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Happy 5th & 8th Birthday Leo & Lily!
Happy milestone 5th birthday to my little prince Leo and happy golden 8th birthday to my princess Lily!! Lily measures about 48 inches tall and weighs about 42 pounds. Leo stretches about 44 inches and weighs in at 37 pounds. This year we had to experience the unfortunately worldwide pandemic of covid-19 and so the kids this year celebrated their birthday at home through zoom. I made a balloon garland and blew up a ton of golden and different blue color balloons to decorate the house as well and made them each a display cake that had all their current favorite things on it. I also made a read strawberry cake for Lily with whipped cream cheese frosting on it and got Leo a cheesecake since he cannot have eggs. The morning of their birthdays, I surprised them with a bunch of blue balloons all over the floor of their bedrooms, so that was very fun to watch them wake up to that! I had a bunch of candied bacon for their dessert as well and ordered Olive Garden (Lily’s favorite) delivered for lunch and invited friends to wish the kids a happy birthday! It wasn’t as extravagant as I planned for earlier this year but it was still perfect because the kids had so much fun and felt all the love from everyone, and that’s all that matters.
Lily learned how to ride her bike this past year and nailed it really quickly, within 30 minutes! I’m so proud of her dedication and willingness to learn, even if it may seem scary at first. She also learned how to swim, and can even do the forward stroke decently. She can float and play in the pool all on her own with no floaties, what a big girl now! Lily really likes to cook and bake still, she’s my little sous chef! She also likes to practice origami and her favorite thing to fold right now are boxes, cubes boxes where you blow into it and it puffs up into a box! She is a very social person and so staying quarantined these last few months have been quite challenging, as I’m sure is the case for everyone else right now. She does facetime with her classmates and so that helps a bit. She likes to go and ride her bike outside or go swimming or play on the splash pad to cool off and burn off some energy. Her favorite shows are The Last Airbender and The Legend of Kora. He favorite movie was Sonic the hedgehog and she loves playing Arms and Animal Crossing on the Nintendo switch. She also really likes playing with slime and watching a bunch of YouTube videos, especially of Collin Keys and he craziness haha. Lily also likes reading a variety of books, and reading to Leo as well. What a great sister Lily! Lily also donated her give jar to her 2nd grade teacher Mrs. Barnes because she said she loves Mrs. Barnes and she had so much fun in her class and wants to donate her money so Mrs. Barnes can get more things to help teach more kids. Lily, you have such a sweet and amazing heart, you impress me everyday with your kindness and generosity, I love you so much!!
Leo loves Chuck E Cheese right now and I would say it’s pretty accurate to say that Chuck E Cheese is his best friend haha. I got him a Chuck E Cheese doll for his birthday and he brings him everywhere he goes. It’s so cute to him so attached to him, and he’ll even pretend to give Chuck E Cheese his milk, and share his snacks with him as well. He also likes watching Peppa Pig, GooGoo GaGa on YouTube, Pixar’s Bao, Float, Birds and Moana. He likes to sing a lot more now and will try to sing along to random songs on the radio, but he favorite is the Happy Birthday song. He can sing almost the entire song pretty well!! Leo loves dancing to music, or even when there’s no music, and he loves to follow along to the Chuck E Cheese Cha Cha dance video. He memorizes all the words and moves and will shout along periodically the words! I love to watch his excitement when he plays the dance video, he has to stop what he’s doing and dance along! It’s super cute! Leo is also increasingly more affectionate and loving as well, it just truly melts my heart. He’ll come over and randomly gives me hugs and kisses. Sometimes he’ll ask me to give him a piggy back ride going down the stairs as well. He needs to remember to not let go sometimes but he knows to hold on for the most part! Leo really likes to climb, run around, play with swords, and baby dolls. His vocabulary is increasing and he’s able to put 5 words together in a sentence recently too! He blows my mind with how smart he is and how much he’s learning and able to achieve. He’s also able to eat pretty much everything now too, except for soupy things, he’s still working on that. He can eat rice dishes, noodle dishes, all kinds of seafood, chicken, tacos, any kind of sandwiches, he is such a great eater now! He also still loves fruits, strawberries, blackberries, grapes, cherries, apples, oranges, pears, everything! I am constantly so proud of him! The zoom sessions for therapy and school has been challenging but I’m so glad he continues to make movement in his accomplishments. You’re so incredibly amazing my petite prince Leo, I love you oh so much, and you light up my life!
