Memoirs of a cousin
One important essential for an 11 year old girl is a plastic, fake Birkin from Marshalls for $5.99- SCORE! So deliciously tacky.
Monday we went to the Shedd Aquarium which was fun, but SO crowded. 
We enjoyed the Shallow Seas 4D show. The glasses were very Devo.
Lily is half Chinese (from Taiwan), so Monday afternoon we went to Chinatown in Chicago. Lily has been teaching herself Mandarin Chinese (the child is brilliant) so she wanted to go hang with her peeps and try out her conversational skills. 
She was totally able to talk to the store owners and our waiter at Joy Yee Noodle (Joy Yee is awesome by the way) and she was so proud. My husband and I were blown away. I told her if she becomes fluent I will take her to Taiwan. Keep your fingers crossed, because cousin Jenny totally wants to go to Asia.
Here we are with the Year of the Monkey(posh) statue in "New Chinatown".
She wanted a traditional Chinese dress, so we found "the perfect" one then I put her hair in buns, complete with chopsticks and she looked beautiful -like a little Geisha.....even though Geishas are Japanese and not Chinese, but still she was SO CUTE!!!!!
Lily makes me laugh and I needed that this week. I am very thankful she is here.
Today our agenda includes pedicures (with my beautiful new gray polish from Dear R-thanks R!) homemade pizza, a trip to T.J. Maxx, and the premiere of Top Chef tonight. Good times!
Have a beautiful day.
(photos property of MonkeyPosh, LLC)
posted by Parisjasmal at 4:17 AM
13 Comments:
OMG! So cute!
I love the dress and the hair with chopsticks!
Looks like you ladies are having a wonderful time.
Enjoy!
Oh Jen she is a beautiful little monkey.
How nice to have such a special relationship with your dear cousin.
Kudos to you on her room. It is lovely. I would live in it happily.
The Birkin is priceless.
This post just warms my heart!
Your little cousin sounds like a gem. I wish I could meet her - and have her teach me some Mandarin in prepartion for my China trip.
And I totally love that fake plastic Birkin bag - what a hoot!
Adorable.
adorable
That child is adorable. Totally adorable.
Did I say she is adorable????
So good to hear that you are all having a blast this week!
Hugs and love!
Choosing to spend her week with you is a big treat. She is adorable and very smart. I am glad u r having such a good time. Dont eat too much pizza- yum!! Soungs like u should be on Top Chef!!!
xoxo
She is so darling--more so every time I see pics of her. What a fun aunt. I want to go visit Auntie Monkey, please please? And... I have to sleep in that bed, and I want to get pedicures, take fun pictures by monkey statues and eat out -- sans speaking Mandarin. I can barely master English. You are such a cool aunt.
Looks like so much fun. I love Joy Yee. Have you tried the one in the burbs?
Girl time is the best.
Enjoy the pedicures.
I would have LOVED to have a fabulous sister-from-another-mister cousin like you when I was her age... She is SO beautiful!!
Keep me posted if you are heading to Taiwan! I can play hometown tour guide!! :)
xoxox
She is so beautiful!! What an awesome cousin you are, I can see why she enjoys being with you.. hope you had a blast!
She is absolutely adorable, J., and how lucky the two of you are to have each other. She is going to have such fond memories of all the great times you share with her.
Did I tell you I named my new baby Lily? :-)
Here's hoping the snow melts and we get some real spring weather SOON!
-Sue
omg she is precious. i'm one of the youngest of all my cousins and no one ever did anything NEAR that cool for me.
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