Are we really into another month?
He lives big alright!
Fair Park for Earth Day TX!
Hours at the “A, Bee Seas” Lego Build.
Daddy had to make one, too.
As part of the festivities, it was free entrance that weekend to the Texas Discovery Gardens.
Chalking a VW at Plano Art Fest.
Trying yet another one of the new tea places that are opening everywhere!
Does this count as parkour? We hadn’t been here in just a few short months and he can already reach the top.
Dallas Get Kidz Fit Festival. Great initiative from the mayor to get kids moving!
Thank you and farewell dinner for Uncle Dan before he joins family in TW for awhile… Skewers and Asian street food.
Who knows what this is?
Rolled into this…
Ice cream! Our first time checking out what all the hype is about. Plus, a huge bowl of taro snow…
He is a blur when it comes to i.c. consumption… Percentage eaten by E > y + g + d combined. :)
Got knighted (not beheaded).
Very shyly met a princess.
Royal tea: dragon’s scale (Dorito), dragon’s claw (Bugle), dragon’s egg (malt ball) and mote water.
Auntie Angeline shared some homemade Singaporean delights with us and Y was beside himself. :)
A picture of the school picture. :) Not a huge enough fan of these posed sorts to purchase…
Sole bluebonnet photo this year, minus people.
Spring storms!
Lightning right above our house…
Off to SF next week! Y had to renew his S’pore passport and they now require you to show up in person at one of their consulates. We decide to make it a b-day (Daddy) and Mother’s Day trip. :)
A new park with a zip line!
Trucking through mulch.
The Menchie’s Man came out for their grand opening.
Always can’t pass up free froyo…
He’s not Batman but… at least a superhero?
Another grand opening at Springfree Trampolines.
Met this nice guy named Joe and didn’t find out ’til later he plays for the Dallas Cowboys!
Took Daddy to the Videogame Museum on their anniversary complimentary entry weekend… He couldn’t make it last year.
E’s sure missed Duck Hunt.
Couldn’t wait for it to rain to try these Batman boots! :P
Watching Daddy play on a cool, calm spring evening…
Chinky classmates at Chinese school…
New coffee shop in Frisco with games and Lego aplenty. They also make matcha lattes… but sadly, underwhelmed. :(
Hey, Mr. Bunny!
He likes the egg opening more than the hunt. :p
TRU had an interesting scavenger type one through their store… E finished first! The prizes were actually pretty good.
And then he got an ear infection right on Holy Week and Easter weekend. :( It was his first ever actually and shortly after getting some water in his ears from swim lessons and just horrific allergies. Besides a lot of (seemingly earth-shattering) things going on at the same time, we stopped and just reflected on the Lamb, putting it all in perspective.
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” -1 Peter 1:3
We reside and rest in that Living Hope!
E has pretty much been celebrating his b-day all month long. :) That is, in between allergies gone haywire and back-to-back-to-back colds in the household. Lots of friends, co-workers and classmates have been experiencing the same… It’s been another mild winter but the finicky weather seems to be taking a toll on everyone.
We had planned a small family party for him later in the month as that was when Angeline (our baker) was available… He requested a Batman cake this year. No surprise!
But Ah-Gong and Ah-Ma were nice enough to still get him a cake to sing to on his actual birthday.
We celebrated Kayson’s 1st. His birthday is close to Elias’. Shortly after this photo, he stuck his hand in the candle instead of blowing it out. Ouch!
This one loves to party!
…’specially when there’s cake involved. :) He knows he only gets to eat it on occasion.
Nice catching up with an old Gymboree buddy. You know, they go waaaaay back. Hehe.
Got to catch the Sesame Street pop-up Kindness tour with friend, Charlotte.
Watched from above, away from the crowd.
Elmo looked huge.
Hot pot heaven at this new place in town — similar to one we went to in SD.
After-dinner tea (dessert for him — grandparents like to spoil!).
Fun outing with the Tan gals when they were in town for their Spring Break. Train tour, playground and then a stroll through downtown Plano. First stop was for cakeballs!
They are kinda color coordinated. Think it was St. Paddy’s Day so green was in order.
Serious chocolate tasting went down…
Sugar high? Yes, oh yes!
Coffee shop love at XO Coffee Co. — the new kid on the block. We later found out it’s owned by David Hasselhoff’s nephew?
Met up another day at the library, joined by the Wu girls. (Couldn’t corral them all for a group pic this time.) E was the token male. :)
Picked up E’s official birthday cake. Auntie Angeline never disappoints! Batman, however, toppled over a few times in the car. :D
Guess where?
Hard to believe that 4 years have passed… It keeps getting better and better with this one. Happy, Happy Birthday, our little dark knight! You shine so brightly in our hearts. :)
Similar to last year, a beheading took place.
We saved leftover cake and the fondant sugar pieces and E has been noshing away on them bit by bit.
Batman bites Batman! Lol.
Freebie #1 on the first official day of Spring.
And #2… How fitting they were, given it was already feeling pretty balmy that day.
And many congrats to Uncle Jong and Auntie Pui Yee on baby Ethan Kao, born March 9, far, far away in Guernsey in the English Channel. Yay for March birthdays and a new British cousin. :P Can’t wait to meet you, hopefully sometime soon…
