tickle me mak

putting on "diapers"

Makayla has developed a desire to change diapers, or at least to put them on others. "Others" as in her stuffed animal friends. Heidi showed Mak once and now she loves doing it.

This time, she went to the bathroom by herself to get some toilet paper to use as "diapers" for her Monkey and Elmo. Excellent. She'll be a big help with future siblings and babysitting gigs!

In a few months, we'll show her that Monkey and Elmo have learned to use the potty and don't wear diapers anymore. Hopefully, she'll catch on and start training herself to do that too! :)

But for now, Mak likes to sit on her free-standing toddler potty that we put next to the toilet. Then she'll ask one of us to sit next to her (on the adult potty). AND, she demands that we take two magazines out and give one to her to read. Guess she's well on her way to be potty trained.



Don't ask about the outfit. I think she just came back from doing chinese gardening or something.

2011 swimsuit edition

It's that time of the year that we've all been waiting for! Finally, on the hottest day of the year, thus far (July 6, 2011), we finally get to dunk Makayla into the pool! It's been a year since the first time, and of course she doesn't remember. At first she was a little scared, but once we got her whole body in the water, she was so exicted. Even more than the first time!

I'm 1 and-a-half years old now, see my fingers! 1 + 1 is...like I said, I'm 1 and-a-half...

1st try...

...a few tries later.

dancing queen

Makayla danced the night away at a wedding we attended recently. Despite the big empty dance floor, she couldn't resist the beautiful music and started dancing all by herself...at first. Then a couple of 'boys' came to join her.

three-inch heels

Makayla loves wearing mommy's shoes. And this time we caught it on video!

13-month old + spaghetti = ?

orange face.

ultimate family road trip

On Memorial Day weekend, we did something we've never done before...took a family road trip down to Oregon Coast with Heidi's extended family (maternal side)! Here's a recap by the numbers.

ONE - awesome God who blessed us with this family and the opportunity to spend some quality time with each other

1 - giant beach house in Neskowin, OR where we spent two nights and one day (Thanks to the Le Family!)

5 - minivans to transport everyone down to the coast by 5 awesome drivers (Thanks Myron, Eddie, Abe, Eric, Brian!)

24 - people attended this trip (plus one awesome dog...lai cha!)

16.5 - months of age of the youngest member of the family...Makayla!

90 - years of age of oldest member of the family...popo!

3 - number of bloomed roses we saw at the Rose Garden (maybe next time!)

11pm - the approximate hour when Brian led us into playing some really fun family games (cup stacking, marble picking with chopsticks, transporting cookie from forehead to mouth were the highlights!)

24 - plates of waffles, eggs, bacon, yam fries, tater tots, fruits for brunch on Sunday morning

15 - pounds of steak Kyle marinated and Abe/Jada grilled for dinner on Sunday...yum!

45 - minutes of precious family worship time where we sang praises, read scriptures and shared about things that we're thankful for

200+ - wontons wrapped for brunch on Monday

15 - minutes of high-energy aerobics group dance taught by the one and only, Ms. Mavis!

5 - bags of trash we brought back to dispose of (after a 2-hour entertaining conversation about how to dispose of the trash during dinner)

0 - injury (if you don't count the small glass cut on Heidi's finger)

...to name a few...

Click here for photos from Eddie's camera.
Click here for photos from Fausta's camera.

Click here for photos from Abe's camera.

Here's some footage (courtesy of Eric) of this amazing trip from one of the many cameras...

Footage from our video camera...