A few of Wei Wei's favorite things

They did a list in daycare and these were Wei Wei's responses:
Favorite book: race car book
Favorite movie/tv: race cars
Favorite animal: horse
Favorite sport: race cars
Favorite color: red
Favorite food: macaroni and cheese and helicopters
Favorite drink: juice and milk
Favorite toy: Halloween toy
When I grow up, I want to be a: giraffe
My family: Wendy, Daddy
Favorite parent: Terrance the tractor (we added this question)

Questions? He's got 'em

Wei Wei entered the question phase a while ago (why? why? why?), but he's been saying and asking the funniest things lately. Some of our favorites:
Can I put ice on my feet?
Why isn't our car full of frogs?
Can we see what's on tv?
Are robbers bad?
Why is this toy so happy?

And last night Jerry asked Wei Wei to read him a book. Wei Wei happily obliged -- he fetched a book and they sat on the sofa together. He opened the book, looked at the page, then turned to Jerry and said ,"I can't."

We're still here

August to September was busy and September into October seemed to be even busier! We went to California for a week's visit. Spent the first half in San Francisco and the second half in Los Angeles. The main purpose was to visit Judy, P'ng, and our main man Kaixiang (now almost one year old!), but other highlights of the trip include:

Train ride in Tilden Park
Watching the sea lions off Pier 39 (they are a noisy and raucous bunch and don't smell that great)

Seeing our relatives in San Francisco: Yin Yin, Mark, Luke, Whin Whin, Khin Khin, Amy, and Spencer (not Wei Wei's finest moment, as he was terribly jet lagged at that point). We also got to visit auntie and uncle in San Francisco by the marina -- they had a train set for Luke and Spencer's visits, so Wei Wei was in heaven.

Visiting cousins Ken, Diana, and their kids (Kristin and Kenneth) in Davis

Seeing Sue and watching airplanes take off and land

Seeing all of our cousins in Los Angeles-- we all packed on the weight because where there's family, there's food. And there was a lot of family and a lot of food. Burmese food, Korean tofu, homemade mohinga, and Chinese food. We were in heaven.

Picking persimmons from cousin Jing Chi's backyard -- we managed to bring back a whole box! (Dad was happy about that too!)

Navigating the flight from SF to LAX and then from LAX to NJ. People have scaled Mt. Everest with less luggage. Judy and I were quite the sight.