First playdate

Today Lydia and I went to our first playdate; we met up with ACC church friends Joyce with her daughter Rebekah and Vicki with her kids Isabella and Ethan. We had a delightful lunch of noodles and dumplings at Joyce's house. Rebekah took a quick nap while the other kids "played" though Ethan and Lydia are still a bit young at fourteen months (one week apart) to really play. Ethan didn't want Lydia too close to him, so that's why she's a bit distant in this picture. :P

Isabella (3), Rebekah (2), Ethan (1), Lydia (1)

Showers of blessings

Saturday, I attended two baby showers. The first one was for my one of my bridesmaids Wendy, (middle front) who is expecting a little girl in late January.

The second baby shower was for my neighbor Grace, who is expecting a little girl next month.

Congratulations to you both! We cannot wait for Baby Cheng and Rachel to arrive!

Come one, come all

Come and celebrate the goodness of God with us!


You are cordially invited

to a reception to celebrate

the 25th anniversary of

Pastor Jason Lee

as a Minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ

to the Tallowood Baptist Church

Chinese Congregation.

and

We will also celebrate the

35th Wedding Anniversary

of Pastor Jason and Mrs. Ruth Lee

on Saturday, the seventeenth of November

Two thousand and seven

at three o’clock in the afternoon

Tallowood Baptist Church Fireplace Room

555 Tallowood Road

Houston, Texas


Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt His name together.

Psalm 34:3


Your love is a treasured gift we request no other.

Please pray

Please pray for my maternal grandmother who originally was thought to have stomach cancer, but has now been diagnosed with lymphoma, a cancer originating from the white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system. She is in her 80s and undergoes chemotherapy today. Grandma has not yet met Trung or Lydia, so we hope that all goes well so that she can meet them and the new baby next winter when we plan on traveling to Taiwan.

Preggers here, preggers there

Jennifer Lopez officially announced last night at a concert that she was indeed pregnant. She didn't say when she was due, but from what I've read, she's expecting right around the same time that I am. Also, Giada De Laurentiis from the Food Network channel is also expecting in early April...a baby girl. If you don't know which chef she is, Giada cooks Italian food and is the one with the big smile and tiny little waist. Here's a fun fact: her grandfather is film producers Dino De Laurentiis.

Here are some random tidbits:
- I have no clue who is going to win Dancing with the Stars, but I kinda hope it's not Mel B. She a really good dancer, but I think she's just been lucky lately because she doesn't dedicate even half as much time into training as the other dancers and their schedules are just as hectic. I do enjoy watching Jennie, Cameron, and Helio dance, so I hope one of them wins.
- My childhood church friend Susan Mitchell was on Jeopardy's Tournament of Champions yesterday. She didn't win this time around, but got second place, so she still might make the wild card round. Good for you, Susan!
- Lydia got her flu shot today. The pediatrician's office ran out of preservative free ones quite some time ago, so she got the regular one. There has been so much talk about the shot causing autism that I honestly would have preferred the preservative free one, but Trung and I think that she will be just fine.

Chilly

Lydia and I went to get the mail today and brrr, it's chilly out there. It's nice having the cooler weather, but in a couple days it will be gone again, and then back again, and then gone again. Gotta love the Texas weather! I taught Lydia how to put her hands in her pockets, well, more like I just put them in for her. :)

Contact

This past weekend I thought I felt the baby moving, but decided that it was gas; last night I definitely felt him/her. I can usually feel the movements when I'm laying down and nothing else is going on around me, like last night when I was going to sleep. I felt the baby move two weeks earlier than my last pregnancy; I already knew the sex of the baby the first time around before I could feel anything.

Okay, so I have a gut feeling now that we're having a girl. I don't know if I can wait three more weeks to find out, much less wait until Christmas. What to do, what to do! I KNOW that I'll slip somehow if I find out first, but I HAVE to know now. Oh, and it doesn't help that I talk in my sleep either. AHHHH!!!

Fourteen Months Old

Every month I'm amazed at how much Lydia has developed and grown. She truly is no longer a baby, but rather, a little girl. Lately everyone has been saying that she exactly looks like me (especially as a child); I can't help but beam with pride. What do you think?

Or does she look more like my niece Jocelyn?

Changes

Yesterday we finally turned Lydia's car seat front facing because though she has been over a year old for a couple months now, she just now got to the twenty pound mark. She thoroughly enjoyed her first car ride facing forward, laughing at loud as Trung and I would look back at her. (I just recently stopped sitting in the back seat with her because she was getting kind of spoiled). I think that Lydia could definitely get used to the change of scenery.

Today was Daylight Savings, which I thought putting Lydia to sleep an hour later last night would help her adjust, but she ended up waking up at 6:30 AM (7:30 AM) still. Our usual church service starts at 9:30 AM, so we definitely weren't going to be able to make it to that service since Lydia woke up from her morning nap at 9:45 AM. So, today we made our occasional visit to Hyde Park Baptist Church. Trung and I enjoy the sermons there quite a bit and we seem to "get" the pastor more than at Austin Chinese Church. We have been attending ACC mainly out of convenience because it is one block away and the service time fits better with Lydia's naptime. We do like it at ACC and have meet new friends, but once the kids are older, HPBC will probably be our church of choice.

We attended our temporary former roommate Henry's housewarming party today after church. Homemade pot stickers and sweet rice wraps were only a couple of the treats provided. Henry settled his family in a new house only three miles away from us; we like to think that he wanted to be near to us. :)

Lost and Found

Wednesday as I was returning home from shipping my eBay items at the post office, I was thinking how fortunate I have been in receiving all my eBay purchases. Well, I "thought" too fast because just that same day, I did not receive my first package. The USPS track and confirm website reported that the shipment was delivered that morning, but where was the package? I called the post office that delivers our mail and they said to call back in the morning to talk to our mail carrier Joe. The next morning Joe said he remembered putting a package in our box, which he did, but it wasn't the "lost" package. After claiming that he would find it and dropping by my house for the tracking number, Joe finally admitted that he couldn't find it yesterday.

I had ordered a bunch of self adhesive labels to make printing shipping labels a lot easier. The package's total cost was about $7.00, but it was the concept that USPS had lost my package that really bothered me the most. Last night I ordered some more labels, but fewer this time just in case the original package turned up. As I was mailing our Netflix movie this morning, I noticed on the floor next to our neighborhood mailboxes a package with my name on it. I guess a neighbor got it and just put it there for someone to claim...it would have been nice to have it hand/door delivered, but at least I finally got my package. Well, I ran into Joe just now and told him about it; maybe he'll pay closer attention next time.