Milestones: I'm 4 years old now!

Age: 4 years
Height: 103 cm
Weight: 14.2 kg

Recent Accomplishments/cognitive development
1-10 in Chinese, as well as her colours blue, purple, red. Black, green, mum and dad
Hot and cold makes warm Muma
Knows her o’clocks and half pasts
But how can he (Santa) get up the chimney?
When writing the invitations to her part on the 16th, looks at me alarmed ‘But that’s not my birthday!’
Mix the (hot) pumpkin with the rice to make it cool Muma

Can turn the computer on and off, access the internet, and find ABC on the favourites list. Plays games on ABC kids. her favourite is bottletop Bill and Chuggington

Can now use arms, legs and blow bubbles when doing torpedoes. can fetch an object from teh bottom of 1.5m of water

Cute /funny things
I’m 62 and ½ . I can drive. You sit in the front and tell me when to turn.
You can’t understand Chinese Muma. You haven’t got black hair
A merangatang (aka an orangutan)
The hostible
Tim and I making arrangements in code spelt out M-E-I. Camille says excitedly ‘that spells Mei Daddy!'
In code ‘She doesn’t wants to go to the S-H-O-P-S.’ ‘The supermarket Mum?’
I’ve got fe hong se everywhere Mum! (being Chinese for pink)
If you love something it’s hard to share
I ate so much I’ve got a baby in my tummy
Go on Mum, say good thinking 99
Olivia quotes ‘Let’s help Mother nature by not wasting water’ ‘Sometimes children know better than their parents’
Chatting to the Japanese girls at dinnertime. ‘Hello Chico. How was your day? Did you go to school or did you go to work?
Listening to her talk to her mate Milly on the phone, asking her ‘What are you wearing to my party Milly?
Kissing the jellies before they go into the fridge ‘Goodnight sweethearts’
I spelt P-A-R-T-Y. And Camille said ‘ Anna’s party?’
I want to be private (in the toilet)
Playing Rat the shopkeeper with Camille as Rat with a sun visor on. And me as B1 or B2 or Morgan etc
Mum sweeping the floor yet again says ‘Just call me Cinders’ Camille looking on replies ‘Yes we’re too mean’
Saying to us ‘watch this parents’ (and we have to watch a dance)
Look there’s Kevin Rudd! We like him. He’s our favourite!
I’m STILL hungry (= please buy me a chocolate, cake or doughnut at the supermarket)

Can we please go to the old market Mum (=can wwe go to Victoria Market so that I can have a hot jam doughnut)
If a dog gets lost he might ask another dog
I’m going to put it in my shed (aka her cubby)
I’m the president listen to me!
It’s not a unicorn because it doesn’t have a horn! Is it a pony I asked? No Muma it’s a Pegasus because it has wings. Where on earth did you learn that I ask? At dancing.


Magic Moments
At the beach saying ‘I want to go home’ (and me thinking yes this really is her home now)
Watching her walk Pippa the dog along the beach at Waratah Bay
Dancing in the family room and singing Chinese songs
Let’s have family hug
One day when we visit my China…………………
Dancing for joy around the house in her new pink party shoes she chose at Pumpkin Patch
Sitting up in bed with her Mumma. Both of us wearing glasses and reading books. (Camille pretending to read one of my fiction books)
Doing a magpie dance around the house with her magpie puppet
Listening to her sing a melody of mixed up nursery rhymes as stream of consciousness
Saying. Is that before I was adopted Muma?

Foods
Loves cake chocolate and sweet things, how surprising. But also loves all fruit. And will now eat chicken. Has an appetite and is slowly but steadily putting on weight.

Books
I spy books. Angelina Ballerina. Charlie and Lola. And too many to list, many coming from the library.

Television
The Bear in the Big Blue House. Playschool. Charlie and Lola. BBC craft show. Angelina Ballerina. Olivia. Chuggington. Chinese Wiggles, Mei Mei Dance and Learn