2/16/2010

This morning Julia told me she dreamed of a pogo stick and bouncing very high. My darling older daughter loves to read, dance, sing, draw/make art and spending time with family and friends. We all miss our great peeps in Chicago.

She's a real trooper of a big sister and we are blessed to have two great girls! Here's some recent pictures from this past week. Chinese New Years was extra special with Grandparents Moy here in Tulsa with us and cooking up a storm basically every day!

2/11/2010 Show & Tell and Chinese New Year

Today Julia brought her family for show and tell at school and Meme did a special little presentation on Lunar/Chinese New Year. Julia was so excited and proud. She got to wear her Chinese pink silk dress, stockings, white dress shoes and special silk red jacket as well. She introduced her mommy, daddy, baby Stella and yie-yie and ah-mah. Meme showed the Chinese red lanterns that grandma made from lucky red envelopes, a dragon boat that grandma made, we read a book about the Chinese new year and handed out red envelopes to each of the kids with lucky money in it. It was a nice session at Undercroft followed by family lunch and a trip to daddy's office for grandparents to see where I work and to introduce Stella to some other co-workers. Julia was so happy - it was a real "special" day for her!

2/7/2010 "I'll dream..."

Our sweetie pie Julia - when Meme had a bad headache and was not happy that Julia was taking soooo long to settle down and go to sleep, after Meme took Advil and told Julia she had a bad headache and they both need to just go to sleep, Julia asked "Mommy, is your head feeling better?" "No" said Meme now go to sleep. "Okay, but I will dream for you that your head feels better." What a sweet loving girl!

2/4/2010 Washington is like Washing Clothes! Grandparents Moy arrive today!!!

After a good nights sleep, Julia woke up all refreshed and in a great mood, getting into our King bed and saying "Daddy I love you, you are warm and toasty." Then as we were driving to school you said "Where is Zach and Zoe?" to which I replied "they live in Washington and are probably on their way to school too." and Julia said "What's Washington" and I replied "It's a state northeast of Oklahoma" and then Julia said "Hey, Washington is like Washing Clothes." Followed by giggles and laughs!


Grandparents Moy arrive today at 1:30pm!!! We are all so excited - house is in order (considering the toddler and baby), Meme has dinner planned - kalbi, tilapia, broccoli and rice, guestroom prepped with towels, snacks, water...let the good times and new family memories begin! When I asked Julia if she wants to stay home and wait for Yie-yie and ah-mah to arrive at the house or go to the airport, her reply is "Go to the airport with Daddy!" OK!

2/3/2010 Memory like an elephant!

Oh Julia - you have such a great memory! Last night at dinner she asked for cheese, so I said finish your rice first and you can have a cheese square, daddy got new cheese from Sam's Club today. "Cheese can be my dessert" our 3 1/2 yr old said - yes, it can. But as the evening went on the cheese was forgotten, Julia was asleep with Mom by 8pm and Daddy was on Stella duty. So an hour or two later, J wakes up and tells Mommy - "I didn't have my dessert - my cheese dessert." Meme was so tired she told J it's too late, you already brushed your teeth, go back to sleep...then this morning as I was getting ready in the master bath, Big Girl Julia comes in and says "Daddy, I didn't have my cheese dessert yesterday." Oh boy - so I told her we all forgot and she can have it for breakfast...

1/31/2010 Today's activities and Updates from Meme and my FB Posts...

Today Meme got a well deserved break - a date with herself to see the play "August - Osage County." So Daddy braved 5 hours alone with both kiddos - not bad - we all survived. Our day was filled with watching Alvin & The Chipmunks, Sleeping Beauty, Hi-5, singing songs, eating snacks, bouncing baby Stella on the big exercise ball, got to read some pages of my book "Push" and ended with Julia playing on the laptop till Mommy came home. Stella had almost 3.5oz of formula, slept in my arms more than 1/2 the time and was ready for mommy to nurse her for her dinner ;0) The entire family went to bed around 8:30 or 9pm - J and I laid in bed and made up short rhyme songs for 5-10 minutes - it was fun and she's really creative and good at it! If only each and everyday was as relatively easy...

