Stanley Cup Finals

Wow! I can't believe I'm going to a Stanley Cup Finals game! It's game 1 of round 4. This is a big deal! This is like the Superbowl but for hockey! Our Duckies are up against the Ottawa Senators! We got Uncle Al & Auntie Som tickets too for their birthdays! What an exciting event! It's was so busy and crowded full of fans and media! Let's go Duckies!!!! We won 3-2!
Our family photo with one of the props they had outside the Honda Center. It was a GIGANTIC Ducks hockey player!
Here I am sitting on the ground waiting for our will call tickets with my Cheerios trail mix. When I was sitting here I saw a bunch of Teemu's buddies from Finland! They posed for a picture but were smoking so I couldn't get in the photo that ended up being posted online with an article about Teemu and his buddies coming over for this special event since it's Teemu's 1st time to the Stanley Cup Finals.
Mmmmm.....Pizza for dinner. This is my 1st time eating pizza like this. I'm a big girl now and want to eat whatever Mommy & Daddy are eating and I don't want it cut up in little pieces anymore. I want to do it how they do it! Yummy!
Here's our Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, dropping the puck as honorary puck dropper.
The special flags are posted for the finals!
This is a poly truck that Mommy's company gave to the Ducks to use. They bring it out onto the ice during breaks to shovel up any excess ice and it promotes Miller Lite. They gave them a black & orange one right before all the playoffs began and they finally started using it at the finals. Go R&B Wire Products, Inc.!

Memorial Day Weekend & Uncle Al & Som's Birthday

We had a nice long holiday weekend! We celebrated Memorial Day with a BBQ at our house for friends and family. We also celebrated Uncle Alan & Auntie Som's birthdays too! Their birthdays are just a week apart. Uncle's is tomorrow, May 28th and Auntie's was on May 22nd. It was a beautiful day out but then got really breezy and kind of cold towards the evening. I had so much fun with everyone! Thanks everyone for coming over! It's been a long time since we've seen all of you! Ba Ngoai, we missed you while you were in Vietnam! Hope to see you soon!

Dippin' carrots with Ong Ngoai! Yum, yum!

I borrowed Uncle's hat and put it on backwards....it's the current style isn't it?

Here I am with my girlfriends....Rachee & Mia. We're playing in my new playroom...the garage! There was plenty of room and toys to make a big mess alright!

The 3-some are back at it again! We're all cozy on my chair with our cookies! Sugar-high...Need energy food to keep playing!

Happy Birthday Auntie Som & Uncle Alan! Yum, yum cake from King's Hawaiian!

16-months with Mr. Bear

Today I'm 16-months old! I'm still not 20lbs. yet, i'm a totally light weight, weighing in at 19 lbs. 8 oz. and 29" tall. It could be that I've been sick and teething for the past 2 weeks. I got in my 9th & 10th tooth last week and they really bothered me unlike my other eight teeth. I've been waking up throughout the night and very restless and unhappy. It reminded my parents of when I was a newborn and kept on waking up in the middle of the night. I have my middle top 4 and my bottom middle 4. The two I just recently got in are on top skipping a spot on each side and there they are. I'm not sure if those are considered my "fang" teeth? I can't believe I still shouldn't even be turned around in my car seat to face forward. I gave you most of my updates on what I've been up to in my last blog so I won't bore you with all of it again. So here are my monthly photos with my favorite Mr. Bear!
Why is he sitting in my chair?
It's okay, I share my chair with you Mr. Bear, hug and squeeze!

Brush, Brush, Brush!

Mommy & Daddy finally took a picture of me today brushing my teeth! They've been brushing my teeth since I first got them at around 6 months with a little finger brush. I've always really liked it and as I got older when they would tell me to go "Aw" and I'd open wide for the brush to go in and brush, brush, brush! Mommy got me a big girl brush about a couple of months ago at Target and it's a Baby Einstein brush that I love. For the past week or so I've been what Mommy calls Miss. Independent and taking the brush and brushing all by myself. I let Mommy help once in awhile. I've been brushing once in the morning and again before I go night, night. I let Daddy brush them for me every once in awhile too. Never too early to learn good dental hygiene!

My Baby!

Here I am with my favorite Baby. I just love my baby so much. I feed him my little gold fish crackers and my milk. I really take care of my Baby! I said "Bebe" once for Daddy this weekend but today Mommy heard me say "Bebe, bebe, beeebee, Baby" a bunch of time! I don't say much, mostly Mama, Dada clearly and the rest is all babble, babble. I do communicate very well and can get most of what I want and do understand almost everything that my family tells me to do.

Go get baby, milk or whatever else we tell her to pretty much get
Kiss, kiss
Hug & Squeeze whoever and even all her bear and animal friends
Love Ong Ngoai (Grandpa) which I start rubbing my cheek against Ong Ngoai
"Hi" & "Bye" but I start waving and have only tried to say "Hi" it once or twice
Blow kisses
Hi 5's
Feed my fishy's
Say "Thank you" by bowing. I understand it in English, Vietnamese & Ong Ngoai just taught me to bow when he says "Arigato"!

Utencils

I've been using my own utensils lately. Slowly but surely I'm sure it'll get better. I think Mommy introduced these to me a little bit over a month ago. I use to just hold them and make a big mess with nothing getting in my mouth. With all my practice lately, I can finally get a little bit of food on my fork now and some of it even makes it in my mouth. I still prefer Mommy to poke the food and get it on my fork for me and then all I have to do is feed in my little mouthers! Yummy! But at times I'm very independent and want to do it on my own with no help at all. That's when it gets really messy. Here I am with Chicken Piccatta from Cheesecake Factory. Mommy & Daddy's favorite! I loved it too!
Diggin' my fork in to get some chicken and noodles all on my own!
Mmmmmmmm! Angel hair pasta & chicken! YUM! YUM!

