Yellow Butterfly

Video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUg65wJp1L8


To the tune of Frere Jacques (Where is Thumkin):

Yellow butterfly, Yellow butterfly
Spread your wings, spread your wings
Fly around in circles, fly around in circles
In the garden, in the garden

(last couple of times, had trouble with the "embed" feature of youtube.  Anyone have any suggestions?)

Everybody Clap!

Vidoe link:

http://youtu.be/fu70eff0u14


So Ba Noi got her this ballerina outfit, and she immediately knew what to do.  Bibi taught her a few moves, and we've got a primadonna on our hands....

Backyard Friends

Huelan has some visitors

Transition

These are the last pics from the Moss house, taken while we were getting ready to make the move to Crane. No matter where we live, Huelan will always be rockin.

more pics here

Crane Way

We've spent two whole weeks in the new house, and it's starting to feel like home. We've got plenty of boxes to unpack still, but we reached a milestone tonight- cleared enough of the garage to fit both cars! It took two bulk pickups, two recycling runs, and i still have one dump run to make. We only have one clicker though, so Liz is parked outside still. Technicality.

It's been quite a ride. We started looking in early 2011, and must have walked into more than 40 houses and virtually toured another 150.
We actually signed for the house just before xmas, which marked about 9 months of serious house hunting. We were all over the map in what we wanted, and we put or agent through the ringer and had her harried more than a few times. After a while, it becomes very easy to talk yourself into something mot quite right; we actually were in contract on another house, which thankfully fell through, and we ended up getting into this one a few weeks later.
Though this house wasn't the move-in ready house we pictured, it has amazing bones and we quckly saw ourselves setting up shop here for a good long while. But it took quite a bit of vision and elbow grease. Mostly other people's grease, but still. A complete kitchen overhaul was the biggest project, which we were lucky enough to get done before move in day (a couple of late nights from the crew got that done).  Now I only have about three dozen small projects around the house.  New tools arrive in the mail every week just about (thanks Amazon.com!).

We've met a bunch of the neighbors and are settling in to the neighborhood. All that's left is for you to come and visit.
 
https://picasaweb.google.com/101465883844458883558/CraneRemodel?authkey=Gv1sRgCN-Wysqrxs3oYg

Airborne

This is one of the last pics from the Moss Lane house. She has all the makings of a thrill seeker- she sprints head first into every room and will leap off anything. Scares the heck out of us.

Huelan Counts to HaiMuoi

She can count to twenty on her own pretty easily (thanks Gosia and Sesame Street!), but Uncle Anh started teaching her Vietnamese numbers. This was the first time she'd gotten this far. B

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W-cFpPgyLA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Regards,
Hung Ly
Mobile: 510 301-8671

Huelan's New Room

Huelan kind of knew we were moving, but didn't imagine that she'd be getting a new room, and even better a big girl bed.

Last she saw this room, all it had was a few toys and her Pink Chair. When she saw it again, it had a fresh coat of girlie green paint and most of her books. She flew right up into her bed and got under the covers.

She still hasn't been able to fall asleep on her own yet, but it took no time at all to get used to her room.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzAG9gCvWmc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Regards,
Hung Ly
Mobile: 510 301-8671

Ready to Roll

Big girl seat

Huelan Loves her birthday

Video Link here

All these parties just kind of melded together, but when Uncle Anh showed up with these balloons on her actual birthday, she new the party was ON.

Stage Laugh

Video Link (couldn't get the embed to work...)

No idea what's gotten into her this day, but sometimes she's just weird.

December Flashback

December is our busiest month (that's my excuse for lagging on these pics), due in large part to the birthdays of my two best girls: Liz on the 6th and Huelan on the 27th. For liz's big day, we continued the annual crab feed celebration at our place. Once again we had a full house and just a claw or two was left over. Our place still smells like garlic noodles (I am not complaining). On her actual birthday, we did a smaller bash, but still managed to eat very well.

Then came Christmas. Wow. Believe it or not, Huelan actually got fatigued opening presents, and when her birthday came, she was overwhelmed!  We were still opening presents a week later. We probably had six or seven celebrations in December- Liz's birthday crab feed, Liz's birthday family party, Liz's birthday at our place on her actual birthday, Christmas, Huelan's post-Christmas birthday, and then Huelan's birthday at our place.  Oh yeah, NYE at home, too.  Decemeber might be our favorite month.

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Photo Booth

Weekends are the best, especially the kind that last three days.  Even better when we have two of those in a row, like we did last weekend.  Huelan usually wakes up with me, but on the weekends has both me and Liz, which everyone loves.  Last weekend we took our time waking up and snapped this pics that remind me of a photo booth. 

A Little Excited

http://youtu.be/GjDOiQ6CpdI

Sorry I didn't rotate this before posting!  But just wanted to share some of Huelan's excitement about Christmas.  She doesn't quite know what's going on yet, just that she has a bunch of new toys and Mom and Dad are both home and playing with her.