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我一直都在讲安娜是多么好。 可能你会问：“她总是那么高兴吗？她总是那么好带吗？”。 当然不是。有的时候，她也很气人。以下几个方面，我们一直在帮安娜改进：
1.分享：安娜很多时候看到自己喜欢吃的或玩儿的东西，自己把着，不愿跟我们大家分享，我们一直在教她，我们家的东西都是大家一起用的。吃的东西不用怕不够，只要合理，一定会吃够。
2. 忽视：有时我们告诉安娜不应该做什么事情，她会装作没听见。 例如，在商店里，我们告诉她不要乱跑，她却装作没听见，一如既往的向前跑。
3. 倔强：有时我们告诉安娜如何正确的做某件事，她却连说“不不”，继续按她自己的一套干。
4. 大嗓门儿：安娜嗓门特别大。 时常不管场合，大声说话。有时去餐馆吃饭，她会突然大声发 表评论，如果我们不理她，她会声音越来越大。记得我们还在杭州时，去博物馆参观，里面静极了，她却突然一嗓子大叫：“啊。。。。。”。结果把旁边的工作人员下的一哆嗦，告诉我们，她再这样大喊， 就得出去。现在，我们每次去书店，图书馆，钢琴或芭蕾舞课，都得事先告诉她一定要安静。所以，安娜有时会很让人生气，但是她好得很快，嘴又甜，真是让人恨不起来。
It seems like I have only been praising Anna. Maybe you will ask “Is she always happy? Is she always easy going?” I would say, “Absolutely not! She does get difficult sometimes.” So what are the things we are still working on with her?
1. SHARING: Anna tends to hold on to things she likes and doesn’t want to share with the rest of us. We have been teaching her that most of the stuff in our house is for everybody to use. She is getting a lot better and most of the time she shares things after we explain to her.
2. IGNORING: Sometime, Anna ignores us if we tell her something she doesn’t like. For example, when we tell her not to run in a grocery store, she keeps on running even though we know she can hear us.
3. STUBBORNESS: Sometimes we tell Anna how to do something correctly, but she keeps on doing it her own way and keeps saying no to us.
4. LOUDNESS: Anna has a very loud voice. Sometimes, it can be good, but other times she needs to have a quiet voice. When we eat at a restaurant, she starts talking very loudly and if we don’t respond, she talks even louder. When we first got her, when we visited a quiet museum, all of a sudden, she yelled: “Ahh! Ahh!” and the museum staff told us that we had to leave if she kept on shouting. Now, when we go into a bookstore, a library or piano and ballet lessons, we have to tell her "Shhh….." She is much better now.
So, yes, Anna can be difficult sometimes, but she is very sweet and we love her so much.
安娜这个星期和哥哥一起过了16岁生日。上个周末爷爷奶奶请我们全家在一家中餐馆吃饭，生日当天，我们又去了Pat and Oscar's 吃了晚饭，一是给哥哥过生日，同时也为了给我们当地“领养中国孩子家庭基金会" 捐款。今天，哥哥请了几个好朋友到家里来玩游戏。 安娜自己一边玩儿，一边看哥哥们玩儿，安娜最喜欢的玩具是小磁铁棒，可以搭各种形状，她经常自己没完没了地搭着玩儿。
