The Letter of the Day Is ... B

B is for Busy, which we have definitely been these last few weeks. I have lots to catch you up on, so I hope you have a few minutes!

Playing dress-up in Mommy's shirt and ankle socks ...
I mean dress and thigh-highs

I am SO the king of this mountain

B is for Babies, specifically my playgroup friends getting together at the park to play one afternoon. There were wagon rides, Jeep escorts, and see-saws to play! My playgroup also came over a couple of weeks after that for a playgroup at my house; it was chaos, but in a fun way. It sure is going to be harder to keep us all wrangled as everyone becomes more mobile!

See-saw!

Don't forget to hydrate!

B is for Birthday, which was Abby's birthday party at Petland. We got to check out lots of animals and pet them, too. Well, when I say "we", of course I don't mean "me" ... but I did love the fish and went home with my very own Betta fish. I love to feed him and always want to make sure he's eaten before I'll eat my breakfast for snack. I also missed Evan's birthday party this past weekend because I had a fever and didn't want my present to her to be whatever it is that I had (that never really manifested into anything except for an attitude, back sleeping habits, and crankiness).

I liked the fish

Not so keen on the puppy though (to Daddy's relief)

B is for Babydoll, one that I'm borrowing from Mommy right now. I recently became very interested in babies, but Mommy hasn't been able to find me the "perfect" babydoll yet, so she's letting me borrow one of her babydolls from when she was a little girl.

Babydoll!

Does Baby want a paci?

B is for the Bangs that I finally got because my hair was getting ridiculous. Since my hair is up most of the time, you can't really tell that I look like a sheepdog if no one does my hair in the morning. But after watching me stumble around and push hair out of my eyes all the time, Mommy and Daddy decided it was just time. They're a little shorter than what we thought I would get, but they'll grow out. Besides, all Chinese babies need to get the bowl cut at some point in their lives ... I'm just getting my episode out of the way early!

The Before

The After
Can't tell that I cried through the whole thing, huh?

What? Of course I can still do pigtails!

B is for Bed -- my Big Girl Bed! Since I sleep on a normal bed most of the time anyways, Daddy converted my crib to my toddler bed this weekend to see how I like it. It's fun, but I don't see how it's going to fit all three of us on there.

Sure, I'll climb on here as long as I don't have to sleep here, too!

B is for "Bapple" which is just one of my words right now. You can see this and me sharing other words and animal noises on a video Mommy's trying to upload. It's really long and has an unsightly vacuum handle in the back. Sorry.

Bapple!

B is for Big Sister ... I'm going to be one in the next few months! Mommy has a Baby in her tummy right now, and my baby brother or sister should be here either at the end of the year or early next year. Depending on how things go, you may see a posting that's "J is for Jealousy" right about then. For now, though, there's no difference except all the evenings that Mommy asks for me to play with her in my playroom while she lays on the ground. :) Ms. Tricia returned my swing this week -- I guess the twins are done with them -- in plenty of time for Pee-nut to get here, so of course I climbed right in. Look at how much I've grown!

Feb 2008

Mar 2008

Jun 2009

Finally, B is for Bunches, as in there are bunches of more pictures in my June album if you want to take a look!

My new ball pit
The other had an unfortunate accident

Happy Father's Day!

This year for Father's Day, we started out the day with me waking up an hour too early. Hey, I was excited and wanted to give Daddy his gifts!

The man who knows the answer to life the universe and everything

Since we were up anyways, we headed to the park after breakfast to play before the Texas heat melted us into the sidewalk. I made Daddy a special wood chip soup and let him push me around on the playground. Even though we went early, it still got really hot by the time we got home, so we cooled off with popsicles.

Wood chip soup, anyone?

Mush, mush!

Okay, okay, I'll share ONE of them

That afternoon, we went to IKEA where I got a fun, fun tunnel that I love. Lots of the other babies in my playgroup have the same one, and I'm so happy I have one of my own now, too!

Who's there?

It's Daddy!

I love this thing

For dinner, we had one of Daddy's favorite meals: anything on the grill. He fired it up, and we made lots of shih-ka-bobs.

Yum!

Thanks for being an awesome Daddy! I'm so glad you're mine.

School Pics - Spring 2009

Sorry it took so long for these to get posted. Here are my school pictures from March 2009.

