Craving the Pumpkin

I don't remember ever having a pumpkin craved with me as a child.. I think I enjoy watching baba and Miss Diva craving pumpkins together... Quality time together. She really didn't think so!

                                                       Drawing the face on the pumpkin.

                                                        first the mouth, the the nose..

                            eyes and we are done with the face...next, it was to to start craving.......

 she wasn't impressed when baba opened the lid to the pumpkin...to messy, she kept saying

 she kept running away from it and saying no, I'm not doing it! when we would ask her to put her hand inside.

 finally.. with lots of coaxing and promises of smarties, she finally but her hand in there...but not for long...it was luck that I caught her hand inside the pumpkin...silly girl

                                       look mama...I found seeds....as she flicks them on the floor

               she kept saying all night "happy pumpkin".....she was happy when it was done!

Her 1st time......

                                  licking the beaters from making vanilla pudding with momma.She thought it was wonderful and it tasted wonderful.

Daycare friends

Miss diva and 2 of her daycare friends......aren't they just the cutest little things ever!

Halloween preparations

As a child growing up, I loved halloween. My fondest memory is about me and my friend Rhonda dressing up a Jem and the Halograms(I think I mispelled this). I loved the treats but I remember the smell of the candies and other stuff together in my bag.....ummm candy. I love this season.

 Miss diva is painting a sign for the door. Did I ever mention how much she loves doing crafts and reading stories. Well, she loves doing both and I love doing them with her.

                                                finished product! Dosen't it look awesome

 painting ornaments for the halloween tree that we have on the shelf in the playroom downstairs

                                                    a ghost ornament for the tree

                                  making a wiggling fuzzy spider for another decoration

                                                            the body is all painted

                                                  adding the fuzzy legs to the body

      her finished spider...she was laughing holding it because she was saying it was tickling her arms

my dancing queen!!

cute pics

 She was building with blocks, I love watching her play. I love to watch how she manipulates her toy and creates things

Fall

 I love fall, the beautiful colours , the cooler temps and the smells of fall. Miss Diva loves crafts and when I told her that we were going to go and collect leaves and paint with them, she was excited.

 painting the back of the leaves with paint and pressing them unto paper. She thought this was pretty neat.

Great job!

She made me cry......

  This morning Miss Diva and I were in the bathroom. She was sitting there patiently waiting for the pee to come and I heard this

Momma, can I tell you something?
Yes, I am listening.
Momma, you make my heart happy
(while try to form a heart with her hands)
I replied with "baby girl, you make momma's heart extremely happy too"

I sat there with tears in my eyes, knowing that this little girl has a happy heart and is happy to be here with us.

we love you yan yan.

Mid Autumn Festival

 Jan and I chatting about whatever.....look at the stack of pizza boxes.....it was a blast

 Miss Diva eating her pizza, she loves pizza and her new food is peppers and dip

                                                  the kids eating their dinner

                                                      the men

 we made paper lanterns and went for a walk in the neighbourhood. Miss diva is working hard on hers.

                                         working hard on their lanterns...this is so precious

                                                        and the lantern  is complete

 getting ready for walk with our lanterns...it was a little drizzly but we braved the weather and went for a little walk anyway

                                                      me and Miss diva on our walk

Jason and I feel very blessed to have wonderful friends whom we celebrate most of the holidays with. Mid Autumn is a festival we spent with friends who all have children from China. They are like our extended family and we love spending time with them.

walking

 Miss Diva is watching very closly what I am doing and copying these days. She wants to just like momma. I never thought that would scare me, but it does. I have to be careful in what I do and say because I have a little person who is watching my every move.

 she wanted to be just like momma pushing and stroller and taking her baby Stella for a walk.

                        She is of and taking her baby for walk. She is getting so big!!!!!