Louie Family Weekly Updates

Dada's Annual NBA Road Trip

2012-02-12T22:14:00.000-08:00

This week Dada was gone for his annual NBA roadtrip with his friends: 4 nights, 4 cities, 4 games. This year the cities were: Oakland, Orlando, Boston and Philadelphia. While in Orlando Dada went to visit Hogwarts from Harry Potter.

In Boston Dada stayed with his cousin Jason who's studying at Harvard. Uncle Jason gave Dada a tour of where LinSanity started in career. Dada had such a great time he's already thinking about the next trip.

When Dada's traveling, I'm in put in charge to read bedtime stores to Ethan while Mama puts Mari down. Dada tells us we're the "men of the house" so we have to be extra helpful to Mama, which we were.

Because we were good boys while Dada was gone we got to go with our Cub Scout pack to see Star Wars Episode 1 in 3D! We got limited edition Darth Maul glasses and Star Wars toys as a gift since it was opening weekend.

While my parents and brothers were at the movies I hung out with the Lim girls. Thanks for having me over. So fun to play with girly toys for a change.

This is how we roll at Target. We've been saving our "good job bucks" so we cashed out and bought some Lego Hero Factory toys.

Dada grilled up a dinner feast for me, we're all so happy he's finally home!

Twin cousins are 35+ weeks

2012-02-05T21:47:00.000-08:00

We are so happy our twin cousins are still growing in Auntie Min's tummy. They are now 35+ weeks. Auntie Min has been really good about what she's eating and staying on bedrest. We are so excited for our boy/girl twin cousins' arrival! Thanks for having us over to watch the super bowl!

Someone's gotta feed Mari around here. Mama said to give her a bit every 30 seconds. I take my job very seriously so I'm using a timer (see it on the table?). Also notice the flowers? Dada got it for Mama this week ... just because. He's so nice!

Mama and Dada went on another date nite this week to eat after putting us down. They went to Misoya Ramen and Bon Chon Chicken. They seem to really like going out to eat without us. Which we don't mind, we'd rather sleep or play anyways. Uncle Stanley - thanks for sleepsitting us!

I can clap and wave bye bye :-)

100 Days Smarter

2012-01-29T21:25:00.000-08:00

On Wed we celebrated 100 days of school. We made crowns, put 100 snacks in a bag, designed a necklace with 100 fruit loops ... such a fun day. I sure feel 100 days smarter!

Celebrating Chinese New Year with more or Mama's relatives. Hanging out with 2 of Mama's sisters (Auntie Nancy we missed you, hope you're feeling better).

Light Saber battle with Grandpa. Thanks for coming down to play with us!

Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. Anxiously waiting for the cars to race down the tracks.

Playdate with the Changs. Mama's keeping us busy with peeling the wrappers off crayons so we can make a heart shaped crayon mold, pretty fun.

Here I am (Ethan) getting a CT scan of my ear. A couple months ago I didn't pass my hearing test at school in my left ear. After further testing, this week I was diagnosed with congential cholesteatoma which means I need surgery to remove some excess skin inside my ear. Surgery is scheduled for 2/23. I'm doing ok but Mama & Dada was quite emotional when they learned that their baby will have to be put under to go through a 4 hour surgery (I'm not a baby but they claim I always will be). Mama & Dada are doing better now. Would appreciate your prayers for a successful surgery in a couple weeks.

Gong Xi Fa Chai

2012-01-22T23:23:00.000-08:00

Chinese New Year Eve dinner in SF with Mama's family. Uncle Michael - we missed you!

Watching the 49ers finish up the season ;-(

My turn (Ethan) to plan FFF, I decided to make chocolate chip pancakes for dinner ... aka "brinner"

Watching the Harlem Globetrotters with our neighbor friends @ HP Pavilion. They sure can do a lot of silly basketball tricks, funny show.

Saturday afternoon hot chocolate date with Mama, nice to have her all to myself sometimes ;-)

Parents @ Oracle Area to watch Michael Jackson Cirque du Soleil with the Woods and soon to be Chings. Great show, thanks Google! Auntie Tracy & Uncle Tim - thanks for feeding, playing and tucking us in bed!

Playdate with my neighbor friend Emma who's a few months younger than me, isn't she cute? We both have 2 older brothers to protect us.

FFF

2012-01-15T23:00:00.000-08:00

Dada's turn to plan this week's FFF (family fun friday), for part of the night we had target practice. We get points for knocking down the red cup with nerf guns.

NBA Lego fun - our new lego set. Thanks Uncle Bryan! Check out who came to see the game!

Dada's friend helped us buy these beanies from Disneyland (Thanks Auntie Kim!). 3 Micky Stormtroppers and 1 Micky Yoda.

They sneaked out again for their "month-iversary" date on the 10th. They went out to eat at Orenchi Ramen and En Japanese Tapas (after having dinner with us!). Uncle Steve - thanks for sleepsitting us (and Auntie Jen)!

Dole Whip with Uncle Russ and Auntie Mireya! Thanks for spoiling us with all your attention, fun toys and cute clothes!

Early Chinese New Year celebration with Great Grandma. Louies, Chings, Chans & Mews - thanks for all the lai-see! We're going shopping at Target tomorrow!

ONE already?

2012-01-08T22:15:00.000-08:00

My 1 year photo shoot.

On Wed I turned one so I got to visit Dada for a lunch date - hmm do I want Chinese (bacon fried rice), Japanese (poke tuna handroll) or American (PBJ)?

"Hey, that's my birthday ice cream, pass it over please!"

Girly fun at the Lims - thanks for the yummy Korean taco and letting me play with all the cool pink toys my brothers don't have.

Target practice with Uncle Michael before we do the real thing at Laser Quest ...

Auntie Jen - thanks for spending your day off taking out out for lunch, laser tag, gelato and more fun at Uncle Steve's place!

Dada's cousin, Uncle Jason on "break" from Harvard Business School so he came over to play some games with us. Hope he can sleepover more often.

Auntie Min was in the hospital for 2 night so they can monitor the twins (everything is fine now!). Check out Uncle Mike's work station!

Jan 2012 ... 1 year old

Jan 2011 ... 3 minutes old

This week was Mama's turn to plan FFF (family fun friday). After dinner, we went to Peet's for hot chocolate and played card games outside. So fun!

Our prize at Uncle Mike and Auntie Min's shower, Mama guessed the closest amount of mini m&m's in this bottle. Can you guess how many? I won't take the bottle for milk but I will for chocolate!

I (Ethan) won an In and Out giftcard at the shower for bringing a baby book for our twin cousins, so I treated my family to lunch. Milkshake was so yummy!

Highlight of my weekend, I lost 2 teeth back to back nights. One came out when I was eating a Hersey's Kiss. We had to look for the tooth in the chocolate. Tooth Fairy came 2 nights in a row!

Pump It Up fun with our school friends.

Happy 2012

2012-01-01T22:31:00.000-08:00

I'm almost 1 (Jan 4). So on New Years day, our family came over to celebrate with me! Enjoying my mochi ice cream "cake".

Our cousin Logan (5 wks old), came over to our house for the very 1st time to celebrate my b-day. Yea for 2011 babies!

SCU New Years Eve brunch. Carinos thanks for hosting a fun and yummy playtime.

SCU girls (and affiliates). Great seeing Auntie Ro (Mama's college roomie) from Las Vegas.

Ringing in the 2012 with our neighbors. They threw and amazing party with lots of yummy food and a fun balloon drop. We got to stay up until midnight for the countdown!

Love the NYE disco ball, kept me entertained for quite some time.

Peet's hot chocolate break. Love doing all the simple things over xmas break.

Look what we found at Google - life-size gingerbread house!

Christmas 2011

2011-12-26T00:30:00.000-08:00

Our annual Christmas card taken in Lake Tahoe this year.

PoPo and Gong Gong with their 4 grandchildren. Logan (3 wks) is our very 1st cousin on both sides.

Mama and her siblings.

Silly boys on Dada's family.

Mari is excited to open presents for her very 1st Christmas.

We went to visit Auntie Linda, Mama's good friend since the 6th grade! They are both so happy to have a daughter. Kayla is 4 months old.

One by one we call crawled into bed for the 8am family party our parents didn't know about ;-)

Winter fun

2011-12-18T23:35:00.000-08:00

Dada was in Atlanta, GA Google office this week. He brought home more Google t-shirts and toys for us! We always look forward to the goodies from his business trips.

All dressed and excited for our Winter Concert at school

Spotted my parents and sister in the audience right away .

Book exchange with my class. Love reading new books.

Gum drop pyramid and gingerbread house projects at school - so fun!

We had an airplane workshop at out Cub Scout meeting this week.

My 1st 2 teeth are out.

5 year old check up, no shots!

