Since we've been so lazy about posting in our blog lately(mostly because I have been sick with some kind of a cold which I had passed onto my daughter at the end of last week...), I will do another recent happenings post so we can put pictures from two weekends ago when we visited San Diego Wild Animal Park...:-) The San Diego Wild Animal Park is another part of San Diego Zoo that is located about a half hour closer to our place... Our San Diego Zoo membership gets us in to this park for free as well so we went to check it out:-) We purposely didn't look at the map and walked around in order to not see everything during our first time visit and we did great! We just did a small circle(and this place is huge!) so there is more to see and a much, much bigger circle to complete:-)
お昼におにぎりを作ったんだけど、マディソンとても気に入ってくれたみたい。もっとーって手話してくれてる...
Of course we start off our day at the park by having lunch, and Madison is really enjoying her rice ball by asking "More!"
Of course we start off our day at the park by having lunch, and Madison is really enjoying her rice ball by asking "More!"
他のゴリラに凄い威張っていたボスゴリラ...
This Gorilla chief was soooo bossy toward other gorillas...
This Gorilla chief was soooo bossy toward other gorillas...
そこに何が居たか忘れちゃったんだけど、マディソンが指差しているのが可愛いでしょ！
I don't remember what was there but it's just so cute to see her point at everything!
そして、今日お姉ちゃん孝行をする気がしたのか、枕の中でお昼寝していたココを枕ごと引っ張って来てグルグルアパートの中を歩き回ってツアーをしてあげていました。でも、意地悪っぽいよね：）いつもエリーにおもちゃを投げてあげてる時にマディソンがおもちゃを拾う度に、棚の上に置いたり袋の中に入れたりエリーの届かない所に持って行くんだよね...普通３姉妹の一番下って一番良い子のはずなのに...
Also today Madison was feeling nice enough to give Coco a ride in her pillow so I took some pictures of that... I totally think Madison was just trying to be mean to her sister though... She gets mean with Ellie too when we would throw Ellie her Sushi(chew toy) and if she gets a hold of it she would put it in a bag or on a shelf where Ellie can't reach...
最近この子左利き!?の気配がして来てます。やだ〜！ただただ、右利きになる前に試しているだけだと祈る毎日です：）今日の朝初めて、いつもの左手だけじゃなく両手でお絵描きしているのを発見、やった〜マディソン！
More and more we are finding out that our little girl may be a lefty... which doesn't thrill us(Sorry Uncle Jim!) so we keep hoping it's just a toddler experiment stage and she will soon start using her correct(right) hand:-) Here she is using both hands to draw for the first time instead of just using her left hand, way to go Madison!
最近のマディソンの言葉の発達状況は、“バイ！“がはっきりと言える様になって来ました。そしてバイと言う時はちゃんと縦に手を振ってくれるし.........そして、イエスって言う意味の“イヤー”とか...他の子達よりも話さないかもしれないけど、運動能力はずば抜けてる！走ったり投げたり持ち上げたりとすごいです...よくそんな物持てるなーってビックリする毎日です！
Some or one word she is saying very clearly these days is "Bye!" and it's followed by a vertical hand waving which is super cute:-) and............ oh and she says "Yeah!" Her speech may take longer to develop but she is definitely an athletic one, she runs and throws well... and lifting! We are always amazed how strong she is!
そして、例えばここに遊びに来ていてマディソンがお客さんの物で遊んでいるとするでしょ、しばらく経ってあれっ、どこ行っちゃったっけっと思ったらまず見てみる所はマディソンのおもちゃの台所の冷蔵庫の中、何でも冷たい方がいいらしくここに入れるのが好きらしい...：）カーペットに逆さまになって溢れているミルクボトルを見つけるよりは断然良いよね...
And if you are ever here visiting and your things disappear because Madison was playing with it and stopped, your first stop should be in her play kitchen fridge... She likes to keep everything cold apparently so that's where you can find your things...:-) It's much better than finding an up-side-down sippy cup and dumped/dripped milk on a floor...
