Two Saturdays ago, Kaitlyn was invited to her classmate Emma’s birthday party at the Build-A-Bear Workshop on 5th Avenue. Here are some photos taken on that day. Enjoy! Continue reading ‘Emma’s Birthday Party’
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This past Halloween was Kaitlyn’s 2nd Halloween. Last year, she was a hot dog & she hated the outfit. Not because it’s a hot dog, but because it has no pant legs. Yes, she was only 9 months old but she was already standing up & starting to walk.
This year, she’s a cat. Although this one has legs, she didn’t really like wearing it either, but for the most part she was OK with it. It might be because she got to wear it once at a church Halloween party, a few days before Halloween. This year, we took her to Queens to her grandparents’ house & trick-o’-treated there.
Here are some pix from the party & Halloween night: Continue reading ‘Halloween Pix’
If you haven’t heard, Melanie threw me a surprise party for my big 30th birthday a few weeks ago. She really surprised me this time, since she doesn’t really do things like that. But, thanks hun, it was fun!
So this is what happened. Continue reading ‘Happy Surprise’
Kaitlyn certainly takes after her mom with those animated smiles & funky dance moves. See it for yourself! 
Continue reading ‘If You’re Happy’
Today Kaitlyn turned 19 months old & started Pre-K “pre-Pre-K”! It was both hers & Melanie’s first day of school. To those of you who didn’t know, Melanie is going back to work & that Kaitlyn is attending the same school that Melanie teaches at (but a different class).
We were still very tired from the red-eye flight that we all left the house @ 7:30 this morning, a little later than we were supposed to. The trains were packed and everyone was sweating as usual. As we transferred from the N to the 6 Train at the 14th Street station, we got separated.
Kaitlyn will be 18 months old tomorrow. How time flies! She’ll soon be in school, learning how to swim, taking the SAT, going out with boys…but of course, she’ll need to be potty-trained before all that can happen.
Anyway, here’s a picture taken just 6 months ago today, when we threw her a wonderful birthday party.
FINALLY… after 2 months, the conclusion to the Ling Family Visit in May.
Our trip to the city (Top of the Rock @ Rockefeller Center, NBA Store, & Central Park)
Taking turns to take pictures with the princess (we charge $100 per picture. haha):
Their final day in NY:
We miss you guys! Can’t wait to see you next month!
Okay so we’re REALLY behind when it comes to posts and pictures.. (our bad!).. so Ether’s family came for a visit last month and Kaitlyn had a blast. She really enjoyed the attention and good company. Unfortunately she caught a fever the day that they arrived and it lasted for 4 whole days. So we really didn’t get to go anywhere until after her fever passed. We were able to go to Downtown Philly and the Amish country for a day. Here are some photos from our trip. Just click on the thumbnail photos to see the bigger versions; click on the right-half of the large photos to see the next one.
Which photo do you like the most?
– while in the car:
– Downtown Philly:
– Messing around in the gift shop:
– Amish Country (Pennsylvania):
I know it’s not easy, but I’m glad that Mel can be home to take care of Kaitlyn. One reason is that Kaitlyn benefits a lot from it, at least that’s what it seems to me. I mean, the fact that she learned to walk at 10 months probably has nothing to do with us. But with other things, like holding her own bottle at 4 or 5 months old, that is something that someone has to spend time teaching & challenging her.
Here’s a list of what she can or would do right now, and she learned a lot of it in the past 2 months.
- - say “ma-ma” & “ba-ba”
- - say both “maah-MA” & “paw-paw” (refer to “grandma” on both sides)
- - say “be-Be” (when she sees herself or babies)
- - say “hi” & wave (when she’s been told to or when she sees a friendly face)
- - say “yay” & clap (when she hears people say “yay” or clap, whether in person or on TV)
- - say “bye” & wave (when she sees people putting on coats & jackets)
- - say “nigh-nigh” (means milk)
- - say “ba-bao” (means bread; which should be pronounced “bao-bao”, but she says this basically whenever she sees any kind of food)
- - say “ba-bo” (means she want you to pick her up; which should be pronounced “po-po”)
- - say “mum-mum” (when she wants food in general)
- - say “Dees” (means “George”, but she just can’t say it; whenever she sees “Curious George”, monkeys, or any brown stuffed animals)
- - say “rau-rau-sh” (when she sees dogs or just animals that walk on all fours)
- - say “Ahh-ma, ma, ma, ma…” (means “Amen”)
- - say “tick-ku, tick-ku, tick-ku” (means “tickle”)
- - do a “raspberry”
- - blow kisses weirdly, upon command (using the back of her hand)
- - give people a wet, open-mouthed kiss on the cheek
- - dance (shake her head and/or hip side to side violently & stomp her feet; when she hears music or anything with a beat, even to the beat of trains running over a loose track in the subway station)
- - drink from a sippy cup, a straw, or just a regular cup instead of a bottle
- - play “peek-a-boo” with you
- - play “deem-chong-chong”
- - say “yai-yai” (means “naughty”)
- - say “nah-nah, nah-nah…” (which should be “no, no”; when we tell her no & she doesn’t like it)
- - pretend to give you her finger food & then take it back and then laugh at you
- - point to her nose (when you ask her where her “bei-bei”/nose is)
- - cover her ear & say “hi” (that’s her version of talking on the phone)
- - say “bees” softly with a smile (which should be “please”; when she wants something from you)
- - pat her belly (when you ask her where her “tou-dum”/belly is)
- - lie down on the changing pad when we say to her “fun-dai”/lie down (it’s still a work-in-progress; she usually ended up lying next to the pad; I have more success than Mel does at this point)
So you see, I think it’s quite a list of accomplishment for a 14-month old, and you really can’t say having a full-time mom with her has nothing to do with it!
