Monday, October 27, 2014

What I learned at the eye doctor



I learned that Vivi's eyes are doing great. She is responding well to the patching and can control her eyes remarkably well. But more surprising to me was that I learned that Vivi knows her letters!

The eye doctor has two eye charts - one with letters and one with simple pictures (house, tree, bear, etc). This time when we went the eye doctor asked Vivi, "Do you know your letters?" to which Vivi answered "yes." So, she used the letter version. The doctor then asked Vivi to read letters and (to my surprise) Vivi got nearly all of them correct. She knows her letters. She confuses I and T and doesn't know G, Q, or Z but otherwise does quite well.

The picture above is of a game Vivi gets to play where she wears 3D glasses and tries to push down the bunny that's jumping off the page (to test her depth perception).

October pictures

Painting (a house)


New game in Costco's tire center

Wrapping birthday gifts

Paper mache bowl for Bapa's birthday

A doggy

clown
Monster cupcakes

Monday, September 29, 2014

First haircut

First haircut- they had lots of toys

She didn't want to leave the salon - racing cars

Monday, September 22, 2014

painting or building

Vivi asked if she could paint. I got out the paints and went inside to find brushes. I came back outside to find this. A tower of paint and a little girl doing a happy dance. 


A closer look at the tower.




Vivi and Zoey








Monday, September 15, 2014

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Drawing Olaf

While at California Adventure last week, we went to their Animation Studio. This is a series of 20 minute drawing lessons that Disney animators host all day long. It's pretty amazing. The animator leads you through how to draw a character and nearly everyone in the room ends up with a pretty good drawing of that character. The one we happened to go to is "Olaf" which is the snowman from Frozen. Here's my (mommy's) drawing, just to get an idea of what was intended.





The lessons are not really intended for three-year-olds, but Vivi got her own paper and pencil and was ready to try drawing Olaf with the rest of us. To be fair, before we went in she told us "I already know how to draw Olaf" but she was ready to go so that Mommy and Daddy could learn. Here's her drawing. Follow along the numbers to see how she progressed. 



Friday, July 25, 2014

The Dragon

Vivi saw a Daniel Tiger episode where he and his friends made a big cardboard dragon to dance with at school (like a Chinese New Year Dragon). So Vivi decided she needed to make her own. She's been drawing on it off and on for a week now. Look at that face she drew!



Thursday, July 24, 2014

Allergies

Conversation with Vivi

Vivi: (sneezes a few times). I think I have allergies
Mom: Oh? What do you think you are allergic to?
Vivi: Oh. Probably kids.
Mom: (tries not to laugh) kids?
Vivi: Well my teacher is, so maybe I am too.


Butterflies, frogs and mud pies.

We have been to the natural history museum three of the last four weekends. Once for a birthday party and two times for a picnic and playing.
There's a butterfly exhibit

Kids can hold frogs in the nature club house

And best of all, there's an area to make MUD. Just a faucet, dirt, and a bunch of old pots and pan.

Who wants a mud pie?

Cardboard Kayaks

A few weekends ago we went to watch the annual Cardboard Kayak Races. Participants got two pieces of cardboard, a roll of duct tape, and a knife.