Saturday, July 23, 2011

Summer Time


Reuben Fleet Science Center.....this was actually late Spring. I loved going up and down the stairs!



Karl Strauss with the Zapatas....Nicolas and I still need to improve our dating behavior.


The Mission in North Park with Mama and Vovo





My "Cool, cool, cool trick" (Courtesy of Yo Gabba Gabba)



Playing at the park at Mission Bay




I think I am just hilarious!




Buried in strawberries at the Carlsbad Strawberry Fields




My hair is long enough to blow in the wind



My serious face

I am glad that my mommy only has one more week of work. Then she has a month off so her and I can have so much fun! I just can't wait to spend more time with mom!

Monday, July 4, 2011

2 Year Old Performer



She is growing up so fast. Emma just had her 2 year checkup last week. She now weighs 28 pounds (65th percentile) and is 34 inches tall (45th percentile). She is a healthy growing girl and doing amazing. She LOVES going to school and comes home singing songs all the time. I finally caught her performance on video!

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Mother's Day


Attempting to re-enact our pose from Mother's Day last year.....




Clearly she is bigger now. I love being a mom more than I could ever put into words!!!

Mommy's Musician



She loved the keyboard. She also demonstrated quite a bit of rhythm on the drums!



Thanks Uncle Jon for letting me mess with your stuff!

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Spring Break 2011

Spring Break started off with me and mommy taking a road trip to visit my Kupuna and Vovo for a few days. I was such a good girl for the trip and showed my grandparents what a ham I am!

Posing for the camera!



Playing at the park with Vovo




Trying to take a bad picture



Helping Vovo clean outside



Playing at the park with Mommy



Yeah, you know you think I'm cute!





When we got back to San Diego, mommy took me to Sea World. I was really tired so we went home after 20 minutes. I took a nice nap and then we went back in the afternoon. I was in a much better mood the second time around!

I loved playing in the water. It was a little bit cold but I told mom to loosen up and just let me have fun!




Appreciate this picture! It was not easy to get!



Running around throwing blocks



Pre-nap meltdown. I did not appreciate mom taking a picture.



Even when I was on the ride, I looked mad so we went home right after the "up and down".


I went back to school at the end of the week so mom could enjoy a few days of peace and quiet. I was glad to get back to see my friends. To end the week, mommy and I went to see Khalielah, Jeremy and Mahalia. Mahalia is going to be a big sister and her mommy's tummy is cool!

Playing with Mahalia, also known as Hey-a!



We CAN be peaceful.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Another friend turns two

My friend Leo from school had his birthday party this weekend at KidVentures in San Diego. I had a lot of fun playing with my friends from school!



Woah, this slide is very fast!


Peek-a-boo! My hair looks like the grass painted on the wall!



Having so much fun on the parachute!


Shaking my booty in the dancing room!



Devising my plan to throw this shaker over the side of the pirate ship...

Monday, February 21, 2011

Jumping the Gun....

I am obsessed with number two. Mommy keeps telling me to stop saying this....

Busy Month

The past month would not have been a standard Lui month without an Emma ear infection, so I got one just to maintain the order and balance of life. I've got a few more teeth now, running around like a crazy girl and I am talking up a storm. Mommy and daddy said they are amazed at how much I am learning. Mom said some of her favorite things that I say are "Starbucks, mommy coffee?", Target, stop it daddy, I so hungy (for hungry), "ooh, mama it coooold ow-side", "Dada, ere arrrrre you?" (when daddy works late), "Not dis one" (while I am dressing her), I dancin' wif frends mama (when I picked her up from school and she was freeze dancing), and while pointing to a Red Bull "Oh, mama, it daddy agua!". Along with around 100 or more single words, I am calling everyone by name (my family, my teachers, my friends) and singing lots of songs. Most of the time my "conversations" are only understood by mama and sometimes this frustrates me. I am trying to get better about not hitting when I'm mad, but sometimes its so hard! So here are a few photos from the past month.....


I've been growing a lot, so I've needed a lot of sleep. I think even when I'm sleeping.




Riding the "up da down" (aka the Carousel at Balboa Park)




Waiting so patiently to ride the Balboa Park train! "All aboh!!!"





Playing with my friend Kayla and practicing how to share my things.




Kayla is so helpful!




Chillin' in the chair, snuggling with Elmo and watching my first DVD, Monsters Inc. Mama can't believe I sat through the whole thing!




It's a stretch, but hey it's still a ponytail!




Mommy and Daddy spent an evening away for the first time since I was born. I didn't really even want them to take a picture by themselves!




Valentine's cookie decorating at school. Mommy was shocked when I ate some frosting!




The sprinkles were so good!

Monday, January 17, 2011

Rocky Balboa

Here I am on the way home from school, right after I fell face first into a little outside table. Owie!!! My teacher said I barely cried and mama said she was proud of me for being so brave! I made sure to milk my injury as much as possible. As soon as I got home, I made sure to tell dad what happened. "Boom, boom Dooooooown! Ow-weeee. Eye. Outside. Boom boom, cwying. Waah. Ohhh Down."



This was a couple of days later. It started getting more black, then green, then yellow. Here I am wearing my "crazy cat lady" jacket (as daddy calls it!)

Four Christmases

The holidays were very busy in the Lui household. Me and Mommy spent a week at my Kupuna and Vovo's house. Then I went to my great aunt's house, then to see Mema and Grandpa Rai, then to San Francisco to visit mom and dad's friend, then back to San Diego for Christmas at home with mommy and daddy. I really enjoyed getting to miss school for almost 3 whole weeks! Woo hoo! See emmakalai.shutterfly.com for all of my Christmas photos ! (Beware there are over 700 pictures!) Here are the highlights....


Christmas #1: Kupuna and Vovo's house



Christmas #2: Aunt Jeanie's House in Discovery Bay



Christmas #3: Mema and Grandpa Rai's


Christmas #4: Home with Mom and Dad