Hi everyone! It's a Boy!

In the Chinese language when you take the word for girl 女 and you add the character for boy 子, you get the character for good 好. It makes sense, right? When a family has a daughter and a son it is considered lucky. We are very lucky! We are excited to announce that we will be having a little baby boy in November. We made the announcement a while ago on our Facebook pages but quickly realized that not everyone is on Facebook, so we wanted to post here as well.

We are all so excited. Maleah is so cute. We have decided to go through the public hospitals, but in order to know the sex of the baby we had to go to a private doctor. Cassie and Maleah made the trek on their own since I had to work. Maleah knows that she has to be a helper to her mom so she is always so patient at the doctors office and listens well. When Cassie was getting the ultra sound, Maleah was up on the bed with Cassie and she got so excited when she could see the baby. "Baby! Oooh Mom! Baby!" She is doing pretty well with the whole concept of the baby being inside Mommy's tummy. Then she saw and recognized the hand (we don't have to worry about counting the fingers on this one) "Hand Mom, Hi Baby, Hand!" It is so cute! The first thing she told me when I got home was, "Baby hand Dad!" She is really going to be the best big sister. For example- The other day at church Maleah heard the baby behind us start crying. She got very concerned and started saying "Ooh Mom, Tissue. Baby cry!" We were sitting close to the back and it was a ways to the door with a lot people to walk through. It didn't stop Maleah, she hoped down, informed us she was going to get some tissue and then started walking towards the door. At that point where she knew that if she took another step she couldn't see us anymore she looked at us, looked at all the people sitting on the bench, and then I could see in her eyes that leap of faith where she took a deep breath and plunged into the unknown. I was so proud of my brave little daughter. When Cassie went after her she found Maleah distracted by the water dispenser. She was getting paper cups and attempting to fill them up. I wonder what her plan was to get the tissue for the crying baby, but I'm sure she would have found the solution. We love that girl!

We also love our little boy who is growing so fast in that tummy. We will be pulling out the ball gloves, basketballs and soccer cleats. We are having a boy and we are so blessed!

Playing Catch-up

So we are playing catch-up on the blog. We have been doing a lot of fun things and going a hundred miles an hour all at the same time. I spend a lot of time at work building up the business, so the time we do spend together is important to us. Dinner is one of those times. One night we had a picnic on the living room floor. Maleah loved it! The next night really got into it and cooked crab. Cassie picked some winners from the fishy guys selling seafood from their boats on the pier. Then Dad got to come home and cook the little guys. (Maleah started to get attached to the little fellas but she was okay with us cooking them and really loved the meat.) The picture above shows Maleah and I getting an up-close look at the crab. You can't see the crab very well but you can definitely see my leopard spotted slippers that I wear all around the house.

During the Tin Hau Festival they built this massive building completely out of bamboo, ties, and tin for the roof. It was so big. It took them about a week and a half to build it so they could perform Chinese opera for 4 days and then they took it back down. It probably held over 1000 people. It was such an amazing structure.

Yesterday Cassie and Maleah decided to have a fun day together at Disneyland. They went on so many rides, by time I got home from work Maleah was down for the count and Cassie was fighting to stay awake to visit. Maleah got to meet Tigger, one of her favorite Winnie the Pooh characters. Both Cassie and Maleah loved the Lion King show! Cassie loved it so much she became emotional watching the inspirational story of Simba. (It also could just be the pregnancy hormones.) Stay tuned for our Dragon Boat Festival update!!