It's the Big Tub!

Rub a dub, dub, I love my big tub! Finally, I'm in the big girl tub! It's been a few weeks! I was so comfortable in my little blue tub since that's all I've known since I was born. I started by getting my baths in my little blue tub on the bathroom sink, then they moved me to the big tub but I was still in my little blue tub and now I've finally advanced to being without my little blue tub! Yippee! Mommy has been so proud of me! I love all my bath toys floating around but they can't be behind me. I get mad and need them all to be right in front where I can see them all. I also love the water running from the faucet which use to really scare me since it was so loud. Now I love the waterfall and play with it. I even know how to rinse off with my orange bucket.

Daddy's Tourney

Today I watched Daddy play in a softball tournament at Murdy park from 10am -7pm. It was a long day but luckily we were close enough to home that I got to go home with Mommy for my naps. I had a really fun day playing with my friend Taylor (8) which I haven't seen in a really long time. I also met Kalea (5 1/2), she's Pam's daughter who Mommy use to play softball with on Wednesday nights and was playing on Daddy's team today. It was a beautiful sunny day to be out at the park! I made all kinds of friends with all the players and I also met a couple of doggies and one of them was named Missy that I loved! I kept on wanting to pet her and feed her my little gold fishy crackers and we became close friends that I even tried to kiss her!

Here I am with my friend Taylor pushing me around in my car!
I even shared my car with Kalea and Taylor and we all took turns to ride in it even though they were too big and hard to push around, but we had a blast!

Great Grandma......

Today was a very sad day for our family. We received notice from my Aunties in Vietnam that my Great Grandmother (Ba Ngoai's mom) just passed away. She was 86 years old. She had been ill with a large Goiter in her throat. This is from lack of iron in her body (my Dr. Uncle Binh told me). I didn't know my Great Grandmother and my Mommy didn't know her Grandma in person but it was still a very hard loss for us. She was the last Grandparent on both Mommy & Daddy's side of the family. Ba Ngoai was getting ready to go visit her in July but she just couldn't hold on any longer.....so my Ba Ngoai that watches me everyday will be leaving to Vietnam on Friday for 3 weeks. I'll miss her tons but she needs to be with her family right now in Vietnam.

Mommy's Day

Today we had a nice lunch at the new Kings Fish House in HB, Bella Terra. We sat out in the patio and it was a beautiful day! My Uncle Binh & Auntie Janai came up from San Diego to take Mommy & Grandma out too so it was a very nice family get-together since we haven't seen them since my birthday party in January. Uncle Alan & Som also joined us. Grandma J didn't want to come because she wanted to be there at home to help with Grandpa and his recovery from the accident yesterday. We missed them but will take them out when he's feeling better. Happy 2nd Mommy's Day Mommy! I love you and hope you had a wonderful day and that you enjoyed the mini album of us that I made you. Daddy helped too so I can't take all the credit!
I'm busy eating my bread while trying to pose for a Mommy's Day photo with Ba Ngoai & Mommy.
Kisses & love for my Ba Ngoai! Mooouah!
Our family photo, but again I'm too busy to pose for a photo since I'm eating my yummy bread!
Me with Auntie Som & Uncle Alan. Let's see what kind of food they have down here.....
I'm all wet from playing in the water fountain with Auntie Janai my favorite Auntie of the day since she fed me pears, let me walk across the table at the restaurant, took me to watch the lobsters & crabs and let me play in the water fountain! Now I'm with Uncle Binh all wet and thirsty for my milk! What a fun day I had! I hope you had as much fun as I did Mommy!

Fender Bender

Well, there was a little bit of drama in my life today while Mommy was out in Menifee scrapbooking with my Aunties for Mommy's Day weekend and Daddy playing in a softball tournament. Grandma & Grandpa Arakaki took me to my tumbling class today and they took Daddy's car because I needed my car seat. After class Grandpa had a little fender bender backing out. For some reason the car was not reversing so Grandpa got out of the car to look for the release on the parking brake and accidentally released it but the car was not in Park. So poor Grandpa was knocked down really hard by the car door and the door hitting a parked car on the side and rear as it was reversing back with no one driving it. I was safely strapped in my carseat and Grandma was okay too. The ambulance had to come get us since Grandpa was bleeding a lot because his ear got cut really bad and he was really banged up and couldn't get up.
Daddy rushed over to the scene while we were already taken to Hoag in the ambulance. Daddy called Mommy and she rushed all the way to the hospital from Menifee. Grandpa got released the same day and all tests came back fine so it'll just take some time for him to heal the bumps and bruises.


Here is the rear of our truck. Doesn't look so good but it's all fixable!

Same with the door, will just need to be replaced since it won't close.
Here I am with my HB fire puppy that the ambulance gave me since I screamed and was not a very happy girl at all in the ambulance car seat. The doc checked my blood pressure and everything else just to make sure I really was okay and I am. I hope you get better soon Grandpa! Thanks for taking me to tumbling and so sorry for our accident. That's what it is just an accident and we're all very lucky that everything's going to be okay.

Super Star!

I'm finally wearing my very cool sunglasses without ripping them off right away! I'm stylin' in my cool pink car that Ba Ngoai (Grandma Ly) got me for Christmas. I just love my car and I even wear my sunhat (which I usually rip off any other time) when I know I'm going on my daily walk which I absolutely love and look forward to everyday. Grandma says "Let's go for a walk Mak" and Mommy puts on my shoes and sweater and gives me my sun hat, sunglasses and I grab my little blankie and I'm out the door in the morning!