上个月我给客房的小床换上了很可爱的床单和被套，沈岚看见了很喜欢，当我建议她晚上自己一个人在客房睡觉时，她居然爽快地答应了。当天晚上就睡得很好，接下来的几天里，除了有一天她晚上喊害怕，要爸爸抱她过来和我一起睡，其他的晚上她都自己一个人睡得很好。现在每晚入睡之前，她都会读一段《三字经》，读两遍约15分钟。读完后马上利索地上床睡觉，我打开DVD播放经典音乐，她每晚就在轻柔的乐声中入睡。早上起来后，她也会读《三字经》１５分钟。她自己也知道，读完《三字经》后，就会进入《弟子规》、《百家姓》、《千字文》等等。通过读经，感觉她突然认识了很多汉字。感谢婷婷的爸爸向我们推荐了这么好的学习方法，读经很轻松，孩子在不知不觉中受到经典的熏陶，不仅有助于识字，而且对他们的中文素质的培养也奠定了良好的基础。重要的是，在经典的熏陶下，他们渐渐会明白很多为人处世的道理。希望沈岚能坚持下去，这个好习惯绝对是让她受益终生的。

Recently I spent a lot of my free time watching the US sitcom "Ugly Betty". It's really worthing watching. Betty, a young kind girl without pretty face and amazing figure, comes from an ordinary family but always works very hard towards her dreams. It's a funny sitcom but sometimes I feel it's also very educational. I hope my daughter will be like her when she grows up.

there're some lines that're really touching:

For the memory of MJ

Recently I heard so many bad news about the people I knew who got serious disease. It shocked me significantly as I came to realize how fragile life could be. We're planning delibrately what we will do in the years to come, but nobody could foresee what will happen in the future, even tomorrow.

历时8节课，学完了“小汤1”

昨天沈岚上第八节钢琴课，至此已经完成了“小汤1”的学习。老师说她是这批孩子里学的最快的，沈岚也很高兴，像个小人来疯似的，兴奋地说“我学完了，我把这本书扔掉啦！”妈妈也很开心，沈岚从２００９年４月２６日学钢琴以来，坚持每天都练琴１个小时左右，虽然练琴时她经常不专心，开小差，让妈妈抓狂，但基本上她都能很好地完成老师布置的练习曲目，每次回课老师对她的表现都比较满意。妈妈为此给她买了她盼望已久的巴拉拉魔法棒，作为对她顺利完成“小汤１”的奖励。

下节课沈岚要开始学习“小汤2”了，妈妈承诺她每完成一本教材的学习，都会奖励她一件由她自己选择的玩具作为奖励。希望沈岚在学习钢琴的道路上，培养认真坚持的精神，克服每一个困难，达到自己可以达到的目标！

4月26日，沈岚第一天开始学钢琴。积极性比较高，悟性不错，1个小时的课上下来她也没喊累，上完课后我们就回家吃晚饭了。吃过晚饭后，问她是否想去练琴，她兴致勃勃地答应了，于是我们又去练习了半小时。

希望沈岚能保持这样的热情和积极性，把钢琴学好！

 There is a Chinese saying that goes "it isn't a big pleasure to meet a friend who comes from far away?" Yes, it did echo to me as it's such a wonderful feeling to have an enjoyable dinner with Li Fang, a longtime friend I met in Beijing in 1997, and her husband.