Happy special milestone birthdays Lily and Leo!! I hope you both had an amazing birthday this year. This year has definitely been a challenging and different experience for birthdays, and any kind of social celebrations, but I’m glad that it doesn’t take much to make your guys happy. I’m glad that you both appreciate the little things that just feeling my love for you is enough, and that I can make you happy with what I have. You guys are my everything and I’m definitely going to take you guys on a big vacation next year when things are safe. Can’t wait for more adventures with you Lily and Leo, I love you both so much!! Your hearts, smile, laughter, hugs and kisses makes me the luckiest and happiest mom in the world. Happy golden 8th birthday Lily!!!!!!! Happy milestone 5th birthday Leo!!!!!
Here are Leo and Lily’s birthday videos, Lily riding her bike with no training wheels, and Leo’s video of his 5 word sentence! ENJOY!
Happy 23 Months Leo!
Happy 23 months old to my sweet prince Leo! Leo weighs 24.6 pounds and stretches about 34inches tall! Leo is making lots of great new progress in the last month! He is able to take puree fruit and veggies (more fruits than veggies) in his bottle, about 2ounces of puree mixed with his pediasure. He started off slowly with 1 ounce mixed in, and I used a y-cut nipple so that thick consistencies can go through the nipple. Leo use to take lots of breaks when there was puree in his bottle, but now he’s able to drink it a lot faster and hardly takes any breaks now! I’m so proud of him! He’s finally getting new and more nutrients inside him! He is also crawling really fast now, and getting quite comfortable pulling himself up to stand. He’s even cruising a little bit more on his own, just a few steps but it’s definite progress. Leo is starting to be more vocal and it does sound like he’s try to talk now, or maybe it’s just my wishful thinking, but his PT Lara and I swear he said his name Leo a few times haha. It’s like he’s cheering himself on! Leo really like to put things in his mouth and crawl around with his toy in his mouth, particularly nerf gun bullets haha. He also likes to talk to himself and he gets very captivated with songs, especially Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Leo also is getting less droolly, thank goodness!! He use to soak up a bib within 5-10 minutes, now, he can wear a bib for hours before it needs to be changed. I’m so glad because now he doesn’t even need to wear a bib sometimes and I can actually see what design he has on his shirts! I’m sure it’s a lot more comfortable for him too to not have his neck and chin always wet. He is still such a happy mellow baby, I love him so much!!! I’m so proud to call him mine and I can’t wait to see the amazing things he continues to achieve!
Lily is growing up to be such a wonderful, sweet, compassionate girl. She’s very smart, intuitive, and clever too, sometimes too clever for her own good haha. And she has a good memory too and will call me out on things I say to her like saying how I’ll take her to the park or Starbucks after school haha. She definitely keeps me on my toes so I always follow through on my word to her and it helps build trust between us. I keep my word and she keeps hers, especially when it comes to doing chores and other responsibilities. When she wakes up, I have her work in her work activity books before she can play on her ipad, and even when she gets to go on her ipad, she has to work either on ABC Mouse or one of the educational apps before she can play other games or watch videos. She will always bring her work to me and show me that she completed the app exercises and then she get free range on the ipad and toys. I love that she’s able to just do this on her own without my reinforcement now because she’s holding herself accountable, and that’s such a great skill that I admire in her, especially at such a young age!
She is very sweet and kind and is always looking out for everyone around her, especially her baby brother Leo! She always tries to give him toys to play with and likes to tell me his accomplishments like how he can clap his hands, give high 5’s, and she even says proudly that Leo can stand very well now! She is the sweetest and seeing how proud she is of Leo just melts my heart! Lily loves her after school activities at LePort, yoga, karate and hula! She likes to show me her steps she learns in hula and demonstrates her yoga poses too. She’ll tell me to take a deep breath and relax haha. Then she’ll stretch out her arms and bend down into child’s pose and then giggle haha. She is very into unicorns right now, probably because they are magical and colorful creatures and it totally suits her wild imagination, it’s very fitting for her! She also likes to do mazes, puzzles, connect the dots, coloring, drawing, painting, practice writing in cursive too, so impressive, and even started doing word searches! She loves gardening with me as well and will even sometimes carry around her little pot of flowers around in the backyard like it’s her stuff animal! Haha, so cute! She is my darling love and I am so proud of her! I can’t believe she will be 5 years old in less than a month…Time sure flies!! I love you so much my beautiful silly Lily pad!!!
