Sunday Fun Day

What can I say, she likes to eat so she's good at it
Margaret has been stunning us with advances, these past few days.

In the past few days, aside from learning to kiss, she has also learned to "walk" behind SAM while holding on to SAM's pants legs, shown us that she can say, "Nai nai nai" ("milk milk milk in Chinese) when she sees her bottle, and during our video conference with Sylvia this morning, she said, "Peekaboo" with such clarity that my jaw was dropped. All three syllables with all the right consonant and vowel sounds, unlike the normal, "agoo" we get when we're playing peekaboo with her.

Oh, and today, we found a sixth tooth and can feel a seventh coming in.

It's been a big weekend, developmentally, and we haven't even gotten to the stuff we actually DID!

Diner breakfast at "The Flying Pan"

As far as how we spent out Sunday, it was a pretty active day for our family.

After taking care of all the family phone calls in the morning, Margaret took a nap and we then went to a late brunch at "The Flying Pan," which is a western style brunch / breakfast place.

Margaret especially liked picking at our omelettes and French Toast.

Unfortunately, for M, her mommy thought that the powdered sugar and butter was enough condiment on the French Toast.

NOW, I'm not pointing any fingers, but it is perhaps possible, that some syrup may have dripped on to M's French Toast this morning, explaining why she liked it so much.

In case Margaret is reading, she might want to investigate how this may have happened to learn which parent is willing to go the extra mile and resort to deception to treat her right.

Margaret enjoying her French Toast
After breakfast, we stopped by a Chinese children's bookstore to pick up some Chinese board books for the little one (SAM) before hitting the swings at Victoria Park.

She was super tired by then, but still had enough energy to spend a few minutes defying gravity before we headed home for naptime.

Click to enlarge and see the new teeth
The afternoon was more or less lazy, with us spending it indoors.

We did this in order to save up energy to go out for what we knew would be a later than nap time foray.

Being the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, one tradition is for children to go out at night with lanterns.

So after dinner and her bath, we took Margaret out to the park where they were holding events and had large lantern displays.

She's better and better at standing
With a glowstick in her hands, we traipsed all over the park, and even stopped again at the park for a little bit of nighttime swinging before finally heading home.

Margaret went down without a peep and was asleep by 8:00 PM.

Whew.

Mission accomplished, and we still have one more day of long-weekend to go!



Margaret out past her bedtime

With a lantern display in the background