White Christmas in NYC

This week our parents went to NY.  Dada had a business trip and invited Mama to join him (no invite for us 3 this time). 

They sure ate their way throughout the city.  At least 5 meals a day. 

Girls Nite out for an amazing Yakitori dinner with Auntie Erica.  Please come visit us soon! 

Ramen lunch with Auntie Tammy.  Hope our family can hang out again soon. 

Uncle Michael - thanks for the movie date!  

Popo, Grandma, Auntie: Irene, Tracy, Jen & Uncle Steve - thanks for being a part of the team to take care of the 3 of us.   We had a great time with you and our parents really enjoyed their trip knowing we were in good hands.  

Sat morning reunion - we were all so happy to be together again! Love cuddling in our parent's bed on the weekends. 

Visit from our awesome Hawaiian friends - Yu's and Fujikawa's.  

Tea Time for Auntie Nancy's Baby Boy #2 ... so excited for our cousin #5. 

Annual Xmas party with Mama's cousins.  Our silly pose.   Everyone sporting their new gift from Santa. 

Santa Visit 2013

Santa made a special visit to deliver presents to us SCU kids. 

Can I get off this guy's lap!?!

Visit to "Bethlehem" in Santa Clara to see the story of how Jesus was born and remind us why we celebrate Christmas. 

Celebrating baby Dean with the Fukuyamas (SCU friends) visiting from Hawaii @ Ming's in Palo Alto. 

Hanging out with Mama's friend Auntie Linda (friends since middle school).  So happy they've moved back to SF from LA.  

Celebrating Grandpa's bday.  Bummer our 3 cousins were sick and missed the party. 

Yummy crab at R&G in SF. 

Bowling fun. 

Monthly Home Depot workshop.  This month we made a Despicable Me Tic Tac Toe game. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!  I got to help out a bit.

 

Uncle Russ brought over 5 tasty crabs...we devoured them.

Grandpa got to play with Dada's Google Glass:  "Ok Glass, take a picture!"

Dada's side of the family.

We were in the kitchen and dining room from 1pm-11pm!  Dada made a movie recap of Thanksgiving using Google+.  

Loved spending time with all of our family all week.  Lots of eating and quality time.  One of our 1st guests were Mama's cousins from Seattle.

On our 1st day of vacation, we visited the children's discovery museum.

We then went to Mama's favorite restaurant: Google!

  After lunch we played at Google's Skee ball room...while Dada played with Google Glass.

Mama taught us about team work as we put up the Christmas decorations all throughout the house.

Saturday was full of parties...3 of them!  1st up was Cousin Hailey who had her 1st bday party and they had a magic clown.

Thanks for a fun party Hailey!

The 2nd party was in SF with Cousin Logan who celebrated with Elmo for being 2.  We ate a delicious ice cream cake!

3rd Party of the day: Mama and Dada's SCU annual Friendsgiving party.  All us kids got to watch movies while they continued pigging out...and we got to stay up 'till midnight!

Mama's been taking tennis lessons so Dada took the day off to see how she's playing.  

We all got to cuddle as we watched Frozen.  I love my siblings!

Quality time with Great Grandma

 On Tue, I brought great grandma to her dr. appt and she asked me to come back so on Wed to have lunch with her after my storytime at the library.   She's 93 but overall doing well.   Takes her a while a move around but she's still one sharp cookie.

1st weekend soccer tournament.  We had a great time and took 2nd place. 

 Father-daughter walk via Google Glass

Sibling bath fun

For "goodness snakes" lesson at school.  

This week Mama was on a mission to try new recipes.  Here are some brussel sprout chips in the making, actually quite yummy!     

All from scratch chicken pot pie (thanks to neighbor's help) ...  this week she also made chicken taco soup, bbq beef brisket and some Asian dishes (thanks to PoPo): pork belly and shaking beef.  Can't wait to try more dishes next week.  She's enjoying it and our tummies are happy.  

Minute to Win It

It was Mama's turn to plan FFF (family fun friday).  She put us through 5 "Minute to Win It" challenges.  Very close game. 

Our favorite challenge was having to knock down the most cups with a ball hanging from our head. 

She liked it so much she wanted to do it again and again. 

Here's a video capturing the fun!

Protective lil sister holding my hand during my dental cleaning - no cavities! 

Sisters night out - hot pumpkin ramen hit the spot on a cold evening. 

Afterschool activity - homemade play-dough. We had fun mixing food coloring to get our desired colors.  

Book club meeting with my buddy to discuss Frindle. 

Girls morning playdate.  T is such a sweet girl.

Our 6th annual Operation Christmas Child project.  We each packed a box of goodies (toys, art supplies, socks, toothbrush, soap etc) to send to kids in different countries.  For many this box will be their only Christmas gift. 

See us in action!

Date with Mama at Krispy Kreme.  We rarely get donuts so this is a real special treat. 

Dada's yummy dinner - we're really enjoying steak dinners.   Of course Mama has to throw in all the veggies. 

Soccer Season Finale

We finished a strong soccer season this Sat - thanks coaches! 

Louie-Chan cousins 1st (of many) playdates at Hailey's new home! 

Celebrating my teacher's wedding!

 I like to go grocery shopping with Mommy.  

Had a sports date with Dada at the park playing baseball, basketball and football.  Then he got all nostalgic on me and wanted to push me on the baby swing like he did 8 years ago.  It was silly but actually kind of fun.