Archive for August, 2009
Auntie Junko is visiting this weekend. Todd and his friends went out to watch UFC this evening and Immi’s brother is totally passed out tired from shopping earlier…so its basically just the three of us here enjoying tea and chocolate.
Immi is baking something in her kitchen.
Got tired playing and fell asleep.
A month after immi’s brother was born… In the mornings and afternoon, everything is under control (for now anyhow). I have time to have a cup of coffee, clean up (it’s not perfect, mind you), do laundry, make lunch for todd, blog, and take on craft projects while taking care of and playing with immi & ashland and then twitter about all that. I’ve even be able to work on music some (granted, I’m only making verys slow progress!).
…and then comes 5 pm. Immi and Ashland both gets a little high-maintenance. And then by 7 pm our household is in complete CHAOS! It’s definitely a lot worse when Todd works later than 6pm, which is quite usual. I used to be able handle immi being temperamental just fine by giving her undevided attention…which is now impossible if Ashland is cranky at the same time. When I leave Ashland upset for more than a minute, he becomes really really temperamental for next few hours!
Here’s immi having a meltdown in middle of the hallway. She had taken off her clothes and put on a pink tutu.
And by 10:30 pm, they both calm down. Ashland usually just goes to sleep until I wake him up to feed him before I go to sleep, and immi returns to her usual self. In evitably, we’ll find somesort of solution to this (or get used to it anyhow!), but for now, chaos reigns between 7 pm – 10:30 pm 
Immi still keeps squirrling away her brother’s toy. This time, she hid them in her pony bin.
And she isn’t the only one. Oskar keeps sneaking into Immi’s room and stealking her stuffed animals (he only likes certain ones). He think that they are his friends and carries them off to groom them.
Immi is hanging out in our patio garden.
She is talking to the pepper plant which has grown very tall!
The pretty green dress and the cute pair of sandals immi is wearing are some of the late summer/autumn apparels from her Grandmom:)
We were trying to shop at Costco, but got discouraged at the parking lot by too many people/cars, pouring rain, and no parking space (what were we thinking going to Costco mid-afternoon on a Saturday??). …So we decided to have a snack at the Thai restaurant right across the street instead.
We told immi to get up off the floor and put her shoes back on but she thinks that we are just being funny.
We had to confiscate immi’s chair for the time being because she kept tipping it over on purpose and sitting on it’s side (and occasionally falling off of it because the chair isn’t balanced on it’s side). Here she is eating her breakfast standing up (so sad!).
But confiscating her chair had a really undesirable side effect (*sigh*). One is her sitting on her table:
…And the even worse one is dancing (with a fork in hand!) while eating:
Those toys on her table are immi’s old toys that I had gotten out for her little brother shortly after he was born since he had such a strong grip that I figured he can play with them already. Anyway, it seems that Immi doesn’t want to share these particular two toys with him — she keeps squirrling them away!
Immi is stringing beads. We hadn’t tried this until now, but it seems that she was probably ready for it long time ago.
Here’s a video. It almost looks like a tutorial with immi’s commentary:D
Immi is playing with play-doh ice cream shop.
…it’s been keeping her busy for 2 hours!
She got tired and fell a sleep leaning on a table.
When my friends Allison and Aurie visited us last Saturday, Aurie brought for immi the cutest Hello Kitty lunch bag! Immi loves it of course and stuffs it with her little toys.
We are having a nintendo night (popcorn and NES! …tetris 2 why is this so difficult or are we just tired?). Immi likes to think that she is playing.
Immi is giving her brother a hug. She gives him kisses on his head too.
Immi has been a very good older sister. She seems quite understanding when her brother needs my attention, and hasn’t made a fuss over this. She empathises when he is upset (she pretends too be upset when he cries), which is a sweet gesture, but really doesn’t help me because her [pretend] cry makes Ashland more upset:D
Immi is playing with her new and fabulous watering can (this toy is amphibious, immi takes it to her bath time too) and toaster.
I broke her doll by accident while I was trying to clean-up in a hurry:( I’ll put it away and maybe she won’t notice it’s gone?
As usual I have been keeping the Immi wordpress engine alive here and powering the internetz with cuteness. Wordpress has been upgraded to 2.8.3 !!! And there are going to be some other technical improvements (hint hint) on the way as I have been further honing my wordpress ninja skillz to implement further cute-havings in the webiverse. Meow 
We are at Todd’s friend’s. She is being spoiled with more jewelries than would fit on her!
Immi is not pleased. I don’t know why, she was happy just a second ago — maybe because she is two? Her Hello Kitty shirt she got recently (from her Obaachan in Japan) happen to match the HK pillow my friend Aurie got for her!
I see immi playing with this doll more often lately (she’s had her for almost 2 years). Mostly, she like to take her boots and clothes on and off and on and off. Unfortunately, due to the doll’s exaggerated anatomical features, dressing/undressing is difficult for immi (it’s not that easy even for me!) and requires my help…
It’s the first family phở expedition with all four of us. …but immi and her brother both fell a sleep on the way and show no sign of waking up! Immi hasn’t been taking or really needing a nap lately but she tends to fall a sleep when we take her out for a drive in the evening.
Immi snoozing in her HelloKitty palace.
Immi and her little brother. Immi knows that this swing isn’t hers and doesn’t try to climb in, but she likes to turn the switch on and make it swing.
We are at Greenberry’s for Sunday Coffee. The very nice barista made for Immi a free hot chocolate for being cute.
Immi and her dad are swimming. Her little brother is sleeping and I’m sitting by the pool spectating.
