Sunny Ray

6/10/10

Ray is already a swing master now

Dad was not able to swing until he is thirty something. He didn't get much chances as swing was only available at park in China and there was always a long line waiting. The failure experience of a few available trials did put some shadow on his mind. That is why he picked this up at his thirty something. So don't get upset no matter when or if you learned how to swing.

5/23/10

Pioneer Farm

Ray's class had a graduation event in Pioneer Farm as many of them will leave for elementary school this fall. A few miles away from I-35 ~exit 240, the farm is a real farm. The

y kept a gigantic wild flower bed. Many houses in the farm are still made with logs.
Ray is going to stay in BCMS for another year. So will be Will and Cira.

5/16/10

How we make a good shot

We were waiting dad to set up his cam. Waiting was always a little boring, even it's just counted as seconds.

Here we go. Ready, set, go, Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeees...

Tony's smile was just like salt in Macaroni's Grill's pasta , it's always overdone, even you told them not to do so.

OK, we will figure out a way to fix it.

4/29/10

Fantastic ipod touch

Believe or not. This product is named unanimously in our family as the best product we bought in the last few years. The ecosystem created by Apple simply made this product choice a no-brainer. Ipad is also on our list but we prefer waiting for an improved second version, as there are a few improvements really really needed.
Here is what we do now with ipod touch.

Tony's list
1). Dora Lite
2). Shapes
3). Puzzles
4). Memory Pro
5). Farm sound and I hear Ewe
...
Ray's list
1). TaptapNinja
2). Ice hockey (it definitely works better on ipad)
3). Shaun #1
4). Shrek Kart
5). TicTacFree
6). Spelling
...
Mom's list
1). Web surfing
2). Chinese ancient poems
3). Labyrinth
...
Dad's list:
1).Ebooks (a tons of them) for dad and for Ray and Tony
2).quick mail and calendar checking (Fast than going to PC)
3).QQ with grandma (no video yet as there is no cam) but it is not bad to just do audio chat
4).free VOIP phone calls
5).Pandora
6).Web surfing while laying on the bed (the first pocket mobile device dad would like to surf web with)
7).Uncountable apps for all aspects of life.
...

The list is growing. Dad even has a little invention of ipod touch accessory. We are gonna show it later.

This product is beyond being cool. It is just practical and economical! Fantastic design. Hat off to Apple for this fantastic product.

BTW, this is the first practical COMPUTER our family use other than PC. Watch out. Microsoft and Intel.

4/9/10

An impromptu song

lyrics by Ray Yang

There is a snowman in the snow

He wants to eat his nose

He is funny

He likes to eat his nose

He likes to drink something

His breakfast is bagel and drink

That is his breakfast when he wakes up

His mom always cooks that

He always go to cold places

He sometimes go to hot places

Then he melt a little bit

He fixes himself in the snow

4/7/10

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.

3/14/10

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.
...
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.

3/7/10

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

3/4/10

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.

2/23/10

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.

2/20/10

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.

2/18/10

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.

2/5/10

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".

1/4/10

Night-story

ou 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.

12/28/09

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.