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There you were in a crowded…Now we are on our 6th honeymoon 🩵. I think you can all tell from our stories, our love langu...
07/02/2024

There you were in a crowded…

Now we are on our 6th honeymoon 🩵.

I think you can all tell from our stories, our love language is food 😋. Our happy place, wonder if it will rub off on the girls?

On a more serious note, life reflections 💍 tend to come on this day. I try not to get too deep but the truth is, in this vast strawberry field of companionship and life long partnership, did I pick these 🍓 or did they pick me? That 🍓 can be too big, too symmetrical, too red, too sweet right?

Yet, I have these beautiful, healthy, smart, caring, sassy and independent girls flocking me. Doing this together, sharing all of the joys and pains, I’m grateful to get to keep adding pages to our chapter book of Us until Cassidy says it’s time to read a book! at night. Okay enough🍿(unless it’s Boom Chica Pop).

Happy wedding anniversary 😘.

I had second thoughts on a Father’s Day post but here goes. Father’s Day was bittersweet for me this year as I know most...
06/23/2023

I had second thoughts on a Father’s Day post but here goes.

Father’s Day was bittersweet for me this year as I know most of you celebrated and some grieved. My family teetered on both as we were fresh off the funeral week for the passing of my grandpa. I’m reminded there is no linear sequence of passing in life.

I talked about fatherhood in my eulogy to my grandpa and would like to share pieces of it on time and legacy:

‘Time. One of the the biggest things I hear from families when they lose someone is I wish I spent more time with him or her. We get so busy that we sometimes take for granted the ones closest to us. And I am guilty of this as well. When I think about time with my gung gung, he was always a steady presence for me. During his later years, I will always remember parking at his house every summer to go to the PNE. Rather than paying him, we’d make a trade where we would give him a dozen mini donuts and he would give us the largest melon he grew so diligently in his garden. He taught me how to plant seeds and provide value to others, even if they gave you nothing in return.

Legacy. To be a father is the greatest gift of life. Having daughters of my own, I’ve begun to realize they are a reflection of us. I look at my mom and my uncles and see all of the qualities my grandpa has instilled in them. To work immensely hard, to sacrifice, to dream big, to do your best, to take calculated risks, be giving at all times, and to be always loyal to family. All of these qualities my grandpa has embodied throughout his years. And as I’ve gotten older, I’m starting to hear stories of how my grandpa was a fierce advocate for the Ming Sun Benevolent Society he represented in downtown east side and for what is right and fair for the Asian community. I like to think that he was in fact, a lawyer for all of us. I take solace in the fact that my daughters had a chance to meet their great grandpa.’

Ps: Thanks for taking my mind off of things by spoiling me with perhaps the best Father’s Day to date 😉❤️.

Happy Father’s Fathers Day👨🏻👴🏻.

100 days, 100 nights of interrupted sleep 😴. The past 100 days were far from a breeze and some days were definitely hard...
02/26/2023

100 days, 100 nights of interrupted sleep 😴. The past 100 days were far from a breeze and some days were definitely harder than most. For instance, your colicky cries every night for what seemed like 30 days straight pushed us to the limit. The nights were long, stressful and beyond tiresome 😩.

But then there are moments where you smile and giggle when we simply pick you up and start to change your diaper or put on your bib to drink 🍼. Or when your sister runs to hold you when you are crying and even though it makes it worse, she tries to help mommy and daddy take care of you. Or when you rollover 🙇🏻‍♀️ for the first time and it seems like I am reliving the experience I had with your sister when she hit her first milestones.

So when the nights are the longest and our arms feel like falling off from holding you, just know we have another gear or two reserved for you. In fact, we can never run out of gas, since you make us electric ⚡️😉. Happy 100 days and counting Addie.

-Love Daddy and Mommy ❤️

🐯

Apologies in advance to all the boys out there, daddy first 😤.(Unless you give me a dozen doughnuts, then we’ll talk). ...
02/15/2023

Apologies in advance to all the boys out there, daddy first 😤.

(Unless you give me a dozen doughnuts, then we’ll talk).

❤️ 😂

Almost close to a starting 5 off the bench, so we inherited one 😉.Controlled chaos in public with our little ones, don’t...
01/30/2023

Almost close to a starting 5 off the bench, so we inherited one 😉.

