Rolling over on Kettleman meadow

Kung-Fu kid

A spring new addition - Our yard bench

Two mountain cedar logs moved with our wagon cart from our neighborhood, one old pine wood at home and a $4 new pine wood from homedepot composed our new bench in our backyard. The bench location has shade most of a day. A perfect spot in our yard to watch Ray and Tony playing.

The power of candy

This is not a picture as peaceful as it looks like. It was taken at the outside of a candy store in Fredericksburg. The time was after Ray and Tony had already had a visit to an icecream store and also right after dinner. You can read out from two little ones' body language.
Ray certainly is a master of candy. Not only he knows more candy names than dad, but also he has various ways to get candy, like in restaurant cashier desk, HEB etc.. He ofter saved a little bit for Tony. And gradually he established his credit of gaining candy in Tony's little mind.
So here comes a familiar scenario happening at home.
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Tony and Ray are fighting for something, whatever it is.
Tony started whining, yelling and crying for it.
Then Ray gracefully released it. Just said: "OK. No candy any more."
Tony thought a little bit. And put the something back into Ray's hands. "Take it, take it." Tony repeated it with a great worry.
"No." Ray refused and raised his head way up high.
Then Tony started crying again. "Take it. Ray, please."
That is the power of candy.

Enchanted rock

Located at southwest of Austin, Enchanted rock is a unique place. Maybe mother of nature thought Central Texas was too plain. Pretty blue bonnets only blossom for a couple of weeks every year. Thus she created Enchanted rock. Two hours drive from North Austin, Enchanted rock deserves a trip for all people in Austin. A great place for hiking, rock climbing and camping. Be careful to go there on weekend as it is often fully packed so guards have to close it so you have to wait and it is not guaranteed that you can be admitted.
Tony climbed up the rock all the way himself. And he slept down all the way back in dad's arms.
Ray was so tough that he wants the next rock when we got the top. Dad promised him that we would get the next rock next year, when Tony gets older and stronger like him.
Then we went to Friderzburg. It was a nice cool sunny day.

Ray will have a school photo day.

Tomorrow's school photo day. Mom picked up a dress for Ray in Costco and Dad had a pre-shoot at home.

We got snow this winter!

Global warming?

Olsen Meadow Park

Not quite a dancer

Ray's one year dance experience stopped last week, as Ray showed little interest in it. A few bright dancing moments he showed brought him into this dance class but it didn't work out. Ray proposed for art class himself. Soccer class is the second option. OK, we will see how that goes.

Snow fun

We had a serious snow today. Ray's school closed at 1:00PM. Back home, Tony and Ray had a lot of fun.

Round Rock Library

Mom took a vacation for some personal business developement. Dad brought us to RR library. And we also brought a special guest.

Chinese painting

First of all, mixing color is critical. It is a magic that yellow plus blue becomes green and red plus yellow gives you orange. It is fun to know it.

Spiderman

So easy to be a caveman

It is Ray's idea and Ray's masterpiece. We built a cave in our house. Tony was thrilled about it.

Farewell to Aaron

Aaron and auntie moved to San Francisco Bay area. Ray wanted to go with them. On the way back home from airport after we saw them left, Ray was not happy all the time. Ray believed that the reason he couldn't go was he had no ticket. That was why the airport guy stopped him but let Aaron in.

Ray said when he grew up, he would move to San Franciso, work in the office and make money. Mom asked Ray if she could come with him. Ray thought for a while, then finally said:"OK".

Night-story

You can be a storyteller without knowing many words. That was how Ray did it. Tony must admire Ray quite a bit as Ray was 'reading' the book along.

Fearless Ray

Ray asked to take Atlantis in seaworld. Seeing Ray was so eager to take it, dad decided to be his company, though dad was a little scared in truth. Our ride had a short delay as the ride ahead of us has some accident. A girl was so scared after the first part little 'warmup' that she and her dad had to get out in the middle of the ride. This accident made dad a little worried more. Finally, it was our turn. The first warmup was pretty scary. After that, dad was just wishing he was not in the boat. Ray acted norm and seemed nothing happened. And it came the real deal. Or my gosh, dad felt he was almost thrown out of the boat. And he tried hard to hold Ray in his instinct. You can see that in the zoomed in picture. Thanks goodness, it only lasted about 2 seconds. Then dad started celebrating we did it. We made it. It was over. It was cool. It was something. Then dad asked Ray how he felt about it. Ray said:"I like it. Can we do it again?"
Not again.

Seaworld Chrismas Show

Seasame street in sea world Chrismas show. Ray said: These are the real ones!

What are we riding?

A little hint: We are in Texas. This is domain in Austin. Auntie is in town. She cooked some awesome sour-sweat fish we all love so much!

4 years check-up

Weight=45 pounds (>95%), Height=45 inch (>95%). Doctor said Ray is big and tall. Ray couldn't hold his smile even though he really tried hard.

Austin winter duck pond fun

Guys, watch and learn. This is how you pretend like a duck.

A not so great photo

This photo is one of the kinds. I occasionally had facial expression like this. But mom and dad had to put this photo here as they definitely love to see it.

My new hair style

This was my dad's hair style in all his elementary school years and after middle school years. Now he made me his pal.

Ray's 1st year birthday poster

Ray is 4 years now. We feel it was just yesterday when he was one year old. So dig out some old memory and put it up here.

Ray's Holloween impression

Halloween 2009

Yearly Oak Brook community pumpkin patch party

Autumn in Austin

The best season in Austin. Particularly to dad, who has some mountain cedar pollen trouble in winter. Capturing Austin Autumn is not easy as we don't have many deciduous around. Dad will try his best.

4 year old

Ray had a 4 years banana muffin party at school and had a cup cake party at home. Ray got transformer, walking robot, volcano lab gifts. Now Ray is officially 4 years old.
Something to note down: an H1N1 case was confirmed in his class.
Ryan came to sleep over last night. Ray and Ryan are good play buddies now. Today it was Saturday. Dad took them to Olson Meadow park. Excited by great weather, dad ran back home to get soccer ball to start a little soccer training. But boys seemed not very interested. Dad really put a lot of effort into getting them involved.
After we got home, mom just told dad:"A mom told me something she eavesdropped in the park. Before you came back from getting soccer, Ray whispered to Ryan. He said: Don't play soccer. It is boring."
Oh, now dad got it.