mylène daily

Still, there isn't as much progress in Mylene's Dutch talking skills as in her Chinese talking skills by far.

But, one development is worth mentioning.
Earlier I noted that Mylene seems to understand the concept of different languages.
Recently, she makes that very clear by telling us that papa calls something like this, and mama calls it like that.

Example: I showed Mylene a bird and said "Kijk Mylene, een vogel". Then Mylene answered "Papa shuo 'vogel', mama shuo 'xiao niao'"

She does that quite often now.

I have to say, I do need some help in getting Mylene's Dutch up to the next level, though.

So, opa and oma, be prepared. We are expecting a lot from you when you are here in April :-)

Here is one of the cutest pictures I took until now of our little girl.

Mylene likes to play with chopsticks very much, but usually we take them away, because we are afraid that she will accidentally hurt herself (or us) with them.

Last Saturday we were in a restaurant for lunch and Mylene was playing with chopsticks again. The food was already on the table, and Shiqi and I were talking.
As I wanted to take the chopsticks away, we suddenly noticed that Mylene was not just playing with the chopsticks, she was really using them to eat.

I made a quick snapshot with my mobile phone camera, and we let her finish her food, eating with chopsticks.