Phoenix Trip Pics

Courtesy of Gong-Gong who went through the task of actually filtering out from the 1000+ pictures to bring you these 194. :)

Phoenix Trip Pics

HOT, HOT, HOT - Phoenix, AZ

We just got back from the annual Law Family vacation where we went to visit Phoenix, AZ. It was HOT, HOT, HOT but I had a ton of FUN, FUN, FUN! First, I have to brag that I got an A on both the flight there and back. Mommy and Daddy did a good job scheduling the flights to happen during my naptime, and the flights were on time, so I spent a lot of the flight just snoozing.

Family together again

The week kicks off with laughter and never stops!

It was so good to see everyone. Gong-Gong and Po-Po were there, of course, plus Xiao-Jiu Dwo and Auntie Crystal. After us Pees got into town, Da-Jiu Zong and Melissa arrived to round out the group. The only person missing was Kirby, but she was being well taken care of at home.

The "kids" head to check out the multiple pools at the resort

Set afloat

We did lots of swimming and playing outside when it wasn't too hot. I think we averaged 100 degrees every day while we were there. We had ping pong tournaments, played chess, and scouted out all the different pools and playareas at the resort. I really liked playing in the water and even managed to get into the pool fully clothed once 'cause I'm fast. Mommy was just glad she made good use of all my bathing suits and hats!

Po-Po was excited to take me swimming

Splash area! How fun!

I managed to get into the pool with my clothes on. I'm fast; hehe.

Water, water everywhere!

Our one big group adventure was the Phoenix Zoo. It was my first time to a zoo, and the Phoenix one is great beceause it's known as a great zoo for kids, and I really liked it there. Having learned lots of animal noises, I got to show lots of them off while we walked around. I still wasn't a big fan of the part where you get up close and personal to pet the goats, but I did like making monkey noises and waving to the animals in their cages. We were supposed to go to the Botanical Garden afterwards since it's right next door, but it was SOOOOOO hot that we ended up taking a shortcut to bypass about 1/3 of the zoo and headed to lunch instead. My first gyro! Yum.

If this is my reaction to the turtle, how do you think I felt about the goats?

Uh, yup

Old MacDonald had a farm

Not sure why they call them "little" people. They don't look so little to me!
Here I am signing our family's version of "hat".

My first churro makes my first zoo visit complete

One day we all split up and did different things. Da-Jiu and Melissa took Po-Po and Gong-Gong to Talisen West, Frank Lloyd Wright's winter house. Po-Po's gears started turning in her head as she toured the famous architect's property. While they were there, Xiao-Jiu and Auntie Crystal went shopping and on a date, and Mommy and Daddy took me to a childens' museum! The museum was SOOO much fun, even for a little kid like me. At first, we were dubious on why a 1-year-old had to pay $9 for admittance, but we quickly figured out that even a 1-year-old like me could have a blast. There were tubes to crawl in, science experiments to play with, noodles to run through, playareas to pretend, cars to ride ... it was great! The only downside was that the camera battery ran out about 5 minutes into the excursion, and the disposable just didn't do it justice.

Daddy plays peek-a-boo (the last picture before the battery ran out)

Okay, these tubes may be the coolest thing ever!

Okay, maybe not a future career since I don't want to actually
GIVE her the food she's buying

This one's for Auntie Crystal. What do you think? Do I have potential?

Like many recent get-togethers, we all took turns making meals. I ate lots of food and even got to try new things(meatloaf is yummy!), but I think my favorite discovery is Lucky Charms cereal ... well, the marshmallows, anyways. I like giving the other pieces to everyone else to eat.

Sitting down for yet another feast

Whoa, look at all this food!

I am SO eating this whole thing myself

Fine, I'll give this a try

What? A girl's gotta eat!

Probably the only downpart of the trip was when I turned into an alligator. We're not quite sure whether it was a heat rash, reaction to all that chlorine, or an allergy to my suntan lotion (I wore a lot of it that week), but I turned all itchy and scaly. Whoops. But a couple of days at home, and I'm already pretty much all better. Oh, and then there were the bumps and bruises (it's just so hard to contain all that excitement) and what Mommy calls "separation anxiety". Hmph.

Sometimes you just gotta take a break from it all.

Hopefully the hat will keep the sun away

Making some nice sand to eat (the first and hopefully last time)

There's no way that I could show off all the pictures from the trip in this one posting (remember, Gong-Gong WAS there plus Da-Jiu Zong got a new camera he had to try out) so you'll have to check out the rest of the pictures in the full photo album (coming soon -- hey, there's 1000 pictures to go through!).

Wheeee!

It's always fun when you're together

I wonder where we're going to go next year? I'm looking forward to it already!

These vacations are just too much fun!

P.S. Happy Birthday, Daddy!