Catch-up

It's been a while since I've blogged. A lot has happened since I blogged last. We've got ourselves a new president! YAHOO! and Sophia was left behind in Beijing with the nanny while Josh and I volunteered at the Clinton Global Initiative Asia in Hong Kong and Sophia got lots of cool new toys.

Here is Sophia in her "me and Mama for Obama" T-shirt with CNN projecting Obama as the winner in the background. On the back of the T-shirt, it says Mom love Obama in Chinese. We got this at a fundraiser in Beijing.

Josh's sister, Becca visited us from London for Thanksgiving. Sophia was a fan of Goo Goo! They bonded over Cold Stone Creamery.

Here are some of Sophia's cool new giant LEGOS! They are hand-me-downs from friends of ours. Josh built Sophia a robot and she gave it a kiss. Unfortunately, the robot get knocked over easily so Sophia must be gentle with her kisses!

Sophia now says about 20 words, both english and chinese. They include:

1) duck
2) mama
3) baba
4) ball
5) bubble
6) doudou (Gogo, dog)
7) baobao (hold me)
8) xiexie (thank you)
9) bye bye
10) zaijian (bye bye)
11) zuozuo (sit)
12) jiejie (big sister)
13) yeye (grandpa)
14) nainai (milk and grandma depending on tone)
15) jiaojiao (foot)
16) dai (wear)
17) nana (as in Banana)
18) uh-oh
19) dan dan (egg)
20) balloon

Some of her favorite activities are laughing when Josh farts, locating belly buttons, bringing me my donut pajama bottoms and bringing Josh's gorilla slippers to him and standing on them when he walks.