Boris' Mini Vacation Birthday

Boris, it's all about you! We work hard so we can enjoy these special moments with you.


We got the indoor pool to ourselves on most nights. Yayyyy!

View from our room's balcony.

Happy Happy 2nd Boris!!!

After coming home from our mini vacation at Cannon Beach today, we celebrated at one of your favorite restaurants, Rheinlander! It was a blast! Everyone around us sang happy birthday to you! We 3 had a great time!(more pix and more info will be posted later this week...) And thanks to all of our family leaving you thoughtful birthday messages. RJ, Joshua, Michael and Uncle Kevin singing was awesome!!!

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Our trip to LA in January 09

We went to LA for TET(Vietnamese New Year) near the end of January. It was nice to spend some time with the family since we haven't seen them for awhile. Hopefully they will al visit us this summer so we can show them how great Portland is.
You are watching your favorite show "Dora and Diego" on the plane. You did so good on the plane that people comment to us on what a good boy you are.

We got in real late and you played a little bit with Joshua, Michael and Sparky before we went to bed, around 12am.

We went to Grandma's church to celebrate Vietnamese New Year.


We went to the cemetary on January the 25th to visit Grandpa's grave. It was one year from the day he passed. Here you are posing with Grandma and on Michael's shoulder.

Yes ofcourse you were the center of attention!

Joshua carrying you. You had a great time with Joshua. When we got back to Portland, you asked for him all week. Hopefully he will visit us during his Spring Break vacation with Auntie Wendy.

Boris and Uncle Sang.

Michael, Daddy and Timmy.

Timmy and Auntie Wendy

Potty Reading

Happy New Year 2009

On New Year's Eve we celebrated with our friends at Heather, Bryan, Tovi and Nava's house. Our midnight was 7pm, we went in their backyard and watched the ladder lite up with xmas lights(?) and the beach ball drop. Then we all hugged each other and you ran around blowing the little paper horn. You had a little pretend slumber party with Gus, Tovi and Nava. We then went home and hugged each other goodnight. Mommy and Daddy stayed up and drank our cranberry sparkling juice, ate crackers and cheese, while our neighbors ran around outside banging pots and pans. They even knocked on our door to wish us a happy new year at 1am. They were lucky they didn't wake you up, or else...

CHRISTMAS 2008

Yes, most of the presents under the Christmas tree were yours. This year Daddy and Mommy went nuts with buying you lots of presents. You also got presents from Auntie Wendy, all of your cousins, Auntie Shannon, Uncle Binh and from our friends as well. You enjoyed tearing all the colorful wrappers and played from one toy to another. We started a tradition of opening presents early in the morning when we all woke up. That's how we will do it every year. Auntie Dawn visited us from New York. It took us half of the day to open our presents but you weren't even done yet. We actually took some presents we got you to save it for your birthday in March. We don't think we can wait that long though because we want to play it with you too!!! Someday you will appreciate how Mommy and Daddy love toys and we actually work with some of the largest toy companies in the world(as they say it).
This Holiday season was filled with parties, good friends and good food. We were invited to 8 parties this year. We only made half of it because you were sick for 2 weeks.

On Christmas we were invited to Nina, Russel and Anna's house for Christmas dinner. We celebrated with them, and Anna's Grandma, also Gus, Heidi and Joe! We ate delicious food and the night was filled with laughter and fun time. We had our own dinner on Christmas Eve with you, Mommy, Daddy and Auntie Dawn. It was yummy as well. We can't wait til next year when you really know about presents and Christmas and maybe Santa Claus.