I learned that not only did Uncle Chris came to the States to celebrate Christmas with us, he was also here to celebrate his birthday with us as well.
So this evening, the entire family went to Cheesecake Factory to celebrate Uncle Chris’ birthday. Below are some videos and pictures taken from this evening.
Yup. Noticed that I was sound asleep in Uncle Chris’ arms? Well, what else to do when you’re sitting in a restaurant, but not allowed to eat?
Last but not least, here are some pictures from the evening.
Isn’t this beautiful? This is the Christmas Tree at my Grandma and Grandpa’s house. And look at all those presents underneath the tree! Unfortunately, I was told that most of those presents are for Addison. Although I was given reassurance that once I am old enough to unwrap my presents, I will get equally as many, if not more. Hopefully so!
Since this is really my first Christmas, I really don’t have a clue how the family used to celebrate Christmas in the past. Although I can reference Addison’s web-site to find out, but it will only raise my blood pressure if I find out that he got more presents on his first Christmas than I do. So let’s not focus on my brother!
I was told that this Christmas, we’ll be spending a week at Grandma’s and Grandpa’s house. Not only because Grandma wants us to be there, it’s also because Aunt Phoebe and Uncle Chris will be flying in from Hong Kong to celebrate Christmas with us. And yes, although I’ve seen Aunt Phoebe and Uncle Chris a few times over webcam, this will be my first time meeting them in person. Not only am I excited, I’m also looking forward to all the presents that they will shower me with!
So how many presents did I get? I’ll let you find out for yourself!
If you didn’t see any picture of me opening presents, you didn’t missed it! Yup! Those were all the pictures taken from the entire week of my first Christmas, all the way up to New Year’s Day! What happened? Because, once again, all the attentions were focused on my brother. What I can show you is this short video of Aunt Phoebe holding me in her arms. I could feel that she knew exactly how I was feeling… when one didn’t get to open any Christmas present.
In fact, it wasn’t until after the new year, I had the opportunity to be on camera to (let Grandma and Addison) unwrap a few of my presents.
Here’s one more example:
Here’s another example:
Another one:
And this one, my brother just simply took it, and played with it.
As you can see, it wasn’t really much fun when one couldn’t talk, tear, unwrap, and punch. I am just so looking forward to my next Christmas. Until then, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas too!
No! I didn’t post the wrong video. I knew it was a video from my brother Addison’s 4-month check-up. The point I’m trying to make here is… noticed all the attentions that he received? The blanket to cover him… Daddy talking to him… and as soon as he made an attempt to cry… the whole world paused.
Now, take a look at how my 4-month check-up went.
No blanket... Daddy was not holding me... and of course, I was trying to be a good girl, and didn't make a sound. But somehow, it was Addison who was crying! What’s going on here? I thought I’m the girl here, and I’m the one who needs the most attention.
Sadly, here’s the painful part where I had to take a few shots to my thigh. I cried only because I was worried that there will be scare on my thigh. Not because of the pain, of course, as you can tell.
My gums are sore and itchy all the time, yet Daddy seems to have a problem with me putting my fingers into my mouth. Not only that, he seemed to feel there was a need to video tape me… suffering. Why? Grow up, you people! This is not funny!
Today is my brother’s 2-year old birthday. It is a big deal because he thinks it’s a big deal. Which is all that matters, right? No, I didn’t get to open any present today as all presents were for him. That’s fine! Instead, I spent the observing his little birthday party celebration, and tried to plan out my next birthday party so that I know for sure that my party will be bigger and better than his party today!
Let’s start with a video of Grandma trying to cheer me up, hoping that I wouldn’t realize that all the gifts that we brought over were for Addison.
Fast forward to the evening, here’s a video of Grandma trying to cheer me up, once again, after I found out that I was not going to be taking part in the cake tasting ceremony!
Moments later, Grandma decided to pull me away from all the actions because the scene of Addison having so much fun blowing off his 2 candles was just too much for me to take.
Yup, that’s my day! Rather non-eventful, right? It’s okay! It’s not my birthday. Wait till you see how Addison reacts to my Birthday party next year! Until then, you can find out more about his birthday party from his website here.
I don’t understand… instead of giving away the candies that you bought for the trick-or-treat-ers, why not just keep the candies to yourself, so that you don’t have to go out at night to knock on stranger’s door to beg for candies?
Apparently, my parents did get that concept and insisted on bringing Addison out to trick-or-treat. Did I get to stay home and rest instead? No! Why do I even have to go when I don’t get to eat any candy? And you want me to wear what?
Yup, that’s what they made me wear on my first ever Halloween! Can you believe that? I don’t want to spend too much time talking about what else had happened when we were out trick-or-treating. You can read all about it on Addison’s blog here. This video below is taken when THEY are done with trick-or-treating. Can’t you tell that I was so glad to be home, at last?
The first one I have here is a video of Daddy trying to strike a conversation with me. As you can, I wasn’t in a particularly good mood when this video was taken.
The second video here is, unfortunately, another video of Addison kissing me. Although I have to say that it has been a while since Mommy and/or Daddy asked Addison to give me kisses. I still think Addison’s kissing is a bit too much! My boyfriends are not going to like it when they see this later!