On Sat, we got to meet Uncle Steve's family (Mama's future bro in law). We had yummy dim sum for lunch. Here are the parents of the soon to be bride / groom (2012 / 2013?).

Uncle Steve's 2 nieces are so cute. The 4 of us (minus Mari) will be their ring bearers and flower girls.

Before: toys all over the place in our living room = a frustrated mom (she loves organization).

After: toys all sorted and labeled into bins = a very happy mom. And we're happy too because it's so much easier to clean up now.

We got to join Dada for his weekly Sunday night basketball since we don't have school the next day. Many of our friends came out to join their dads. We got to shoot around until 11pm!

Santa Visit 2011

2011-12-11T23:02:00.000-08:00

Instead of visiting us on Christmas Day, Santa usually visits us early at the annual SCU Christmas party. Abars - thanks for hosting a fun party for all of us!

This guy doesn't scare me!

Been anxious all week for this day as I wasn't sure if I was on his good list since I only listen "sometimes."

Santa always seems to know exactly what we want!

Santa with the ladies.

Santa with the fellas ... they seem so "friendly" with Santa.

Happy kids with our new toys.

Rainbow boy band caroling outside after the adult's gift exchange.

Their 2nd Google Holiday party this month @ Mark Hopkins Hotel in SF. They enjoyed lots of yummy food, awesome company and great music. Grandpa, Grandma & Great Grandma - thanks for dinner and a fun time! Dada got creative and took this photo off a buffet tray cover.

Mama's favorite was the mini fruit tarts.

Chill Sunday afternoon at home while Mari naps.

We finally have a cousin

2011-12-04T23:53:00.000-08:00

We met our very 1st cousin, Logan Hibbs Hawke (Mama's sister's baby). He's 1 week old. Our mom held him almost the whole visit. I think she misses us being this size - where we don't move and don't talk (back).

I turned 11 months old this week and ready to be Santa's helper. Only 1 more month before my big ONE.

Google holiday party at SF Design Center. Madi Gas theme with food from around the world, live band and lots of fun activities.

15 years ago, our parents become boyfriend/girlfriend. Friday night they went back to SCU to reminisce what life was like pre-kids (bet it wasn't as fun).

We had a prime rib dinner on Sunday celebrating Grandpa turning 62. We're so happy he lives in Nor Cal now so we can celebrate together.

Fun in snow

2011-11-27T22:14:00.000-08:00

We were in Lake Tahoe Tue - Thur to play with snow.

Snow ball fight with Dada and Uncle Mike.

Sibling stroll

Fun games in Tahoe - Jenga! Going to be a tough move ...

Another new family favorite game is Spot It!

More fun games with Mama's siblings - America-opoly!

Yummy prime rib dinner. Auntie Nancy and Uncle Hibbs weren't able to make it because they were at the hospital having our very 1st cousin - Logan!

Happy Engagement Uncle Steve and Auntie Jen! We are so excited for your big day!

Our annual Ginger Bread House. Uncle Bryan - thanks for helping us make it!

Dada's silly family after another big feast.

Making pumpkin mochi cake for our family dinners.

Star wars fun with Dada. Mama thinks they all look the same.

Laser Tag

2011-11-20T22:31:00.000-08:00

On Sat, we spontaneously went to Laser Quest in Mt. View and had a blast! We're saving up our "good job bucks" so we can go back soon. Anyone want to come with us?

Learning how to play pool while the boys play arcade behind me.

Recess at Sat morning Chinese school. Slowly but surely we're making progress in learning Mandarin.

My kinder Thanksgiving feast ... we made Stone Soup.

PoPo - thanks for coming over with all the goodies from your trip to China and for playing Operation with us!

Lunchtime with one of my buddies, who's a twin.

Playdate with Micah. He's a cutie but not very fun yet, he slept through most of our date ;-) Our mommies had a good time chatting and eating away.

Operation Christmas Child Project

2011-11-13T23:54:00.000-08:00

On Sunday, we invited our our church friends, neighbors and classmates over to pack "shoebox" christmas gifts for needy children around the world. We filled them up with toys, socks, toothbrushes, tothpaste, soap, stickers etc, lots of fun and useful things. This is our 4th year doing this. Anyone want to join us next year?

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/Pack_A_Shoe_Box/?hometab

Afternoon stroll around our neighborhood, one of Mama's favorite things to do.

On Monday nite, Mama and Auntie Jen went out to celebrate her recent engagement to Uncle Steve. They had some yummy seafood - oyster and tuna poke.

Annual SCU adult only Thanksgiving dinner at the Lee's. I got to tag along since I'm still a baby. I learned how to clap while rooting for Manny Pacquiao.

While our parents and Mari were at the Thanksgiving party, we had a sleepover with Auntie Emi and Uncle Roo. Party started at Red Robin, our favorite restaurant. Thanks for my new Star Wars thermos, I'm so excited to show my friends tomorrow!

Then back to the slumber party pad for some "America-opoly," a gift they got us from their trip to DC. Lots of good laughs. We can't wait to sleep over again. Thanks for spoiling us Auntie Emi and Uncle Roo!

My 1st time on the swing. My big bro was so nice to push me the whole time.

Meet Honey, my kinder class bear. My turn to keep him for the week.

Sushi dinner with the Mews and Chans. We're always praying for our twin cousins to be healthy (a boy AND a girl due in March), now we're going to pray that they'll live close to us so we can play together all the time ;-)

Mama and Dada's month-i-versary date. This month they went to the mall and Krung Thai. Anyone free to come sleep-sit us on the 10th of each month? Uncle Stanley - thanks for sleepsiting us 11/10!

Double Digits

2011-11-06T21:53:00.000-08:00

Turned double digits this past Friday. Mama got this jacket for me when I was 1 month old. She's so happy I can fit it now. All ready for the cold weather.

This month's Home Depot project is a picture frame.

Trick or treating with our neighbors / SCU friends, the Fongs.

Our 2nd cousin, Bumble Bee Naty came by the Rivermark to get some candy.

We installed 8 recess lights in our living room, so nice to have more light to play and read. Love it!

Mama had a ramen date with Auntie Nina (soon to be mommy of 4!).

This weekend Dada's family came over for dinner. Grandma brought over a "dream cake," from SF, so light and yummy! This is one of mama's favorite cake now.

Star Wars battle in our living room: Commander Cody/Boba Fett vs.Captain Rex (Dada) ... we built forts and all. Dada's so fun to play with!

Pre-Halloween Festivities

2011-10-30T21:58:00.000-07:00

Halloween fun started on Thursday at the annual Google-ween kids party. So many fun things for us to do and yummy treats to eat. Reptile petting zoo, pumpkin decorating, create you own trick or treat bag, balloon artists, funnel cake, kettle corn and lots more. Already we can't wait til next year's Googleween.

Everyone thought I was a boy in this costume.

Annual SCU Halloween Iron Chef party. This year's secret ingredient is pumpkin. Here are all the lil kids unhappy about the silly costumes their parents put them in.

Classroom trick or treating with our Chinese class on Saturday morning.

Free bike helmets from the Santa Clara police dept.

Annual walk a thon fundraiser for our school. I (Tyler) won a lunch date with my teacher for raising the most money in my class. Ethan's still waiting to find out who won in his class.

Girls lunch at Gochi's celebrating Auntie Jen's birthday (Mama's sister who's holding me) and engagement!!

This month's mega skill at school is initiative and my teacher picked me!

Taking a joy ride after dinner in our Hummer.

We play hard but also have to work hard. Someone's gotta keep the house clean.

This week Dada went to Portland for a business trip. After work, he was able to meet up with Uncle Gell's family for some yummy meals. We took good care of Mama while he was gone and got a special treat when he came home.

Pumpkin Patch 2011

2011-10-23T22:24:00.000-07:00

Santa Clara pumpkin patch.

We found the perfect "pumpkin" we want to take home!

On Monday, our teachers had meetings so no school for us. Instead field trip to Google, haven't been here since school started. Always a yummy time, esp at the snack bar.

My 1st shoulder ride, so much fun. Dada was getting all sentiment. I really do have him wrapped around my fingers.

Watching Harry Potter 2. I'm on book 5 now, Harry Potter books are so addictive!

This week, I started eating Cheerios! Yum yum!

Still no teeth for me yet but I can bit into a banana all by myself. Finished almost the whole thing.

Reading to my lil bro at our 2nd cousin Nicolas' red egg party at Tomo sushi.

This is how we roll at Target. Been saving up our "good job bucks" for some toy shopping.

5 Guys Burger with Dada's siblings.

Mama found $1.25 happy hour oysters at Fish Market Restaurant. She can't wait to go back for more.

Big FIVE

2011-10-16T22:13:00.000-07:00

On Wed, I officially turned 5! A family tradition we have is that the b-day boy/girl gets to plan the WHOLE day. It's a family holiday so our parents take the day off work. I started my day with a 7am McD breakfast. This was the 1st time we had breakfast at McD. Quite a treat, esp on a school day.

