Isabel's First Pottery Painting Class

On Sunday, I planned a playdate for Isabel with 4 of her friends to paint Pottery. Isabel loved it as did all of her friends. She is so grown up now so I wanted to expose her to more art. the Rainbow coin bank is hers. Her ninong will pick it up for her in a week after they glaze it. :-) Lei

Isabel's First Karate Seminar - with Senior Sensei

On Friday, both Jaime and I left work a little early so we can take Isabel to her first Karate Seminar with the grand master of Karate - who was born in Japan and now lives in LA.  Isabel seems to be the only child invited from the SF Karate classes. It was quite an experience for Isabel

Happy 90th birthday Tita Yo

We hope to see you soon. Have a great day!
Lei

Swimming class by herself

Isabel started swimming last week - she goes all by herself and we just watch from the sidelines.

She is making a ton of progress now and on sat dunked her head all the way and picked up an octopus toy at the bottom of the pool. Pool is about 2-3 feet tall.

So proud of her.

Mornings with mama

Isabel is growing up so fast and I want to do more things with her on a regular basis. So now on Tuesdays and Fridays morning, I spend an hour with her at the coffee house before going to work.

Here she is carrying my bag with her coloring book and pens. She is getting to be such a big girl.

Russian Hills Academy - Oct 2012

Opening Car Seat Present from Lao Ye and Lao Lao

Since my parents couldn't be there with us at Xmas, I took a video of Isabel opening their present - a convertible booster car seat as she is a big girl and her little sister will now use her other seat. Isabel is very happy Lei

Alexis Signature Crawl

Alexis still loves to crawl and she is very good at it.  She does it with so much cuteness that I am not sure I want her to walk yet. She tilt her head from side to side when she crawls to express her enjoyment. See this video

Kindergarten Application Submitted

Who knew applying to public school for 5 year old could take so much time. Well after many tours of different elementary school, I submitted the application today in person at 555 Franklin. 

All apps have to be submitted in person by Jan 22 so I thought I beat the rush. Her school choices are 

1. Starr King Mandarin Immersion program
2. Sherman General Ed 
3. Garfield General Ed
4. John Chin General Ed

Her language test is on Sat Jan 26.  Fluency in Mandarin will help greatly to get our first choice.  crossing our fingers.  We don't find out until March 15.

Lei

Russian Hills Academy - Videos and Photos - Sept 2012

Alexis loves real food

Forget gerber. Once Alexis started eating food from the table she is not going back. Smart kid as our food has much more flavor than the baby stuff. Here she is eating a corn dog and loving it