last month i finally managed to get an uninterrupted, updated clip of Thomas singing the ABC song, indisputably his favorite song right now. it is so hard to get video of him b/c he usually stops whatever funny thing he is doing, and/or runs over to see the playback screen.
we love the way he says "W" and skips over the parts that are too fast for him to say. the same "bubba" he uses for "w" is also the way he says banana and thomas.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
goofing around with daddy
daddy's getting goofier and goofier with his little son. they can't get enough of each other. oh and thomas actually says 2 and 3 words together now! some examples:
- hi daa-deee
- bye bye nigh nigh (mandarin for grandma)
- mo nuu-duu (more noodles)
- ma-mee up peas (mommy pick me up please)
- ma-mee beeg bi (mommy give me a big bite)
- boo caa (blue car)
yikes...
can you believe next week is Thanksgiving? wow... and thomas will be 2 years old in under 2 months...
the last time Thomas and I went shopping together, i put him in the puppy backpack and had him wear his sherpa boots with PJ leggings. sorry guys, i know, not very manly, but I got tons of smiles as well as oohs and aahs from ladies. thomas strutted around very proudly and also played peek a boo with almost every woman that would stop to babytalk to him. very flirty... soo cute! he carried his little jamba juice cup around for almost 30 minutes.
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on another topic, preschool costs are ridiculous! it is like paying rent on a small apartment, or a really really nice new car, or a top line leather sofa sectional. even the cheaper ones are $500-700/month and that is only for 3 days a week. my mom said that back in the 70's it was $100-200/month. well, i guess that was THIRTY years ago. the only consolation is that it is only for 2 years. after that kindergarten - yay for tax dollars at work. luckily the public schools in dublin are good. they are renovating and upgrading a bunch of stuff at Dublin High School so hopefully by the time Thomas is ready for 9th grade, it will be good as well.
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a few random pics from October's LA trip. thomas really doesn't look like a baby any more. but i still call him baby. my other names for him are "little monkey", bubba, froggy and "why you little!" for when he is being mischievous.
this is me with our dear pastor's wife from UCLA, Esther Chung. one of the most wonderful and decent women I have ever had the privilege of knowing. I met her my freshman year at UCLA and unarguably she has been one of the biggest and most positive influences in my life. God was so good to put her in my path at a time when I was completely lost and really begging for direction. May God continue to bless her and Pastor Soon in their ministry at UCLA!
the last time Thomas and I went shopping together, i put him in the puppy backpack and had him wear his sherpa boots with PJ leggings. sorry guys, i know, not very manly, but I got tons of smiles as well as oohs and aahs from ladies. thomas strutted around very proudly and also played peek a boo with almost every woman that would stop to babytalk to him. very flirty... soo cute! he carried his little jamba juice cup around for almost 30 minutes.
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on another topic, preschool costs are ridiculous! it is like paying rent on a small apartment, or a really really nice new car, or a top line leather sofa sectional. even the cheaper ones are $500-700/month and that is only for 3 days a week. my mom said that back in the 70's it was $100-200/month. well, i guess that was THIRTY years ago. the only consolation is that it is only for 2 years. after that kindergarten - yay for tax dollars at work. luckily the public schools in dublin are good. they are renovating and upgrading a bunch of stuff at Dublin High School so hopefully by the time Thomas is ready for 9th grade, it will be good as well.
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a few random pics from October's LA trip. thomas really doesn't look like a baby any more. but i still call him baby. my other names for him are "little monkey", bubba, froggy and "why you little!" for when he is being mischievous.
this is me with our dear pastor's wife from UCLA, Esther Chung. one of the most wonderful and decent women I have ever had the privilege of knowing. I met her my freshman year at UCLA and unarguably she has been one of the biggest and most positive influences in my life. God was so good to put her in my path at a time when I was completely lost and really begging for direction. May God continue to bless her and Pastor Soon in their ministry at UCLA!
Friday, November 02, 2007
happy halloween :)
thomas' costume is a little ghetto - i had to chop the feet off so that he could wear it outside. added more yarn to the mane but i didn't have brown, so i used dark blue. didn't have time to add yarn to the legs, but i would have liked to have a bunch of yarn hanging down on his little sneakers. i am so glad he didn't mind wearing the hood. usually, he just yanks off sweatshirt hoods, but he somehow understood that this "sweatshirt" was different. ha ha...
thomas had so much fun he had trouble falling asleep that night. the first few houses, william said that thomas just closed his eyes really tight, standing there waiting for the door to open. william would tell him that it was ok to open his eyes and ask him what a lion does. thomas is very good at roaring. :) after the 3rd and 4th house, thomas was much more comfortable and just went right for the candy dish. william said that a couple older ladies that answered doors, just stood there, smiling, watching thomas walk away.
luckily thomas doesn't know what candy is, otherwise we probably would have had some indigestion going on. by next year he will probably want to eat it all the moment he gets home. this year, he had loads of fun transferring the candy from one bowl to another, and back again. simple fun.... and now when he sees a pumpkin in a book, he goes "pee... bum din" (aka pumpkin).