Then I planned for my parents to come to school with popsicles for my classmates on this hot day to celebrate.

The right after school, I planned for us to skip homework and go straight to Chuck E Cheese for some fun games. Wish I can do this everyday!

With 175 tokens, we got to play lots of game and won many tickets!

Then dinner at Red Robin. When the staff sings happy birthday to me, it makes me feel so special. Also loved my b-day ice cream sundae.

On Sat, Uncle Mike and Auntie Min had a "gender reveal" party to find out the twins gender.

Uncle Mike got his "daddy's lil girl" and Auntie Min got her "lil man!" We are all ecstatic about the news. Here's a video on how we found out: http://vimeo.com/30635940

On Sunday, we celebrated Auntie Nancy's (Mama's sister) baby boy arriving next month. Here I am with PoPo and the 4 Wang sisters. Super excited for our very 1st cousin!

Quote of the week Ethan: Mama someone in my class wants to be a grown up. Mama: Do you want to be a grown up too? Ethan: No way! I don't want to work or take care of kids. ... words from a "wise" 5 year old.

Almost double digits

2011-10-09T22:23:00.000-07:00

Turned 9 months on Tue, almost double digits.

Dada didn't like this topless photoshoot.

I got to invite 8 of my friends (sans parents) over for a Star Wars party to celebrate my upcoming 5th b-day (10/12). We had a great time with arts and craft, games and food!

Chewbacca came by to wish me a happy birthday.

Google lunch with Mama's middle school girlfriends. Auntie Christine - thanks for hosting us! So fun tagging along to all girls outings with Mama.

I'm officially a cub scout now. Uncle Steve use to be a cub scout, he's helping me understand my handbook.

Celebrating Great grandma's 91st and my 5th b-day in SF.

Pony ride at SCU's annual alumni family day

Like my new friend Snakey?

This python was over a 100 pounds!

Dada went with his buddies to the PGA golf tournament and saw ...

Tiger Woods in action only 10 feet away!

Dinner at Dynasty ... can't wait til I get some teeth so I can eat all those yummy chinese dishes.

Quote of the week Ethan: "I found a quarter, can you put it in my college back account? Am I a smart boy? I'm planning ahead!" We've been working on planning ahead for school, ie having backpack, clothes etc all ready to go so we're not scrambling in the morning. Now he's jumping ahead and not only planning ahead by 1 day but by 12 years!

Meet Yeabisira

2011-10-02T21:50:00.000-07:00

For the past 2 years we have been pen pals with our international friend Yeabisira. He's 7 years old from Ethiopia. Every month we make a donation to help him buy food and medicine. We "earn" money by being extra helpful around the house, we "save" some, we "spend" some and we "donate" some to Yeabisira. We don't need any help learning how to spend, but our parents are trying to teach us the importance to earn, save and donate our money. If you're interested in sponsoring a child in need of help visit: http://www.compassion.com/

Since I finished the 1st book, I got to watch the movie over the weekend. I like the book much better than the movie. They left lots of details and events out of the movie. Can't wait to read the 2nd book this week. Any Harry Potter fans out there?

On Wed nite, after tucking us in Dada brought Mama out to Santana Row for her salty (garlic fries at Plutos) and sweet (hazel nut cake at Cocoloa) cravings. They enjoying sitting outside in 75 degree weather. Mama loves eating outside whenever the weather permits. Auntie Jen - thanks for sleep-sitting!

My "work" station. I have a built in laptop, phone and all. Keeps me quite busy.

Mama's HS friend Auntie Syl is expecting her 1st daughter in Nov and I got to tag along to this all girls baby shower.

After dinner playtime with Great Grandma at the Mewies. Auntie Min - thanks for cooking us a yummy fiesta!

1st field trip to the recycling center with Dada to recycle all the beer and sake bottles from his bday party. We got $6.18 and got to keep the money since we helped sort everything.

Each month our school holds a mega skill award ceremony to a few students in each class, this month's mega skill was confidence and I was one of the kinder winners. Next month is initiative.

Mandarin 101

2011-09-25T21:27:00.000-07:00

We've signed up for Sat morning Mandarin classes. Dada sits in our on class to try to get a free lesson. Had our 2nd class this Sat, slowly but surely we're all learning.

My brothers love to rough house with Dada, I'm finally old enough to start rough housing with him too. He's so fun!

Check out my new toy, well not really "new" most of my toys are hand me downs from my 2 brothers but I don't mind. It's new to me.

Another hand me down, this one from great grandma. Quite a fun "toy," it makes lot of cool noises!

Since we all did a good job with our flu shots, we each got a sticker and lollipop.

Like my brothers, my parents waited until I fell out of my bed to lower it (they're already in denial I'm growing up). Both bothers helped lowered it, I shouldn't be able to fall out now.

This week's FFF, I (Ethan) chose Uno and Monopoly game nite. Love simple family time.

Was glued to this book all weekend. This Harry Potter boy has very interesting adventures. Can't wait to see the movie next weekend.

Mama went out for brunch with her sisters and cousin. Heard they were there for 2.5 hours just chatting away. Girls sure can talk.

Dada's Fishy 34th B-day Party

2011-09-18T22:31:00.000-07:00

For Dada's party this year, we hired a Google sushi chef to make handrolls for the 50+ of us

Chef Tagg worked and partied hard with us all night making over 250 sushi handrolls (and drinking along the way)!

California, unagi, salmon, spicy tuna and scallop ... yum!

We made Dada a sushi candy b-day cake with rice krispies.

Mari's not happy about Dada getting close to his mid-30s ... one more year of early 30s for our old man

Cheers! Dada's friends sure like to drink "water" in small cups

We took a long nap before the party so we got to stay up waaay past our 7:45 bedtime playing with Uncle Steve's Xbox Kinect (thanks!)

Dada giving everyone the answers to the Mark trivia quiz. We had 5 lucky winners.

SCU boys up to no good.

Sashimi grade salmon before it got cut up (this was only 1/3 of it). Auntie Alisa - thanks so much for ALL your help!

Playing monopoly with Uncle Russ and Auntie Alisa while our parents went to our parent-teacher conference. They were happy about what our teachers had to say about us ;-)

Our Favorite Cubs

2011-09-11T21:21:00.000-07:00

We are official 2nd and Kinder Cubs. Love our school.

Tooth #6 came off this week. Another $1 richer!

Yummy Costco samples

Mama's sushi dinner with her manager while we stayed home with Dada.

Our parents party too much, Dada's in Vegas for a b-ball tournament and Mama sneaks out to party with her SCU friends at VIP Lounge after she tucks us in. Thank goodness for our responsible Auntie Emi and Uncle Roo who sleep-sat us.

Yoda, Clone Trooper and Darth Vader for breakfast.

Darth Tyler & Boba Ethan walking to our neighbor's star wars drop off b-day party. Can you tell we love Star Wars?

Welcome to Tyler and Ethan's ice cream shop

When Dada's out of town, I'm responsible for reading bedtime stories to my lil bro and sis.

Go Giants

2011-09-04T23:36:00.000-07:00

Our 1st game this season. All ready in our orange and black to cheer the Giants on.

Let go Giants, lets go!

I got to bat in the kiddie field ...

... and scored a home run!

Despite the lost, we had a great time.

Recruited to pitch for the Giants as soon as I turned 8 months this weekend.

Dada had a business trip in Santa Monica and met with his So Cal groomsmen for some yummy Thai food. He also met with with Uncle Sam, his best man another night.

Our Google goodies from Santa Monica. Always look forward to the schwag Dada brings home from his biz trips.

Brazilian dinner with all the Louies and Mews celebrating Uncle Mike and Auntie Min's 5th anniversary. Cheers to many more mewie years!

Yes, I'd like a piece of that juicy Brazilian meat please.

Simple Family Fun

2011-08-28T21:24:00.000-07:00

I like washing my hands. Gotta keep em clean since I put it in my mouth all the time.

Darth Vader and Boba Fett showed up one night after dinner to play with me.

Pineapple Dole whip from L&L, yummy!

I join my brothers for the 1st time in our community pool, this is so much bigger than my bath tub, fun!

After dinner popsicle picnic in 90 degrees.

Love playing with my big brother, he's a pretty good babysitter. Parents like to sign him up for the 7-8am shift so they can sleep in a bit on the weekends.

Outdoor movie nite with our SCU buddies

Celebrating our friend Isaiah's 5th b-day. Can you tell who's the boss of this family?

Mama came to volunteer for lunch duty.

Back to School 2011

2011-08-21T23:44:00.000-07:00

1st day of 2nd grade and kinder. So nice we're both in the same school down the street. Back to 7:45pm bedtime and 7:30am family breakfast.

