Knitting Baby

The other day mommy was sitting in her chair while I was playing on the ground. She looked like she was having fun so I went over to see what she was doing. She had this tangle of string shaped like a ball, so I helped her by stretching the string all out. It was fun!



Do you know what this is?


Stretch!


Now what should I make? Gloves? A sweater? A hat?

Emerson's Birthday

This weekend I took my parents to Baby Emerson's first birthday party. She and I are almost the same age! There were lots of babies there, and lots of neat things to see.


Lots of mommies and lots of babies


It was cold outside that day. Lucky we were inside!


Here's a little trick I learned from Baby Una. If you don't want to wear the birthday hat, just use your regular hat! Your mommy won't know the difference, and she'll make funny faces too!


Emerson had an Elmo cake. You can see where she's trying to cut the cake for everyone in the green section.


We all liked it, but Emerson enjoyed it most of all! I think she shared some with her daddy after we took this picture.

Future Composer?

Yesterday, Mommy was cleaning the floor. So she put me in the exersaucer with my piano book that Grandma Ching got me. As Mommy was cleaning, I wrote a song for her. She got distracted by the music and had to stop cleaning to listen and take this video. Hope you like my first music video.

More babies

It's only 18 days into the new year, and already there's a new crop of youngsters coming into the world for me to meet...


Baby Matteo


Baby Mia

Congrats to the new babies! If you need any advice on keeping your parents on their toes, let me know!

Ichiro Turns 1

After a whole year of going to other people's birthday parties, last weekend we had my big first birthday bash at Ah Mah and Ah Gong's house!


I was excited!

Mommy made me a onesie just for the occasion. Here's the design:



It says, "I am Ichiro. I am one year old." Only mommy forgot to put the polite "krup" on the end, so it sounds like I'm being rude. Please excuse... me only one. krup.


Ah Mah made lots of food!


I liked my lunch. Ah Mah made me tod mun (fried fish cake with red curry paste) and noodles. I loved it!

Then it was time for cake cutting.


Ah Mah helped me with my hat, and Cousin Maya helped me with the candles.

So many people came to help me celebrate!


Here's Baby Alana and her daddy. Again, another younger baby who's about the same size as me.


Aunty Jen and Uncle Namphol gave me a place to sit.


The UCSD Thai Culture Club came too! Actually that's only 4.5 Thai people and 3.5 non-Thais in this picture.

And even though mommy had said "no presents" (I know, I know, I couldn't believe it either) people brought me so many gifts anyway!


I got a personalized Seattle Mariners' jersey with my name on it!

Thank you everyone for coming and for the great presents! I had the best birthday ever.

Now we're back in Boston, where it's actually warmer than SoCal (39 here, 29 there today). I had an awesome trip, and I hope I will get to see everyone again soon!


Thank you Ah Mah and Ah Gong for all your hard work! See you again soon.

New Year's in Hawaii

After another long car ride, I woke up to find... I was in Hawaii! We were very busy in Hawaii with daddy's family, and I got more presents!

After sleeping a little and then waking up late (9 am Boston time), we went to make mochi at Aunty Hattie's house. It took all day, but it was fun! I got to play with my toys, and all the grownups worked hard. Except for daddy who I had to supervise!


Aunty Misako loves my new activity table as much as I do!

The next day it was raining so Uncle JT took us to the aquarium. Then he brought us somewhere for "shave ice". I loved it, although it took me a little while to warm up to it! In case you're wondering, Uncle JT didn't have any accidents while I was in the car.


My first shave ice


Celebrating my Madden victory over Uncle JT. Just kidding--we didn't play. But if we had...


And they have playgrounds in Hawaii too!

At night, Kung Kung played clarinet for me. He played in the University of Hawaii band when he was in college.


What's that sound?

In the mornings I had manapua, yogurt, and some exotic fruit.


Eating rambutan. At first I was scared of this hairy fruit, but then mommy peeled it and I liked it!

I got to see lots of people again.


Here's Aunty Cheryl, Baby Aubrey and Aunty Shellie. Aubrey was still inside Cheryl the last time I was in Hawaii. Now she's almost as big as I am!


Me, Baby Lani and Nathan. Lani was inside her mommy too the last time I saw her!

Going to Hawaii wouldn't be complete without going to the beach. We went to Ala Moana on New Year's Eve.


No waves here!


This beach is a lot nicer than Boston!


Mmm sand...

Then it was time for New Year's Eve at Aunty Joyce and Uncle Dwayne's house. Part of New Year's in Hawaii is fireworks, and they had lots! I could only watch, and I liked the sparkly stuff. The loud stuff, not so much.


Me and Aunty Marlene. I'm making sure my bun doesn't get burned!

On New Year's Day it's tradition to have a special soup called ozoni. It's mochi, mizuna, and special clams in clear broth.


Here I am sampling the mochi we made. I liked it!

Then it was off to Kahala for a birthday brunch.


Our family celebrating... my 360th day!

I was tired during lunch but then we went outside and there were...


Dolphins!

Too bad our trip to Hawaii ended so soon. Next: SoCal part 2!

Christmas in Southern California

Ok, here's part 1 of my trip. First mommy and daddy got me up extra early to go sit in a big car for 6 hours. It was okay since I slept and brought some reading with me. When we got out of the car, it was sunny and warm!


Hmmm, I wonder where we're going?

Ah Gong met us at the airport and then we went to Ah Gong and Ah Mah's house. Guess what? They got me a cell phone!


It only calls one person though...

The next day was "Christmas." I woke up three hours early for some reason. There was lots of stuff that people had put paper around and I had to work hard to get that paper off. What hard work! Just leave it and I open it easier!


I think I'm going to have to grow into this one

Later we went for Christmas dim sum.


Hanging at the restaurant


I thought we were in California! This restaurant was just next to where we went to eat.

Then we dropped by K&D to see some family.


Cousin Ariel and Sydney got pretend babies. They could take care of me if they wanted a baby.


My aunty Cee reads Thai really well.

After K&D we walked to the park.


Some things I liked...


Some things I didn't...


This I like. All better now!


A little help, please?

The day after Christmas we went to the zoo in San Diego. I don't remember this place, but mommy said I'd been there before.


Whose aviary? Oh yeah!


I liked this red bird a lot. I couldn't stop looking at it.


After they let me out of the stroller, Ariel had to hold my hand so I wouldn't get lost.

I had so much fun for Christmas and at the zoo! There's lots more to tell you about, but daddy says it's bedtime so I'll have to fill you in later... See ya!

I'm back!

And do I have a lot to catch you up on! Hopefully over the next week, I'll put the highlights of my trip up, but for now, must catch up on sleep!

Here's some previews...


Christmas and then going to the zoo with my cousin Ariel


Swimsuit pictures in Hawaii!


And of course, the real reason we went to California, my birthday...

Okay, see you soon!