Category Archives: Easter
Holidays Fall 2020 to Early 2021
This past year of holidays has been very interesting. Due to the worldwide pandemic, we kept to ourselves and had a nice intimate celebration for each holiday. Life has been crazy but here are some photos of from the last few holidays from fall of 2020 to early 2021!
Happy 22 Months Leo!
Happy 22 months to my sweet little Leo! Sorry for the late post Leo! Leo weighs in at 24.6lbs and stretches about 33 inches tall! He is getting so strong everyday and just a week ago he was able to pull himself up to stand and even cruised a few steps!! He also can now give kisses, which is most him opening his mouth and sticking his tongue on your face, but I’ll take his kisses all day any day! He doesn’t do it every time I ask but he does most of the time!! He still isn’t eating solids yet but he recently had a feeding evaluation and it was very informative and promising. He’s going to get a feeding specialist on top of his usual OT and in the meantime, I’m going to try to put about 10% of purée pears, or any subtle flavoring foods into his pediasure, using any-cut (or x-cut) nipple and see how he does. This will slowly introduce food to him in a familiar setting (in his bottle) so that he doesn’t aggressively turn it way before even trying it. I hope it works!!! He has grabbed pieces of bananas and licked it though, so that is progress!! Leo can give high fives almost every time you ask him now and I feel like he’s starting to try to talk! Whenever I change his diaper, I’ll give him a toy to play with to distract him so that he’s not squirming around and I swear he said thank you! My friends say they heard him say thank you at other times too so I’m not making it up in my head haha! I think he sees his bottle and tries to say “bottle” too! He is growing and developing and making amazing progress! I cannot be more proud of my little prince Leo!! We also got a swing for him that hangs in the backyard and he loves it!! It melts my heart when he smiles and laugh from pure joy! I love you Leo, you’re my inspiration!!
Enjoy these fun videos of the kiddoes!
Easter 2014
Happy Easter! This year we did something new and took her to an Easter Egg Hunt at Pantera Park in Diamond Bar with Mieng and Sandy and Emmy! Lily was too shy to go to the 4 years old and under kid section for the egg hunt so we had to take her to the parent assisted section, and Khoa took her in while I stood outside to try to take pictures. I said “tried” to take pictures because once the announcer said “GO!”, everyone just swarmed into the center of the field and grabbed all the eggs within seconds!! I was so shocked I didn’t get any pictures! haha. Then Khoa was lost in the crowd for a bit and so there was no point in taking any pictures. They did get 2 eggs though, they had a candy in each egg haha. I think Lily felt very overwhelmed by how many people were there, so she wanted to be held the entire time. I think next year will be better if we don’t go to the parent assisted one. However, due to my lack of photo abilities, Mieng did get this nice photo of me and Lily!! Thanks!! =)
After the egg hunt, which lasted like 2 minutes haha, we decided to go to the park nearby to let the kids roam around and burn off some energy before lunch! Lily looooves the park and made a few friends at the park too. She saw some kids and just sat down in the sand box and started playing with their toys haha. What a social butterfly! After a good hour or so at the park, we went to eat lunch at one of Khoa’s favorite Shabu places called Paper Pot! Lily was so tired by then that she took a nap in her stroller while we ate! We then did a quick milk tea run and then headed over to Goat Hill Junction Railroad in Costa Mesa for a free 15 minute train ride! Lily was still snoozing like the sleeping machine she is, and so the Saetia’s went on the train ride first, and then finally Lily decided to join the party haha. The train ride was pretty cool, it was this cute little train that you would straddle, and it takes you around this big park with random little ponds and bridges. It was really nice and relaxing! After the train ride, the kids had a blast running around and playing with the rocks on the floor haha. Thanks Sandy for inviting us to come, it was such a cool and fun experience!! It’s always nice to create new memories with such wonderful people! =)
On Easter Sunday, we went to church just the three of us and then went to have a nice lunch at Ajisen (ramen) at Diamond Jamboree! I got Lily this Lychee Raspberry Yogurt Juice, and boy she sure loved it!! She wouldn’t put the juice down!! It was a very large cup too and drank more than half of it! Haha. We went home and stay home for the rest of the day and enjoyed a nice and relaxing Sunday at home, watching the The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and then a bunch of TV since Lily took a majorly long nap that allowed us to do so haha. Easter is a celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and therefore the celebration of renewed life. It’s like a clean start after all the sacrifices he made for us. So this year’s Easter, is a celebration for life, not just for Jesus Christ and mankind, but for our family as well. We’ve had two losses this past year, and after this Easter Holiday, I am trying my best to start anew, and celebrate the life we do have now. The loss we suffered won’t be forgotten, but they’ll be forever in my heart. As I look to the future, I must embrace and enjoy the present. I’m so grateful for all that I have, and even though I don’t know how I got to where I am now, I cannot be more happy and am super humbled to have the wonderful life I have. We only have 1 life to live, and so we must cherish all the moments and live it truly to the fullest. I’m lucky to have so much love in my life, love from my family, friends, Khoa, and most of all, my Lily pad. I will continue to give love and be loved, and make sure that Lily has the best loving life possible. I love you so much my love!! Happy Easter everyone!
