Dear Mackenzie,
Now that your siblings are all back in school, there is no one home to play with you during the day while I do housework. Sometimes, I have to leave you in your room but you are not really good at knowing how to entertain yourself, so you just sit at the gate and wait for my return, like a little puppy. Sometimes, it takes awhile for me to get back to you and this happens:
I love how toddlers can fall asleep anywhere! Hopefully, you will learn to be more independent over the next few months. But one emotion you already excel at is empathy. Empathy is one of the qualities I value the most and it makes me so proud when you are aware of others' feelings. The other day, JieJie was talking to me when she suddenly started crying about how difficult her homework was. You were playing but when you heard JieJie crying, your eyes widened and you immediately crawled over and hugged her. This morning, I was watching a show about 9/11 and my eyes started to well up. I wasn't audibly crying but you immediately recognized that I was sad, climbed up onto the couch and into my lap and hugged me. Thank you, sweetheart!
And in vocab news, you have learned how to say Anna (you love reading Frozen books!), night-night and yi-yi (Chinese for bad). You said the latter when you held up a page that had been ripped out of a book. I don't know if you had ripped it or Second GuhGaw had but at least you knew it was something you shouldn't do!
Love,
Mom
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