Gong Xi Fa Chai

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

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?

My 1 year photo shoot.  

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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

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

 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

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!