I heard the girls waking up around 9 and I finally got out from bed at 10. The girls greeted me sweetly, especially Ella, looked much better after a week of sickness. She requested a story, I informed her there will be one after I clean up. Also afterwards we'll take a bath. Ella played in the bathroom and waited with me. After I cleaned up, Mimi said she wanted to go shower, I gladly agreed and started going up. Ella whined and said "我要讲故事。" I agreed I did promise, so I went to the table and asked her which story she'd like me to read. She got the 棉婆婆 story, but said "我自己讲。" And flipped the book by herself. Mimi came just when I asked Ella again if she'd like me to read a story. Mimi said "讲这个", got the book closest to her, threw it at me, said "白龙马！" I read the 白龙马 book Mimi threw at me. Mimi was pretty excited and followed my explode hand when the dragon turned into the horse. And criticized and hit all the monsters. Ella also join...

Ella was very sick still and requested to go to bed when we came home. I led her to bed and tucked her in. Mimi requested noodle and watched ba ba cook. Lao lao apparently went to check on Ella, worried about she didn't eat and took her down. Ella refused to go upstairs again, didn't eat, and sat in lao lao's lap with her eyes batting. Mimi ate a few bites of noodle and went to look at books with Ella and lao lao.  I got new books from the library so Mimi asked many questions. Half way through Mimi got distressed that lao lao only had Ella in her lap. She started rejecting me reading story too. I left. Lao lao as usual was naggy and unable to direct the girls energy. I finished dinner, then informed Mimi she had a count to 10 to decide whether to listen to story with lao lao and tuck lao lao in for the night. Mimi whined until 8, then said "我哭完了。" I read a different story about 怪叔叔 and she was more interested, very happy when the uncle farted to scare off a din...

In the morning Mimi stood at lao lao's door, repeatedly called for "姥姥", in the sweetest voice, with stretched lao laooo. After a minute of constant calling, lao lao came and walked her downstairs. Ella still feeling sick, laid in bed, ba ba read news while sitting with her quietly. It was time to go to the car, the girls bawled. I downloaded a new episode of peppa, and 爷爷的小火车, that the girls loved and frequently requested. I showed Mimi ge te li de, Mimi gathered strength and went to the car. In the seat, she immediately asked "妈妈跟我坐吧。" And pet at the seat beside her. I sat in between the girls and played the train episode. Mimi was immediately intrigued. Ella cried and slapped at me. I asked if Ella would like to watch the new episode. She stopped crying a little and looked at me, Mimi enthusiastically said "想看。" I switched to the rocky beach episode. Ella was intrigued, while still sniffling. Zhu ye ye got a crab pinched on his finger, the girls c...

I put down water cup for Frank to drink. Mimi stood beside me, looked on. I was vigilant because she used to pour the water. She bent down, flipped her hand on top of the cup, said "把香藏（肠）放进去。" I asked if it was for Frank, she said "是的。吃吧。" I read the little engine that could with the girls. All the engines had face inside the circle in the front, except when the strong black engine came, it had eyes on top of the circle, sticking up like snail eyes. Mimi said "问什么他的眼睛挂在这里。" I said yes why it was on top not in the middle. She then said quickly, "我帮你拿下来。带上。" Picked the eyes off and put them inside the circle. Ella is still very sick. Snout flying out nonstop, took every chance to lay down. She gladly went upstairs for bed. Mimi tantrumed, ba ba took her outside to try to calm her down. Once inside the bedroom, I asked Ella if she'd like to see the stars outside the window. Ella said, with deep serious voice, "我想把门关上。不让狗进来。" I clo...

Ella said she wanted to eat 东西。 I asked if she'd like to drink milk. She said 要喝奶。 I opened the fridge. She came with me and squeezed into the fridge. She started to point at things, in silence. She then pointed at the cheese multiple times. I asked if she'd like cheese, she said "不要。" She continued pointing, said "冰箱里好多东西呀。" I agreed. She pointed at each and said "奶，cheezu, 我们的晚饭(oatmeal that baba made, they had for daycare lunch), 面包，我抱着一会儿吃。" She pulled the bread out, hugged it by her chest, walked to a big chair in the kitchen area, put it on top, then walked away. I asked her if she'd like to eat it, she said "现在不吃。"

On the way back home Mimi sang "有狗的孩狗像个狗"。 Then in tune of the 世上只有妈妈好 song, "狗狗狗狗狗狗狗狗，狗狗狗狗狗。" I went to poop. Mimi came in, said she would "帮我拿东西。" She opened the cabinet and took lots of pads and tampons, gave me one now and then, asking me to wipe. I wiped my leg with a pad, she put it in my cooter, said "你擦屁股吧。" I told her repeatedly I wasn't done pooping yet. Ella took a tampon, then came back while ennnn whimpering, head held high, upper lip covering lower, walked on tiptoes, lifted a broken tampon with the cotton part pulled out in her hands. I asked if she broke it, she laughed, looked at me, I asked her to not break another one. She threw the broken tampon on the floor and bounced out. Mimi came in later and found the broken tampon, said "我也想弄坏小条儿条儿。" I told her no. She played with the pads for a while making sandwiches. She then looked in the cabinet, took a tampon, said ""我想弄坏。" She looked at me, I sa...