Baby Ballerina

Makana got this for her birthday in January, but she was having so much fun today I had to take pictures! She was posing and dancing around and doing jumping turns saying "tip toe, tip toe"! I wish I could post the video! These were taken with my camera phone as my digital camera is not working properly, so I apologize if the quality is not great.

We are enjoying Chinese schools on Saturdays, she was singing herself to sleep the other day with her Chinese songs and making up the words that she did not know yet. She does a good job in class of repeating things for her teacher. She won't always repeat for me, but she sure does for her teacher.

Today I came home from work and Gil reports to me that he heard Makana repeating a choice swear word. It is not something we say and we try to shield her from that type of language, so Gil asked her where she heard it and she said, "Chinese school," now I am with her in this class and I know she did not hear it there, but it could have been her preschool. It could also be that she is trying to say a Chinese word and it sounded like a swear word. We will have to wait and see, hopefully she won't say it again!

Introduction

I finally decided to start a blog, I thought it would be a good way to share photos with family and friends and also a way for Makana to learn about her early childhood. We adopted Makana from the People's Republic of China in 2005. We travelled in October of that month to Jiangxi province to meet our beautiful daughter and brought her home to Aurora, Colorado. She is now 2 and half which she will proudly tell you. She will also be happy to tell you that she is "from China" and that she is going to get "babysister." Makana is a happy, talkative, bright child who loves to play in her kitchen. She is currently in her room changing clothes, I just hope she gets them all back in the drawer so I don't have to do more laundry. Here are a few funny things she has said lately:

Made her father sit in the bed room and told him he is "not allowed to talk"

Told me, her mom, that I needed to go back and "watch TV"

She loves "her songs" in the car and makes me play them every time we go somewhere, by the way, her songs are by Laurie Berkner.