Lily’s 1st Easter! 2013
Lily celebrates her first Easter this weekend! I picked out flowers and arranged them myself for the first time this weekend, because I wanted some fresh pretty flowers for the holiday! I got sunflowers, carnations in white, pink, and white with blue sprayed tips, purple flowers (I forgot the name but it’s really pretty), stargazers, calla lily, and some greeneries! I also got a basket that was on sale (60% off) at Jo-Ann’s and got some carrots, and bunny ears as props for this weekend’s celebration! Don’t the flowers look so pretty?? The bunny in the picture below is also very cute =P. I just love this dress on Lily, I got it from Baby Gap, it’s so cute and pretty! I dressed her up with my pearl necklace Khoa’s grandmother gave me a toddler pearl headband I got at target! =)
We started the weekend Saturday morning by going to try out a free Gymboree Learn & Play (Level 2) class in Anaheim Hills. Overall I think she had an okay time. She liked the this wall mirror the most, and didn’t really care for ther other foam obstacles. She liked the play balls they had and all the bubbles too. She was also very curious about the giant parachute, but I think because there were so many people in the class, about 10-12 babies and twice the amount of adults, she was too overwhelmed and didn’t want to be detached from us. So the only time she was ok was when she was on our lap or playing somewhere distant from the rest of the people haha. I think this class might be a little too intense for her so we won’t be coming back for awhile, maybe we’ll try again when she’s older! Overall though, we got some cute photos of her when we did enjoy her time! =)
Baby soccer time!
Lily loves the bubbles!
Lily fascinated with the giant parachute!
We had lunch at that new place we haven’t been to before that’s conveniently right next to the Gymboree, called Wood Ranch BBQ & Grill. The food was really tasty there and what was really cool was that they had a complimentary baby plate for Lily that consisted of cheerios, half a banana, and 2 slices of orange!! She totally enjoyed her little plate and loved looking around at the surrounding decorations. This was the first time she tried eating orange too, and it looked like she loved it!!
We went to an Easter event that our friends Drexelle and David invited us to at their church Mariner’s Church. They had a big easter egg hunt at the start of the event, but we missed it since we had Lily’s gymboree class and lunch ran late. It was a good thing we missed it though because it sounded like it was very chaotic and we didn’t want lily to get trampled over either. They had a separate baby section from age 0-3 years, but even then that’s a big age range. We met up with Drexelle, David, Knightly and Mike at the event and hung out with Drexelle’s family as well. It was so nice to see cute little Knightly and Drex’s family was totally gushing over Lily! Here are some photos that David and Drexelle took for us, arent’ they so lovely?! Thanks so much D. Park Photography for these awesome photos!!!
Sunday we went to church with Khoa’s parents and had lunch at his parents house. His dad made banh xeo, yummy!!! After lunch, Khoa and I enjoyed our annual easter egg scavenger hunt in our home! Ever since we moved into our new home almost 4 years ago, Khoa always made me an easter egg scavenger hunt in our house. He would hide eggs with candy in them, with clues that’ll lead me to find several eggs lying around the house. He would write the clues in first person of the egg, so it was fun to read it from the egg’s perspective! This year I get to do the hunt with Lily’s help! Khoa even put some cheerios and puffs inside the eggs for Lily to enjoy, so that it’s not just for me! It’s a fun tradition that Khoa and I have, and now we get to have Lily join us as well. We then ended our holiday by catching up on our shows. Nothing’s better than relaxing at home cuddled up on the coach with the ones you love! =) For more pictures from our Easter weekend, click here! Happy Easter everyone!!
My two bunnies! Who wore it best? hehe!
Lily 42 weeks & 2 days old, happy 1st Easter my darling!!