Mother’s Day 2016
Happy Mother’s Day to all the amazing mommies out there! Being a mom is definitely one of the hardest jobs I have, but it’s also the most rewarding and humbling experience that I have the chance and honor of experiencing. Life has been very challenging and difficult lately, and a lot of times, it’s very easy to feel defeated, diminish my self esteem, have self doubt, and lose hope. Sometimes the dark clouds roll in and the storm hits, and you just don’t know when the sun will come back again, and it’s hard amd very scary to brave the thunder and lightning due to the risk of getting hit or blown away. Sometimes, I just want to throw my hands up in the air (like you just don’t care..jk..) and give up and just accept that personal happiness is something that wasn’t meant for me. When you become a parent, you sacrifice a lot of yourself for your children, and we often think that as long as they are happy, you are happy. That’s only true up to a certain point. In the end, we are still our own person, and if we ourselves are not happy, deep down in our soul, then how can we possibly be the best we can be for them? There’s a difference between sacrificing for the better of our children and completely losing yourself in your children. I think it’s very important to still be your own self, and have your own life, outside your kids. There needs to be a healthy balance, so that your kids not only see you as their loving parent, but also as a loving person, that would hopefully inspire them to be one day. One day, my kids will grow up and leave the nest, and create their own families, and I don’t want to be lost when that happens.
We face many difficult challenges in our lives, and are dealt with many difficult decisions to make as well. What I do to try to get past those obstacles that life throws at me, is to just think about what kind of person I want Lily to be, what kind of man I want Leo to be, and make my decisions based on that. Lead by example. If I want Lily to be kind, generous, forgiving, patient, and compassionate, then I will be all those things for her so she can witness it and experience it, as her norm. Parenting is a constant battle of patience and testing of the emotions. You have to pick and choose your battles, and ask yourself what do you value more, what’s the lesson you’re trying to teach, what do you want to achieve? I’m no expert, nor am I a perfect parents, but I feel it’s a series of trial and error really haha. So I just have to trust my gut instincts, and hope for the best… Anyways, with everything going on in my life, it’s hard to stay confident in myself. You never know if you’re doing a good job, or the right thing, or doing what’s best for your kids and yourself. However, I’ll look at Lily, and notice the little things she does, her occasion head lean on my shoulder, and hugs and kisses for no reason, and just look at what a kind, compassionate, caring, polite person she is, and that gives me validation that I’m doing something right. When things were getting really hard for me a month or so ago, I got this random message from a stranger who stumbled upon my blog. Below was her first message to me, and then a snippet of an ongoing conversation I had with her via email.
“I just want to thank you for your blog that you post about your son leo. My son also has tetrasomy 18 and i read your blog for motivation to get me through my pregnancy. It gave me hope that my son would make it and that he would be okay. He is now 3 months old and he is doing great and you inspired me to continue on with my pregnancy when the doctors told me he would never make it. 🙂 thank you”
“I think your a hero for choosing to keep Leo and writing about it . . . I am so glad i didn’t listen to the doctor and abort him because he is perfect to me . . . If it wasnt for god & his fathers faith that everything would be okay and with out your blog i might not have had Angel.”
I immediately bursted into tears when I read her message. It was like my soul was revitalized, reenergized, and I had validation from a complete stranger, to keep on being me. I felt incredibly humbled by her words, and it just felt really…good, and amazing, to know that I was able to help someone, and even save a baby’s life. Who knows if I’ve helped anyone else that hasn’t even reached out to me, but wow…I was floored and so happy, that I was able to actually make a difference. I really genuinely want to help people, and I’m so glad that I’m able to with my blog, and documenting my life journey, as well as Leo’s. This gave me a lot of my confidence back, and encouraged me that I’m doing the best I can right now, and to keep on at it. I also received a care package in the mail from a friend, thanking me for all my advice that I gave her last year, when she just had her newborn and things were really hard for her. I was again hunbled by her kind words, and didn’t realize how much I’ve affected her and helped her. I feel very happy that I was able to help and make such an impact in her life. I believe in good karma, and so I will continue to spread the love and care into the world, and hope that this world will be a better place for my kids and myself, because I can make a difference, and you can too! Sounds like a promo ad, but it’s true!
