Dinner Parties

Saturday was the grand opening party of Scribble Me Happy. The art studio is co-owned by Uncle Dave's cousin, Stacey and Auntie Mika's friend. What a small world!

K sat at the kid's table and stamped a birthday card and colored it with crayon.

After her hard work, she wanted a sip of Auntie Betty's iced coffee.

She met a new friend Max who let her watch and play on his ipad. Uncle Dave said Max never shares his ipad or let's anyone touch his ipad. Max must really like K.

Baby Auymi joined the party later in the afternoon. She is now 7 weeks old.

Before going home Daddy went on a Jamba run to use his buy one get one free coupon. Lucky for K that meant she got her own cup. Mommy learned Jamba carries cups for kids.

After the art studio K came home and took a nap. When she woke up Mommy's side of the family came over. The cousins brought their skateboard and K rode in her car around the lagoon.

Here is great grandma with most of her grandkids (minus Derek and Michelle) and great grand baby.
K wasn't cooperating and kept trying to slide down during the picture.

But we eventually convinced her to sit still and flash a smile.

At dinner K tried feeding Ashley with her spoon. Ashley loves eating. Her mommy said she can eat anything in sight!

On Sunday Uncle Johnny and Uncle Brian came over. They helped paint K's bedroom and the guest bedroom, so Daddy wanted to repay them by making them dinner. Uncle Brian had fun playing with K. He made K laugh a lot.

Uncle Johnny's sons, Landon (left) and Emry (middle) and Auntie Faith came over too. Emry was a sweetheart and wanted to take care of K. He would pretend to cook K dinner with her toys and serve it to her.

The boys brought over an Etch a Sketch and K loved scribbling on it. She laid on the floor and was quite entertained.

First Easter

For Easter we celebrated at Auntie Diane's house. She cooked delicious prime rib. Before lunch cousin Ethan decided to give K a ride on his shoulders.

Great grandma took a pic with her grandchild, Ashley and great grandchild, K. It turns out Ashley is K's auntie even though K is older than her 5 months! Don't the two girls look the same size.

K experienced her first Easter egg hunt at daycare. Lolita said K enjoyed banging the plastic eggs together and walking around on the grass in the backyard. Mommy hid eggs at home too. K is pretty excited when she finds an egg.

Mommy bought these bunny ears at Target for $1 and thought it would be cute for K to wear them. K begs to differ.

She was a good sport and wore them long enough for Mommy to take a picture.

Next year K wants to hide the eggs and invites everyone to come over and find them.

Happy Valentine's Day

In honor of V-day, Daddy got this bib for K.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Will you be my Valentine?

New Year Get Togethers

For Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year as Daddy would call it) K attended many celebrations. Auntie Kristine treated us to dinner at Tai Wu in Daly City.

Auntie Esther and Uncle Al joined us too. K likes grabs everything in sight especially the chopsticks.

K played with her doll from grandma as we ate. That lasted a good 5 minutes until she got bored.

Lately many people have said K looks a lot like Daddy now. What do you think? Is there a resemblance?

Thanks again Auntie Kristine! We enjoyed steamed fish, watercress soup, peking duck, XO beef and steamed tofu. I bet K can't wait until she can eat that good!

Over the weekend, we celebrated with Mommy's side of the family. Of course that meant spending time with  Po Po and Gung Gung. When we got to their house, they insisted Daddy and Mommy go out while they watch K. We took them up on their offer and walked around the Marina outlets for an hour.

K is generous with her kisses to her stuffed animals, but now she gives kisses to people as well such as Po Po.

Gung Gung taught K to stick out her tongue. They both are so silly.

K continued to stick out her tongue for the rest of the night. Mommy doesn't think she loves that new trick.

K spent time with Uncle Derek and Auntie Gabby too while holding on to the red envelopes she got. She was smart not to let go of her money.

K played with Ashley too. Ashley has the same activity mat as K.  Mommy sometimes misses when she could put K down on the mat and do stuff while K laid still. Times have changed.

4 generations...

Majority of the food you see on the table was cooked by great grandma. Quite amazing for 87 years old! She is still tough as nails and pretty active. Maybe that's where K gets it from.

On Sunday, K celebrated with Daddy's family at great grandma's house. Picture time with grandma, Auntie Tammy and Kaylyn.

Kaylyn thought it would be fun to feed K zucchini and apples for dinner.

This became a really long blog entry. It just goes to show how busy K has been in the last couple of days. She loves to play and hang out, so we hope to see you soon!

Gung Hay Fat Choy

Gung Hay Fat Choy and Chuc Mung Nam Moi (for K's Vietnamese half)
K has several pieces of Chinese attire that were given to her as gifts. Mommy decided to have K model her outfits since next year they probably won't fit anymore.

First up is a dress from Auntie Dalena & Uncle Norman.

Next is an outfit that Po Po and Gung Gung brought in HK last November.

 

And finally is one more outfit her grandparents got her in Hong Kong. K was no longer in the mood to take pictures.

 

She received her first red envelopes (lycee) from Mommy and Daddy. She is thinking Cha Ching! Money for new toys! She wishes everyone a Happy Dragon Year!

Hello 2012!

K would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

She wanted to stay up for the countdown, but it's way past her bedtime. She said hooray for 2012 in the meantime! Let's get this party started!

K: What were you thinking Mommy? This hat is too small for my head!

The afternoon of New Year's eve, K met up with her friend Courtney at Stanford mall. Don't they both look so comfy and warm in their stroller? It was so comfy- both girls took a nap while their mommies walked around and shopped.

Uncle Pete says yikes...this is what it feels like to have twins!

Baby swap...should we trade for a day and Auntie Ali take K home?

Post family Christmas pic in front of Brook's Brothers. It does make for a nice scenery!

Hoping 2012 is filled with love, happiness and good health for everyone!

First Christmas

On Christmas Eve, we went to great grandma's house on Daddy's side of the family. Uncle Daren took a few family pics, so once he sends them over, we will be sure to post.

On Christmas Day, K woke up and got to open presents. She is looking at Mommy and Daddy and wondering which one to open first.

This is her first attempt at opening a gift. She absolutely loves to rip paper!

This is her second gift. K's loves when Mommy reads her a book about Elmo and always smiles, so Daddy did some research online and found "my first elmo". This elmo is chewable and the perfect size for babies.

Can you tell how much K loves her new toy!? She is already trying to kiss and bite him.

After K opened a few more presents, she played and took a nap. When she woke up, Daddy's family came over.  Baby Aiden came over too, but he was napping and not in the picture.

Later that afternoon, we went to Po Po and Gung Gung's house. After dinner, K had more presents to open. Talk about one lucky baby! Daddy's car was filled with all of K's gifts. We had so much to bring home, we even left behind her booster chair at Po Po's house.

Auntie Vandy and Uncle James even mailed a gift to K all the way from Japan. She got the cute bear below but she seems more interested with the tag at the moment.

K had a fun first Christmas. Despite her catching a cold, she was happy to spend it with all of her family.  Merry Christmas everyone!