Yue Lu's Likes and Dislikes

I've never seen a kid like to take a bath as much as Yue Lu does. Maybe it's because her baths are a lot different here, with bubbles and toys. I don't know what it was like in China, but I have a feeling it just wasn't as good as it is here. Over the last 3 days, Yue Lu has wanted 2 baths within hours of each other. I allowed it twice. She didn't get a second one yesterday, and she threw a fit that lasted for at least 45 minutes. One of my shower gifts was foam numbers and letters for the tub, and Yue Lu enjoys playing with them and has been learning her colors and numbers. In China, she would brush her teeth at least 3 times a day, and would get our toothbrushes ready as well. She is still good about brushing here at home, but not like she was in China. Now I have to remind her to brush, whereas in China she initiated it herself.

She also loves chocolate over hard candy, which is good. She loves watermelon, hard boiled eggs, macaroni and cheese, rice, water, and thankfully yoplait vanilla yogurt. She had a ton of yogurt in China, and the first kind I bought here she wouldn't eat.

She loves flipping through any kind of book or magazine. She likes to doodle and rip off every page from a note pad. She likes being outside for short periods. She likes going down slides, but not many times. She does not seem to like the heat here. It was very warm and humid in Guangzhou, but usually overcast or smoggy compared to the blue skies and warm weather here.

She likes barbie dolls and does a good job of putting rubber bands in their hair. She also likes to undress all of them! She likes clothes and dresses. I'm glad she is not the tomboy that I thought she would be. Not like there's anything wrong with being a tomboy, but it is fun to dress her in casual dresses sometimes.

She dislikes the TV being on. We rarely watch TV (no shows, just a little news), and she will turn the TV off whenever we turn it on. She does not want to watch any kids cartoons or movies. We were told she liked a hugely popular kids cartoon in China called 'Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf'. In China, it was on TV at night, and she was only interested in the first few minutes one time that we put it on for her. We're not fans of TV either, but I was looking forward to watching some good Disney movies with her that I've never seen before. Maybe in time she will be able to sit still enough to enjoy them. We picked out cartoons in China that are in Chinese. They don't work on the TV, but on the computer, but still no interest.

She dislikes the car booster seat and seat belts. We asked our guide in China to tell her that in the US we have to wear seat belts and she has to stay in her booster chair. In China, there are no car seats, and few people wear seat belts. Actually, there were kids as young as probably 2 riding on the from of mopeds in a standing position. The whole transportation system in China is scary and I don't know how we didn't witness any crashes.

She does not like milk, although she drank a milk type drink in China that was in boxes with the little straw. I think she thought our juice boxes were the same thing. Unfortunately, she doesn't like juice after I bought 3 packages of the little boxes.

Those are just some of her likes and dislikes.