So whatever happens in life, you just have to be true to yourself, and just try to be the best version of yourself possible. I live my life for my kids, but also for myself. I’m the one who has to walk in my shoes, and so I’m the one who has to live with myself. If I’m not happy with who I am, then I try to make myself better so that I am happy, and my happiness, will be reflected on my kids. If your life is dark and miserable, that shadow will cast upon your kids as well, so let the light shine bright and guide you. Kids will bring you so much joy, pain, happiness, anger, frustration, but most of all, love. As for my babies whom I never got to hold, I live the best life I can for them. I can’t teach them anything, or inspire them, or take care of them, because they are already in heaven and don’t need any of that from me. They are the ones who’s actually watching over me, taking care of me, and inspiring me. So as their mother, I plan to be happy, and be a good person, for them, to make them proud. Thank you everyone for all the well wishes, flowers, sweet treats, jewelry, and gifts. I’m definitely the lucky one to have such amazing kids. Happy Mother’s Day to all the mommies out there. <3
Leo’s not suffering I swear
Leo’s getting use to Lily’s love…haha
Mommy and Lily selfie!
Mommy with my pride and joys
Happy 23 Months Lily!
Happy 23 months my precious Lily pad!! Right now she weighs in about 22.4 pounds, and stretches about 33 inches tall! Lily loves to talk now and starts to mimic our words we say! She is picking up so many things so quickly and is getting so smart so fast! She is talking so much more these days and picking up new wordings really fast! Right now she can count to ten, but she likes to say the next number in the sequence. For example, I’ll start with saying 1, then she’ll say 2, I’ll say 3, then she’ll say 4, etc! It’s so cute and I’m so impressed with her! She likes to hold things for us and say “I hold it!”, “that’s funny” or she’ll plug her ears and say “It’s loud” when she hears loud music or something haha. She is super good at spotting parks miles away and saying “SLIDE!!” and “PLAY!” She’ll also point things out like boats, trucks, trains, dogs, bunnies, stroller and say what they are too! It’s amazing how fast she picks things up! Also, we would ask her what does a cow say, and she’ll say “moooooo” and we’ll ask her what does a bird say and she’ll say “kaaa!” like the seagulls she saw in Seattle. Then we asked her what a dog says and she goes “dooooog!” hahaha! So cute! We’ll work on that haha. She will also point to my jacket and say “mommy jacket” or point at Khoa’s and say “daddy jacket!”, or point to our shoes or feet and say “mommy shoes” etc! She also likes to bring our shoes to us to tell us that that she wants to go out to play! She also knows who to say “this is heavy” and she’ll say “oh!” a lot too! She surprises us with new vocabulary everyday! She’s a non-stop talking and is so smart! I can listen to her voice all day long, she never stops amazing me!
We also went on vacation to Vancouver and Seattle from May 1-6! Lily was such a great traveler! She loved seeing all the new sites and playing at all the parks! She especially liked Maplewood Farms where she got to pet a bunch of animals like baby goats, cows, and guinea pigs! She made herself at home at the hotels as well and loved playing hide and seek behind the curtains and jumping on the bed haha. We took her to various parks and let her play and run around, and she loved seeing all the new things she hasn’t seen before! You can see all our photos HERE!
This past weekend we also celebrated my 2nd Mother’s day! It was really busy but overall very nice! Lily came home on Friday from school with a special sweet gift she made for me! She made me a really nice card, and a frame with her cute little foot prints on it that made a shape of a butterfly!! Her teacher said she worked really hard on it, and I know she put so much love into it! I’m going to make sure I hang it up in a nice spot so I can see it everyday! =) later that night we had dinner for Khoa’s mom for her special mother’s day celebration. On Saturday, we had lunch and dinner for our families, and here are a couple pictures of 4 generations from Khoa’s mom’s side, and 3 generations on my side! We had a nice lunch with Khoa’s mom side and a nice dinner with my family later that evening! We appreciate and love our moms for all that they’ve done for us all our lives. We would not be here without them and we love you so much! Thank you for all your hard work, caring for us, and showing us what love is. Happy mother’s day mommies and Bà Ngoại!
On Sunday, my sweet little Lily pad came into our room with this huge heart shaped balloon that says “Mom is the Best!” and sings “Simply the Best” when you tap on it! It was so cute seeing her walk in all excited with the balloon. She lights up my life and makes me so incredibly happy! Khoa then surprised me with a brunch buffet at Don the Beachcomber in Huntington Beach. Everything was decorated Hawaiian/Polynesian style and at the end of brunch they had a Polynesian show with Polynesian dancers and a fire dance too! I was very pleasantly surprised! Good job baby cakes!! Afterwards, we had a nice relaxing stroll along the Bolsa Chica State Beach! Not many people were there so it was really nice not having to deal with the crowd. After Lily got to play in the sand for a bit, and picking up all the tiny trash items in the sand (gross haha), we dropped her off at her grandparent’s house and we saw the movie The Neighbors! It was really funny and better than I expected too! We then went to church and got my special mother’s day blessing. We then had dinner at Gyu Kaku where I ate an entire s’more even though I said I’d only have 1 bite…whoopsie! =P We then picked Lily up, put our sweet angel to bed, then watched Game of Thrones! Thank you Khoa for a wonderful day, I love you! Also, big love and thanks to my special baby, my sweetheart, my love of my life. When you came to be, you became my everything! I would not have this wonderful gift of motherhood without you, my Lily pad. I love you with all my heart my love, and I feel your love everyday, and it warms my soul, you complete me! Also to my angels, I love you, and thank you for watching over me. <3
Happy Mother’s day to all you wonderfully fabulous mothers out there!