Today is 中秋節 (Mid-Autumn Festival). Grandma and Grandpa came to our place to have dinner with us tonight. But before they got to our place, Mommy took the opportunity to capture this video of me, laying in Addison’s bed.
Grandma and Grandpa arrived later in the afternoon, and we all had dinner together at home. Here are a few photos taken throughout the day.
Later in the evening, Mommy and Daddy took us out for a walk. If you’re still wondering what is this Mid-Autumn Festival is all about… well, tonight’s moon is supposed to be the roundest out of the entire year, based on some Chinese calendar. As you can see from this video below, it’s really pretty round!
However, I really think that moon is even more round when I’m around. Why? Because if you look at how my brother celebrated his first 中秋節, without me, of course, the moon from his videos were that… round. What do you think?
It’ Sunday and it means that Daddy didn’t have to go to work today. Not only it means that I got to spend more time with Daddy, it also means that I had to spend less time with Addison. Because when Daddy is around, he would take Addison away from the ‘girls,’ so that we can have some peaceful time like this…
However, peaceful time like this could also mean more ‘Tummy Time’ for me. I’m not a big fan of Tummy Time because it makes feel very tired. Well, Mommy didn’t seem to care about my fatigue that much!
Once in a while, Daddy and Addison would come by to check on us. And when I’m not sleeping, Daddy would usually pick me up and stand in front of the mirror to talk to me. Why? Because he thinks that I like talking to him, through a mirror. And if I make some noise, he likes it even more. But you know what, I may be comfortable standing in front of a mirror (as with most girls), I may not be as comfortable when there’s a camcorder pointing at me. Check out this video below if you don’t know what I meant.
But if the camera is not within sight, then it would be a totally different story!
Grandma came to visit yesterday and spent the night at our house. Obviously, Addison thinks that the only reason why Grandma stayed last night was because of him.
I say, ‘Whatever!’
If you take a look at these videos, you can easily tell that who is Grandma’s real favorite. And let me give you a hint… it’s not the one who is making all kinds of noise in the background!
This was not the first time that Addison did that to me while I was taking a nap. He just likes to climb up and down the couch, and while doing that, his arms or legs often comes within centimeters of hurting me. Can someone tell him to stop?
And I’ve said it many many times… STOP ASKING HIM TO KISS ME!
Most kids would be jumping for joy when they learn that they are going to the beach. But not me! Why? Let’s start by taking a quick look at what ‘visiting the beach’ means to my Brother.
Fun, right!?
Now, this is what visiting the beach means to me!
6 pictures totaled.
No, the camera didn’t stop working. Neither did the camcorder.
There were only 6 pictures because I’m just too young to go to the beach. If Addison’s first visit to the beach was just a week ago, why do I have to be dragged to the beach when I’m not even 2 months old?
The sunshine was too strong for my eyes, and my skin; The wind was too strong for my liking; And the temperature was too hot for me too! Just leave me at home!
The only positive thing that I can get out of, by going to the beach, was that I get to wear this cute little dress… underneath layers of clothes (later.)
Whoever taught Addison how to give kisses, should have waited… for at least 15 years or so. Somehow, Daddy always thought that I was crying because of something else. And no, Addison’s kisses won’t stop me from crying! How many times do I have to cried out loud to tell you!?
Today, we went out to have dinner with my Grandparents, Aunt Annie, and Uncle Joseph.
Here’s a video of Grandpa holding me in his arms. You can also see that my Brother, Addison, make an appearance towards the end of the video. Don’t you think my Brother, even sitting still with Aunt Annie, looks like an expert in trouble-making?
Here’s a video of Aunt Annie holding me in her arms. Once again, my Brother stoke the camcorder towards the end of this video, again! Why does he always have to steal the show?
Here are a few pictures of Grandpa holding me in his arms, without Addison interrupting the show…
And if you don’t believe me that my Brother, Addison, is a trouble maker, you might want to check his post on this evening’s dinner here.
It usually means that the weekend has arrived, again, whenever I get to spend some quality time with Mommy. It was no different on this fine Saturday morning. I don’t exactly recall where Daddy and Addison were at this particular moment. All I cared was that Addison was not around. Look, I even got to lay on his bed while Mommy was filming this video!
First of all, that’s Addison and not me! Now, this is me…
Now, I don’t know why Daddy likes to do this stupid eye test. But now I do know how hard did Addison try not to laugh at Daddy when Daddy does stupid things like this.
Although Addison is now generally less jealous of me these days, I still don’t spend that much time alone with Daddy especially during the day. So this afternoon, when Mommy sent Daddy to take me upstairs to change my diaper, I took the advantage and cracked a smile at Daddy. Well, he got so excited that he immediately grab his HD Camcorder and started talking to me hoping that I will give him another smile. Did it happen? Find out yourself!
Why? Because I couldn’t get to sleep. Why? Because I wanted someone to hold me. I fall asleep much faster when someone is holding me in his/her arms. I also wake up a lot faster if that same person tries to put me back down onto my bassinet. So this morning, Daddy was the lucky one who got to hold me to sleep.
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