“它生气了。”

小朋友开始数数了，还用中文。每天让他讲中文就把手指头伸出来，“一二三四五六七八九”，然后就没了。

妈妈问他，“十呢？十到哪儿去了？” 小朋友回答说，“它生气了。”

"他们都长高了，不是baby了”

小朋友出门路过一个池塘。池塘里有一群鹅。

小朋友对妈妈说，“妈妈，那里有一群鹅，里面没有baby。”（可能他还记得春天的时候在Gallup Park 看到的小鹅宝宝。）

妈妈问，“为什么没有鹅宝宝了呢？”

小朋友说，“他们都长高了，不是baby了。”

Thank you, my friends!

"I can not say it."

Baby wanted to put the plug on the power outlet,and Mom said no. He felt he was belittled and decided not to talk to Mom.

"Let's be friends?", Mom asked.

Baby answered, sternly,

"No, I can not say it."

红烧豆腐

Not sure if this qualifies as a unique recipe - people have been cooking Tofu for many, many, many years. Still, we make this just for the little one so, "that is that."

Ingredients:

• Tofu (firm)
• Peas (frozen)
• Corn (frozen)
• Mushroom
• Ginger/Garlic (large piece of ginger, and whole garlic so that guy does not eat anything "spicy")
• Chicken meat (chicken breast from whole organic chicken bought at whole food)
• Shrimp

How to cook:

• Add cooking oil; Place half ginger/garlic in; Stir fry chicken; Put on a dish for later use;
• Add cooking oil, Place another half of  ginger/garlic in; Place tofu inside; Cook for a little bit;
• Add peas, corn, mushroom, shrimp;
• Adjust heat to see boiling of juice;
• Place cover on top of the wok; Adjust heat to medium; Simmer for 10 minutes;
• Add cooked chicken meat in;
• Add soy sauce to desired level; Stir the whole thing until soy sauce is evenly distributed;

• 勾芡

• EAT

"That is too cheap, Daddy."

Mom and baby were playing construction game. One task was to pass supplies from baby to Mom. At one time I was just half kidding and half intending to give him some numbers just to give him something to think, so I said: tell Mom that supply of blue blocks would cost 20 dollars. Here is what baby said:

• That is too cheap, Daddy!

"My foot is too naughty."

• Daddy, my foot is itchy.
• "Oh. Let me see. It is getting too dry I guess."
• No, it is too naughty.

Baby, toddler and pre-schooler's favorite dish: braised meatball

红烧肉丸：

Ingredients:

• Meatball (cooked, see below);
• Chopped mushroom;
• Chopped carrot; Microwaved to tender;
• Chopped ginger and garlic;
• Brocoli/Sweat pepper/Asparagus/Butter Squash (pick one or more)

How to cook:

• Stir fry vegetables with ginger and garlic (Brocoli/Sweat pepper/Asparagus/Butter Squash);
• Add meatball, stir fry a little bit more;
• Add mushroom;
• Add carrot;
• Add soy-sauce and a little bit of water;
• Cook with wok cover on for a few minutes;
• Check if more salt/soy sauce is needed;
• Ready to eat!

Baby, toddler and pre-schooler's favorite dish: meatball noodle

Meatball Noodle

•        Ingredients:
• ground pork (1/2 pound)
• mushroom
• organic quick oats
• 淀粉 (corn starch)
• Ginger
• Noodle
• Spinach  
•       How to cook it:
• Mix ground pork with a few tea spoon of oatmeal, and half tea spoon of corn starch; Add water if needed so the end product is soft but not watery;
• Boil water, add ginger.
• Make meatballs out of the mixed ground pork; Drop bite-sized meanball into boiling water
• When all meanballs seem to be floating, turn the stove off and get out all the meatball
• Turn on stove and boil the left-over soup;
• Add noodle and boil until soft
• Add meatball
• Add mushroom
• Add spinach
• Cook until the soup boils again;
• Add soy sauce and salt to prefered level

"这个房子还可以"

We have been looking around for houses like forever. Unfortunately we haven't had any luck yet in locating the ideal house. Well, not all time has been wasted. Baby has learned a trick or two about houses. Last Saturday we took him to the gym for swimming class and Daddy jokingly pointed at a house and asked baby.

• How about this house?
• "这个房子还可以" (Hey, he even spoke in Chinese! We both were shocked when we heard him speaking like that.)
• 哪那个房子好不好?
• "那个房子不错."
• 我们住那个房子好不好?
• "那不是我们的房子."