Sophie combs the monkey's hair.
Hannah too tired to ham it up for the camera. The girls laugh and get excited when the monkey makes crazy sounds and turns over. Thank you Auntie Stacie and Uncle Calvin for our new toy!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Monkey monkey
Sophie combs the monkey's hair.Hannah too tired to ham it up for the camera. The girls laugh and get excited when the monkey makes crazy sounds and turns over. Thank you Auntie Stacie and Uncle Calvin for our new toy!
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Behind the Scenes at Daycare
Hannah in the front with a music instrument and Sophie in the back in a highchair.
Sophie finding eggs.
The girls line up (Sophie on the end).
Birthday celebration.Pictures courtesy of Eileen Xu.
Fun with a New Toy
More birthdays at daycare the girls brought home some goodie bags (two in the past week!) and their new favorite toy is a sticky ball that when you throw it on a flat surface it will stick. All night long we had the sticky ball flying all around the room followed by giggling.
The girls are growing quickly and recently I had to up Sophie and Hannah's size in shoes as well as clothes. I feel extremely sad boxing up all the clothes, but their new clothes are super cute, so I can't be too sad LOL! We're still waiting for the warm weather to arrive...
The girls are still hooked on watching Totoro, Ponyo, Jungle Book, and Tinkerbell. I think it's finally time to take them to Disneyland.
Multitasking! The girls brush their teeth, read a book, and have their new toy sticky ball in hand.
Hannah shows off the new toy and Sophie smiles for the camera.
Hannah and Sophie sings the Happy New Year Chinese song.
The girls are growing quickly and recently I had to up Sophie and Hannah's size in shoes as well as clothes. I feel extremely sad boxing up all the clothes, but their new clothes are super cute, so I can't be too sad LOL! We're still waiting for the warm weather to arrive...
The girls are still hooked on watching Totoro, Ponyo, Jungle Book, and Tinkerbell. I think it's finally time to take them to Disneyland.
Multitasking! The girls brush their teeth, read a book, and have their new toy sticky ball in hand.
Hannah shows off the new toy and Sophie smiles for the camera.Hannah and Sophie sings the Happy New Year Chinese song.
Welcome Kona!
April Birthdays
The updates were far and few because the girls caught something called Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (HFMD) several weeks ago and they got over super quick. Mommy however caught it and it was pretty bad for her. Don't worry the name sounds horrible, but I did a lot of research and it is a virus that you can only really get once like chicken pox unless of course you're the rare person that can get the second strain of it. Usually this only hits children 10 yrs and under. The rare few adults that get it didn't get it as kids....I guess that was me :(
There were two first birthdays in mid April one for Tyson and one for Enzo. Daddy Der braved it by himself and here are some pics he took.
The birthday boy Tyson and his grandpa.
The girls acting silly with daddy.
This must be the latest fad.
Yup, looks like Hannah caught onto to it too.
Sophie eating lunch at Enzo's party. No pics here of the b-day boy :(
Hannah eats some lunch too :)
There were two first birthdays in mid April one for Tyson and one for Enzo. Daddy Der braved it by himself and here are some pics he took.
The birthday boy Tyson and his grandpa.
The girls acting silly with daddy.
This must be the latest fad.
Yup, looks like Hannah caught onto to it too.
Sophie eating lunch at Enzo's party. No pics here of the b-day boy :(
Hannah eats some lunch too :)
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
My Have We Grown!
Where is spring? We have no idea, but the weather still hasn't let up. Some days cold, other days less...some days raining, other days not. With mommy working many hours, the blogging seems less and less, but hopefully she'll be more on top of it after this week when she regains her second wind.
This past weekend during glimpses of "free time" we got to go to a place called Super Franks out in Dublin (a sort of younger kids Dave and Buster or bigger Chuck E. Cheese). Super Franks has a sort of Starbucks cafe indoors with seating and also there are TV screens with sports playing for adults, but having younger kids I don't know how you can enjoy that kind of thing the TV that is not the Starbucks hahaha! The middle of the area has video games for age groups 3-12 (I'm guessing). They also have areas where they're geared for kids 5 and under, sports and gymnastic like area, and a princess castle theme area. It's a very cool concept.
We ended up paying for the younger area and it was just mayhem, because it had tricycles and all sorts of little vehicles and not enough room. I do realize that it was a Saturday afternoon and the weather wasn't nice outside, so the logical thing to do was find a place such as this, so it wasn't entirely unexpected. The bouncy house was cool, but it got very crowded at times. They had arts and crafts (yes, the girls got super messy) and loads of toddler toys, but for a claustrophobic person like me, it was just a little too crowded. At one point they announced over the speakers that they had to check kids for wristbands for "unpaid" children....hmmmm....yeah..... The girls enjoyed themselves, so it was worth it. If I had to pick between this place and Bounce-A-Rama, I'd pick Bounce-A-Rama because it has more of an open space and less crowded at specific times which causes less stress....on the parental units.
Before that we had lunch at a place called Willow Tree in Dublin where we like to have dim sum from time to time. We like the place because the people that work there like the girls :P (yeah we're silly like that). It's not as good as Oriental Tea House out in San Leandro, but if we're lazy, don't want to wait in line, and don't want to drive all the way out there we usually stop by Willow Tree.
