for my fa-mi-ly and my friends.

Emma has learned to pray from watching BOZ (an animated Christian DVD series, featuring a big friendly, green bear). I love listening to her pray, it's so cute. Especially the way she says 'fah-mih-lee'!



"thank you, God, as this day ends.
for my family and my friends.
taking time..to pray, thank you, God for a great day"
then emmma adds her own list:
mom, dad, baby, emma, daddy, mommy, hai dua (2 kids in Vietnamese),
"thank you God for great day,"
"A-MEN".

If Emma is in an especially good mood, she'll add in some dog names, and her 2 grandmas and 2 grandpas and rainbows.

Career goals

We are so excited for our upcoming trip to go to Disneyland. Emma has been asking when we'll go to California everyday now. I've been talking to her about going to Disneyland to meet princesses - I don't think she understands the concept of 'meeting a princess', but she does understand that she wants a crown and that Di Ba will buy it for her. I've packed her princess dress to wear to Disneyland, but I'm not sure how long she'll want to wear it.

So one day, our conversation went like this:
mommy: Emma, come here.
Emma: Yes, mommy?
mommy: Emma, when you grow up do you want to be a doctor?
Emma: No
mommy: do you want to be a phamacist?
Emma: No.
Emma: Emma want to be a PRINCESS.

if you know of any princes, we are accepting applications...



Here's a picture with Brandon from last Halloween.

mini stories

Time for our annual post! (just kidding!) blogging takes time- and I'd prefer to have nice pictures and a story line. But this year, I'll just try to get the funny stories out there first and maybe a cute picture that has nothing to do with the story. My goal is just to put out the funny stories!

Emma & brandon have been so much fun (when healthy!). This last January was a tough month with our little family being sick and anh an having his nose infection, etc. Both babies are adorable and funny!

Emma's mini-story:
In the van, on the way home from school.
Emma: "mommy, you are good."
Mommy: "thank you, emma"
Emma: " emma, emma is good. Daddy, hmm, daddy is good too!"
Mommy: "that's good, emma. What about brandon?"
Emma: "brandon, brandon... HE BAD!!!!
Mommy: "what! Why is brandon bad?"
Emma: "brandon.. HE GOT PROBLEMS!"

mini stories

Time for our annual post! (just kidding!) blogging takes time- and I'd prefer to have nice pictures and a story line. But this year, I'll just try to get the funny stories out there first and maybe a cute picture that has nothing to do with the story. My goal is just to put out the funny stories!

Emma & brandon have been so much fun (when healthy!). This last January was a tough month with our little family being sick and anh an having his nose infection, etc. Both babies are adorable and funny!

Emma's mini-story:
In the van, on the way home from school.
Emma: "mommy, you are good."
Mommy: "thank you, emma"
Emma: " emma, emma is good. Daddy, hmm, daddy is good too!"
Mommy: "that's good, emma. What about brandon?"
Emma: "brandon, brandon... HE BAD!!!!
Mommy: "what! Why is brandon bad?"
Emma: "brandon.. HE GOT PROBLEMS!"

a post to say we miss you Lisa and Van! (miss the horsey rides!)

Unco Van was such a good sport! but the longer the riders stayed on, the more disturbed the horsey got!

On a side note: isn't lisa pretty?? :)

Let's get started!! (Horsey Van doing fine!)

An exuberant rider! Horsey Van is starting to realize he may not be cut out for this.

Adding on another rider or two..Horsey is still doing ok.

A happy Brandon joins in!

Emma to Brandon: do you think our horsey is going crazy?

I think the Horsey is about to keel over!

We miss you Unco & Di Ba!

1st Easter basket!

My parents were wonderful with fun traditions. One of them was the Easter basket! On Easter morning, Lisa and I would wake up to find Easter baskets filled with goodies outside our bedroom door.

This morning, Brandon woke me up at 5:45 am, so the basket had plenty of time to sit outside the door, waiting.

I wanted to post a video, but it's too big. You can see the video on Emma's eachday website, though. I'll try and edit the video to make it smaller.

Here's Emma enjoying her 1st Easter basket!

What was in the basket:

* Tinkerbell stickers (Tink is her favorite. Emma calls her ching-ga-beo.) I like tinkerbell because she's a young Disney character, and although she has a friend named Terrance, there isn't any of that mushy kissy stuff going on.

* Two easter eggs: one filled with sour candy, the other filled with hershey's kisses

* Belle (Disney Princess, Emma call all the disney princesses (Ariel, Belle, Jasmin, Snow White...) as pwincess). Emma hasn't seen Beauty and the Beast, but I like Belle because she studies, reads books and only wanted to have a life with MORE studying and MORE books, and just happened to end up with a prince.

I made the flowers for decoration, tying them to her basket. They are actually hair clips and a ring.

Emma enjoying a hershey's kiss:

Gotta love the hair!! Here's Emma's hair for Easter Sunday (love what a little bit of hair products, a straightener that curls and a patient baby girl can do):

Here's Emma with Grandma:

pouffy bangs and pink elephants!

I had blow dried emma's bangs, and she liked them super pouffy. She also likes this pink elephant toy, which she tries to keep away from Brandon. Brandon did manage to play with it a little bit!