1/31/2010 Last night as I was getting J to sleep she told me "Daddy, tomorrow let's play the you do what I do game." Okay, I said, sounds like a plan. Then J says, "Good, I will dream about it now. Goodnight."

1/29/2010
J "Mommy what are those dots on your nose?" uhhhh "blackheads" - J- "Can we vacuum them?" - okay no more sitting too close to mommy.... I need a facial BAD

1/28/2010
How do you define what a policeman does to a three year old? J asked the other day and I didn't want to introduce(i.e. open a whole can of worms) the "bad people" concept to her yet... or the whole protecting us from "bad" things -thing.... ended up mumbling something about road safety and traffic-- which is WAY lame- I know...

1/26/2010
J has decided to name our (very) future dog "I love hearts" when daddy said you can't give a dog 3 names she replies "rosie has 3 names- Stella Rose Moy" 'nuff said.

January 25, 2010 - Over due update!

With the move and Meme's mom leaving for Asia we have been so stressed and swamped...but Julia has been a trooper through it all and wants to "help" pack and organize. She loves her baby sister, knows that her name is Stella Rose and had some cabin fever from the cold weather and mom and dad trying to prep for the move, still adjust to a two kid family and stay alive - LOL! Recent highlights, a super helpful visit from my friend Jim Ng - he had a 24+ hr layover in Tulsa so we fed him and put him to work helping move boxes and some small furniture pieces. Julia loved having Uncle Jim around for the day, chatting up a storm, playing at the only "good" Chinese restaurant in Tulsa...

Hip hip hooray - Hsiu-Mei arrived 1/20 and is here till 1/31 to help us get organized! She's a wonderful friend/auntie and is helping us get our new home together! We swear she should have her own TV show *(like Nanny 911 or Super Nanny) where she helps people get their home in order in 1 week and then returns 6 months later to see if they kept it up! We are making progress - the movers moved the big furniture on Friday 1/22 and we have been working on a box at a time, a corner at a time, a room at a time. Julia just needs some good attention on a regular basis - not too much to ask for a 3 1/2 yr old...thankfully she loves her Montessori school!

On Saturday 1/23 we thought she needed a good outing and meet our friends Sive, Patsile and their son Pele at Incredible Pizza. Meme stayed home with the baby to get some rest and continue the progress.

After getting Julia's closet set up and "organized" in the new house, I showed her the closet - "Here's your short sleeve then long sleever shirts, skirts, dresses, sweaters, pants..." So at night she wanted to select her PJs, OK, no biggie. Then when we were getting ready for bed, I called for her and she said "I'm here, getting my clothes for school tomorrow." And low and behold, she was standing in her closet, selecting a dress and leggings! I cracked up and yelled out to Meme what was happening - Julia still needs a little lesson in some basic coordination of clothing, no pink patterned dress with green different patterned pants...i think she just doesn't like "boring" solid colors and we know she LOVES sparkly and shiny!

When we went to a short play date at the Whiteheads, and Caroline and Julia were playing Mommy Princess and the baby, J was the mommy and when C told her I can't sleep, J said "Don't be scared, there's nothing to be scared of, just close your eyes and go to sleep." She gave me this look like "right Daddy - that's what you and Mommy always say to me! Too funny!

Oh boy - NEVER move with an active toddler and newborn...unless you absolutely have to!

Julia and I have a new game where she wants me to "do what I do" and I just copy everything she says as she says it and we end up cracking up laughing and having a great time.

She was asleep around 7pm last night, finally got a full 12 hrs of sleep, had a great day at school (music class with Ms. Jo on Mondays) and came home in a great mood! Oh, and on the way home from school today, Julia told me she wants to name her dog (when she and Stella are old enough to take care of their own pet dog mind you) "I LOVE HEARTS" What a long name I said and she replied, but Stella has 3 names, Stella Rose Moy and I have 3 words, Julia Manuela Moy, so the dog can have 3 words - I LOVE HEARTS...okay, no argument there!

Ahhh, things are getting better and more organized each day (thanks to Hsiu Mei being the drill Sargent for us) and we all can't wait for Grandparents Moy to arrive on 2/4-2/22 and then our trip to Chicago the week of 3/15 when Julia is on Spring Break.

Will get around to posting some new pics soon...now that we got DSL set up today and hopefully the Direct TV is up and running too!