To further prove my point, here’s a video clip taken by Melanie, with Kaitlyn showing off some of what she can do. She pretty much did whatever Mel wanted, because she just wanted to be picked up. 
It has been a month since I last put anything up. I had been busy working on my senior project (equivalent to a thesis paper in other majors), a do or die assignment. Between work, classes, other homework & Kaitlyn, there wasn’t really any time left for me to focus on the project. Luckily for me, Melanie was very understanding & supportive. About a month ago, we decided that after I come home from school at 9 or 10, I should eat dinner and then go to bed right away. She would basically take care of Kaitlyn all day by herself. Then I would get up at 3 a.m. or so and start working on the project. This way, I was able to get some sleep and then get quite a few extra hours of work free from distraction & interruption.
So, Mel-Mel, thanks again! You’re also why my project got picked for the senior show!
Just like me, Kaitlyn hates it when there’s a monkey on her back, too. Here are 2 photos to prove it. Enjoy.
Last Wednesday, since the weather was super nice, we decided to take a walk to Carvel for their Buy 1 Get 1 Free Sundae Day. On the way there, we saw that the playground on 66th St was open again. (It was closed due to the devastation of the small tornado that hit last August.) So we decided to let Kaitlyn try going on a playground swing for the first time. She seemed to enjoy it a bit, but not sure if she was feeling dizzy or not.
"Ma, can't you push harder than this?"
Doesn't it look like she's stuck in a big trash can?
That was some strong wind!
Kaitlyn had no idea what's coming next.
Today is Presidents Day, so no school or work for me. Although it rained last night & it’s supposed to rain again later today, it’s sunny outside & it’s 62 degrees! Unfortunately, there’re too many projects that I have to work on, so I have to stay home pretty much all day. Mel wanted to go shopping, so she & Kaitlyn went to her parents’ house last night & she’s going to go out with them today.
I really don’t mind staying home alone working on projects, since I usually get more things done without the distractions. It’s hard to resist playing with Kaitlyn. Trust me. Besides, I love how our apartment has big tall windows & a high ceiling. They just make the place brighter & look bigger, so it’s very pleasant to be inside. The location & rent are the other obvious things that we love about this place. You can’t beat this anywhere else.
Sadly though, because the building itself is really old (probably over 60 years old?) & the last time that this place got a total facelift was probably 30 years ago, there’re all these gaps/cracks/holes in the house. I try to patch up as many as I can & we keep this place pretty clean, so we have no problem with ants & roaches. In fact, I haven’t seen one since I moved in here almost 3 years ago.
BUT, for some reasons, mice get in somehow. I am seriously a musophobe. I can tolerate any bugs: cockroaches, spiders, caterpillars, whatever. You can put them on my face, if you want. I won’t flinch. But when it comes to rodents, regardless of size, I can’t bare even looking at a photo of it. For real!
Since they are doing major renovation/construction just two houses down the block, we’ve caught almost 10 mice in the past month alone! We live in attached houses, so the construction makes the rodents move to other houses. Although we put all the food that mice would eat in containers, they have been biting on bags & plastic containers in the kitchen, trying to get to the food. Our two electric mouse traps have been doing a great job catching them most of the time.
Still, there’re more coming!
Every time I’m alone in the living room at night, even with all the lights & the TV on, a mouse has to run into the room!
And a stupid mouse ran in on me again last night! What’s there to eat in the living room?! I mopped twice yesterday! Or do I smell like food to them or something??!
WHYYYYYYYYYY???!!
I swear the first thing I’ll do, when I get a full time job after graduating this May, is to find a rodent-proof place to live in!
Anyway, enough bad news. Here’s a video Melanie took of Kaitlyn falling asleep after eating. It’s about two minutes but it’s pretty funny. It was the morning my mom & sister arrived, so you can see my mom napping in the background, too.
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