Big Bear before Vieves was born

This video was just found on one of my HD's. The best part is approximately half way through. You see, Bella was HOOKED on The Wiggles.. yes.. THE WIGGLES, but it was a great introduction to having her love to sing and dance- so PROPS to them. ANyway.. I was able to capture her singing a song and it's so cute being able to witness her mess-ups. I had a little fun adding in her actual words, so- keep in eye out for it. If you watch this for anything, at least look for that part, it's cute.

Vivi was in Lynn's tummy, and we were anxiously awaiting her arrival:)

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR MAKING THIS SUCH A MEMORABLE TRIP!

Bella's loose tooth and Vivi's cute dialogue

check it- sorry it's been a while



oter will be up here shortly:)

Santa's letter arrives

Bella and Vivi wrote their letter to Santa last night, and sure enough- that little bird flew it's wings off to get it to Santa just in time. They'll wake tomorrow morning to see his reply-(see below)
I'll try and catch it on video if possible, then post it here.
Merry Christmas everyone:)



Oh yeah- and for those that didn't get one of these- here's our Christmas card for this year!

CHOCOLATE KISSING!

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Happy Birthday Lynn!

So- My wife has been like COMPLETELY ADDICTED to the book series Twilight and has been forgetting to feed our children because she's been reading them over and over and over... and over.. did I say over?!?!

Anyway...

When asked what she'd want for a Birthday gift- she requested the impossible.

"REally?" she said, "You'd be the best Husband in the world if you could get me to see the premiere of 'Twilight'."

I was like "ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? Yeah... like me, some Director at Disney can just CALL and GET US some Tickets."

I was actually hurt tha my wife would give me such an impossible task, especially when she KNOWS I'll do anything to make her happy if I can.

Well, I'll fill in the story more later, but with the help of Rob Friedman, I was able to pull off the impossible...

Happy Birthday Lynn!

here's a few...

Last year, we had heard about Little Tokyo having a festival/celebration called Nisei week. We promised ourselves we wouldn't miss it this year, and although there really wasn't much information as to WHAT exactly to do there, nor WHERE exactly to go, we headed down and had a great lunch and a lot of fun. Bella bought a cute HEllo Kitty purse, and we took in some fun people. Two of the fun events we were able to participate in were kite making, and the art of flower arrangement. The girls had a blast... (sorry, no pics of their flower arrangements)








ALSO... We've had a slew of Movie nights since it's inception, but last Friday we watched one of my favorites:)

YEP-

The Incredibles

Brad Bird and the awesome story team of Pixar just continue to blow my mind with each and every viewing of this film. Oh... not to mention the Art Direction, CHaracter Design, Animation, Music, Sound Effects, etc., etc., etc. I really love this movie and find something new and wonderful about it upon each screening. Luckily for me, it's Bella's favorite, too. So, It was her turn for movie night, and she picked a winner.





I'm not sure WHY- But.. Blogger.com is being a buttface right now, and I'm having problems uploading some images.
I'll try to add/update again later. I hope you enjoyed the pics ANYWAY!

OOOh Wait... FINALLY!



When the movie was over, I asked her what her favorite part was. She said "The part when all the Incredibles do this... and Elasta Girl does this... and Mr. Incredible is 'uh-uh' and Dash does this, and Violet is ... this". So, I asked her to draw it for me, but she said she was very afraid. She said she thought it would look silly. After a wierd beat, she asked if I could help her draw it. I tried to have fun and make my drawing 'silly' so that she could enjoy drawing hers.. I think it kinda worked.



The last thing I'll share a tiny bit about, and then let Lynn edit this later, was the get together that happened yesterday afternoon. Some of Lynn's past childhood friends (made because of Lynn's parents friends) continued to bump into each other and finally decided to do a "get together'. Not only for their sake, but to allow the torch to be passed along to another generation.

So, 5 girls total (2 others at Bella's age, and 1 Vivi's) spent the afternoon together while their parents hung out and talked. I'm sure it was VERY similar to what Charlene and her "Cousins" experienced when they were little.

Luckily Bella had 10 million Princess dresses, and crowns, and jewelry, and shoes and, (Deep Breath) a kickass Princess Tent, to keep them busy. Oh yeah- the popcicles and cake and snacks didn't hurt the fun either.

They all seemed to get along SO well that I'm sure it was a very special treat for my wife and other Mom's to see.