brag-time

I figured it was about time I wrote a post about all the cool things that K does at the moment. (yes, a brag-fest!)

At the moment, she is really into "mama-gokko", pretend play with tea cups, and food etc. She loves making me a cup of tea, and always brings it over with a spoon and a knife in the cup (haha). Then I ask her to put some sugar in it, and she says "poon" and takes the spoon back to get the sugar bowl.

Her favourite song at the moment...it is probably a toss up between "donsuka-don" from Okasan to issho (is a new song where they cheer on people) and "my shadow" from Eigo de Asobo. Yes she is 100% terebikko. And she loves music and singing. She knows songs in both English and Japanese

She is really good at counting to 10, but sometimes if you ask her to "count from 1 to 10" she just goes "1 to 10". But that is quite cute too. She can count from 1 to about 5 or 6 in Japanese, too.

She is putting lots of 3 word sentences together. Tonight she said "Daddy drink water". She has a pretty big vocab, mainly in English, although for some reason the words for elephant and leg she still only says in Japanese. Oh, and scissors she says in Japanese too.

She has called J by his name for a while now(as well as daddy) but recently she has started calling me by my name too. When she is ready to get out of the bath (which J puts her in) she calls me out by name, just like J calls me ****-chan. It makes me giggle.

We read a book, Little Ernie's ABCs every night before bed. It is a Sesame Street
book. It goes "a is for apple, juicy and red, b is for burt in his own snuggy bed" etc. She knows ALL the words for each letter of the alphabet!!! (Although, when it comes to "e is for elephant" she says zoo-san, haha)

She is starting to not let me tie her hair up. It used to be no problem at all, but recently she fights it. the only time I can get it up is if I say we are going out, as she KNOWS that it has to be tied back if we go out shopping or to take R for a walk.

Speaking of shopping, she is shopping obsessed. (Until, of course, I want to go to the supermarket!) She loves to get dressed up to go shopping, put her socks on, put her shoes on, grab a bag to carry, put her hat on etc etc. She is even ok walking down the street to the shop. But if we are in the shop for much longer than, oh, a minute she starts to get fussy. Today we walked to the shop, bought an avocado which she carried all the way to the register (only dropped it once) and gave to the lady, then carried it in the plastic bag all the way home.

She loves playing with balls. She says "catch the ball" and throws it to me or J. She can almost catch it herself.

She is now eating apples (and grapes)!!! I have to thank my niece and nephew back home for this - she saw them eating it and copied! She is also still a bit vegemite obsessed. She often asks me for "vegemite" meaning a vegemite sandwhich. She always puts her bib on before she has something to eat, which is great because as much as she loves yoghurt, not much of it ends up in her mouth! At sushi train the other night, she ate 2 pieces of egg sushi, as well as a chawan mushi. Yep, she is a pretty good eater overall I think.

now, I have just gotta try to remember all of her cute little ways when her nearly 2 tantrums and stubborness kicks in.