3Y4M Chopping zucchini

Kodi has been super interested in being a "super little helper" 超級小幫手, as she put it. 

She would help put away groceries, wash rice and vegetables (which she's been doing for about one year now, on and off), snip the ends of the green beans, beat the eggs and stir liquidy things, and her recent favorite is chopping! 

She started using a "knife" around 2 and half years old with her baby cuttlery. Of course, the "knife" wasn't meant for real slicing so she often ended up severing the pancake or vegetable by the counter pulling and pushing from each hand. 

Now she uses IKEA's children cuttlery and the knife has the serrated edge that makes slicing easier. She is also more able to pronate her forearm and her wrist is getting stronger so she is able to hold the blade down. I found that cucumber, zucchini and mushrooms are the easiest for her to work with. She enjoys practiving this new skill and she could almost make the chunks even size. And, the chunks are also less mushy now. 

What are you thinking my little sweet girl? 

There are her finished chunks. Not bad, isn't it? 

3Y4M love bouquet

It was a Sunday school activity with my class, helping the children to practice how to love like Jesus. Everyone were to make as many as pospsicle flowers as they'd like by cutting out flower shapes, print a phrase or word about showing love(something like, be kind, help others, share toys), and fasten them to a stick and then tie the flowers into a bouquet. They were encouraged to give the flowers to family members, friends or others to whom they would like to show God's love. 

I thought it would be fun for Kodi to do this too. But I improvised the activity to make it simpler for her. She would just color, cut and paste, and tell me to whom she would like to give the flower. For each flower, she would cut two flower shapes, and I would write the name one one side and "Jesus loves you" on the other side. 

We made many flowers, from mommy, daddy, friends to her teddy bear. We also made many for our family members in Taiwan because we are going to visit them at the end of the month. It was a lot of fun, and a great way to practice how to show love to someone you care about! 

Go hiking

We discovered the McRitchie Reservoir when my parents visited us 2 weeks ago. We had a short hike and ran into a bunch of wild monkeys and giant (but slow) lizards. The place offers a vast open space and walking trials from easy to moderate difficulty level. 

We woke up this morning to a beautiful weather. So we packed our own trial mix and water, and put on hiking shoes and mosquito patch for a walk in the tropical woods at the McRitchie. Kodi was very excited about this and she walked for half of the trip. We chugged in about 7 kilometers! We will definitely do this again and on another Saturday!