My 1st Mother’s Day!
I got the honor, privilege, and blessing of celebrating my first mother’s day this year!! Khoa surprised me first by sending me flowers to my work a week early! He got a pretty arrangement called the Royal Spring Lilies where there were light pink, orange and yellow lilies! He then told me that day that he also booked me a Mommy and Me photo session with his friends who’s a photographer, Brianna Caster! So he took me and Lily shopping that evening for new outfits for our photo session, talk about getting spoiled! It was such a nice gesture, at first I was shy and didn’t want to do it, but it made a lot of sense to do it though because I’m always the one taking the pictures and so I’m rarely in any photos WITH my precious baby! So thanks a lot baby cakes for the wonderful gift! Due to the time crunch and schedule, we were only able to take pictures midday, and so we mostly took pictures under the trees to avoid the harsh lighting and shadows, but it was a very nice location at the Carbon Canyon Regional Park in Yorba Linda. I definitely want to come back and enjoy the little lake and surroundings! They have nice hiking trails and picnic tables and gazebos there too for parties! Click HERE for more pictures from this session!
The next day, Khoa surprised me again and booked me a nice relaxing 80 minute massage at the Burke Williams Day Spa! I never been there before and so it was quite a new and wonderful experience. They had some nice hibiscus tea and lemon water everywhere, with bowls of fruit for you to enjoy. They had a quiet room you can sit and relax in and a lounge area for you to browse through magazines. They also had a Jacuzzi, steam and sauna room. They even had showered equipped with body wash, shampoo and conditioner! It was amazing to enjoy some peace and quiet to recharge my batteries because I was really starting to get burned out. For my massage, I got the special Burke Williams treatment too where they gave you a back arm and leg exfoliating scrub, and they were suppose to use heat pads on my back when they weren’t working on my back, but since there weren’t any heat pad available, the masseuse used a heated clay pad and threw in some heat stones too!! It was very nice!! I can totally get use to this kind of pampering!! After my relaxing morning at the spa, Khoa Lily and I went to lunch at Shik Do Rak in Irvine! We haven’t been there in ages, and boy was it tasty as ever!! Lily was also so good playing and hanging out in her booster seat chomping on her cheerios! She kept getting the attention of the waitresses and they waitresses kept coming back to play with her! That worked in out favor because we didn’t have to flag them down to get refills on our side dishes! Haha! Thanks Lily!
Fast forward to the following Tuesday, the week of Mother’s Day, Khoa surprised me yet again with ANOTHER bouquet of flowers sent to my office!! This time it came with an aroma therapy bath set, and a box of chocolates! The flowers were these pretty stargazer lilies and irises! It came with a little sign that says “Greatest Mom” on it too! I had quite a stir of emotions when I saw the sign, but it hit me again that wow, I AM a mom! I mean I know I am a mom, but wow, I still can’t believe it! When I picked Lily up from school the Friday before Mother’s Day, there was an envelope on her cubie with my name on it. I opened it and it was a card, my very first card that she made me!! It has some crayon scribbles and paint blots on it, and I was so amazed with it, and so touched. I didn’t even know she can hold a crayon and do that, and I didn’t even know her school was planning on doing anything at that age! So it was a very nice surprise, and I will for sure keep this, my very first card from Lily!!! =) On the actual Mother’s Day, it was the day after our friend Siv and Carney’s wedding. So we were still in the valley, and so we went and had a Mother’s Day lunch at Nat’s Cafe with Luce and Yang with their cute kiddos Avery and Mia! We then relaxed at home and went to church in the evening. I got to be part of the special Mother’s Day blessing at the end of mass for the very 1st time! It felt a little weird cause I still can’t believe I’m a mom, but it was a very special and honoring experience! We then went to dinner with Khoa’s family to celebrate the day with his mom. After that, we cleaned up the house a bit and then relaxed before real life started all over again! Khoa did surprise me with another gift, a gold necklace that’s in the shape of a heart, that’s also a locket! He even put two pictures inside, a family one of me, Khoa and Lily, and the other side is one of just Lily! It’s a Rembrandt Charm too! Fancy! I love it a lot, I can wear it every day and keep my family close to my heart!! Thanks so much for this thoughtful gift baby cakes!
