Happy B-day Maleah Grace!!!

So our little angle turned 2 on the 22nd of Oct!! I dont know how she got so big so fast! She was so excited for her birthday!! We did a two day celebration!! The first day we had luch with dad and then we went to a cake shop and let her pick a cake!! She picked a really yummy rocky road cake that was as good as it looked!! We took the cake to meadow and sang happy birthday!! That night we ordered pizza and let her watch her favorite show "Sleeping Beauty"!!

She was so excited cuz the cake had marshmallows on the top!!

Trying to figure out how to blow out the candles!! Daddy had to help a little!!

Maleah and her birthday cake!! Thanks Maxims

That night after she went to bed we blew some balloons and put out her presents!! James and I were like kids on christmas the next morning waiting for her to wake up!! It was one of the rare morning that she slept in but when she did wake up it was so fun!! We could have just got balloons and she would have been the happiest girl in the world !!

She loved her princesses!! All 7 of them!! She knows them all by names and sings there songs

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE MISS MALEAH!!

Summer Adventures

The summer started with a day on a Yacht for Maleah and I!! We went with some friends to a private beach and just played all day on and off the boat!! It was something not even James had ever done before and it was a blast. James still hasn't, haha, he had to work.

Maleah discovered it was quicker and easier to go through the window then to climb the latter!

She also taught our friend Yen to go through the window and by the end of the trip everyone was climbing through the window.

We have very much enjoyed having Arnica here and one night we took her to the light show! We had not been to the show since we've been back and it was one fun night!! It was very hot!!

We had parties with friends and BBQs on the roof

Maleah and I went to Disneyland a few times but it was so hot that we had to try and stay in shows the whole time!! But she got to meet all the princesses and cried for every single one.

Squidding (Fishing for Squid) was a new adventure for everyone also!! We boarded a boat at 8 in the evening and they took us to the middle of the ocean....then a light is shinned on the water and everyone is given a string with a hook on the end and there you go!! When you catch one they fry it up for you right there on the boat and you can eat it!! Cant get much more fresh then that.

I didn't eat one personally but James said they were great

Slurpee for the heat

Pizza on Friday nights

She was starving this night. She almost ate the whole thing!

B ball in the mornings

I play a different sort of ball!! Am I about to pop?......YES!!

We love where we live!!

Doing Great!

We are just plugging along. Sorry for no updates lately. Summer is our busiest times so I've been working like crazy and Cassie and Maleah have been playing like crazy. I'm always happy when they come and visit. Maleah is growing so fast. She is fearless. As you can see from the video she loves jumping off of tall things. I even got her to turn around and just fall back and I would catch her. All the things that other kids her age fear, she loves. She loves swimming by herself, riding the rides at Disneyland, playing hide-and-seek in the dark, and jumping over tall buildings in a single bound. We love her.

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!!