immi 2.0

We are at Jammin Java in Vienna to meet up with Auntie Junko. We haven’t seen her in a loooong time. Immi was very happy to see her (though somehow we don’t have any pictures of that…)
Here’s immi sitting at the cafe and playing with contents in her purse. These days, her purse goes through [...]

We are shopping at ikea. We came to get immi her bed. Immi seems to like this little display room a whole lot. She doesn’t seem to want to leave it.

Unfortunately, the one of the two we had in mind to get was discontinued and the other one was sold out! …so no new bed [...]

Here’s immi playing with nesting blocks. She repeated the process many times and got progressively faster at it. …That is until the last time she tried, in which she got tired and threw a tantrum when one of the box didn’t just fit to her liking.

I got a video of her first attempt.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94gdROauK3s

Immi is sitting on the office/studio floor stickering.

…and stickering…

We had a check-up appointment with the OB yesterday. We did go over the sonogram result from the week before and one thing I didn’t catch from that is that the baby’s bowel seems to be working just fine (sounds like a good news to me! ….even [...]

When I went into the living room in the mid-morning, I found that immi had opened a bag of grits and made herself a little beach!

And then around noon-ish, I peeked inside her microwave and found four eggs — each in a mug, and two other miscellaneous food items also in a cup.

And then in [...]

We are back home! We got in around 3am this morning. I miss being on vacation already, but it’s always nice to be back home. We are all a bit tired today. And I caught a cold which todd had at the beginning of the trip, but luckly immi seems fine.
It was a nice little [...]

We are spending a bit more time on the beach before heading home later today. It’s another perfectly beautiful day.

Immi seems determined to keep watering the entire beach until the ocean runs out of water…

Todd found many sand crabs. Immi is putting them back on the beach and watching them burrow back into sand.

We are [...]

Immi’s grandparents drove down this afternoon and we are all enjoying the beach. It’s a perfect weather (sunny but not too hot and the ocean is warm) for spending the afternoon outside.

Immi isn’t scared of the waves at all today!

Immi and her dad are busy building sand castle.

Todd says about the castle “not the prettiest [...]

We can’t come to this beach and not get  Britt’s Donuts, so we are at the boardwalk this morning…getting the famous donuts. I like them, but immi won’t even try it.

There is various festivities going on at the beach due to Memorial Day weekend. Here’s a mini carnival set up at the boardwalk which was [...]

We are taking the ferry to Southport NC. It’s sunny and almost too hot outside.

We are having lunch at a little cafe called Baked With Love. Everyone who works here is so nice and they brought for immi a toy tea set to play with!

We are back at the beach house. There’s fireworks at the [...]

It’s really nice out today (slightly cloudy, which is exactly how I like it on the beach!) and we are taking a walk on the beach. Immi is a bit unsure about the ocean and seems to feel more comfortable on her dad’s shoulder.

Enjoying the ocean breeze.

After a short while Immi seems to have gotten [...]

We are all a bit tired and it’s really windy out today so we are enjoying the beach from indoors mostly. We are getting grocery and immi loves the cart with car attachment. She buckled up her monkey next to her too!

…and I wasn’t joking about immi putting her monkey on her head with Katy [...]

We are on our way to the beach. We haven’t gotten very far yet when we hit traffic. Instead of sitting idly in the car we decided to get sushi and wait for traffic to clear.

Immi is having a good time traveling! She gets really happy and puts her monkey (she often has him in [...]

Well, we are supposed to be relaxing at the beach as of 2 days ago, but we decided to hang around Reston for extra few days before heading out since we have HUGE amount of things to do and we were supposed to make sonogram appointment with a specialist regarding our little Mr. No.2 this [...]

Immi found the booklet of paperdolls and she wanted to play with them. I wasn’t sure if she would be ready for them (the paper they are made of is really thin and fragile) but she is having good fun with them! She loves to peel out the punch-out clothes and accessories.

She dressed up Mia [...]

We braved the pollen and are outside for just a bit. This is immi’s favorite spot on the playground.

Immi has been really into pickles lately. I have no idea why she likes them. She eats the squishy whiter bits first, and then the rest.

Uhmm, this is totally not very important, but I seem to have [...]

Immi and her dad are working on the little garden. This year we have lots of herbs and tomatoes and peppers. I like mostly edible things (I think that they are pretty, and besides, you can eat it!) but this year we have some very cute little flowering plants in varoius shades of purple.

We had [...]

I just wanted wish Happy Mother’s Day to all of you who are a mom, a mom-to-be, or thinking-about-becoming-a-mom.
It’s a strange thing that having immi made me *entitled* to an extra holiday:D
Immi got me a “happy mother’s day” balloon a few days ago when she went grocery shopping with her dad. Todd insists she wanted [...]

It’s been mostly drizzling this past week but we managed to catch 2 hours worth of sunshine that we got today! We ended up playing outside for a while because our neighbor Shelly and her 4 year-old twin boys were at the playground and they had so much fun playing together.

Immi’s fun new words are [...]

Todd got me a little fruit tart when he stopped by the store for few things after work. Treats shouldn’t be had without tea, and immi has been trying to sneak sips of my milk tea every time I make it, so I thought I’d make rooibos (it’s technically not tea, and has no caffeine) [...]