My 1st assignment is to make a "kinder star."

Mama had a ladies nite out - happy hour appetizers at Yard House, Santana Row with her mom and sis in law.

Celebrating GongGong's 57th birthday at San Tung in SF, yummy fried chicken!

Mama's sister #2, Auntie Nancy (bottom left) is carrying a boy due Nov 21st. We're so excited for our 1st cousin!

I got my dimples from the Wang side. The 4 of us all have dimples.

We have upgraded from Monopoly Jr to regular Monopoly, anyone want to come over to play with us?

Ringling Brothers Circus!

Dinner with Great Grandma. Auntie Emi & Uncle Roo - thanks for inviting us over for a yummy dinner!

@ Tezzy's 1st b-day party - Hello Kitty style!

Dada invited his team over to celebrate a successful world wide launch on Thur. Great job Dada & team!

Fun in Chicago and San Francisco

2011-08-14T21:14:00.000-07:00

Mama had a business trip to Chicago so Dada and I decided to join the fun. Here I am sitting on the 106th floor of the Sears tower, America's tallest building. I'm literally sitting on top of Chicago! My brothers stayed in SF with both set of grandparents. They said they had so much fun in SF they didn't even really miss us.

Dada loves to visit Google offices so we stopped by the Chicago Office to have breakfast and grabbed some yummy snacks and goodies. The "l" is the Sear's tower.

Enjoying their night stroll around downtown while the temperature was mid 70s (and high 70s during the day). Couldn't have asked for more perfect weather. I slept through their walk so I wouldn't be too much of a 3rd wheel on this anniversary trip.

For their 9th anniversary, Dada surprised Mama with a lunch cruise around Chicago. Dada really knows how to spoil Mama and me!

GongGong & PoPo - thank you for taking such good care of us. We enjoyed feeding the ducks and all the other fun activities and yummy meals with you. Can we sleepover again soon?

Grandma & Grandpa - thank you for such a fun time at your place. We enjoyed staying up til 11pm watching movies with you, our parents never let us stay up that late ;-). We can't wait to sleepover again!

Meet our newest 2nd cousin, Baby Nicolas @ 1.5 weeks old, so cute! We'll be starting kinder together in fall of 2015.

Celebrating Auntie Emi's 30th b-day at Spalti's in Palo Alto, so much fun! We took a nap so we got to party til pretty late.

Fun at our church family festival/BBQ.

Kinder playdate this weekend. Got to meet some of my classmates. Here we are playing duck duck goose. I'm so excited to start kinder on Monday!

7 months

2011-08-07T22:19:00.000-07:00

Turned 7 months old Wed.

Family Fun Friday started with Happy Hour appetizers at Yard House, Santana Row. Dada enjoyed his 1/2 yard of beer. We had pizza and Mama loved all her appetizers ... poke stack, crab cakes, chicken lettuce wraps and fried calamari. Yummy .... we can't wait to go back! Mama already has her next visit planned for a ladies night out.

Pinkberry froyo for dessert.

Last basketball class for the summer. Like my defense (red)?

Water slide at Jet and Jemma's b-day party ... right in their backyard, so fun!

Soccer class at our neighborhood park. Dada, Mama and Mari enjoying the class in the shade.

That's me (Tyler) in the white shirt stealing the soccer ball. Really like this game.

One of my favorite meals - Teriyaki-glazed salmon. I can make it all by myself. Coat both sides with sauce and broil on high for 4 minutes on each side.

I love to put everything in my mouth now, even my toes!

Monthly Home Depot Kids Workshop. This month we made a pencil box for back to school. Bumped into our friend Max there.

Kids Games Summer Day Camp

2011-07-31T22:55:00.000-07:00

This week we went to our 2nd annual Kids Games sponsored by our church (http://southbaychurch.org/). We played sports, made arts and crafts, got wet, learned about God's love and much more! For "crazy hat" day, we were the giraffe brothers.

For FFF, we had a sleepover at Auntie Min & Uncle Mike's. We had so much fun playing monopoly, card games, making mickey pancakes and doing lots of other fun/goofy things! We love family sleepovers!

While we were at the sleepover, the rest of the family went to Sonoma for Uncle Phil and Auntie Erika's wedding. Don't they seem so relaxed with only 1 kid?

Italian dinner in SF with Dada's God family visiting from So Cal.

At Jonah's 1st b-day party, the magician pulled a real rabbit out of his hat.

And Mari pulled her friend Ellie out of her hat.

We went to visit our newest transplant to the bay area, Dada's God-brother and family. Dada's working on moving all his So Cal family to the bay area ... his plan is working!

Just chilling while Dada donates blood. He's more scared of needles than we are so we were there to support him ;-)

Fondue party with the Tan kids. Auntie Loan joined our playdate this time. She was quite overwhelmed with 6 kids on a chocolate high!

Dada Summer Day Camp

2011-07-24T21:57:00.000-07:00

On Mon and Tue Dada took some time off work to do some fun summer things with us. Mon we started the day with paddle boating in Mt. View.

Then off to Google for another yummy lunch.

Kids bowl free at Palo Alto Bowl and many other locations throughout the summer: http://www.kidsbowlfree.com

Edgewood Eats in Palo Alto for dinner - there were about 12 food trucks. Our favorite was Chairman Boa and Frozen Yogurt.

On Tue we went to Gilroy Gardens. The park was so empty we had most of the rides all to ourselves. No lines, so fun!

Although we sometimes fight, we do really love each other and are inseparable :-)

It's my 1st time bowling, which ball should I use? Some of them are heavier than me!

We had so much fun bowling, we went 2 days in a row.

This week's FFF, was water game outside. Mama's turn to plan - we had to use our squirt balls to knock down the cups. We had to fill up buckets .. Mama thought of a lot of silly wet games to keep us busy for FFF. Next week's FFF will be a sleepover at Uncle Mike and Auntie Min's!

I love getting kisses from Dada! I really do have him wrapped around my lil fingers ;-)

Tue Nite - Cuban dinner with middle school girlfriends celebrating Auntie Joy's b-day. Super Dada took care of all 3 of us all by himself.

Thur nite - She snuck out after tucking us in. Sushi dinner with her college girls celebrating Auntie Loan's b-day.

Family party in honor of Mama's grandma we passed away 10 years ago. Here are her grandkids and great grandkids (only about 1/2 of us). Mama sure has a lot of cousins, can't wait til we have some!

Summer fun

2011-07-17T21:35:00.000-07:00

Mommies and daughters at Tarynn's 1st b-day party (L-R): Courtney (4mo), me (6 mo), Tarynn (12 mo) and Sienna (17 mo)

Watching a movie with my brothers, theater style at a community clubhouse

Star Wars playdate with my friends Jace and RyRy.

This Sat we were tri-athletes: b-ball, soccer and swimming all in one day ... thanks Dada!

Getting our books ready for our library visit with Grandma. I checked the book off the list and Ethan put it in the bag. Grandma - thanks for taking us on a fun outing on Wed.

Our parents had a nice Indian dinner date while Auntie Irene watched all 3 of us! Thanks Auntie Irene, please come play with us again!

Santana Row late night snacks. They had all of Mama's Santana Row favorites: garlic fries from Pluto's, Cesar Padini salad from Pizza Antica and Hazelnut cake and Tirumisu from Cocola. These girls like to eat.

Jamba Juice run and park with Auntie Jen. Thanks for coming over to play with us!

This "work station" keeps me pretty busy these days.

FFF (family fun friday) ... I (Tyler) planned a drawing contest for my family. We each had 2 minutes to draw a specified animal. Winner gets to be the judge for the next round. We all had lots of fun. Next week is Mama's turn to plan FFF.

Happy July 4th 2011

2011-07-10T23:35:00.000-07:00

Happy 4th & happy 6 months old to me. Uncle Mike gave my brother Tyler this outfit 7+ years ago. My turn to sport the American pride.

We went to our annual neighborhood July 4th picnic/parade as Things 1, 2 and 3.

I celebrated Independence Day with my very 1st bite of food.

We got to stay up late to see the Shoreline July 4th fireworks from a Google building.

BBQ dinner and card games with Dada's siblings before he heads out for his SNH (Sunday Night Hoops).

PoPo and Auntie Tracy came over for dinner. I'm so happy to see them, can you tell?

Boys day out to Happy Hallow. We went on Tue and had the park almost all to ourselves. No lines, love it!

Chess match at Santana Row after dinner.

Uncle Michael stayed with us for 3 days this week. He was super helpful. Here he is feeding Mari and supervising our lunch. We did lots with him: homework, swimming, games, park etc.

He even came with us to the doctors. I had to get 5 kinder shots and Mari had to get her 6 month old shots.

Dinner at Pasta Pomodoro. Kids eat free every Tue night.

