Names

On New Year's Eve we saw the Squeakquel, and ever since then the girls have been performing some Chipette routines for us. AnLi has renamed herself Brittany (or Bertny as she says it), Carli is Eleanor and I'm Jeanette. She has us all do our hair the way they have theirs and we must each wear the respective color they don in the movie.

Eleanor in green - two ponies
Brittany in pink - one pony up high
Jeanette in blue - one very high pony


AnLi tells EVERYBODY her name is Brittany. She told them at school, at swimming, the store, anywhere we go. When we say goodnight, she reminds us that her name is Bertny and Carli is Eleanor.

Here they are with their band instruments, hair in the proper positions. AnLi did change into pink shortly after this.





One day when AnLi was supposed to be taking a nap, she came down in too small Chinese outfits. She couldn't reach the shirt that goes with the pants, so she got her size 2 winter jacket. She asks just about every day when their new Chinese dresses for Chinese New Year are coming. Hopefully they'll be here soon!


And back to the subject of names - We've been talking a lot about the girls' Chinese names. AnLi's is Li Xiao and Carli's is Wen Ye. We do know from our paperwork that they called AnLi Xiao Xiao, and we heard the nannies call her that on adoption day. We also always call Carli "Carli Jo Jo". We almost always say that. Yesterday AnLi decided that along with Brittany, she'd like to be called AnLi Jo Jo. I explained that Jo Jo was Carli's nickname, but maybe we could call her AnLi Xiao Xiao and she thought that was a good idea.
So now I'm not sure what I'm supposed to call her - Brittany or AnLi Xiao Xiao. LOL!
And next week it might be something else.