Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Fw: Tag Sierra blog


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From: Josh Elman <josh_elman@yahoo.com>
To: Clover Huang <cloverh@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:01 PM
Subject: Tag Sierra blog

I heard you were so good on the scooter.

How can you hear me you were too far away

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Monday, July 29, 2013

Colors of the rainbow

Sierra has always loved rainbows. She loves this rainbow shirt I got her and anything else rainbow colored.

A couple weeks ago, Sierra said she wanted me to color something (I can't remember what) using rainbow colors.  She then laid out the following crayons in this order:
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple

Friday, July 26, 2013


Today (7/25) we went to Oakland Chinatown for me to see an herbalist for my eczema on my legs. We went to Gran's favorite Vietnamese restaurant afterwards, where Sierra mostly ate the pickled daikon, which she loves. Then she played at the dragon themed playground, and then we had red bean buns at this Chinese bakery.  The next morning, she woke up early to diarrhea. For the next 5-6 days, she had 1 or 2 creamy poops a day.  We knew she was off. Finally a week later, she fought it off.  It was probably not food poisoning, which you usually majorly diarrhea or vomit out in the first 1-2 days and then you are fine. It was probably a virus, picked up from the restaurant, the bakery, or the park(?)


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Oakland chi



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Playdate with Fiona



I got some great action shots of her playing dress up and twirling with Fiona



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Monday, July 22, 2013

Sierra's first bus ride

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From: "kathua@juno.com"
To: josh_elman@yahoo.com; cloverh@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 10:28 PM
Subject: Ra's 1st bus ride


After all the commotions  she finally agreed not to bring her toy kitchen (the one next to the real kitchen), her little red chair and stool to the bus ride with her.  She still had to take her orange backpack stuffed to the point it could hardly be zipped up with her.  
She was quietly observing outside the window and inside the bus while riding.  Suddenly she unzipped her backpack and pulled out the Wonder Pet Tuck and a toy banana.  She peeled the banana symbolically and fed Tuck because "Tuck should have a snack for his car ride".
 

SHE got a new hanging bar

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Funny Sierra tastes

I have not met a single child who does not love juice.  Parents nowadays are trying to cut back on juice and juice box makers are making watered down juices.  Sierra refuses to even try box juice, or any juice besides orange juice.  It's the strangest thing.

She has always hated kids toothpaste, which is always fruit (strawberry-banana) flavored.  She uses the same as I do (tom's of maine peppermint), which is really, really minty.  Funny.

SHE loves saying "I love you"

Sierra likes to say "I love you"  to me or Josh or Gran and then she closes her eyes and smiles. She is so sweet.   It's the same thing she does when she pretends to be a baby kitty and talks in a soft voice and closes her eyes and smiles.



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SHE's copying the handyman



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Saturday, July 20, 2013

SHE wanted me to take a picture of her hugging the "baby giraffe"


"Baby giraffe is so cute," she says in her soft, sweet voice reserved for almost all animals she sees.


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Friday, July 19, 2013

SHE's about to go tomato picking

SHE's modeling her new Greylock hat

Greylock family picnic - cornfield



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Framed by an alpaca in the petting zoo



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Greylock family picnic



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SHE's in the bouncy house

My feet went to bed

This is from a few weeks ago, but I love it. :)

Her feet fell asleep after sitting too long. She told me "My feet went to bed." (since I have told her in the past "feet went to sleep".)

SHE feels loved! :)

From: Josh Elman
To: Clover Huang
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:28 AM
Subject: Sierra blog


Gran gran said Sierra said "mommy loves me the most.  Daddy loves me the most. Gran gran loves me the most. grandma and grandpa love me the most. Everyone loves me the most!"

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Sunday, July 14, 2013

She's sick again (3rd time this summer)

Friday is when it started. I could hear her snoring towards the morning (bc she was stuffed). She woke up asking to be held.  I asked if she wanted daddy to "hold me and walk around" (her phrase) which is what she has insisted on since babyhood whenever she isn't 100%.

By afternoon she gradually started getting stuffy. Sigh.

Friday, July 12, 2013

Story time with Amanda (Fiona's mom)



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SHE wanted them to kiss



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Monday, July 8, 2013

Snack time (apples) with Fiona



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Wagon ride with Fiona



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Sunday, July 7, 2013

SHE's sharing lunch with Robbie

SHE wrote a card in rainbow colors

The rainbow colors were Sierra's idea. (I wrote lightly in pencil and she traced.)  After tracing "Thank You", she said there was too much and wanted me to finish, but I told her I wouldn't or else it wouldn't be by Sierra. I went into the kitchen. A few minutes later she ran to me proudly and said she finished it!

SHE made a necklace

Thursday, July 4, 2013

SHE's watching the fireworks


This year Sierra was not afraid of the fireworks and enjoyed them.

Like last year, S was excited to see the fireworks.  This time we watched them from a baseball field on middlefield (farther away) and she is a year older.  Unlike last year, when we felt like we were escaping Vietnam amid rocket launchers in the background, this year, she kept announcing how she was not afraid and that "that wasn't too loud" even the illegal "pre-show" being done across the field from us that was actually quite loud.  She enjoyed learning about knock-knock jokes from grandma and grandpa while we waited.  Then she enjoyed the whole show.  The next morning, when Josh asked what her favorite parts were, she said the fireworks at the end (the finale of the professional ones) and one of the knock-knock jokes (can't remember which one - JOSH FILL THIS IN)

Note: Robbie was sleeping and didn't make it. We got seated around 9pm and the fireworks started around 9:45.

Ice cream with grandpa



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Picnic with Grandpa



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