Google seafood fair: jumbo shrimp, clams, oysters, mussels, calamari, abalone, fish and more!

Dada, can I have some please?

Both of us started in our own soccer classes on Saturdays. The coaches make lots of fun games in the park right by our house!

Grilled steak, oysters, shrimp, portabello mushroom and zucchini for dinner with Mama's family.

Premier pizza lunch in our neighborhood plaza, our fav pizza. We love to eat outside. Can you find Mari?

"Hanging Out" online with Dada's family on Google+. Such a fun tool! Ask Dada for a Google+ invite if you don't already have one and start setting up your "circles."

Swimming fun

2011-07-03T21:47:00.000-07:00

Our summer swimming lessons has begun. Dada is our personal instructor. He has taught us so much. This week he also decided to start swimming laps on this own for exercise. He's planning to hit the pool around 8pm every Tue & Thur night after he tucks us in. Let him know if you'd like to join him for a swim

I like to keep Mama company when she works.

Intrigued by the heavy rain on Tue.

This week was Mama's turn to plan FFF (family fun friday). She taught us how to play a few card games. One of our new favorite one is "no way!" (aka "BS" but she won't tell us what that stands for).

On Sat, Mama went with her college girls friends to see New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys. She felt like she was in middle school again. Dada got to see Transformer 3 Imax 3D on Fri night. Our parents sure are busy after they tuck us in.

A great performance by NKOTBSB.

On Monday night I had Mama and Dada all to myself since my 2 brothers went to SF for a sleepover with Mama's family. They brought me to Edgewood Eat in Palo Alto (12 food trucks). I watched them eat all this yummy food and not even a bite for me. This Treatbot strawberry/watermelon ice cream look so yummy. Can't wait til I can eat.

Visiting our friends Chloe and Kelis in the east bay. They have a really cool bunk bed, hope we can get one soon.

They also have a cool art studio in their loft.

Chase's 1st b-day party - these are the coolest balloon light sabers.

July Home Depot project - drinks coasters.

Putting our Home Depot workshop skills to work.

Happy 4th Anniversary to our family blog

2011-06-26T20:49:00.000-07:00

Today marks the 4th anniversary of our weekly Sunday night blog! That's a total of 206 weekly entries the last 4 years. For those of you counting, yes we missed 2 weeks but not a bad track record. Thanks for those of you who have been sharing our simple and silly lives with us. Please leave us a comment below to let us know you're reading our blog.

In the summer we love playing in our little sideyard. Today we got to play with water and get all wet, so fun!

Happy be-lated Father's Day to Gong Gong. Yummy dim sum at The Kitchen in Millbrea with Mama's family.

Celebrating Great Grandma's older sister's (right side) 95th birthday! Together they have over 185 years of wisdom!

What a fiesta celebrating a 95th b-day!

Not a fiesta without a pinata - we got lots of yummy and fun goodies (thanks auntie Jessie!)

This week we had a lot of fun summer playdates. On Monday, we had a fun day at the North Park Apts with Auntie Emi: lunch, swimming, card games and Cars 1. Thanks for spending your day off with us!

A number of playdate with our neighbors Josh and Andrew. "Lego camp" at our house.

Auntie Irene took us to see Jungle Joe the ventriloquist perform at the library and then she treated us to Pinkberry, yummy! We are so spoiled.

This week's FFF (family fun friday) we went to see Cars 2 on opening day and then to Tomatina for dinner. Grandma and Grandpa came down to join us for the fun, thanks! Mari's 1st movie, she actually stayed awake and seated the whole time.

Thank you Dada

2011-06-19T23:38:00.000-07:00

On Father's Day, while Dada was volunteering to set up at our church we cooked him his favorite breakfast, eggs and rice, . He's not a morning person but he helps set up our church service at 6:45am every Sunday. Dada - thanks for teaching us to serve God and follow His ways.

We made a happy face with his eggs to let him know how happy he makes all of us. We'd like to dedicate this week's blog to our bestest Dada ...

Dada - Thanks for volunteering at our Vacation Bible School (VBS) and for all the times you volunteer at our schools. Appreciate you reading to our class and chaperoning field trips. Our friends think you are a super cool dad and like you spiky hair. Some think you're our older brother.

1st swimming lesson this summer. Thanks for being our personal swim teacher. You teach us so many things: b-ball, soccer, how to ride a bike and much more.

Thanks for teaching us to do so many things. Not only at home depot workshops but everyday. We know it takes much longer to let us do it but you always take the time to teach us from changing batteries, light bulbs, taking out trash, building furniture, cooking, how to brush our teeth, shower ... you teach us so much! We feel so important and capable because of you.

Thanks for being so fun! We know you are busy with work and many responsibilities but you always make time to have fun with us everyday. We love to "rough house" with you and play games. Thanks for teaching us how to play UNO for FFF (family fun friday) this week! We love this new game.

1st meal in our backyard this week, enjoying the sun. Thanks for always making our family meals a priority. We love our 7:30am family breakfast to start our day. We know it's hard to get home for our 5:30 dinner but you almost always manage to make it. Even if it means you'll have to work after putting us down to bed.

Thanks for treating me like a princess all the time with your loving hugs and kisses ... even at 4am in the morning.

Louie/Chan Father's Day celebration. Thanks for showing us how important time with our extended family is and always feeding us so well.

Google river rafting trip at American River in Sacramento. Thanks for showing us how to work hard and play hard.

Dada ... thank you ... we love and adore you! - Tyler, Ethan & Mari (aka Pal, Precious & Princess)

Preschool Graduate

2011-06-12T22:31:00.000-07:00

I'm finally done with school ... preschool that is. 1 year down, about 20 more years to go!

My fan club came to see me sing and dance.

Auntie Emi and Uncle Roo brought us to Great America to celebrate my graduation and my big bro's be-lated 7th bday. What a great day we had, thanks Uncle Roo & Auntie Emi!

Meeting the characters.

More sweets for us and meet spotty the giraffe we won for Mari.

Summer Sat morning classes started this week.

On Sat, my brothers had a drop off bday party so I had Mama and Dada all to myself. They brought me out for some Taiwanese food ... onion pancakes and ox tail noddle soup, yummy!

On Sun, while my brothers were at Great America I went out to eat some more. 5 Guys burger, Dada's favorite.

Pinkberry for dessert. My parents sure like to eat. Can't wait til I have teeth.

Just chilling in my crib. My "friends" keep me quite entertained.

Last day of 1st grade

2011-06-05T21:30:00.000-07:00

Last day of 1st grade with my teacher and good friend since kinder.

Celebrating Auntie Tracy's 23rd b-day at Park Chow in SF. Here's the whole Wang clan, all 12 of us.

I turned 5 months this week. Whenever I show my family this smile I can get anything I want, esp from my Dada.

Killing time at school play structure before Game 3 of NBA finals.

I want some ramen too!

Monthly Home Depot workshop.

Helping Dada get gas. Boy they're making us do a lot of work around here.

Auntie Tracy and Uncle Michael - thanks for taking us to see Kung Fu Panda II in 3D! We really liked the movie, so funny. While we were at the movies, Mama, Dada and Mari enjoyed the Union St Fair in SF. They had some yummy street food and got lots of freebies.

Grandma - thanks for the lunchable treat, we really enjoyed it at school the next day. Thanks for staying over 1 night this week to help take care of us!

This week, Mama had her annual sales and marketing conference at the SJ Fairmont. She looks forward to his event as she gets to see many of co-workers from around the world and get to eat lots of yummy gourmet food. She partied 2 nights in a row with her co-workers after she tucked us in bed.

Date nite to see Bridesmaids. Uncle Stanley - thanks for sleepsitting all 3 of us, our parents really enjoyed their date out.

Uncle Mike - thanks for coming over to hold me ;-)

I've been practicing all week for my preschool graduation next Fri, here's a sneak preview. Singing: I have a Promise, with a capital P

Singing: Lord I lift your name on high

Reciting: pledge to flag

Flying kites

2011-05-29T22:39:00.000-07:00

Flying kites at our neighborhood park. Dada thanks for teaching us!

Mari tries for her 1st time. We ran into some neighbors and got invited to a Memorial Day BBQ dinner. Love our community!

Thur evening we were invited to a Santa Clara University BBQ to bid farewell to Mama and Dada's old dorm buildings. They will be tearing it down in a couple weeks to build new dorms that maybe we'll live in one day ;-)

A visit to Dada's freshman dorm room, 15 years ago.

Dada's last Project Cornerstone visit to my 1st grade class. This month, we learned about safety around campus. I think Ethan wants him to read to his kinder class next year.

Dada learned that here are only 3 places that have Dole whip: Dole Plantation in Hawaii, Disneyland, and L&L in SJ Coleman Plaza. Yummy!

Eli's 3rd pirate party. We had lots of fun jumping around in the bouncy house.

