As soon as this Target Commercial comes on, you stop dead in your tracks and stare at the TV or computer. It’s so cute. I don’t know if it’s the song or the voice of the singer, but I have to get a copy it of it so you can see it in the future.

Update:
So YouTube, took down the commercial so it’s not available now. I should’ve know better. Once they got big corp, they haven’t been the same. I didn’t even get to making a copy of the commercial. Stupid me! So instead, here’s a clip I took of you watching the commercial when it was still up.

Still too cute …

We’ve been having fun with you Muoi.

Here’s you getting sick of daddy taking pictures of you like the paparazzi, as I was trying to get your attention. “Over here Aslin!” “Aslin! You’re so cute! Give me a smile!”

If only you could make complete sentence, you’d be saying, “Stop it Daddy!! Daddy crazy!” And if you were mean, you’d say, “Get Outta Face Mista!” with a little neck twirl, with a finger snap.
Ever since Kelina, aka TITA, started staying with us again, you’ve been getting to know each other again. You took to her really fast. It’s amazing. It’s like you know that you guys are sisters. Here’s you, Tita and Mia having a good time feeding you and celebrating the New Year.

It’s funny, you are now at the point that you want to eat all the junk that everyone else is eating. We feed you almost everything that we eat and what we know you can eat. So now we have to try and keep things healty. Like above, you were attacking the Triscuits that Tita was eating.

Recently, you discovered oranges. When you took your first bite you didin’t quite know what to make of it. You krinkled your face as though it was the most disgusting thing you’ve ever tasted. But then you took another taste and gnawed on it, and you liked it! You had one piece after another. Whined and reached when we didn’t give you a piece right away. It was pretty funny.

Well… we didn’t exactly stay up until midnight, Pacific Standard Time. But we did countdown New Years in New York. So since they are 3 hours ahead of us, we got to go to sleep early. Besides, there was no way you were going to stay up till midnight our time. You would’ve been really really crabby and we don’t like it when you’re crabby.

But anyway, we only actually accidentally ran across the countdown because daddy wanted to see what was on ESPN, hoping to see some sports highlights on Sports Center. If ESPN doesn’t exist anymore by the time you’re able to read this, which I highly doubt, it’s THE sports channel of sports channel. And since they’re in New York, we made it just in time to see their countdown. And what grand countdown! We had champagne. We as in mommy and daddy. And we shared a New Years kiss.

And then you went to bed! Then mommy and daddy played sudoku and “partied” for an hour before we went to bed too!

WOO HOO!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Merry Christmas Baby!

The holidays are the a time to spend with family and loved ones. A week earlier, our family started coming in. The boys flew in on the 18th and Kelina flew in on the 22nd and you got to spend time with your brothers and sisters who were amazed by how much you have grown since they’ve last seen over the summer. We shopped for our “Not So” Secret Santa and poked and prodded each other trying to find out who each other had. Some caved in and others stood strong.

So Christmas morning came and to celebrate the commercialization of the birth of Christ and the season of giving, we opened presents. Here’s who had who. Mommy had Jared, Daddy had Mia, Kelina had you, Mia had Daddy, Julius had Jared and Jared had Kelina. We had a wonderful time smiling and laughing at the presents that we received and thanked each other for the spendid gifts.

For friends that weren’t there, we thank you too for the thoughtful presents.

Later on in the day, we all got ready, dressed you in the beautiful dress that Kelina got you, boarded the car and drove to Yeh-yeh’s and Ma-ma’s house where all the Grand-Uncles, Grand-Aunties, Uncles, Aunties, and Cousins gathered. The food was bountiful and delicious. The joy and laughter warming. We all celebrated into the evening, took many pictures, and opened presents. It was your’s and your newborn cousin Kaiya’s first Christmas.

Daddy and Mommy wish you a Merry Christmas and many more wonderful Christmases to come.

So on December 12th, this happened …

And so here we have it. You! Crawling! Now you’ve been working on this for the past week. Trying to crawl. Trying to get up. Mommy and Daddy have been trying to teach you and show you how to do it and now? You crawl quite a significant distance! Considering that before that, you’d take one step and then flop forward. This was so cool! Wow. And I was home and saw you do it.

So considering that you were able to now crawl, we decided that it was time to lower your crib from the highest, for infants, to the middle level for small toddlers. Which takes a little time. So I do in 15 minutes and we put you in the crib to show you the cool new level that you’re at now that you’re growing and lo’and’behold, you start trying to pull yourself up onto your feet. You pushed yourself on the rail cushion, and grab the top of the rail, also clamping your month onto the rail to help pull yourself up. And then, after a struggle of trying to gather your feet under you, you pull yourself up to a standing position. Amazing! Unfortunately I didn’t a video or pictures of it. But GEE-GOLLY!!! You are growing too fast! And both crawling and pulling yourself up all in one day? You continue to amaze us Muoi!