When people ask me how life as a mom is, and how does it feel, there’s no good short answer for that. Sometimes when I’m by myself and really reflect on my journey as a mommy so far, I get emotional, and I get overwhelmed with emotions, happy emotions, that I just cannot put into words. I must say that the past 11 months were and are the best times of my life, and will continue to be because I’ve never felt so much more complete, grateful, lucky, and most of all, loved. I’ve also never been more tired in my life haha, but it’s completely all worth it! Everyday I get to see Lily’s beautiful face in the morning, and just seeing her there, whether she’s sleeping, eating, playing, laughing, or even crying, it just warms my heart. She gives me so much joy from just existing, and I’m so grateful to share my life with her. I love the sound of her voice, her laugh, I love the way she stands, the way she holds my hands and touches my face, I love that she pulls my hair and tries to eat it, I love the face she makes when she’s going number 2, I love her baby smell, her soft baby hair, her drool, and I love her big curious eyes and the way she blows bubbles with her mouth. I can hold her and squeeze her and smother her with kisses all day long! I can just sit there and watch her play, sleep, or eat and never get bored. She continues to grow everyday and I and continuously amazed by her with her new developments and funny personality.
Life as a mom is the best thing ever and I cannot picture my life without her. Everything I do is for her (and Khoa =P), she never escapes my mind, I wouldn’t want her to anyways. I rush home from work just so I can see her face light up with a huge smile when she sees me. She turns my bad days into wonderful days and my good days to perfect days! Lily keeps me grounded and enriches my life by making me work harder to be a better person, a better example, a better role model. She makes me strive to cook healthy not just for her, but for our family. She teaches me patience; patience in understanding that you cannot control the will of others, but you can only control your own actions and positive energy onto others. Therefore I try to be positive, and happy, and do whatever I can to have aura and good karma, so that she can live in an environment filled with good vibes. She is the affirmation to my hard work as well, and seeing her happy and healthy assures me that I must be doing something right! This whole journey is a learning process, and I will always and forever be learning how to be a good mom, but I cannot have a better teacher and daughter than Lily. Lily teaches me to learn my limits bother physically and mentally, and teaches me to focus on the important things in life, and learn what’s worth my time and energy and what’s not. Family is number one, and she is there to constantly remind me that I must be healthy and happy to enjoy my life with her, otherwise, what’s the point? Lily is my little baby, full of pure innocence and wonder, and she inspires me to try to look at the world in her eyes. She’s so full of happiness and trust, and curiosity That only motivates me more to protect her and provide and wonderful life for her. Sometimes when I’m feeling stressed and overwhelmed with life’s hardships, I think about Lily, and she reminds me that there’s no need to dwell on our adult troubles, we just have express our emotions and then move on, just like babies, and we’ll be able to spend more time doing things that matter and enjoying our life, than feeling stressed and unhappy. Lily inspires me to be more selfless and forgiven too. Also, I learn to be more patient with my own parents, and I am so much more grateful and appreciative of all they have done for me and will continue to try to take care of them the best I can!
I also wanted to that I would not be able to be the mom I am to Lily if it weren’t for the help of my loving Khoa. He’s there to step up to the plate when I’m feeling too tired to function, he’s there to lend me an extra pair of hands, and extra set of eyes, and a second wind of energy. Khoa helps keep me sane among the chaos, and he’s there to keep me excited about all our parenting adventures. He is my partner in life, my baby’s daddy, and my sun and my stars. Hehe. I cannot do all the things I do without him! So thank you Khoa for all your love and support, and for making it look like I’m a super mom, when really, you’re there playing with Lily so I can have that extra time to do all the things I need to do! Life is a previous gift, and I will cherish my gift of Lily till eternity. Happy Mother’s to all the wonderful moms in my life, and to every mom out there! We celebrate this day for us, but really, I celebrate this day only because of my precious angel Lily. I love you Lily pad, thank you for the best 1st Mother’s Day, and cheers to many more to come! =) Thank you to you too my sweet husband Khoa, for making me feel so special and loved on this special day, but I have a strong feeling this treatment will continue all year right? =P Happy Mother’s Day everyone!
