spring is here...

It's been a while since I last posted.

What have we been doing the last few months?

We've gone to Disneyland a few times (re-newed our annual passes again this year), took a weekend trip to Big Bear with the Markoskis, a few birthday parties, hung out with family, and had a recent trip to Vegas during Easter weekend.

Kylie & Kaden have been interacting a lot more with each other. Most of the time, Kylie is the bossy one while Kaden just goes with the flow. They copy each other a lot...more often the yelling and blowing rasberries. When Kylie is in the teaching mode, she'll tell Kaden to say, 'mama' or 'dada', or jiejie (sister), or pwo-pwo (grandma) and Kaden usually repeats it. Kaden's favorite word now is "no". He says it with such a soft voice and emphasis on the "ooooo" that I can't stop myself from hugging him. Kylie still has trouble sharing with her brother and only gives him the toys that she doesn't want...ocassionally, she'll be nice to him and give him what he wants. When Kaden wakes up from his nap, she'll let us know that he's awake. She always wants to get him, so as she's walking up the stairs, she'll say, "I'm coming didi (little brother)!" Both Mark and I have been trying really hard to get them on the same sleep schedule at night. Usually, Kaden goes to bed first and we'll have some one on one time with Kylie for an hour before she goes down to bed. But lately, we're trying to put them to bed at the same time and bedtime goal is 8:30 to 9 pm for them. That way, we have some time to relax ourselves before we hit the sack!



Kylie is 3.5 years old and been talking non-stop everyday. She loves the Disney princesses, especially Aerial. She's definitely a girly girl...always ask to wear dresses and loves to put on her Snow White and Silvermist dress...and she does NOT like to get dirty. When she plays with sand and water, she has to wipe her hands with a towel each time to get the sand out. For the most part, she dresses herself and goes potty on her own. Kylie is in between one nap a day to no naps at all. She usually can't last that long throughout the day without napping, and ends up taking a very late afternoon nap. Her eating habits have increased signficantly, eating a variety of food and starting to try new food. She drinks a lot more milk these days, indicating that she wants to get bigger. She knows exactly what she wants and doesn't like to be told what to do. When we say don't touch that, she'll test us by touching it one more time to see what happens. Her temper tantrums are a lot more controlled these days. She still cries, but I can tell she's able to not let it get out of hand. Kylie has become more adaptive to change than before, but she still gets pretty shy when she doesn't know you. It usually takes her some time to warm up to the person or the environment. Kylie is doing very good in preschool. She goes 3 days a week/half days. She's our sweet little princess!



Kaden, who is 20-months old is a boy's boy. He walks everywhere without looking back and loves to go outside. Everytime I get home from work, he hands me his shoes because he wants to go out and play. His favorite food are yogurt, fried rice, rice with bean curd, and snacks. I believe that's all he eats. We go through packs of yobaby every week and constantly introduce him to new food to eat, but we get rejected every time. Kaden still takes 2 naps. He'll come running to us if he's tired, signaling that he wants to sleep. He always gets excited when we put him down in his crib. He loves his paci and hugs his teddy bear to sleep. His favorite show is Little Einstein and Dora. He absolutely loves to play with balls and everything he sees is "ball" to him. Kaden is very outgoing and smiles at everyone.

Our trip to Vegas was wonderful. Mark went to a bachelor party and stayed with his friends the entire weekend while the kids, my mom and I went to stay at Stella's house. It was soooo good to hang out with our family and get to see everyone. We had an Easter hunt, painted eggs, and baked cupcakes! Kylie & Kaden had tons of fun with their cousins.

Below are some pictures we took recently...till next time! I'll make sure to update more often...
Happy Spring!



Easter in Vegas!

we took the kids to the playground and they had a wonderful time!

as usual, Kaden runs off and tries to look for us...

nathan & kk watching over kylie & kaden

after the playground, we came home and painted Easter eggs!

Joey posing next to Kylie who is so concentrated on her egg...

stella joined the fun with us!

a beautiful combination of eggs

After our short stay in Vegas, we picked Mark up at the Vennitian where he stayed for Corey's bachelor party. It took us a few hours to get to Baker where we stopped at Bob's Big Boy to eat a late lunch!

Mom & Kaden

Does Bob want an Easter egg?

Kylie took this picture, which I thought was pretty creative!

OC Great Park Carnival in Irvine - March 2010

Mark on the choo-choo train with the kids...

me and my little girl...

Kylie wanted to go down this great big slide, so here they are walking up the stairs

...and now, sliding down. Wheee!

The inflatable slide with Frank & Savina

"Mommy, say cheese!" You can see that Kylie dressed herself on this day. :)

Playing in the backyard at the Hsu's house...

Happy 2nd Birthday, Sadie!!

Swinging at one of the many parks in Irvine for Brayden's 2nd birthday...

Kaden has the most record for falling asleep on the swing...I wish I had the picture, but he fell asleep again later this day on the swing.

Kylie picked out her outfit today...a pretty pink dress with her 'flower' shoes.

my two babies...

Kaden loves to play ball!

He doesn't look too happy here cause Kylie took the ball from him...boo!

mark and his girl...

California Adventure Breakfast at Ariel's Grotto w/ the hatakeyamas

Ally & Kylie

Kylie with her favorite princess, Aerial

Big Bear trip with the Markoskis February 2010

They had a blast playing with the snow

Kylie first time bowling