I love my baths.

Tummy time on Dada's tummy.

Luau spread at Dada's 2nd cousin's post wedding party. Yummy food and nice family reunion.

"Manny" Michael

2011-05-22T22:28:00.000-07:00

Uncle Michael is back for summer break from USC and Mama put him to work right away. He stayed over Mon-Th as our "manny" since Dada was in San Diego for a biz trip.

As you can see here, we made him work hard. He was so much fun. We played battleship, guess who, chess, read, did homework and much more. Uncle Michael - thanks and hope you stay over again soon!

Celebrating Grandma's 62nd and Uncle Mike's 31st b-day with a fiesta dinner ... make you own burrito/taco bar with all the fixins!

Not a fiesta without a pinata ... we got lots of candy and money for our piggy banks. Thanks Auntie Emi / Uncle Roo!

Open house - my 1st grade teacher Mrs. Zaporta.

Cultural day at pre-school - here I am with my Chinese dragon jacket. Mari came for the festivities too.

Playdate with the Tans. We sure outnumber our moms now!

Our new favorite family game - Monopoly Jr.

Visit from the Guerreros (from So Cal), Grandma's best friend.

"Bey Blade" tournament b-day party @ the Changs.

Photo shoot with Dada. I'm all smiles after a nice long nap. If my big bros don't make too much noise, I can nap up to 4 hours these days.

Tyler's 7

2011-05-15T20:59:00.000-07:00

I requested for a Star Wars party for my 7th b-day. The force was strong at our house Fri evening.

Princess Leia and Yoda came to my party too.

Dada helped us make Star Wars cookies, so fun!

On my actual b-day Sat, we had a family party. That's my yummy homemade mint chip ice cream cake. Mama's picky about her mint chip ice cream - has to be from Baskin Robin.

We all got to make out own burger with all the fixins - mushroom, pineapple, over easy egg, avocado, sauces and veggies. Dada said it was better than 5 Guys.

I chose to have my b-day lunch at McD since I rarely get to go there. This one had a playhouse too!

Who chooses to go to the library on their b-day? I did!!

Our annual neighborhood school festival - hanging with the clone troopers (one of them was at Dada's b-day party last year).

Our lil joey's peeping out of Dada's pouch.

On Thursday was a take your preschooler to work day so I had some quality 1:1 time with Dada. "When I grow up I want to work at Google so I can EAT and share an office with Dada."

Mama had a be-lated lunch date with Auntie Min after church. Liang's Kitchen is one of their fav Chinese places they use to go to on their lunch break. We all love Auntie Min - she's so fun and sweet! Thanks again for coming over to help host our Star Wars party!

Dates with Mama

2011-05-08T23:34:00.000-07:00

Mama decided what she wanted to do on Mother's Day was spend 1:1 time with each of us individually. Since I was the oldest I got to go first, sushi lunch date. It was so nice spending quality time together. Start of a new mother's day tradition for our family.

I decided to go get hot chocolate at Peets. We sat outside for over an hour just talking and cuddling. I think she'll ask me out again soon.

I decided to stay in with Mama and just have girl talk after my afternoon feeding. Here I am chatting away. Love our daily nursing/bonding time followed by a good chat.

Mother's Day dinner at Dynasty, just the girls here.

We got to take Friday off school to celebrate Auntie Cindy (Mama's cousin) & Uncle Darren's wedding. We had an amazing time celebrating with family.

Proud to escort an older flower girl.

Breath taking ceremony site in Forest Hill (1 hour north of Sacramento)

Beach time in Santa Cruz with the Changs celebrating Auntie Jen's 40th.

Our monthly Home Depot workshop - this month we made a tulip planter box for mother's day. We also made Mama breakfast in bed and got her her favorite flower - orchids. Dada - thanks for helping us with the surprise.

Daddy's little girl turned 4 months old this week.

5 Google-ly years

2011-05-01T22:12:00.000-07:00

Today 5/1, we celebrated Dada's 5 year anniversary with Google (aka our favorite search engine and restaurant). We all wore our Google gear, even Mari - for the celebration. We feel so blessed that Dada works at Google, such a fun place for ALL of us!

New student drivers on the road. Not bad for our 1st car huh? Come on over and take it out for a spin. Thanks Auntie Crystal for this awesome hand me down!

National Take Your Child To Work Day. We spent the whole Thursday at Google with Dada. We had breakfast and lunch there. Some of the fun included - an astro wizard performance, etch a sketch art class, cooking demonstrations, learning about Google maps street view camera and much more. When we grow up we want to work at Google (in Dada's office)!

Winner winner FISH dinner! On Saturday morning we went fishing at Santa Clara's annual fish derby. We both caught a rainbow trout. Dada - thanks for bringing us so early in the morning and cooking the fish - so yummy!

Video chatting with Uncle Michael @ USC. He seems happy, we can't wait to go to college. See you next weekend!

Dada had a dessert date with Great Grandma while we were asleep. It's in the genes, we all got our sweet tooth from her.

Our other great grandma (Mama's grandma) turned 83 this weekend. We're so lucky to have 2 healthy great grandmas.

Aloha and Happy Easter

2011-04-24T22:18:00.000-07:00

Sorry we missed our post last week, we were busy soaking up the Hawaiian sun.

Lots of pool and beach time during our 1 week vacation in Hawaii.

We love the beach!

Chilling poolside in my new 2 piece (which Dada doesn't approve of).

Visit to the North Shore, 1st stop was Dole Plantation.

Refreshing drinks.

Uncle Adam and Auntie Maiko's wedding was absolutely beautiful, yummy, and lots of fun! We also love watching their preview video that was done in 2 hours, the day of! http://vimeo.com/22622480

The whole Louie (and Chan) gang made it out to Hawaii for the wedding. Great reunion with the extended family. We took tons of pictures in Hawaii. Here it is if you'd like to see all of them: https://picasaweb.google.com/dianawlouie/Hawaii2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCN_tgNj85ubJeg&feat=directlink

Back home now ... Easter egg hunt #1 with Rivermark Community - here with our neighbors.

Easter egg hunt #2 with our church.

Easter egg hunt #3 with our silly aunties and uncles. They act more like kids than we do sometimes. We got lots of yummy treats, toys and money too (thanks!). If you'd like to see all 3 Easter Egg hunt festivities, here's another photo album: https://picasaweb.google.com/dianawlouie/Easter2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCKSWyo7wwN7adQ&feat=directlink

Wang sisters and I. I'm their favorite niece!

SCU girls nite out at Sushi Sam's.

Photo Shoot

2011-04-10T22:45:00.000-07:00

Mama's really having fun with photo shoots. She's happy to have more pics of the 3 of us to put around the house.

Mari turned 3 months old this Monday. This week she started sleeping through the night. Lets see if it continues.

Auntie Tracy thanks for taking us to see Hop. Can't wait for our next movie date to see Angry Birds!

Starbucks date (with Mari) while boys were at movies.

She often drinks and sleeps at the same time, talk about multi-tasking.

Italian dinner in SF with grandma and grandpa, yummy!

4 generations (ranging from 3 months to 90 years), what a blessing!

Dada with his SCU roomie who now works for the Warriors @ the Laker game on Wed. Dada took a step closer to being in the NBA, by sitting courtside (for warm ups) - thanks Uncle Franco!

Max's b-day party #1 @ Chuck E Cheese on Friday.

Then off to Yougurtland with the Tans.

Max's birthday party #2 at Gymboree on Sunday.

Spring is here

2011-04-03T20:55:00.000-07:00

It got warmer this week so my mom decided to take some topless pics of me.

Dada went to Oregon for a 2 day business trip and brought us back more Google gear.

Sammy, our pastor's adopted son from Ethiopia came over for a light saber playdate. Our mommies had a great time chatting away while we battled.

For FFF (family fun friday) this week, we went swimming to soak up some sun.

Then we played Candyland. When we get to the end we can eat a piece of candy!

This month we made a planter box at Home Depot's Kid's workshop. Dada - thanks for bringing us while the girls had their bonding time at home.

Can't wait to see our plants go in our new planter box.

Picnic with the Tans. 2 mommies, 6 kiddos and 2 ducks, can you find the ducks?

Relaxing and babysitting at the same time.

Dusted off our bikes and brought it out for a spin at the park.

Be-lated b-day celebration for Mama with her SCU girls, Auntie: Nina & Loan. Mari told us the sushi was yummy but their girl talk put her to sleep.

Planning our date with Auntie Tracy via Face time. Thanks for taking us to Coldstone for a yummy treat!

Lots of rain, more indoor fun

2011-03-27T22:21:00.000-07:00

This week Dada went to New York from Tue - Fri for work. As usual he ate lots of yummy food. He even got to catch a Knicks vs. Magic game. He brought us back from fun Google gear since we were good. Doesn't look like Mari likes her new Google beanie too much.