big trip to Los Angeles
in the middle of the worse raging fires (both wild and arson related) that southern california has ever experienced, we drove down to LA last weekend. we had been planning the trip for a couple months and didn't want to cancel. thomas was just recovering from croup, i was getting over a cold and william was on the verge of getting the same cold.... but we went anyways. sadly, it kept us from meeting the newest member of the Kim family (our friend's joanna & johhny), but we'll make sure to catch you guys next year!! don't want to be responsible for getting any new babies sick. scary thing was that the fire was only 5 miles away from their home at one point. thankfully, it moved in a different direction or they might have had to evacuate as well.
anyways, it was a little smoky on friday, but the winds shifted a little and by saturday evening the air was not bad at all.
thankfully, thomas did really well on with the drive. we only stopped twice on the way down, and once on the way up. really amazing for a little guy to sit strapped down for that long. we were really glad that we didn't end up having to stop every hour like we expected.
we walked around campus on Friday. it was the first time i had been back since 1998! so much has changed on the perimeter, i really didn't recognize much. luckily, the center of campus, the main quad and bruin walk haven't changed too much. the top pic is a shot of thomas peering at a large group of middle school kids that are getting a tour of campus.
we stayed in this little motel right in westwood, easy walking distance from campus and our old church. our room had a little fridge in it that became thomas' FAVORITE play thing ever. open close open close, take something out, put it back in, take milk out, take one sip, put it back in, repeat. several times. just because he could. at home the fridge door is too heavy for him to open.
snack time on the hotel bed :) ha ha...
on sat evening and sunday at church, we got to spend time with many old and long time friends. it was so nice to see everyone and to see all the kids! at the dinner on sat they had childcare, so i was able to actually talk & relax without having to worry about thomas. the hard thing was that there was not enough time to talk to everyone. i tried to make sure i had good conversations with at least a few people. just not enough time! but it was so nice to see everyone and to catch up with Pastor Soon and Esther. I still can't believe that their oldest, Faith, is 15!! amazing that that much time has gone by. our college church is blessed with some truly talented worship leaders, who made the worship/song time a really wonderful blessing for william and I. they are such amazing singers, i felt like i could have just sat and listened to them sing for hours. they do have a CD, but the CD really doesn't do them justice.
it is always nice to know that there are friendships that don't change and no matter how long it has been since the last meeting, you slip into them again like a pair of comfy shoes. thank God for comfy shoes :)
anyways, it was a little smoky on friday, but the winds shifted a little and by saturday evening the air was not bad at all.
thankfully, thomas did really well on with the drive. we only stopped twice on the way down, and once on the way up. really amazing for a little guy to sit strapped down for that long. we were really glad that we didn't end up having to stop every hour like we expected.
we walked around campus on Friday. it was the first time i had been back since 1998! so much has changed on the perimeter, i really didn't recognize much. luckily, the center of campus, the main quad and bruin walk haven't changed too much. the top pic is a shot of thomas peering at a large group of middle school kids that are getting a tour of campus.
we stayed in this little motel right in westwood, easy walking distance from campus and our old church. our room had a little fridge in it that became thomas' FAVORITE play thing ever. open close open close, take something out, put it back in, take milk out, take one sip, put it back in, repeat. several times. just because he could. at home the fridge door is too heavy for him to open.
snack time on the hotel bed :) ha ha...
on sat evening and sunday at church, we got to spend time with many old and long time friends. it was so nice to see everyone and to see all the kids! at the dinner on sat they had childcare, so i was able to actually talk & relax without having to worry about thomas. the hard thing was that there was not enough time to talk to everyone. i tried to make sure i had good conversations with at least a few people. just not enough time! but it was so nice to see everyone and to catch up with Pastor Soon and Esther. I still can't believe that their oldest, Faith, is 15!! amazing that that much time has gone by. our college church is blessed with some truly talented worship leaders, who made the worship/song time a really wonderful blessing for william and I. they are such amazing singers, i felt like i could have just sat and listened to them sing for hours. they do have a CD, but the CD really doesn't do them justice.
it is always nice to know that there are friendships that don't change and no matter how long it has been since the last meeting, you slip into them again like a pair of comfy shoes. thank God for comfy shoes :)
counting crayons
also in october, i gave in and decided to let him start using crayons and markers. i was a little averse to giving him items that could potentially cause permanent damage. funny thing is, he doesn't really want to draw. but he will sit there for 20 minutes and count them all.
1st visit to the pumpkin patch
to back track a little, on 10/13, thomas went to his first pumpkin patch. there were some goats and a small piglet there. he was very excited to get to touch them. incidentally, this first pic is almost exactly like a picture of me with my dad at around that age. and the goat's butt is even facing the same way. i'll have to post that pic when i find it.
we had a lot of fun examining all the pumpkins. they had varietal gourds as well. for some reason, thomas was intent on getting this one over his head.
this was a small patch in pleasanton. pumpkins are not cheap! we ended up taking 2 smallish ones (like the one behind william) and 1 mini one home. the bigger ones are $20-40!
we had a lot of fun examining all the pumpkins. they had varietal gourds as well. for some reason, thomas was intent on getting this one over his head.
this was a small patch in pleasanton. pumpkins are not cheap! we ended up taking 2 smallish ones (like the one behind william) and 1 mini one home. the bigger ones are $20-40!
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