Photo catch-up and funny stories (at least to me)

Well, we are officially Chinese school drop-outs, but it is not because Anna wasn't into learning Chinese. Anna is the youngest student and the other girls close to her age are 7 and 8. This year the kids are starting to learn reading and writing of Chinese characters. Anna is too younger, in that she doesn't have the fine motor skills to draw the characters. So, in order to avoid her and I getting frustrated, we dropped out for the year. But we are still learning some things - like colors. Which leads to a funny story...

When Anna wants to know how to say a color in Chinese, she'll say "what does (color) say." So, the other day we were driving to the store and

She started with "what does red say."
Me: "What does red say?"
Anna: "Red says hongse."
Me: " Good. In Chinese red says hongse and in Spanish red says rojo."
Anna: "No, RED SAYS HONGSE!!"

So, we will put off learning Spanish (you know, the other language I actually know) for awhile, since in her worldview Chinese is the only other language of value. But she knows four colors and counts to ten. I know 7 colors, 4 body parts, can count to 100, and draw 10 characters. Which means that sooner or later she will over take my limited knowledge unless I keep studying outside of Chinese school next year.

Now to the photos - really the only reason most of you come to the blog.

Anna modeling a dress-up outfit (she is claims to be Tinkerbell), and then Anna modeling her new monkey robe. The robe was suppose to be for Christmas, but it is rather chilly now and so she received it early. It is not as if she is going to be hurting for Christmas gifts.

A couple of weeks ago, Anna and I (well, mostly me) babysat Dustin, who is the son of my friend Debbie. Anna did rather well with sharing - but had to be reminded to share and play nicely.

Anna's purple dragon/dinosaur scooter was the big hit of the evening. Dustin used it as his chair for watching videos and Anna play.

And a couple of left over photos from Halloween. One is of a ring that she received and the second is of her checking out her haul.