May Days

May has been a busy month for us. So I haven't been updating very regularly. Here are a few shots of our various activities. Unfortunately, we were late getting to brunch on Mother's Day and therefore forgot to take our camera for photos. Can you believe I have no photos from my second Mother's Day with Maeve?! That's gotta be classified as poor parenting! I'm hoping to get some photos from my sister-in-law.

Maeve has decided that she would like to drive the car. So occasionally we let her sit in the driver's seat. When I take Maeve to Canadian Tire, they have neat little shopping carts where the seat part is a race car complete with steering wheel. She LOVES that! I think we need to get a nice Maeve sized car like her Xinyu sister C has.


She's started to ham it up a bit for the camera these days. Here's a shot of her after getting to taste Baba's breakfast.

Followed by her voguing for her photog session.


She now goes once a week to a gymnastics class with Baba. At first she was afraid to try the activities; especially in front of a group of strangers. After 4 sessions, she is much more comfortable doing things. Luckily there are a range of personalities and abilities in the class. But holy cow there are some fearless kids in that class!
Crawling through the tent and tunnels.

Bouncing on the trampoline with Dad

Walking on the balance beam


PoPo and GungGung came to visit for the long weekend (often referred to here in Ontario as the May two four weekend). Maeve was thrilled to see them and wanted to cut vegetables and cook soup for them in her kitchen. She must have cut veggies for a couple of hours(not all at once).


Saturday was the only nice day of the weekend. We spent most of it outside in the garden. Here's Maeve helping PoPo with the weeding.


On our gardening break, we took a quick trip to the park. Maeve climbed the stairs and went down the slide all by herself about 20 times. I was a little nervous as there is a pretty big opening right at the top of the stairs where she could easily fall off the structure and she hasn't got the dismount from the slide figured out quite yet so I tend to catch her at the bottom. But I still managed to snap a few photos.


Maeve's vocabulary is growing, but she is pretty shy so doesn't like to try new words in front of others. She's been able to say PoPo for quite a while now, but has had trouble with GungGung. When we would go out she would say, "PoPo come" pointing to my mom and "Dis come" pointing to my dad. We all thought it was pretty cute, but I'm not sure my dad appreciated being referred to as "this". But by the end of the weekend she was ready to say GungGung out loud.

Thanks for a great visit PoPo and GungGung!