Amanda wants in on the action:

That’s enough, I’m outta here.

Whoa, I said hug, not kiss!

The girls were more accommodating during this exercise than I would have guessed. That being said, they houdini’d out in a couple seconds after they decided they had had enough.

Random picture:

Alissa has been asking for a doctor set for months. She finally earned it by napping five times. Not in a row mind you… these five naps took her a long time to accumulate. I’ve been teaching her about stethoscopes and otoscopes and such. It also comes with a blood pressure cuff, thermometer, syringe, and bandaid. Plus, a pink carrying case. Did I tell you I live with four girls?

I was a fairly anal kid. Face painting in particular kinda grossed me out. Alissa, however, is quite the opposite. At Daniel’s birthday party, there were a few face-painters-in-training. Unfazed, Alissa asked to be a cat. Here’s the transformation.

Although in this picture, she looks more like a monkey from the zoo:

Even monkeys like birthday cake.

Here are a few pictures from our local playground. We don’t go nearly as often as we used to when it was just Alissa. But the babies seem to have picked up the ins and outs of slides and such nonetheless.
Amanda:

Ashley:

First, they’re becoming more and more “hammy” in front of the camera.

Second, they’re fighting more.

Third, they’re imitate us more and more.

Fourth, they’re developing physical skills like Ashley’s “hopping.”

And finally, when they’re not fighting, they occasionally will all play together.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to participate much since I just started the new job, but I have been able to follow along at least through pictures Bonnie sends from her iphone. Here are some of the highlights:

Serra Bowl:

Apparently, the kids were only really interested for the first few frames:

Happiness is The Sticker Factory:

Bay Area Discovery Museum:

Carnival Day:

Also, here are a few other random shots from the last couple weeks.

Amanda with a very mature looking smile:

Not sure why we’re all lying down on the floor:

Amanda’s favorite spot:

To mark the occasion, here’s an annotated three-picture collage that Bonnie put together:

I got the iphone 4 since I had to give back my work blackberry and my new job doesn’t provide a phone, but does give a stipend. Woot! Timing was perfect and I was able to get one the second day they were available by just hitting up the Apple store in the mall first thing in the morning. Just had to wait about 20 minutes. Here’s the first photo I took with the front facing camera:

Not too much all that groundbreaking otherwise, although I did recently get to try out the facetime feature with Christian as he just got one himself. Kids seemed to enjoy it:

For those of you who may have forgotten over the long lapse, I still have lots of kids:

It’s been a while since we did some family photos so we tried to do some this past weekend. I noticed some new landscaping along the Great Highway that I thought might make a decent backdrop that was easy to access. Amanda, however, weren’t very cooperative.

Ashley, however, seemed to enjoy swinging her legs while sitting on the bench.

Alissa also Ashley actually took a few cute ones together:

Amanda eventually warmed up enough to at least walk around and pick up some sticks anyway:

Anyway, after that mostly failed attempt, we ended up just going home and doing naps/feeding. They were in a better mood later in the day so we did a couple quick ones in the backyard with the tripod. As you can see, I was not planning on being in any pictures myself.

While we were back there, I took some random pics while the kiddies played in the sand.

We also went to dinner this weekend to celebrate Bonnie’s mom’s birthday. After dinner, we came back to our place for some dessert. Hard to get everyone looking, but this one isn’t bad.

Finally, a few pictures from today.
Apparently, Ashley watched TV like this for about half an hour. No idea why.

Amanda felt it was interesting enough to blog about however:

2010 06 06 staycation from Jason Wang on Vimeo.

The beach was supposed to be a typical water and sand affair, but the tide was in and the surf was kinda scary at the section of beach we arrived at so we went above the dunes instead and made it a sand only trip. It worked out well actually since we found a spot sheltered from the wind in a valley of sorts.

It was Amanda and Ashley’s first time to the beach and they seemed to love it. Amanda freaked out for a few seconds when I first put her on the sand. I think the warmth and texture scared her and she didn’t want to touch it. That lasted all of three seconds though. Ashley got acclimated quickly as well. You can see she even got sand stuck to her cheek along the way. Needless to say, we went home and immediately got them in the bath.

Today, we finally got rid of the infant carriers and put Ashley and Amanda’s car seats in the Pilot. They were just getting too heavy to carry up and down the stairs while in the infant carriers. So now we have three Recaros across the Pilot. They barely fit.

It’s kinda comical if you ask me.