On Sunday we went to the farmer's market in Fremont and met up with the Ko's. The girls had fun using their Dora the Explorer umbrellas for the first time. They had so much fun in the rain. We got some great strawberries, carrots, and oranges. Later we went to Ala Shanghai for lunch (we haven't been going regularly since the girls ended their classes at Gymboree a long time back) and had yogurt next door at YoSwirl. The weather got worse at that point and we ended up staying home the rest of the day. Actually I take that back after the girls' nap we went to Target with the intention to go to a Micky D playground after we went shopping. Turns out they walked all over the store and were tired out by the time we wanted to leave, so off to bed it was after Target :D
The girls' hair is growing longer and you can tell from mommy's hair cutting skills that she's not cut out to be a hair dresser.
Hannah is getting more talkative and structures her sentences quite well. She speaks her words very clearly and just when you think she can't get more loving, she does. She daily says, "I love you!" followed by a run to you and a hug! She has great manners too and says "Thank you!". Hannah's favorite line to tell mommy is "Mommy! I love ice-cream!" :D
Sophie on the other hand has been a little rascal and has learned to lock daddy in the garage with the bolt on top of the door. What is scary is that she can open any door now, locked, weighted or otherwise. She's always getting into things and always keeps mommy on her toes. She learned how to do a thumbs up and it's so darn cute!
Rain, rain go away!
This past weekend during glimpses of "free time" we got to go to a place called Super Franks out in Dublin (a sort of younger kids Dave and Buster or bigger Chuck E. Cheese). Super Franks has a sort of Starbucks cafe indoors with seating and also there are TV screens with sports playing for adults, but having younger kids I don't know how you can enjoy that kind of thing the TV that is not the Starbucks hahaha! The middle of the area has video games for age groups 3-12 (I'm guessing). They also have areas where they're geared for kids 5 and under, sports and gymnastic like area, and a princess castle theme area. It's a very cool concept.
We ended up paying for the younger area and it was just mayhem, because it had tricycles and all sorts of little vehicles and not enough room. I do realize that it was a Saturday afternoon and the weather wasn't nice outside, so the logical thing to do was find a place such as this, so it wasn't entirely unexpected. The bouncy house was cool, but it got very crowded at times. They had arts and crafts (yes, the girls got super messy) and loads of toddler toys, but for a claustrophobic person like me, it was just a little too crowded. At one point they announced over the speakers that they had to check kids for wristbands for "unpaid" children....hmmmm....yeah..... The girls enjoyed themselves, so it was worth it. If I had to pick between this place and Bounce-A-Rama, I'd pick Bounce-A-Rama because it has more of an open space and less crowded at specific times which causes less stress....on the parental units.
Before that we had lunch at a place called Willow Tree in Dublin where we like to have dim sum from time to time. We like the place because the people that work there like the girls :P (yeah we're silly like that). It's not as good as Oriental Tea House out in San Leandro, but if we're lazy, don't want to wait in line, and don't want to drive all the way out there we usually stop by Willow Tree.
On Sunday we went to the farmer's market in Fremont and met up with the Ko's. The girls had fun using their Dora the Explorer umbrellas for the first time. They had so much fun in the rain. We got some great strawberries, carrots, and oranges. Later we went to Ala Shanghai for lunch (we haven't been going regularly since the girls ended their classes at Gymboree a long time back) and had yogurt next door at YoSwirl. The weather got worse at that point and we ended up staying home the rest of the day. Actually I take that back after the girls' nap we went to Target with the intention to go to a Micky D playground after we went shopping. Turns out they walked all over the store and were tired out by the time we wanted to leave, so off to bed it was after Target :D
The girls' hair is growing longer and you can tell from mommy's hair cutting skills that she's not cut out to be a hair dresser.
Hannah is getting more talkative and structures her sentences quite well. She speaks her words very clearly and just when you think she can't get more loving, she does. She daily says, "I love you!" followed by a run to you and a hug! She has great manners too and says "Thank you!". Hannah's favorite line to tell mommy is "Mommy! I love ice-cream!" :D
Sophie on the other hand has been a little rascal and has learned to lock daddy in the garage with the bolt on top of the door. What is scary is that she can open any door now, locked, weighted or otherwise. She's always getting into things and always keeps mommy on her toes. She learned how to do a thumbs up and it's so darn cute!
Rain, rain go away!Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Easter Bunny!
Yes, I'm a bit late, but as always things have been a bit hectic at work thus the late entry. This year the girls had celebrated an egg hunt at daycare. We also decided to have one at home thinking we might not have another egg hunt to go to. Daddy hid eggs in the front yard and the girls had a blast hunting and eating chocolates (their reward).
Later we met up with Adel, Ervin, and Aiden at a Thai Temple in Fremont for lunch and later we got to do an egg hunt at the temple! It was a great surprise because the temple supplied baskets and everything!!! The girls had so much fun. Sophie wasn't phased by the Easter Bunny, but Hannah was, so in the pic below you only see Sophie and Aiden with the Easter Bunny. Hannah did like the bunny, but just didn't trust him hahahahah!
So three egg hunts later the girls are experts at finding eggs. I find myself really happy watching them really get into finding eggs. Strangely they've always enjoyed doing this and we have to pry the eggs away from them because if we don't I think we'd have eggs all year 'round.
Easter was super cold this year, so the girls were all bundled up later in the day, so no dresses this year. Special thanks to Nana Kage and Uncle Chris they for their styling Cinnamon girl matching shirts. You can see the shirts in the earlier pics from the egg hunt at home.
Easter Bunny, Sophie, and Aiden at the Thai Temple in Fremont. Pic courtesy of Ervin.
Hannah, Sophie, and Emi check out their findings :)
Hannah already picked out what she's going to eat.
Hannah shows Sophie what she found.
Twins at a happy state and not fighting over who gets what :DLet's get some eggs!!!
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