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This was waiting for me when I walked into school one day. Oh how the tables have turned...

What a weekend, and it's only Saturday!

Friday:

When I saw the email about the Crazy 8 grand opening in my inbox Friday morning, I knew that Alexis had to be there. She was still asleep so I texted her from downstairs, "Crazy 8 Grand Opening TODAY!" - and yes, texting is really the best way to communicate with her when she is just waking up. She sprung up and shouted, "We have to go!" Next thing I know she's downstairs getting XX changed and ready.

Crazy 8 is a sister company of Gymboree, and sometimes they have some fun clothes for cheap.

When we got to the store, there was a table out front with entry slips for their grand opening drawing. Prizes included $88 gift cards, ipod shuffles, and a $888 shopping spree grand prize. Judging by the number of entries in the box already, there had been fewer than about 10 people there before us.

The first drawing was at 11:08am - didn't win. Went out to shop the rest of the mall and stopped at Chick-Fil-A for some lunch. We were in an area of the mall where we didn't get ATT's more bars in more places, when I saw the voicemail icon appear. I ran out to check the voicemail since I was expecting a call from someone else but this is what I got instead: "Alexis, you've one our Crazy 8 12:08 drawing for $88! Awesome!" She pretty much ditched me and XX and she hurried back to the store to claim her prize. As XX would say, "Great Job Mama!"

Saturday:

I've always wanted to not have to pay for haircuts. My mom used to cut my hair, and she really did a nice job doing it. When I got to college, I cut it mostly by myself but usually recruited someone to help fix the back. Ever since I had to work professionally, I've had my hair cut by the professionals at Supercuts or Fantastic Sams. I've become a regular at a place in Rockville now, but I have been since thinking about having Alexis give it a try. Today she finally got around to it and again, as XX would say, "Great Job Mama!"

What our 2.5 yo can do

XX recently has been learning to take on responsibilities since she always wants to be part of everything. We have given her different tasks, such as putting her dirty plate and utensils in the sink after finishing her meal, going up/down stairs to get things for us (or for herself), and sorting garbage for recycling :).

One day I got tired of making her bed, so I told her to do it herself... She acutally did a pretty good job :) See our child laborer at work.

Video Clips from our trip

Finally have time to work on my video clips from our trip. well, so far just one, but I am still working on it.:)

Last Stop-Taiwan

Last time when we were in Taiwan; thanks to XX ,I had all day morning sickness, so I didnt get a chance to taste all the yummy food. I already told Dave before we left this time, I dont really care about sightseeing, all I want is to eat, eat and eat somemore. So that basically all we did :).

Ah-ma also went back to Taiwan to visit ah-jo ( great grandma), so we are lucky to have Mr. Wong 黃叔叔 and Ah-ma showed us around.

Special thanks to Uncle Mark's long distance phone call and told us to tried 洪師父牛肉麵 ( Master HUNG Beef noodle soup), It has became our favorite beef noodle too. While I was choosing pics to upload to our taiwan album, I got hungry again by just looking at those food. Yet, I just had steak for lunch...:) we really need to go back!

She accidently ate a chili and freaked out.

Can u tell she is a Chang?

XX was totally spoiled by 爺爺

Taiwan '10

More Thailand

For those who didn't have facebook / who didnt add me :)

Khao Lak, Phuket '10

Hong Kong

XX was having a great time with cousin Cami and Chloe in this trip. I was little worried whether they can get along at first, but they just clicked once they met. :)

XX learned Cantonese so much faster just playing with Cami and Chloe. I spend months to teach her count 1-10 in Cantonese, but she can only count to 3. It only took her 2 days to pick up from Cami to count 1-10 fluently, because they were fighting over toys and xx has to count to 10 for her turns :).

Cami was actually sad when her mother told her XX was going home. Cami asked why xx was going home and why can't she stay with them. We just can't wait to see them again. :) hopefully, they can all come visit us this summer!