Happy New Year~photos from January新年新氣象，一月的照片

柷大家新年快樂。雖然已經三月了，回顧一下一月的照片吧！
Happy New Year to everyone! I know it's March now, but it's time to share some old photos from this past January.
孟田喜歡躺在雪裡做"雪天使"。
Fiona loves making "snow angels"

走累了，就趴在雪橇上讓媽媽拉回家
I'm tired. Mama, pull me home.


購物中心裡的車車，可以讓媽媽好好的逛街買東西
I love the strollers in the malls. They're the only way I can get some shopping done.

企鵝，你要乖乖，帽子不可以拿下來，媽媽會生氣喔！
Penguin, you'd better keep this hat on, or mama will be angry.


要吃完啊！很痛苦耶！吃飯對孟田來說還是很傷腦筋的一件事。
Fiona doesn't enjoy mealtimes too much.

孟田和她的新朋友Maya。Maya的媽媽也是台灣來的，爸爸是波蘭人。他們目前定居在卡加利。Maya每個星期二都會來和孟田玩。有玩伴真好！
Fiona with her new friend Maya. Her mom is also from Taiwan, ane her dad is from Poland. It's nice to see Fiona with some new friends.

"Two" 兩歲

(其實四個月前就該刊這一篇的，我實在太會拖了。不過，有總比沒有好吧！)
孟田兩歲了。我教她練習聽懂並回答「我兩歲。」用英文和中文。中文很快就學會了，英文卻一直跟著我重複「How old are you?」
我台灣的家人竟然買了一個蛋糕，在電腦前用視訊幫孟田唱生日快樂歌。還在電腦前吃了起來，讓孟田直吞口水。
因為還不知道在這裡如何幫小朋友辦生日派對，我只有簡單的請了爺爺奶奶和姑姑以及我的好朋友Heidy一家人來孟田的生日晚餐。爺爺和奶奶買了一個超大的企鵝，(還有其他的禮物)孟田愛死了。睡覺前還要跟企鵝親吻晚安。
(I should've posted this 4 months ago. Well, it's better than nothing.)
Fiona is two years old now. I've tried to teach her how to answer the question: "How old are you?" in English and Chinese. She picked up the Chinese answer pretty quickly, but it took her a while to understand that she doesn't have to repeat the question.
My dear family from Taiwan bought a cake and sang the happy birthday song in front of the computer for Fiona. Oh, I miss them so much.
We had a small party for Fiona. Grandma, grandpa and auntie Jane all came to the party. I also invited my friends Heidy and Filipe and their two boys. We have met some little friends here from the church and the mother's group I go to every Monday. But I'm not ready to throw a kid's birthday party yet. Hopefully I'll be ready next year for Fiona's 3-year-old birthday.
Grandma and grandpa bought a big penguin for Fiona, and some other nice things. She loves it so much. She even kisses the penguin good night.
孟田的生日蛋糕(看到了嗎？企鵝就躺在沙發上)
Fiona's got an ice cream birthday cake. The penguin is lying on the couch.

孟田愛死了她的冰淇淋生日蛋糕
Fiona loves her ice cream cake.

Winter Wonderland

Yes, it can get cold here in Calgary during the winter. Last week it got down to -33C at night, with a high of -27C in the daytime. On the positive side, there are a lot of sunny days and bright blue skies. Sometimes the snow sprinkles itself gently on the trees, like this: