ishya – Kumquat & Peanut

Another Family Dinner

December 26, 2015 No Comments

Every time we visit Cerritos, we gather up all of Mama’s cousins and we have a big Thai feast at Thai Nakorn. Tonight was our dinner and we had almost everyone there this time! Here is Peanut with Brandon, Cole, and Auntie Marie.

Theo and Sadie were also in town for the holidays this year so we had an extra-large group! So fun!

Here’s Peanut with Uncle Pish.

There were lots of presents after dinner and Peanut watched his big sister open his gifts. Oooo! New PJs!!

Janie scored her very first board game – Chutes and Ladders!! One of Mama’s favorites!

When we got back to Buena Park, Dada showed her how to play.

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Big Family

August 15, 2015 No Comments

Our family just keeps growing. Now with Peanut here, there are even more kids when we get together. Auntie Ishya, Uncle Billy, Theo, Sadie, Great Uncle Chusak, and Great Aunt Pisamai drove up from San Jose this morning to visit the newest member of the family.

Janie needed a little time to warm up to all the people in her house but she was playing and talking after about 30 minutes.

Here are the 2nd Cousins all together for the first time. Peanut is 15 days old here.

Left to Right: Sadie, Janie, and Theo on May 6, 2012

The twins and Janie have grown a lot since this photo was taken. Janie was 16 days old.

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3rd Birthday Party

April 19, 2015 No Comments

We celebrated Janie’s 3rd birthday today at the Children’s Creativity Museum. It had a Nemo theme and Janie was so happy to see her favorite characters on the cupcakes and balloons.

Before the food arrived, all the kids (and grown-ups) spent time in the museum playing with foam dough.

There was also a craft table where the kids made rockets.

For lunch, we had Hawaiian food, veggies, and fruit. The Spam musubi disappeared in a flash.

After lunch, everyone sang “Happy Birthday” to Janie and she had a funny reaction to what happened after she blew out the candles.

https://youtu.be/m0QG2TQH5p0
Luckily Auntie Ishya caught the whole thing on video for us.

Janie chose a chocolate cupcake with a Nemo ring on top and had lots of frosting and cake on her face for the rest of the party.

In fact, all the kids LOVED the cake and each had blue frosting all over their faces.

I wasn’t sure if she would able to share the balloons we bought for the party but she did and actually handed some of them out to her friends.

Once the birthday party got packed up, we headed out to the carousel for a couple rides.

To burn off all the sugar, the kids went back inside for some more fun. They all played together on the slide and made a couple videos too.

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The slide is green so that you can record yourself with a variety of backgrounds.

I’m amazed that we somehow managed to get all the kids together for a group photo.

Thanks for coming to the party, Friends! Hope you all had just as much fun as we did!!

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Fun with the Twins

September 28, 2013 No Comments

Janie had some play time with Theo and Sadie today.

They had fun playing with the Duplos and driving cars up and down the tree nearby.

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Lego Heaven!

September 28, 2013 No Comments

Janie went to Auntie Joy’s Baby Shower (for Cousin Alice) today. Uncle Johnny had a friend set-up a bunch of Legos and Janie had an endless amount of Duplos to play with. It was also fun hanging out with her 2nd Cousins Theo, Sadie, Katie, and Kyle.

She also tried out regular Legos and did a fine job at getting the tinier version of her favorite square blocks together.

She tried to play with the big boys and managed to get all the pieces she wanted.

Later that day, Uncle Johnny gave her 10 square pieces to take home with her out of his stash. Janie and Cousin Alice will have so much fun together. Can’t wait!!

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Brunch and Playtime

March 30, 2013 No Comments

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Janie went to brunch at a fancy place in Walnut Creek this morning with her pal Sophie and second cousins Sadie and Theo. They sat at the big table and enjoyed the complimentary fruit from the nice waitress. Look how well-behaved they look!

sophie's house

Afterward, we went to Sophie’s house to play. She has such a great selection of toys to play with! These kids move so quickly it’s hard to capture them all in one photo!

There they go! a video by beakatude on Flickr.

Janie also tried to keep up with Sadie and Theo on the stairs. There they go!

uncle billy

Janie also had her snack with Uncle Billy on the floor.

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San Jose

March 22, 2013 No Comments

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Great Aunt is in town from Thailand this weekend so we all met up at Auntie Ishya’s house in San Jose.

Janie was so excited to play with all of Sadie and Theo’s toys.

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We attempted to get a photo of all three rugrats together and this is the best I got.

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Things are very different from the first time they met.

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There was some confusion at work the other day when people were telling me that the twins and Janie are actually 3rd cousins and not 2nd cousins. Hm. They were telling me I had it all wrong so of course I looked it up. Found this cool chart to clear things up. Janie, Theo, and Sadie ARE second cousins!! Janie and Ishya are first cousins once removed. Got it! I think I had it right the first time. Thanks, Wikipedia!