不就是小學嗎！

Ever since labor day, Rice Ba and Rice Ma have embarked on a torturous journey of school search for Nana. So far, we have:

written essays
met with school exmission expert
edited our essays
attended a few open houses
discussed strategy
charted out a list of schools in tiers - very competitive, competitive, and safty
considered lying about our address to get in to a better public school
attended parent interviews
attended playdate interviews
registered for ERB
registered for hunger
the list goes on....

We visited a handful of very impressive independent schools in the city. Some are single sex, some are co-ed, some are traditional, and some are progressive. Many of them have long standing tradition, one of which even have history longer than this country. We also met many inspring educators with vision and genuine kindness. Education nowadays is very different than our own experience thirty years ago. It's individualized and experience driven. Division between subjects is no longer clear cut. Grades are no longer handed out for younger children. Kids in these schools are lucky to be surrounded by these top caliber educators. Not sure what's the outcome for us. In a way, it's torturous yet inspiring. We went for our first play date today at Avenues. A handful more events to come. Sigh... Parents.....

Alvin Alley

那妮是個幸福的紐約寶寶，在大師級的地方學跳舞。

From Alvin Alley Tiny Steps

From Alvin Alley Tiny Steps

From Alvin Alley Tiny Steps

Nani's Second Birthday

恐怖的事件

Nani, 馬麻帶你去餵鳥鳥好嗎?
好~~~~
馬麻餵鳥, 玩的不亦樂乎..... 忽然聽到.... "蹦"一聲
幾呎外, 有一個翻倒的娃娃車, 一個中年男子正在慌忙的安扶寶寶.
馬麻心想這麼會有爸媽哪麼不小心, 太不像話.
诶, 好巧, 那個娃娃車怎麼會跟我們家的一樣....
轉過頭來找Nani... 不在.
OMG, 那個哭的寶寶是..........納妮.....
馬麻驚慌的跑過去抱抱,
好險只是一點擦傷... 實在太大意了.....
下次不敢了.

Grandpa's visit to nyc

Happy Birthday Nani

向大家拜年 - 祝安康

中央公園滑梯梯

Saturday morning routine - a trip to neighborhood diner

像不像小姑姑?

Happy Holidays

12/05/07 Eight Month

7 month!

Highchair

露點寫真

坐坐

nani最近開始會坐坐, 但三不五時還是會小小的短路, 突然往前或往後傾. 大意的馬咪讓nani跌了兩次, 被奶奶知道的話, 會被罵死. nani坐坐時喜歡玩圈圈, 邊玩, 還會邊高興的尖叫. 對顏色好像也有喜好, 偏愛綠色, 老抓著綠色圈圈不放. 呃....... 是泛綠的嗎??

快樂的小魚

昨天帶nana去游泳, 下水後, 兩隻肥胖的小腳拼命踢啊踢, 好可愛. 還被教練抱去當示範寶寶. nana, 好勇!

註: JCC 的設備好屌, 小朋友游泳池的水位可隨時調整, 猶太人太海了.

More Nana Pics

Took this picture using grandma rice's mac computer. Just uploaded a bunch of pictures to Adorama. http://www.adoramapix.com/rice

6 months

I can't believe Nana is turning 6 month today. Another milestone. Yesterday, we were marveling at her old photos. Baby changes so fast that I can hardly remember how she looks like when she was a newborn. Brought Nana to do yoga yesterday, she was tumbling all over the place on my yoga mat. Next week, we will be going to her first bubbling baby swimming class at JCC. Kind of excited. I bought her a swimming suit for 18 mo baby, hope that it will still fit.

坐地鐵, 去聽Eu姨唱歌

恩恩啊啊

Nana and her 1st friend

This weekend, The Rice family went to picnic in Central Park with the usual suspects. Nana finanally met up with Little Apple for the first time.

接奶奶，吃西瓜，上山和下海

"The two most precious gifts we can give our children are roots and wings." - A Jewish saying