Annual Vacation 2011 - Sydney!

We took our annual vacation over Thanksgiving this year, and we found ourselves in the land of kangaroos and koalas! We had hoped it would be a warm, sunny getaway from the cold of Shanghai and the bay area in November, but instead, we were greeted by unseasonably cool and wet weather! Oh well, that's not going to stop us from having fun :) We spent a week trapsing around Sydney, visiting Wilson's family, and just hanging out. Ethan has proven yet again to be a great traveler - he slept through the night from the first day we arrived! (It helps that Australia's 19 hours ahead, so it functionally only feels like a 5 hour difference!) Click here for the album.

It's a Girl!

It's official, we've had the anatomy scan and we are having a little girl :) I was hoping for 2 boys so Ethan doesn't have to be the only boy in a sea of pink, but at least this way, there will be fewer trips to the ER :) We found out just in time for our trip to Australia so we could do some shopping, but alas, there was nothing good to buy! Stay tuned for pics from our trip - Wilson will have to go through the 1200+ photos he shot in a week's span of time! Hopefully, it doesn't take too long.

In the meantime, bring on the pink!

Fall update!

It's been a busy few months! Ethan has grown a ton - he's over 3 feet tall, he can kick balls, and he's talking nonstop nowadays :) I was certainly worried 4-5 months ago, but he speaks in complete sentences in Chinese, and in multi-word phrases in English. He's even trying to sing (but I fear he may have his dad's vocal genes). We've had a ton of adventures too - many, many birthday parties, a good friend's wedding, squeezing in a visit to family in LA, and a fantastic trip to Disneyland, wrapping up with a trick or treating. We discovered that candy is a big motivator - our usually shy boy was offering up "Happy Halloweens" to our neighbors just to get a piece of candy! Click here for the full album.

16 weeks down, 24 to go :)