bonnie & jason

Bonnie’s new business

Some of you may have seen some of Bonnie’s crafty creations. Well, Bonnie is using Etsy.com to see if there might be a market for some of her designs.

Check out the store at www.alongcameapiglet.com. You may also recognize the baby model we used in the picture.

Alissa stuck

I’m not sure how, but Alissa managed to get semi-stuck in the basket for a little while. In the end though, she shows it who’s the boss!

Still short

Alissa is still wearing a lot of 12, 9, and even some 6 month clothes despite the fact that she just turned 16 months. And now that she’s walking, we get a lot of comments about how cute it is that such a small baby can walk. Little do they know she’s been practicing for 4 months now. Here’s a picture that speaks to her stature. She’s actually wearing a shirt, but Alissa pulls it off as a dress.

In other news, Alissa is now sleeping in her crib every night. It actually wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be. Some crying here and there, but all in all, can’t complain that much. I think it helped that we started sticking to a routine at night. Dinner, bath, bottle, brush teeth (she now has five and a molar poking out) read a book (Goodnight Moon), and then in the crib.

She’s also started to pick up words at an accelerated pace. In addition to up, down, no, yes, dada, and mama, she has now picked up some semblance of juice, shoe, thank you, ball, bao (Chinese bun), joo-joo (Cantonese for banana), and wow. She also knows the sign for please so now she says up and then does the sign for please. Or the sign for more and then the sign for please. Finally, she knows where the “A” is on our alphabet play mat. Before long, she’ll be solving differential equations and analyzing the thermodynamic properties of her bottle warmer.

I’ll end with a funny video… for some reason, Alissa loves to turn the stereo receiver on and off. We’ve tried to train her not to do it but we haven’t been consistent about it so she still does it. Today, we tried physically blocking her access with some pillows. Also, Bonnie told her “don’t touch with your hands!” Well, you can see in the video how well that worked.

Ali$$a the gangsta

Deeann took this picture a couple weeks ago:

I think Alissa was trying to tell her to “step off” before she “pops a cap in her a$$.”

Back from Vegas… again

We were in Vegas once again this past weekend. This time, it was for the annual meeting of my investment club (mostly a bunch of fraternity brothers) as well as to spend time with my family who is now rather settled there.

Alissa was pretty well behaved for the most part. She really liked the escalators and people movers in the airport. Here she is during one of the rare sitting still moments:

It gave way to people watching pretty quickly:

Otherwise, she enjoyed most of the “vacation” not that she has anything to vacation from. Regardless, as you can see, she found Vegas most relaxing:

When not lounging about, she spent some time at the local park. As she does while at home, she enjoyed the slide and tube tunnel.

And of course, she enjoyed being spoiled by the grandparents probably just as much as they enjoyed spoiling her.

However, I think she would agree that there’s no place like home, especially when there’s a froggy towel to be wrapped up in after a nice long bath.

Alissa after too many pieces of j-e-ll-o

Untitled from Jason Wang on Vimeo.

Alissa on a walkabout

Untitled from Jason Wang on Vimeo.