Clapping and Happy Time

This week we had a doctor’s emergency visit because Emily cried several times Monday night and Tuesday morning. We were afraid that she had ear infection. After the doctor looked at everything. He assured us that it’s just her teething – her top two teeth are coming out! We were thankful that Emily hasn’t had any real sickness. Hopefully we’ll keep it up for many months or years to come.

Friday night David and I rented a Chinese movie “Happy Time” using our Block Buster gift card from Dawn. The movie was a lot better than I expected: real, touching, and funny. The only thing is that the language has a Beijing accent; which is difficult for David to catch up. The English subtitle sure is helpful. Saturday we took my car in for the inspection and oil change after we ran some errands. David’s reader Hongyu and his wife Sandy invited us for dinner after FriendSpeak. Sandy got a job in Virginia. So she will be moving in a couple of weeks. Sandy has been coming to FriendSpeak for over three years. We will miss her a lot.


Emily’s new exciting development is clapping! She claps whenever she is happy, excited, or when she wants attentions. One morning when David walked into Emily’s room to see whether she was awake, she surprised David with her beaming smiles and clappings. Here is a picture of her clapping. We also got several videos of her clapping. Her expressions in the videos are much more animated.

Emily laughs a lot. She laughs when she touches a stack of blocks to cause them to fall down; she laughs when she kicks at the ceiling fan; she laughs when her eyes lock with ours; sometimes she just laughs for no reason. She still loves watching the sign language video. She also comes up her own sign. Below is her sign for “I’m done with eating”:


Emily never passes an opportunity to play piano. Every time when we walked by the piano, she would reach for it. Here is a picture of her playing:

This is a picture of Emily kissing herself in the mirror. She also likes to smile at, wave at or give a high five to “the baby in the mirror”:


Here is a picture of Emily playing with Daddy:


This is a picture of Emily happy with the ball:


This is her reading with Daddy:


This is a video of Emily kicking at the ceiling fan – her daily dose of exercise: