Christmas 2011

Here are 3 videos of Jake opening gifts before we headed home to Houston to spend time with the family. This Christmas was certainly strange/sad with Mom suffering a minor heart attack on Thursday. She wasn't there at the family gathering on Saturday but we were able to visit her at the hospital. She's came home on Sunday just in time to see the kids for a little bit. It was good to see a smile on her face. She's doing well and no surgery was needed- just a prescription for medicine.

Jake and Yo Gabba Gabba

'Hold Still'

Jake 'singing' Rudolph the red nose reindeer

Pretty sure no record company is looking to sign him after this performance but we think he did great!

Primrose Winter Program 2011

Jake's first big show!!  This is the school's 10th year to put on this production.  Preschool 1 is the youngest class to participate in the program and was up first.  They sang Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, hence the outfit.  I think he was alittle unsure of what was going on because he kept looking around... probably just looking for mommy in the crowd (will post video soon).  He's one of the smallest in his class, but he did great! Only a parent could enjoy something like this.... so cute!!

Big Helper

He likes kissing him too.

Our kids should be paid

Our neighborhood has a monthly newsletter and our daycare advertises all the time but this month is special. Both of them are 'models' :)

Jake has fun playing with the stacking pegs!

Having fun at school

Acting silly

Max getting ready for school.

We have his hands covered most of the time these days. As soon as
they are free, he reaches for his hair and head immediately. Jake had
a real bad problem with scratching his face up. Trying to learn and
not do the same mistakes twice.

Max is also on size 2 diapers. He's getting big - almost 13 pounds.

Proof collage I didn't buy

They wanted $30 for it. It was cute but not that cute. I'll settle for
the iPhone picture of it.

Fun with blocks.

At school

Max cooing

School pictures - retakes with Max

Max first Halloween

He didn't participate this year but there will be plenty of years for
him to enjoy it.

Halloween 2011

Nothing special - dressed up as a dog holding his favorite dog around the neighborhood - maybe 12 houses and went back home to hand out candy. 3 big Costco bags gone - we even manage to give away Jake's old fruit snack. Winning!


 

Like father...

Like son.

Go Rangers!

We are jumping on the Rangers bandwagon. It's not the Astros but a
Texas team. They can win it tonight.

Less time to hold Max

Max is in his third week in daycare. All is well and there are good girls that take care of him but I do miss holding him. I pick him up around 5:30, have dinner and it's already time for give them bathes. Next thing you know if bed time and Max is dead asleep.

Here's a picture of him sleeping before school.

The kid love band-aids

Nan's wedding

What a weekend! The Trans and the Moores from Houston and the Uchs
(Austin) came up to Dallas to visit and attend Nan's wedding. We hired
an extra babysitter to watch all the kiddos - total of 7. There was a
lot of people under one roof but it was fun having people over. Jake
really loved J and KK and even asked for the the night they left.
Congrats to Nan and Kat. It was a beautiful wedding and we had a great
time.

New stuff from chi Ha

Chi Ha always give us stuff for Jake and here is Jake modeling a new
Halloween shirt and a Elmo pillow / blanket.

Jake school pictures - Fall 2011

He's only 2 years and 8 months but he looks so big already. They do grow up fast :(

Jake's 1st Dentist Visit

Well, let's just say that Jake did better than I expected (positive), and he, eventually, let the dental hygienist do everything she needed to inside his mouth (positive), but he wanted absolutely nothing to do with that red chair (negative). Both of us tried unsuccessfully to sit in it while holding him but that didn't help. Hopefully the next check-up in 6 months will go a little more smoothly. We will be taking Max earlier than we did Jake. Lesson learned.

They have a cool horse ride for the kids in the waiting room. He got to ride it once before and after his cleaning. He loved it and wanted to ride it again but it's was time to go back to school.

Happy at school

Pictures from school

Max has fun playing and working on his tummy time!

Always love it when our school sends us pictures...make the money worth it... Ok, not really.

Jake spends the day/night with the Chestnuts

Last Saturday, we went down to Houston to attend Lan's wedding. We decided to go san kids because it's just more fun that way. So we had Grandma watch Max and Jake spend the day/night with Claire, Emma, chi Ha and uncle Chris. It worked out really well because Grandma really really wanted to watch Max and Claire had a birthday party at night and they had a church bazaar during the day. This was technically he first sleepover without Mom or Dad. So obviously we were concerned that he would give the Chestnuts a nightmare situation. But between the church festival and the birthday parties, he had no time to miss his parents. It also helped that Emma and Claire loves playing with Jake. We worried for nothing and chi Ha said he did great. Uncle Chris was nice enough to take some pictures of the day.

Max's Baptism

We went down to Houston last weekend for a wedding, birthdays (more pictures soon) and the most important, Max's baptism. He slept through most of it and didn't cry at all. Judy's sister chi Tuyet and John and his god-parents.


 
 
 

Max's first day at school

Culture Day - part 4

Last post about culture day - I promise. His school called last week (I hate answering these calls because it 99% bad news- he's sick, he's bit someone, or he's hurt somehow) and asked for permission to post Jake's picture in the local paper. I said yes of course.

http://neighborsgo.com/index.php?page_id=1000&site_page_id=5&post_id=75389

He's famous! :)

And so it begins...

I get a receipt out of the blue from Apple/itunes. So Jake has bought his first app without permission. Talking T-Rex. Judy and I are trying to figure out how he got my password.

It's expensive having a baby

We are very blessed to have very good insurance. Hospitals and Doctors charge a lot and if you don't have any insurance, it will set you back a few pennies. One day, we will show the kids the bill and hopefully, we can compare the bill to when they have kids. I'm sure it will be much more expensive in 25 years.

Culture Day - Part 3

Jake is sitting down holding a flag that closely resembles the People's Republic of China's flag. Chinese? Vietnamese? What's the difference! HaHa!

Update: chi Ha has informed me that it's actually a communist Vietnamese flag. So it's technically it is correct but not the right one.