Part of what I love about the girls' names is that they were both popular 100 years ago and many people with those names are now great-grandmas. Both names evoke a vision for me of sweet old ladies rocking away together on a porch. I pray Ella and Sadie will live meaningful lives full of love and will be enjoying each other on a front porch somewhere many years from now.
Showing posts with label ping. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Ping's Birthday Party

Ping (my lovely SIL) turned the the big 3-0 last week. We had a birthday party for her and it turned out to be the day before she gave birth to Silas! I forgot with all of the baby excitement to blog about the party. We had a lot of fun eating a TON of crabs and hanging out with the Fam. The 3 kids got into some (mostly) harmless mischief that we caught on the camera too....

It was so much fun to capture a genuinely surprised and happy expression when she opened our giftt! (even though it was just something from her wish list, she was excited!)

Ella got Aunt Ping's permission to pick "just one" flower from their yard and has taken to doing so every time we got there now. Then she gives it to someone or keeps it and says things like "Oh Mommy! It's SOOOO dutiful! I love flowers!" (and yes, she says dutiful for beautiful)

Ella has also learned where the treats are and Drew and Ping's house (starburst candies) and gets them for herself as congratulations every time she goes to the bathroom there which somehow ends up being 3 or 4 times every time we're there...she's milking this bathroom thing for all it's worth. For instance, today during her rest time in her bed she HAD to go to the bathroom 3 times within about 25 minutes. She knows I'll come running if she yells "Mommy, I have to go potty" and it's a sure fire way to get out of rest time. Arggggg.

So, while we were eating crabs the kids got bored and went inside. Andrew went to check on them and found them in the bathtub, fully clothed, with the water ON!!!! We stripped them down and they had a BLAST.

Dancing, Splashing and screaming at the top of their lungs. Well, Christopher and Ella anyway. Hannah was mostly interested in drinking the water.

SO excited to get to be wild and crazy!


Post bath cuteness :-) Little did they know their new cousin would be coming less than 24 hours later! Can't wait til we have a picture of all 4 cousins together :-) Soon they'll be getting him into all kinds of mischief too :-)

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Silas in here!!!!

I'm SO in love with my brand new nephew! Silas Wang-Shuai was born around 12:30pm today and weighs 8lbs 5oz. Everyone is doing great and he's a super cute, healthy little baby! I haven't been so excited in a long time :-) Yay Ping! And Yay God for answering our prayers for a short, safe delivery and a healthy baby! I'm SOOOO happy!!!


What a cute new family! Andrew, Ping, and Silas

Ella and I loving on Silas

Chris remembered that newborns are supposed to be able to mimic you if you stick your tongue out within hours of birth and Silas did it after a few tries!! Cute and smart!!

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The last couple days...

Pics from the last few days...


On friday we had playgroup at our house and Ella and her friend H disappeared and I went to find them thinking they'd be up to some mischief....nope...reading books to each other in Ella's room...and they continued for a good half hour!

Uncle Drew and Aunt Ping took Ella to a little festival on Saturday. She got to ride a zebra on the carousel, wear a paper crown, and eat ice cream-a perfect day!

Yesterday we got to see our good friend and her baby Daniel. Ella LOVED holding him!

In the last couple days Ella has eaten 15 olives in a sitting as long as she gets to eat them off of her fingers-I'm all for it!

Mmmmm :-)