A Little Mommy Blogging for the Road: Bingo, Dim Sum, and You're Annoying Me!

I suppose while I'm here I can share a little more with all of you in the way of details about what RJ's been up to. She's jumping rope, a lot. Which I love--and it's a good thing, as I am often required to share the jumprope for a little tandem jumping action. She's building Lego towers, "camping" in the kitchen in Joel's cowboy tent, and counting down how many days are left in the school week on her fingers.

Oh, and she likes to play Bingo.

Which is not at all surprising, as she is way into counting and spelling in English right now (here she is breaking something down for her paternal grandma, who's visiting from Colorado this week).

Oh, and then there's this. Today we went out for a delicious dim sum lunch with some Chinese friends, and they were able to enlighten us as to the nature of a certain invective she casts upon anyone in the family who crosses her. Ever since we got home, during times of conflict--yes, we do have them--she says something that sounds to us like "fun-ye." At times she has said it with such a look of disdain that I was honestly afraid to find out what it meant. I've had my money on "I hate you," but feared it could have been something even worse. But today I couldn't resist my curiosity, so we asked. Turns out fun-ye means something along the lines of, "You're annoying me!"

Which I thought was just fabulous. I've always said she's a very civilized girl, and this confirms it. The horrible thing she's been shouting at me in times of extreme stress? At what must be the most difficult time in her young life?

"You're annoying me!" So reasonable. So accurate. So fair.

I just love this little girl.