音楽が耳に入って来る度に踊り出すマディソン、今日エレンを見ている時にゲストで３歳ぐらいの男の子がダンスを披露していたんだけどそれを見ていたマディソンはもう感激！いつもは左右に足を動かして踊るマディソン、今日は腕まで動かしてノリノリでした：）
She likes music and loves to dance! A LOT! We were watching Ellen and they had a toddler as a guest because he can dance really well and Ellen found him on Youtube and he was dancing... Madison went dance crazy watching him dance it was really cute! She usually just likes to sway with her legs alternating being in the air(I think I had a video a couple of posts back of her dancing) but yesterday she was waving her arms and everything. That boy woke up Madison's dance moves!
アパート内にプールがあるので頻繁に使っているんだけど今までで一度も混んでいる時がありません。ほとんどプール３人締めしています：）ターゲットで２才から用の腕浮き輪を買って使っています...マディソンはもう水全然怖くないみたい、一人で泳げま〜す！でもまだ体重が軽すぎるのか縦に浮くと水が口に入りやすくなっちゃうんだけど、ありがたい事に本人は全然気にしていないです...
Since we have a pool in our apartment complex we use it a lot and surprisingly it has never been crowded, most of the time we have the pool to ourselves! We got Madison this arm floating thing even though it said 2+ on the packaging and it's working really well:-) She is comfortable enough to swim on her own now... but since she is under 2 and maybe doesn't weigh enough, whenever she is up right and her head is just floating she tends to drink a bit too much pool water... but she doesn't care thankfully!
先週末ハリウッドにあるファーマーズマーケットとショッピングセンターがくっ付いている所に行ってみました。ショッピングセンターの真ん中には噴水や芝生のある子供達が動き回れる所があってマディソンは噴水のダンスに釘付けでした...ファーマーズマーケットにはいろんな国の料理や新鮮な素材がいっぱい...お昼はギリシャ料理のユーロを食べてデザートにはいちごのチーズケーキのソフトクリーム：）マディソンも自分用のスプーンで楽しそうに食べていました：）
This past weekend we checked out a huge farmer's market/shopping globe in West Hollywood... in the middle of all the stores they had a nice water fountain and a grass area that kids can run around and Madison really enjoyed watching the water dance... and farmer's market was very interesting with so many food vendors packed in an open area with many ethnic foods. We tried Gyro Platter from a Greek booth and a Strawberry Cheesecake frozen yogurt for dessert! Madison is getting really good at feeding herself with whatever:-)
お昼の後家に帰りがけに科学館に寄ってみました...ここは駐車料金を８ドル払わなきゃいけないけど入場料は無料！そこに特別にあったマミーの展示には２０ドル入場料、でも無料の展示で今日は十分楽しませて貰いました。ここにあった子供の遊び場は特に予想以上に素晴らしい：）一軒家みたいに台所/居間/寝室/外となっていて、外にはちゃんと偽物の土が入っている砂場があって野菜を植えたり収穫したり、虫のおもちゃを探したりとする事沢山...しかも、この遊び場には人数制限があるから混みすぎなくて最高！しかもこれタダって言ったよね!?
After lunch we stopped by the Science Center before heading home... They charge $8 for parking but the admission is free here except a special exhibition they had which was Mummy(I wanted to see it but we decided we didn't want to pay $20 for it...) Well we were glad we didn't pay any extra here because they had enough things to keep Madison occupied and interested... The best of all is this kids' playroom we stumbled into... This playroom was set up as a big house with kitchen/bedroom/living room/outdoor. In the outside patio they had a box of digging sand which was not sand but artificial dirt that kids can dig and find toy bugs or plant and harvest veggies... Another great thing about this playroom is that they limit the number of parents and kids that are in there at a time so there is plenty of toys and space to play with and run around in... And IT'S FREE! How great is that!?
ここは氷の部屋...この写真の左側にあるのは氷で出来ている壁の一部、だからこの部屋は寒〜かった〜！そして、隣の部屋は砂漠の部屋で、とても暖かくて１０分に一回雨で発生する洪水を見る事が出来ました...
Here we are in an ice room... The white bit on the left of the picture is a wall of packed ice so this room was actually really cold! They also had a desert room that was warm and had a flood caused by a rain storm every 10 minutes...
Ha ha ha! I love Madison dragging Coco around in the bed. That's awesome!
ReplyDeleteWhat a neat museum too! I can't believe it's free. The nice thing about the zoo and Wild Animal Park is that you can go any time of year since the weather is almost always nice down there.