La Primera Vez

Yesterday, Andrew spoke Spanish for the first time without me prompting him to. I only speak a few random words here and there to him so I never actually expected him to pick up on it.

I asked him if he wanted more food and he said, "no mas", which means, "no more". Then I asked him if he knew what "no mas" meant and he said, "'no mas' means 'no more', but if I want yes more then I say, 'yes mas'". Okay, so he doesn't totally get Spanish... or English. :)

Keira tried to speak her first Chinese this morning. She was giving me a cup of "tea" and each time she gave it to me, I said, "Thank you. Shieh shieh." The last time I handed it back to her, she said, "Shish". It was very cute.

As for English, I think one of Keira's first words was "trash". I told her we needed to go get the trash and she said, "tash". Not a very ladylike word, but still very sweet. :)

"Calculated"

Andrew is learning new words, but not necessarily new definitions. Here are a couple examples of the word, "calculated".

Andrew, talking about his stuffed animals in his room: "You see, the thing is, they just got all calculated."

Andrew sitting at the table with cupcake all over him: "My hands are all calculated."

Andrew's in Charge

Here's a conversation I had earlier today with Andrew:

Cheri: Andrew, tomorrow is Friday Fun Day! That means Josh and Zach are coming over to play.
Andrew: And Aunt Allie too?
C: No, she gets to go have some time to herself while we all get to play together.
A: Well, maybe you could go with Aunt Allie. It could just be all of us.
C: Who?
A: Me and Josh and Zach and Mei-Mei.
C: What would you do without Aunt Allie or myself around?
A: We would go potty and go outside and play.
C: What would you do if you got hungry?
A: We would make lunch for us.
C: What would you make?
A: Hot rice... and peas.
C: What if you couldn't get to the peas?
A: We would just get closer.
C: Okay. It sounds like you've got it under control.

So, Allie, where do you want to go tomorrow???

Andrew's Big Performance

Today was Andrew's first performance in front of the church. Pre-schoolers are always cute, but with one of them being ours, it was adorable! His whole class (made up of all boys) is a really sweet group of kiddos. Some of you may recognize Andrew's buddy, Noah, on his left-hand side.

They sang a song from Psalm 121.

The Move

The first weekend in April, Keira and I flew out to Wisconsin to visit my sister and her family. I hope to post some pictures from that visit soon. In the meantime, here are some pics from the boys' time back at home. Gabe took Andrew to Disney on Ice. This is the Dash costume that came with the cotton candy.

Gabe had their time booked up with fun activities, including go-to-work-with-daddy day, going out to dinner, Disney on Ice, church, a movie with some kids at church, going to see his first big-screen movie, and a sleepover... am I forgetting anything? Whew! I'm exhausted just thinking of all of that! What a dad!Michael and Leila came later that week to visit and help us finish packing and start the move. Here's a pic from the arboretum. I think Leila looks about my age here. Isn't the background amazing?!Nonnie and Andrew time.We moved to Anaheim the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. It went really smoothly. We had 11 people from church come spend their Saturday helping us move. This is our last pic from the old place.

... and here's our first pic at the new place! We have LOVED having a backyard. We eat outside fairly often and spend a good portion of the rest of the day out there as well.

Go Lakers!

This was one of those days when you say, "Is this real?" It was Gabe's first work from home day and we had a nice lunch outside using Gabe and Allie's nice patio furniture. (Thanks guys! Take your time picking it up!) It was about 75 degrees with a light breeze. Ahhhhhh...

When Keira wears this hat, she reminds me of Charlie from Top Gun. I always thought she was the most beautiful woman alive, growing up.