Packing to Go

Still packing. Mia will have her first international trip tomorrow. 14 hour flight to China. We don't know what's going to happen on the flight yet. I am packing everything I can think of. Lots of change of clothes, formula, mac & cheese, cookies, fruits... Hopefully she will be a good sport.

I can't wait to see my family.

Cherry Blossom Parade

Today we went to down town for the Centennial Cherry Blossom Parade. Even though I have lived here for over ten years, I have never been to a Blossom Parade myself. It started at 10 and we got there around 11 and we did not go to where the crowd was but stayed at the 19th st., where the end of the parade was. The good thing was every emsemble had to pass us so we did not miss anything but had lot of room around us.

Mia was pretty engaged. It was a beautiful day. We stayed at the parade for more than an hour then headed for the Mall. We passed a pool where Mia saw a bunch of ducks and ducklings. She was so excited she kept saying "yaya, yaya" which was Chinese for ducks. They filled out the entire reflecting pool in front of Lincoln Memorial for re-construction/cleanup so it was not that pretty. Otherwise the picture would come out better.

Our last stop was the WWII memorial. By then she was hot and tired and probably hungry too even though she was still a good trooper. She also got a little too much sun. I applied sun screen twice but I missed her neck. When we got home, she went to bed around 3:30 for almost two hours.She was beat.

Travel Shots

We got her to see the pediatrician two days back since she's been coughing a lot. The doctor said she was having allergy so we gave her some Claritin starting on Monday.

She also go three shots. Two are routine for 15 month checkup (Chicken Pox, MMR (measels, mumps and Rubela). The other one is H1A since the doctor is concerned about Hib-A being common in China and we will be there for five weeks.She now recognized the doctor's place and started screaming before anything was even done to her. I felt so bad. Good thing she did not get a fever this time. Knock on wood!

Her Vocabularies

Mia's vocabularies:

Mama
Dada
Wawa - water
Gaga - cookie
Yaya - Chinese for duck
Fafa - Chinese for flower
No!
nini - for milk
jiajia - grandma
Go
Uh - oh (her favorite right now. She says it when she drops stuff.)

It really helps now that she knows "no". I don't have to stuff her face as often any more since the intention is clear.

Easter Bunny Hop

 We celebrated Easter at Grandma and Grandpa's house today. Mia dressed in a white dress Julee gave her at her birth. I almost forgot she had a dress like this and it could not be more perfect for Easter. She's now walking and attempting to run, even though she looks like a drunk most of the time. Today she exhausted all of us. Now I know what "bundle of energy" means. She kept wanting to go out to the lawn. She held her Easter egg bucket and walked, tumbled, got up, walked and tumbled, rolled over, on and on. She could never get bored of it.

 First round... this egg basket is from last year. Grandma brought this when Mia could hardly move her neck. We propped her up last year to take a picture. See what she can do now! Time flies!

Many hours later... still going strong

Exhausted

No nap today and this is the result over dinner.

Spaghettio

We went to Il Fornaio today and Mia had spaghetti and she loved it.