Sibling love.

On the weekends we are allowed to go into our parent's room after 8am. We all love to cuddle in bed and play hide-and-seek in the sheets.

Homemade Star Wars vehicle, Arc 170.

More tummy time ... slowly getting stronger.

Science experiments with Dada.

Hanging out with the Mews. Us boys played cards and pony rides while the girls chatted.

Had to clean the floor before they would feed us dinner. Is this legal?

Science fair at my preschool, Neighborhood Christian Center.

Making sushi for FFF (family fun friday). I got to pick salmon rolls for dinner, my favorite (Tyler)!

Indoor Fun

2011-03-20T21:53:00.000-07:00

Getting advice from my 2 aunties who also have 2 older brothers. Auntie Alisa - thanks for coming up from SD to meet me for the 1st time!

Weekly FFF - Family Fun Friday. This week I (Ethan) got to plan our FFF evening: eating pizza while watching Tangled. Even our friends Caty the Caterpillar, Fluffy Ducky and Hippo-e joined this picnic movie.

Girls breakfast with Auntie Irene/Kim - thanks for taking us out to celebrate Mama's b-day!

Family field trip to the pet store - just to look.

Dada helped us make Star Wars cookies. Auntie Emi - thanks for the cookie cutter, we love it!

They actually turned out looking and tasting pretty good.

Chess against Grandpa. Of course, he won but we got him thinking pretty hard ;-)

Bingo! Actually we convinced them to play "blackout" bingo so we could stay up a little bit later.

Like all my new hairbands? Mama's arts and craft project this week

Love talking to my mobile friends. They make me so happy.

PoPo and GongGong - thanks for coming down to play with us! Like my green flower for St. Patty's Day?

Yummy B-day Meals

2011-03-13T17:11:00.000-07:00

Dada took Mama's b-day off to celebrate with her. She wanted to go to Google for her "all you can eat" lunch. She sure ate ALL she can.

Google's sushi spread for Mama's b-day. Freshest tuna sashimi she has had in a while. Their California rolls are made of real crab meat (vs imitation). We're so spoiled.

Then we went bowling at Google's new bowling alley. Amazing!!!

Dessert at Coldstone to end her b-day on a sweet note.

Auntie Min - thanks for taking us out to Red Robin to for another b-day celebration for Mama. She loved her burger!

Family b-day dinner at Dynasty. Mama feels so spoiled by you all, thanks!

Soaking up some vitamin D.

Playdate with Kendall, Uncle Steve's niece. Isn't she cute?

Grandma - thanks for spoiling us our our new McD toy and new Star Wars books (amongst other goodies). We always look forward to "Grandma Wednesday!"

Patiently waiting for the ladies while they grocery shop.

Like my cheeks?

Playdate with my January buddy, Ellie (2 wks younger). Our moms had fun chatting away but we put each other to sleep. Not much playing this time.

Check-mate

2011-03-06T22:15:00.000-08:00

A highlight this week is that I finally beat Dada at chess! We've been playing every night for the past couple months. Nice to finally win one game.

Mama's early b-day celebration with the Wang side in SF.

Wang sisters and their favorite niece. Uncle Michael - we miss you!

Middle school girlfriends nite out to welcome Mama to Club 33. I got to go out late to party with the ladies. They all thought I was a sweet "cupcake."

Home Depot workshop - race cars in the making.

I turned 2 months on Friday. They brought me to the Dr. office to celebrate with 3 shots, no fun! This week I started smiling and coo-ing. I've learned if I do both at the same time, I can get anything I want from them.

The art of delegation! Our parents are really good at this.

Bedtime story with Dada before he heads out for his weekly SNH - Sunday Night Hoops.

Yummy treats

2011-02-27T22:24:00.000-08:00

Every nite we try to finish dinner quickly so we can have time to play some games before bedtime. Mari wasn't happy about coming in last place when we played snakes and ladders.

We spent Presidents Day's in downtown Los Gatos with the whole Louie clan at Uncle Mike's favorite burger joint.

Mari's starting to react to us now. Here she is smiling and responding to Dada. He's trying to convince her not to date until she's 35, don't think she's buying it.

Visit from Mama's college roomies, Auntie Shirley and Auntie Ruby. We also got to enjoy a yummy Google meal together.

Jamba run with our neighbors. Fun play day at their house and the park.

McDonald playhouse fun with the Tans. Great rainy day activity. Us kids love playing while Mama and Auntie Nina chats away.

Disney On Ice - great show. Mari slept thru almost the whole performance. She's a sleepyhead every time we go out.

Pinkberry treat at Santana Row with PoPo and Auntie Tracy. Thanks for coming down to visit us!

Dada has been craving "5 Guys" burger since the last time he was there a month ago so we went right after Pinkberry.

Valentine's day at school

2011-02-20T23:42:00.000-08:00

Ethan came to join my 1st grade class' v-day party (after he had his own at preschool). We had lots of yummy snacks. It was fun exchanging cards with our classmates at school.

All dressed and resting up for lunch with Dada at Google.

Lego time at Google. At this cafe, they have legos at every table that we can play with if we eat fast.

Celebrating Dada's cousin, Uncle Eric's 28th birthday. So fun to have all of Dada's family over to eat and play.

Family game time - we had lots of fun playing chess and bingo with our aunties and uncles.

Mari's Red Egg and Ginger Party

2011-02-13T21:07:00.000-08:00

This weekend Mari had her Reg Egg party with our family. She was spoiled with lots of love, cute clothes and money.

Our cute lil sis @ 5 weeks old. Uncle Steve - thanks for taking pics for us, this is one of Mama's favorite shot of Mari.

Family of 5 - we're all enjoying it.

We out number our parents now - yes!

With both sets of grandparents and 2 great grandmothers.

The Wang ladies, all 3 generations.

On Thurs, Dada took Mama out on an early v-day dinner date. Mari tagged along but she slept the whole time during their 3.5 hour date.

The V-day date continued where Mama & Dada took me to the old Cluck U to hang out with Uncle Gell and Uncle Derek. Auntie Emi and Uncle Roo came over to play with us and put us down for bed. Uncle Roo - want to play snakes and ladders again? ;-)

Dada chaperoned our class walking field trip to Yan Can Restaurant where we learned about the restaurant business, Chinese New Year and got to taste yummy noodles.

7:15am Sunday morning - we made V-day breakfast in bed for Mama. Fruit salad, jam sandwich, juice and special card - she ate all of it in bed! Her 1st breakfast in bed.

Our favorite Trojan Uncle came back this weekend to celebrate Mari's Red Egg and his 20th birthday. Always so fun to hang out with Uncle Michael. Thanks for spending a night with us.

Dim Sum brunch to celebrate Uncle Michael's b-day.

Gong Hay Fat Choy

2011-02-06T23:45:00.000-08:00

Chinese New Year celebration with PoPo & Gong mid week.

New Year parade at my preschool with my 2nd cousin Natalie.

More New Year celebration with mama's cousins.

Dada got mama a new ride for the new year. She's has officially joined the "soccer mom" club. She's sad to say bye to her Jetta for 10+ years but loving her new car (Honda Odyssey).

We love all the space inside.

2nd visit to the Jelly Belly factory. This time we got adventurous and tried some new flavors: diaper wipe, booger & toothpaste.

Superbowl party with SCU buddies.

Chinese New Year dinner - princess was held by grandpa almost the whole meal at Dynasty.

I'm 1 month old! Auntie Nancy - thanks for the cute outfit.

Still a very sleepyhead at 1 month.

More fun with Mari

2011-01-30T21:58:00.000-08:00

Thanks Auntie Min for making this plaque for Mari's room.

Girls pic during during a family lunch - thanks Auntie Min for feeding all of us a yummy meal!

Grandma and Grandpa reminiscing through Dada's baby album - they claim Mari looks just like Dada when he was a baby.

Louie Boys, Uncle Roo and Mari all ready for the Laker game to start.

I won the "mega skill" award this month for "effort," doing my best and not giving up.

More tummy time with my fan club to cheer me on.

Dada trying to feed me Five Guys cheeseburger. No thanks, I only want mama's milk.

We went to check out the chess club that just started at my school. Ethan came too and played against 2nd graders.

Dada's trying to start a new club with Uncle Eugene, DWS (Dads With Shootguns) to scare away the boys. Thanks for lunch and a great visit.

Visit from the Fongs, SCU buddies. Thanks for bringing us dinner and spending time with us. We're lucky to have such great neighbors.

Quality time with Dada

2011-01-23T20:53:00.000-08:00

So nice having Dada home on paternity leave to spend quality time with us all day long. He gets 7 weeks total so he's taking 1/2 of it now and other half during our summer break.

I think I have him wrapped around my lil fingers now.

2 week dr. check up, luckily no shots. All looking good so far. I've gained almost a pound since birth.

