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I informed the girls we were going to hang out with auntie Jessica, and they always had a lot of fun with her. After asking a few times who was Jessica, Ella asked 她说什么话。I looked at her. She asked 她说中文还是英文。I said she spoke English. Ella said 哦。I said she was half Chinese though, she's a 混血儿。The girls looked at me. Mimi quietly asked 他的孩子怎么了。I tried to explain Jessica was the er, and it's what we call mixed blood kids. The girls still looked perplexed. And asked me about her kid a few more times. Sunday when we were leaving, I called for the girls to meet Jessica. Ella said 她不是要来我家吗。I said we changed plans, we might have, I can't even recall myself. We headed to dough zone. The girls looked super excited to see Jessica at the table. Ella shyly peekabooed. Ella chuckled. Ella got frustrated when we were talking about ordering and ignored her. She yelled, but apologized when I critized and was good for a while. She played with her chopsticks, when we realized her set of kids p...

When I was tucking in Ella, she said 我觉得天黑会有巫婆来。I asked her if she was going to perform magic. Thinking back during the weekend, I heard Ella yelled 变变变变变，then a loud yell and cry from Mimi. Afterwards Mimi cried Ella was turning her into a 虫。Ella said 不会的。她会告诉我长大后会变成什么。I said I think she'll become a big person. Ella silently picked at her nose, very deep inside, then said quietly, cutely, clearly, 我觉得我长大会变成葡萄。She digged some more, pulled out a booger, said 鼻噶aa?呵呵呵. I wiped it and left.

Ella threw a piece of meat in Mimi's plate. Mimi threw a different piece of meat into Ella's plat. Ella angrily threw away the piece. I criticized Ella for throwing food, asked her to tell Mimi with words and give back the piece politely. Ella said Mimi我不喜欢吃肉。We ate for a while. Ella gave Mimi another piece, and said Mimi不要给回我哟。Mimi ate it. Ella asked 好吃吗。Mimi silently chewed.

I printed a new calendar to adjust for days my mom can't be here. Due to car accident. I showed it to the girls and explained lao lao's car was broke. Mimi said 她可以走来呀。

James and I were talking in the car, suddenly Ella yelled "MAMA AHH". I asked why mama ah. Ella said Mimi唱的不对。I asked what Mimi was singing. There was about 10 seconds of silence, then Mimi said in very busted troll voice 白iii龙oooong豚nnnnnnn. Ella quietly said 是白龙马啦。 We picked eggs. James went to get car. I got the girls into the jumping castle at the last round. Mimi happily did a jump-jump-fall on knee routine. Ella kneeled in the middle and chuckled while others bounced her. The girls came out. The workers deflated the bounce castle. The girls stared at it deflating all the way to the ground. Ella said 那些跳的人都被盖在里面了。She had super cerned brow.

This Saturday is derby day. So I had a plan to act out a conversation with James where one of us asks if we could go on the carousel and the other explains no, we'll save money for good food. We did one script while the girls slowly bounced around the computer room. We did the conversation for another ride. Right after James said we'll save money. Ella said 可是我们有摩天轮钱啊。we looked at her. She said 妈妈你去microsoft挣钱了啊。I said the money was for good food. Ella said loudly 钱是everybody的。with the big arm circle gesture. Just like when I mimicked Emma the YouTube ballet teacher saying ballet is for everyone, whenever Mimi said boys don't dance. James and I cracked up, looked at each other, and hugged. Ella said 妈妈爸爸你们为什么抱了。We decided maybe one ride if the line isn't long, if the girls promise only one ride.

We bought some icecream on the way home. When I came back to the car Ella was whining. I informed her I bought dessert that the kids who don't tantrum can eat. Ella said loudly 你买了什么。是什么甜点。。我闻到了冰激凌的味道。 Ella tantrumed a little. I said only kids who don't tantrum could eat dessert. Ella said 但是我已经苦恼了。Mimi said 我没有苦恼。Ella said 我想念姥姥。Mimi said 有一个不想念姥姥的amelia和妈妈分享甜点。还有爸！ I was mixing cereal into the icecream. Mimi said 我要看一看。She wanted me to lift her up. I informed her I had no hands for that. She brought her little chair over and stood on it. Mimi said, 哇，是冰激凌。谢谢妈妈的甜点。(In the cutest high pitched voice.) 谢谢妈妈给我的冰激凌。I asked her to sit down. She got down, moved her chair back to the table, sat down, I gave her icecream.

Mimi yelled MAMA loudly from upstairs. I asked her what was the matter. She yelled even louder 我要我的羹匙儿。I asked her to ask nicely. She lowered her volume and said 我要我的羹匙儿。I asked where was the polite word. She said 它在楼下。I asked where was the "please". She asked nicely with 可以么妈妈。I got a white spoon from downstairs and gave it to her. She tried to grab it and run away. I held on and asked her to say thank you. She gave me a good firm "thank you". At the same time Ella ran to the gate, she held a spoon, said thank you loudly, then 我们可以一起吃啦。The girls ran away together. The girls had an altercation later and when I went up Mimi wanted the red pillow. I asked her to ask Ella, and reminded Ella of Mimi's kindness the previous day. Mimi pouted and said 我不想问Ella。我怕她不答应。I prompted again, she repeated again, then said 妈妈帮我问。I asked Ella a few times, with her replying she wanted the pillow and the pillow and her belonged to each other, with a lot of answers starting with...

Today was the first day the girls are going to little folks. Ella cried and asked for blanket. The girls sat in their carseats hugging their daycare pillows, covered in hello kitty blankets, tucked in with their seal and whale. I sat in the back and rubbed their cheeks. We watched an episode of peppa and arrived at daycare. Ella held onto my hand tight and we checked in and went to the classroom. The daycare director walked us through the classroom which was empty at the time. Ella quietly asked 这是什么 a few times while looking around. The director led us to the nap room to put down our stuff in the cubbies. Ms stacy came to say hi. Ella's eyes swelled with tears and said 要睡觉。I led her to her bed and tucked her in. Mimi was in good spirits and bounced around. She laughed when James described that the girls loved the crab song from moana. They happy faced and got candy. Ella tucked herself in and Mimi sat on the bed. We left. When we came for pickup. Ella was handing Ms Jordan her fi...