Fishing

Hayden's new "word" is Yay! He says it whenever we're doing something he's happy about, like, "Hayden let's eat!", or "Hayden, where's your paci?", or "Hayden, wanna watch a show?" - "Yay"!!

Fun with Family

It's too loud for me

Hayden has been doing this lately. At first, I thought maybe if it's too loud he plugs his ears, but sometimes he'll do it even when it's not that loud. I think it is a certain type of noise that bothers him.

Birthday Girl at School

I brought cupcakes into Lizzy's school this morning for her birthday.


Hayden joined us and we showed the class pictures of Lizzy when she was a baby

We also brought little gifts for her friends which Lizzy passed out after the cake

Happy 5th Birthday Lizzy!

Here are some pictures from when we celebrated in Taiwan. But she knows very well that today is her "real" birthday.

Kaohsiung Zoo

We've been to the Tianjin Zoo, the Beijing Zoo, and over CNY, Ah-gong took us to the Kaohsiung Zoo. Here we are waiting for Ah gong to come after parking his car.

Lizzy's favorite was the lion, she said there was a Mommy lion and a baby lion

Sometimes Lizzy has to lean down real far to get a good look at the animals

Thanks Ah-gong for taking us to the zoo!

This morning at church

I feel like a terrible mother. I was helping Hayden climb down some steps at church today, and he slipped and tumbled down two steps. As he was rolling down, his cheek must've hit the edge of a step. When I bent down to pick him up there was a very visible dented line across his cheek - scared me to death! But the dent quickly bounced back up only to be replaced by a black/blue streak. Sorry Hayden!! He was fine after a few tears, but I feel so bad! :(

Hayden's Hair

Hayden has a full head of hair. I've given him haircuts every 3 months from birth, until he turned 1 and he started resisting it. The last time I gave him a haircut, he screamed and writhed so badly we couldn't even finish it and I dreaded giving him one again. So his hair got really long...


When I went back to Taiwan I finally got up my nerve to try it again (that, or I was disgusted but his mophead). I pulled out all the stops, candy, watching shows, all kinds of coaxing. It worked! He was fine until the end when the hairdresser was working around his ear, he didn't like that.