Katie is six years old! She is more than 49 inches (127cm) tall, a
big girl. She still likes me to hold her, needs a lot of huggy and
kissy. She is getting better on class listening and doing homework.
She likes teachers who are nice to her, but she will have her ear
close if the teacher is not nice to her, quite a character. She
enjoys skating, swimming, drawing, dancing, rhythm gymnastic, and
playing piano. She is a busy young lady. She has pretty good
handwriting in Chinese, which I believe that is because she learns
drawing at the same time, or because it's in Mom's view.
Minkai is no longer a mellow boy. He will immediately lay on the
floor if he is not satisfied, grab things quickly from his sister, cry
and look at me for help if his sister takes things away from him,
throw away plates if he does not like it, ask for the whole bag of
food when you offer him one piece. However, he has the longest
attention span among the three kids. He can sit there and figure out
how to play toys. He can match blocks in different shapes and color,
which I do not know what helps more, color or shape. Anything with
buttons amazes him, such as remote controls, phones, etc. The old
time bouncer becomes a sit for him, and he laughs when he pushes the
button and the music comes.
Minda has the sweetest smile. She will open her arm and run to me
when I get home. Minda also has the loudest scream. She will scream
in the middle of night (wow, it actually comes from inside the
house!), scream if she is hungry, scream if she is tired, scream if
her brother is bothering her, scream if she is itchy for her eczema.
She is the active kid. When Minkai and Minda watch TV, he will sit or
lean to a pillow, and she will stand there! She starts walking two
month earlier than Minkai. Minkai had a 1.5 cm cut on his forehead
when he chased her one time and fell down onto the edge of our
bookcase. The poor big head! Minkai can sit on the potty train seat
for 20 minutes while Minda can sit there for 20 seconds.
Both of the twins have severe food allergy including egg, tree nuts,
pea, soybean, sea food, which make their life a little different and
make my life a little complicate. I have to watch closely what they
are getting, and offer them food with enough nutrition but they can
eat.
The twins had their first candy/sucker in the day before Halloween,
when I took them to the mall. They were all smile and happy, with
green or orange lips, sticky hands, colorful shirts, after having the
candies. On the Halloween night, we took them out for a short
trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. Minkai fell asleep in the
middle of the trip, and Minda was holding her little basket tightly.
We took all the kids to a informal concert in December. We had a great
time there. Minkai loves the concert! He clapped his hands when one
piece of music or dance ended. He would point to the stage when the
curtains were down and asked the curtains to go up again. Minda did
not care as much about the performance. Fuming took her out for a
long walk. In fact, I was not sure who needs it more, Minda or her
dad. And Katie, as a big girl, was sitting with her friends and paid
no attention to us.
My life is as good as it could be with three kids. Playing with the
twins is relaxing but instructing Katie to do her homework or play
piano is stressful. I learn to transit my role to be a not-so-nice
Mom for Katie, as Katie told her teacher that sometimes her Mom's
voice could go a little too loud.
The pictures of the kids can be reached by the link of Picture Album
on the page of http://home.comcast.net/~xhuang4420/. Some selected
pictures are on the page of
http://home.comcast.net/~xhuang4420/kids2004.htm.
Wish everyone a Happy New Year! Keep in touch.
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