Valentines Day at Huntington Library

On Valentines day the whole family went to the Huntington Library in San Marino!  It was the first time for both Hannah and Grandma.   Unfortunately since it's winter, we didn't get to see many flowers in bloom.  Oh well.

Of course we gravitated towards the Japanese and Chinese Gardens.  

Hannah likes to touch leaves an flowers when we go out on walks.  We tried to this time as well, but mom busted us.  Whoops!

We had tea and hot meat-filled buns in the Chinese Gardens.  The tea was nice,  but the buns tasted like freezerburn.  WTF?

This only got us in the mood for some real (relatively speaking)  Chinese Food.  So since we were close to Alhambra we decided to stop by our favorite Chinese Restaurant in L.A. -- Regent Cafe (although now it's known as Harbor Kitchen).

Uh-oh...get ready for a GRATUITOUS FOOD PHOTO!

Beef Chow Fun...mmmmmmmm!!!

Only one more month until solid foods, Hannah!

Sukiyaki Christmas

Hi everyone. Sorry for the lack of posts...but we're back from the holidays now and ready to put up some updates!

We celebrated Christmas at Obaasan's and Ojiisan's in the O.C. this year.

Yep, like the title says -- we had sukiyaki for Christmas Dinner. Why? Because one turkey a year is enough!

After dinner we played Cousin Juliana's and Cousin Mia's Christmas Present -- Mario Kart -- to help us digest. At least we tried to -- Uncle Paul is a Wii Hog! Remind me not to let him borrow the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Margot's Pimpin' First Birthday Partay!

Over the weekend we attended Margot's Birthday Bash!

There must have been at least a hundred people there! Who knew Margot could make so many friends in the first year of life?
Luckily there were a ton of kids there. Hannah made a lot of friends that day as wel. This party was off da' hook!


Maybe too off the hook...
Hannah..already breaking the boys' hearts!

Our Thanksgiving Weekend

We spent Thanksgiving Dinner eating Chicken McNuggets and Cheeseburgers. Yep, you read that right! We have some doctors in the family and they do not usually get Thanksgiving day off, so we wanted to save our appetite for the following day's dinner, and McDonalds is the only place we knew would be open. Plus, we are really lazy.

Our official dinner. Kampai! Can you find all three kids in this picture?


Help! Our family is being overrun by girls!

On Sat, we spent the day with Mom's family. But instead of a Thanksgiving celebration, it was a birthday one. Nate, our cousin's boy, turned 7. It was great to catch up with family...most of whom we haven't seen in a year!

Hannah was asleep for most of this celebration. We should take her to more parties!

Hannah's Halloween

Hannah celebrated her first Halloween this year! She got to show off some of her nifty outfits. Check them out:


As for the festivities, we eased her into Halloween by taking it really slow this year. First we took a walk around the neighborhood and saw all the decorated houses on the adjacent two blocks. Next we went home and put Hannah in her real costume: A cocoon! Actually I think she looks more like a human battery from the Matrix but the transitional phase of a flying insect works too.
Happy Halloween!