Controlled chaos in public with our little ones, don’t ask me what happens at home 🏡 .

😂

This one’s for you. Remember when it all was quiet 🤫 on the baby front a week ago? It was like preparing for a big exam ...
11/25/2022

This one’s for you.

Remember when it all was quiet 🤫 on the baby front a week ago? It was like preparing for a big exam for the past 40 weeks, only we didn’t know when it was going to happen once the actual date passed us by.

Yet each day Addison didn’t arrive was actually a blessing in disguise, since we were able to spend quality time doing things just us two👫. Mundane things such as going for a drive 🚘, short walks 👣, coffee or lunch dates became a highlight. For me at least. Sometimes we get so busy and forget, but it takes seconds to remember when it was just Us.

When it was truly time ⏰ and the nurse took us to the exact same delivery room we had Cassidy, I knew it was a wrap. I’ll spare the play by play and will say delivery is as much a mental game as it is physical. I didn’t know what to expect, but there was a sense of calmness and confidence I had in you. When it was suddenly time to push, Addison came out in 10 minutes 💨, quicker than a 15 minute coffee break.

I don’t quite know what we signed up for with two rugrats in tow, but what I do know is that it is going to be one hell of a conversation when it’s just me and you lounging in a beach 🏖 chair, relaxing.

Actually, scrap that, we have plenty of coffee dates and bowls of noodles to gossip about our kids in real time 😘.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 #🐶

Daddy: I’ll be the first to admit, I messed up and called you your sister’s name more than once already. But in all fair...
11/19/2022

Daddy: I’ll be the first to admit, I messed up and called you your sister’s name more than once already. But in all fairness, they say you look like her 🤷🏻‍♂️, which means you also look like me, so really it’s a bit surrreal to hold you and say, ‘Hi Addison, it’s daddy’. ❤️

Mommy: I thought the second pregnancy would be easier but I was wrong. Back pains, leg cramps, pelvic pain/pressure were more intense and having a toddler on the side made it more difficult. Despite all that I am glad active labour was only an hour, although it felt like ten, and you came out within 10mins! Hello baby sister Addison 😘

❤️ Mommy, Daddy, Cassidy

Remember when we used to keep our birthdays on the low if it fell on a school day to avoid birthday beats 🥊? Or when we ...
10/23/2022

Remember when we used to keep our birthdays on the low if it fell on a school day to avoid birthday beats 🥊? Or when we were early 20s the celebration was grandiose, likely in the company of many and at some type of venue 🕺. Life was a bit simpler as teenagers.

Now as the numbers rack up, the celebrations become a bit more low key 🥱, date night and baby sitter care needs to be arranged well in advance 🗓 , and we just sing happy birthday without saying the number.

Well f*ck it, I’m 34, come get me👊.

🎂 🥳

Essentially, yours. It was a little harder to move around with 7.5 months🤰and when I said this is our 3rd time here vis...
09/07/2022

Essentially, yours.

It was a little harder to move around with 7.5 months🤰and when I said this is our 3rd time here visiting, will there be a 4th? She said yeah why not, there will be 4 of us by then 🤣.

Well until then,🍦all for

Let’s call this mug shot Mondays, it’s not that serious Tuesdays, middle of the week lull Wednesdays, throwaway Thursday...
08/30/2022

Let’s call this mug shot Mondays, it’s not that serious Tuesdays, middle of the week lull Wednesdays, throwaway Thursdays, forget what you know Fridays and don’t ask me about what happens on the Weekends 😉.

I know, the back to school/work angst creeps around the corner when daylight 🌅 gets shorter and the leaves start browning 🍂. I welcome it.

“We rarely control the timing of opportunities, but we can control our preparation”

Today seems like a good day to have a wedding 💍 😉. Love is forever expanding and interconnecting as kids in the past and...
07/02/2022

Today seems like a good day to have a wedding 💍 😉.

Love is forever expanding and interconnecting as kids in the past and now through our kids ❤️✌️.

If you were to ask any father what makes them happy, it’s a happy wife, a healthy child(ren) and hearty food. We are tha...
06/20/2022

If you were to ask any father what makes them happy, it’s a happy wife, a healthy child(ren) and hearty food. We are that simple 😉.

🎩 off to all the fathers out there.

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