Cooking with Dada, he makes the best grilled cheese sandwiches. He has been cooking us breakfast and packing lunches for school so Mama can rest.

We got to play lots of family games together. Love playing chess with Dada, hopefully we can beat him soon. Anyone want to come over to play with us?

Our new game, Snakes and Ladders.

Princess is down for the count.

Mari's 1st time drinking of the bottle. She seemed to like us feeding her.

PoPo and Gong Gong came down to visit and brought us lots of yummy food. We've been quite spoiled with many friends and family bringing food over and visiting us, thanks everyone!

Visit to Target to spend our "good job bucks."

My very 1st bath.

All nice and clean now.

I'm all comfy and bundled up in Mama's sling ready to go out and about.

Almost 2 weeks old

2011-01-16T22:56:00.000-08:00

Mama and Dada wanted a "feet" photo shoot of us 3. Guess it wasn't too bad since we didn't have to smile for this pic.

Louie kiddos ;-)

My princess chair - thanks Kyla for letting me borrow this!

Mama's new sling - I already got to go to the park and church in it.

Tummy time - too much work, no more please.

Ah this is much better. My job now is just to eat and sleep. Big bro Ethan - thanks for sharing your big boy bed with me for my nap.

Max (9 mo) came to visit me, he's so big. Thanks Auntie Nina for the lunch and Mama's new sling.

The Chang kids came over to play with us and brought us dinner too, thanks!

Visit from Auntie Jen and Uncle Steve.

Mama was craving sushi ever since she got pregnant. Our Japanese neighbor brought this over, so yummy! Thanks Miyuki!

Baby sister came out

2011-01-09T22:33:00.000-08:00

Mari arrived on Tue, about 2 weeks early but she's healthy and a happy baby. Auntie Tracy -thanks for making this collage of me.

Auntie Jen - thanks for this outfit. Mama had fun playing dress up at the hospital. Who do I look like @ 1 day old?

Our very 1st family picture of 5, haha they are out-numbered now!

PoPo and GongGong (Mama's parents) are ecstatic to have a grand daughter.

Proud Grandmas.
Grandpa visiting us after he got off work.

Mari (5 days old) adored by Great Grandma (90 yrs old).

After putting us down, Dada surprised Mama with a dessert date nite at the hospital. Auntie Emi / Min - thanks for sleepsitting us at home.

Already put on babysitting duty, strolling baby sis around the hospital.

So far Mari's pretty cool, she sleeps most of the time and hasn't messed with any of our toys.

Dada chaperoned my field trip for the 1st time to the San Jose Tech Museum.

Mari can you read what I made you behind me?

Happy 2011

2011-01-02T20:32:00.001-08:00

12:01am Fri night: we got to stay up past midnight for the very 1st time! So much fun to ring in the new year with our family and friends in SF!

Is this what adults do every midnight while kids are sleeping?

Girls enjoying the SF view from Grandma and Grandpa's clubhouse by AT&T park.

Hanging out at Google for our after lunch snack (smoothie and ice cream). So much fun eating at Google while we're on Christmas break - thanks Dada!

Sis (in-law) dessert nite out at Honeyberry. Why did they have to wait til after our bedtime to go, we love this place.

SCU girls lunch with Mama's old roomie, Auntie Rowena visiting from Vegas.

Red Robin dinner with Uncle Michael. We all enjoyed our yummy meal.

Sequence for Kids, our new favorite family game - thanks Auntie Emi & Uncle Roo for the present!

Tooth #4 came out this week! Missing my 2 top front teeth now ;-)

Merry Christmas 2010

2010-12-26T22:51:00.000-08:00

Our family 2010 Christmas photo card. This year Mama decided to design our card.

The extended Louie family card. This year's theme is "Louie Story." Uncle Mike - great job with the card design.

Tue night we went to Los Gatos to see a park full of animated Christmas lights. The best part was that we got to stick our heads out the sunroof and take pictures.

Thur nite - mama hosted her 21st annual girls xmas gathering. She has been doing this with her middle school gfs since the 6th grade.

Live crab for Christmas Eve "snack" after our beef stew noodle soup lunch and before prime rib dinner.

Chowing down on 7 fresh crabs and 6 pounds of clams with their bare hands. Delicious and so fresh - everything was naturally sweet.

18 pounds of prime rib, was a hit!

Yorshire pudding ... almost done.

Some brotherly competition in chess. Dada taught us and we like playing against anyone. Wanna come over and play?

The Louie / Ching family shot after opening all our presents.

Christmas day with the Wangs in SF.

The 5 original Wangsters.

Holiday Fun

2010-12-19T23:39:00.000-08:00

Our holiday fun started on Thursday with my Winter Concert at school where the 1st graders sang "It Must Be Santa." I was pretty nervous to perform in front of so many parents but ended up doing fine. Click here for a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiC-dcJ_uJE

After the concert we walked around the neighborhood to admire all the lights.

On Fri night, Mama and Dada had another Google holiday party, this time at the SF Fairmont Penthouse! We had a good time with Uncle Michael, PoPo & GongGong (thanks!).

They look happy to be without us.

Penthouse dining room, Mama's favorite room, simple and classy.

Amazing view from the penthouse balcony (where Sean Connery got his haircut in the movie The Rock). Gourmet buffet line was served in the library, yummy desserts were in the pool table room, dancing in the dance hall/family room and high class indulgence EVERYWHERE. Wish we got to see the place.
On Sat nite, we went to Auntie Katie & Uncle Fredy's wedding. Mama had so much fun seeing her middle school girlfriends.

Way past out bedtime, we're all changed into our PJ's and ready to crash on the car ride home.

On Sun nite, over 20 of Mama's cousins came over. We had lots of yummy Vietnamese food. Mama made a big pot of pho for us.

Dance Central on Xbox Kinect, very funny to see everyone dance in our family room.

Earlier in the week, we visited "Bethlehem in Santa Clara" to learn about the true meaning of Christmas. We saw an amazing production of the night Jesus was born.

This week my top front tooth finally came out! The tooth fairy came, her 3rd visit. Can't wait to loose my next tooth. I still don't know how she gets into my room or change the tooth into a dollar bill. Ethan didn't see her either.

Santa's Visit 2010

2010-12-12T22:45:00.000-08:00

Santa came to visit during our annual SCU pajama party.

My 1st year not crying on Santa's lap!

Whee ... I was one of the last ones to get my gift from Santa, was getting a lil worried I wasn't on his "nice" list.

Family dinner celebrating Grandpa's 61st b-day @ Spalti (Palo Alto), where Auntie Emi and Uncle Roo had their rehearsal dinner.

Yummy dinner and great company. We all enjoyed our dishes, esp dessert! One of new favorite Italian restaurants now.

Happy Birthday Grandpa! We're so happy you live close by so we celebrate these milestones together!

Silly Mama & Dada at Google's Holiday party @ SF Exploritorium. These are their digital cartoon charactatures and photo booth pics.

Google's full sushi bar station (one of many). Thanks Grandma/Grandpa for babysitting us, we had a great time at your place!

My 1st Christmas production with my preschool, sharing the true meaning of Christmas. I played the role as the Inn Keeper. Mama, Dada, and Doa Doa was so proud of me!

Dada's NBA Road Trip 2010

2010-12-05T22:50:00.000-08:00

Dada's NBA dream come true (no he didn't get drafted by the Lakers)! 4 nights, 4 cities, 4 games. He has been wanting to do this for years. Dada was so happy his siblings can join him for this game. They all got to go to the pre-game shoot around and sit courtside!

Game 1: Warriors vs. Suns @ Oakland

Dada's travel buddy to all 4 games, Uncle Kurt.

Game 2: Lakers vs. Kings @ Los Angeles (Dada was so happy to be "home")

Fancy Suite-like dining while watching the Lakers! Dada says the food is super yummy.

En route from LA to Snowy Chicago. We see Dada's favorite Bull is Derrick Rose in his NBA magazines.

Game 3: Bulls vs. Rockets @ Chicago. Dada's favorite arena of the trip is Chicago because he said they have the most exciting atmosphere and fan participation.

Game 4: Blazers vs. Clippers @ Portland. Dada saw "Blazermania" where everybody was dressed up in Blazers gear. Those fans love their players.

Dada's late night feast, last night on the road. He told us he's been eating and drinking each meal as if it were enough for our entire family.

Mama brought us to the library and we picked this book out for Dada.

Froyo treat after watching movie Tangled.

Mama is getting Baby Sister's room ready by sorting through our old clothes. She said there's too much blue.

Aramin Thai with mama's family after visiting Uncle Steve's new home in Mt. View. Auntie Jen - thanks for lunch! Auntie Ta-ci thanks for our Star Wars toy (or should we thank Uncle Michael later?)!

Take 2 :-)