Melissa's Recent Milestones

Here are some major milestones when Melissa was 18-22 month old:

Stats at 22 month check up ~ 65% height, 64% head, 60% weight.
• Walks really well and can walk to the park and walk back home most of the times.
• Loves to eat everything most of the times, except peas and beans which she always hates.
• Has great appetite and always wants more food.
• Doesn’t like to drink from her straw cup anymore and prefers to drink from the regular cup and often makes a big mess…
• Discovers that she really likes dumplings, bagels, and buns (man-to and boa zhe)!
• Understands a lot of words/expressions we speak (i.e. do you want to drink water, do you want to eat this, do you want me to read you a story, do you want to go out, what do you want to watch, what do you want me to read, is it yummy, is it tasty, is it fun, etc)
• Speaks fairly clearly; some of the new words she has learned include: Mommy/Daddy lai le (Mommy/Daddy is coming), Hao Chi (yummy),
• Very stubborn, she cries until she gets something she wanted.
• Starts crying when we say negative things about her.
• Loves to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Sesame Street, Caillou, Clifford the Red dog, and potty training movies.
• Can name at least 20 different animals/creatures (cow, bear, chicken, pig, horse, tiger, dog, cat, hippo, giraffe, elephant, crocodile (and she usually says so scary after saying crocodile), dinosaur, duck, bird, turtle, penguin, deer, snake, monkey, lion, mouse, rabbit, fish, crab, rhino, koala bear, frog, sheep/lamb).
• Great interest in reading books and loves new books.
• Very energetic and doesn’t like to sleep or nap.
• Can sing ABC song (the whole song) and knows the melody for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Old MacDonald had a farm and many many more that she can sing along with.
• Sleeps from close to 10pm to 8am ish and naps around 12:30-2ish.
• Doesn’t like to brush teeth but doesn’t mind drinking water before bed. (unfortunately that’ll probably hold back the potty training)..
• Finally baths in the regular bathtub in our bathroom and likes splashing around a lot now..

Melissa Mopping Floor

Melissa saw mommy mopping the floor so she wants to help mommy. Look, she is using a sweeper! Good job, Melissa!

Laundry Basket Can Be So Much Fun??

Can laundry basket be a lot of fun? Let Melissa tell you in this video =)

Juicy Watermelon!

Here is an interesting picture of Melissa eating watermelon during the July 4th BBQ at Vasona Park. You can see how much she enjoys the watermelon, but towards the end, she kept saying "my clothing is wet" because the watermelon juice dripped on her clothes.

I love slides

Melissa loves the slide. Sometimes she can go on the slide over 10 times or 20 times. Here is an interesting video that shows you how much she loves the slide!

Melissa knows how to comb her hair now

Melissa knows how to comb her now. Check out how cute she is!

Trip to Oakland Zoo

We went to the Oakland Zoo last weekend with Jason, Felicia, and Valerie. Melissa and Valerie both sang in the car while we drove to the zoo. We all had so much fun at the zoo. Melissa recognized a lot of the animals, especially tiger, giraffe, monkey, and elephant. The weather was gorgeous but a bit too hot. Melissa fell asleep after lunch shortly, but Valerie (who is a year older than Melissa) managed to stay up and went to petting zoo. Too bad, Melissa missed the petting zoo, but we all think she's probably too afraid to touch the real animals. To conclude the trip, we decided to go on the little train. Unfortunately, there were limited seats when we tried to get on the train so we had to sit at the first row. Melissa got scared by the engine and honk noise right away, and she cried for a few minutes and held onto mommy tightly. She didn't seem to enjoy the train ride this time....Oh well, next time we will remember to sit further away from the train engine!

Splash Time

Melissa loves bathing these days, and she never wants to get out of the bathtub. She just learned how to sqeeze water out from her bathing toys. Look at this video, she is trying to splash the water onto Daddy and Mommy!

Melissa is on the phone

It has been a while since we updated the blog. Life is busy as usual, but we did manage to get some cute videos of Melissa. Here is one with Melissa "pretending" that she is talking on the phone. Melissa loves talking on the phone these days. She always fights for the phone with mommy when mommy is trying to talk =P Yesterday she is having a real conversation with Aunt Sally for about 10 minutes. She sang several songs to Aunt Sally and told her what she saw in Oakland Zoo.