40th Anniversary Concert & Father's Day

Mommy and Daddy's work reached 40 years in business.  The company held a concert for all it's employees at AT&T park.   Po Po and Gung Gung were so nice to watch the girls while Daddy and Mommy enjoyed an afternoon date.

The list of performers are not announced until the performer steps on stage.  The line up of performers were One Republic, The Killers, Pink and Justin Timberlake.  Mommy has a big crush on JT.  She was beyond excited when they announced he was performing.

Po Po and Gung Gung took the girls to Diego's birthday bbq.  They had fun playing with all their cousins.

Tao Po is such a fighter.  She is improving each day.  Katelyn gives Tao Po big hugs each time she sees her.

The girls took Daddy out for lunch on Father's Day.  Mommy asked the girls to pose for a picture with Daddy.  This is how it turned out.  They are so silly.

Daddy decided to join in on the fun.  Thanks to Daddy for all he does for us especially driving us around every weekend to parties and activities.  He always puts the family before himself.  We love you!

We had dinner with Gung Gung.  More silliness from Bella.

Bella requests to play with play-doh a couple times of week.  She likes to roll out the dough and make hearts.

Graduation Day!

Katelyn's pre-kindergarten graduation was a couple weeks ago.  It was held outdoors.

The stage was decorated with a banner the kids made.  Each student also designed an outfit that attached to a picture of themselves.

The students recited a poem. Instead of wearing graduation gowns, the kids wore t-shirts.  They each signed their names on the back of the shirts.



They also recited a song.  They have been practicing the words for a month.  They ended with a dance to Justin Timberlake's song, Can't Stop the Feeling which Mommy didn't catch on film.



Mommy and another mom received flowers and a gift for being the parent partners in the classroom.  Katelyn and D delivered the flowers to us.  Mommy was really surprised and thankful!

Congratulations to the class of 2016!  Missing were R and A whose parents are on assignment in Switzerland for the summer.

 Po Po, Gung Gung, Uncle Derek and Auntie Gabby came to see the graduation.

A picture of the graduate with her teachers.

Thanks to Auntie Suzy who made the paper lei and Gung Gung and Po Po who brought the flower lei.

 A family picture with the big girl!

Katelyn will miss her friends who she has grown up with.  C and Katelyn were in the same class since they were 14 months old.  C's mom said C loves Katelyn.  He's such the little charmer.

Two of Katelyn's best friends, M and D.

D and Katelyn spent most of their free time drawing pictures and writing together in the classroom.  The teachers say these two shared similar interests.

Lunch was held afterwards in honor of the graduates.  The teachers made a slideshow of the kids.  More photo ops with the family.

This time Bella looked at the camera.

The teachers framed a picture of each graduate for the parents to take home.  She's kindergarten ready!

Life Lately

Daddy purchased some pull-ups to encourage potty training.  Bella was excited to put them on since some of her friends wears them at school.  She walked around the house sporting her new boots, a bib that is way too small and her pull ups.  What a silly girl!

Bella was proud to show off her rainbow sticker when she got picked up from school.  She was rewarded a sticker by her teacher for pee peeing in the potty.  This only happened once, but it's a start!

The girls went to La Petite Playhouse for Zoe and Jackson's birthday.  It was nice of Katelyn's friends to invite Bella. They love to give Bella hugs or hold her hand when they see her at school.  The kids got lollipops as favors and enjoyed them before going home.

That same day was Kenzie's first birthday celebration.  Kenzie's aunt was the principal of a school in Oakland, so the party was held at the gym of the school.

They had dinner with Aiden the next day and got frozen yogurt as dessert.

Katelyn has been earning a few dollars for doing chores around the house.  She likes putting the money in her piggy bank.  She will volunteer to do tasks around the house.  She asked Daddy if she could bring the garbage down the stairs.

She wanted to show how strong she was.

Katelyn surprised Mommy with a drawing.  She told Mommy she drew this picture, so Mommy will never forgot how much she loves Mommy.   Mommy was so touched!

Out And About

Charlie had a birthday party at her brother's new school in the Fall.  Auntie Lauren asked the guests to bring bikes.  The kids had the whole yard to themselves.  Uncle Joe called them the biker crew.

These 4 had play dates ever since they were newborns and look at them now!

The girls went to the Foster City Art and Wine Festival after.  Daddy took Katelyn on the tea cups.  This picture was taken before the ride started.  Daddy did not feel too good after the ride.  He had asked Katelyn to stop spinning so fast, but she was having too much fun.

Katelyn was so happy to win this multi colored bear playing darts.  Not sure if Mommy approves Daddy spending $20 bucks on this game and darts for that matter!  Daddy replied, but look how big her smile is!

Bella and Mommy were on the merry-go round.

Uncle Ken invited the girls over to watch the Warriors game.  Khloe really liked Uncle Allen.  Maybe because they were rooting for the same team and had the same color shirt.

Bella and Katelyn love smoothies.  They can hardly contain their excitement.

Katelyn put on gloves like her teachers do when they serve food.  She scooped in the watermelon.

Bella likes to use chop sticks at dinner.  She's been wanting to sit in a booster chair lately instead of her portable chair.

Daddy and the girls have been taking walks when they get home while Mommy prepares dinner.  They run around and work up an appetite.

Sometimes the girls go on a bike or scooter ride before dinner. Bella can go pretty fast on her scooter.  Check it out.

Cherry Picking Season Is Here!

Last weekend the girls celebrated James' birthday at the gym.  Katelyn loved hanging off the high bars.



Bella is a little daredevil.  She wanted to do everything the older kids do.  She had fun going down the slide and landing in the foam blocks.


A silly picture with the birthday boy.

Tao Po had suffered a heart attack last week and had an emergency surgery.  She is such a strong lady and thank goodness she is recovering well. The girls visited Tao Po in the hospital and happy she's home now.

 

The hospital was near Fairyland, so the girls went after the hospital visit.  They rode a Ferris wheel for the first time.

It's officially cherry picking season.  The sisters and Ashley took a drive to Brentwood.  It was an extremely hot day.  Luckily the trees provided shade.  Katelyn picked the biggest and reddest cherries she could find.

Bella reached up high to pick them.

She spent more time eating the cherries though.

Sample before you buy, right?

The girls wanted to show off the cherries they picked.  Bella wanted to carry the bucket of cherries all the way to the pay station which was definitely way to heavy for her in the hot sun.

Gung Gung bought the girls a new table for them to draw pictures on and play with at his house.  Katelyn helped screw the legs of the chair.  Thanks, Gung Gung!

Bella is Daddy's little helper in the backyard.  She likes to spray the plants.