Indonesian dessert

Reminds me of the vietnamese che ba mau. It's called cendol.

Baby Fart's Nathan and Connor

Looking through the archive and saw these pictures so I thought I would post. June of Baby Farts, the Camry Sucks blog (not sure why the Camry sucks...I think they are fine automobile) often visits my blog and are one of the few visitors who actually comments. So it's nice to finally have some pictures of her and her family to publish here.

I am not sure who actually took these pictures during Terrence 1st birthday celebration, but I wished I had more time behind the camera and capture some myself. Connor is adorable and thanks you all so much for coming an spending the day with us.

Either you get the baby looking at the camera...

...or the one carrying the baby looking...but hard to get both. That's ok, I often prefer to capture the moment and interaction between my subjects rather than the obviously posed pictures. But in the case of kids, it's cute regardless of what they are doing.

And when you have a cute subject as the photo's center of focus, it doesn't matter what the other person is doing. :)

And a glimpse of the happy mom.

Catching up...

Hey all. Finally got the last of my to do list for the biz out of the way so I won't feel too guilty spending time on this blog. Side note... if you guys know anyone in need of a wedding photographer, make sure to send them to DavidHam - the blog or the site: DavidHam Photography We promise to take good care of them and they will absolutely love their photos.

So I am still playing catch up. Here are some photos of Terrence on on April 24th. So after he turned one, we started to introduce him to more regular type food. He still doesn't have all his molars yet so that prevents us from giving him anything that requires actual chewing. But even with the lack of molars, he does a great job of most things we put in his mouth.

Take for example this sandwich. Ham, fried egg, bell pepper, onion, lettuce and tomatoes sandwiched by two slices of wheat with mayo and mustard to top it off. I quartered the sandwich into bite size pieces and off we go. He loves it! He started doing his wiggle and feet tapping whenever he eats something that pleases him. And this sandwich pleases him greatly as he was dancing in his high chair. Check out the sequence below. And his sign language for "more" is clapping of the hands.

Here is two of the four pieces.

Putting the few teeth he has to good use. He loves to bite down on his food.

Always biting more than he can chew.

Look how happy he is

His sign for more. If you ignore it or don't respond fast enough, you'll get some grunts. And if you delay further, he'll act like a possessed demon. Time between the happy to the demonic...as fast as 1 sec. He's starving...can't you tell?LOL

Another attempt

The camera on my phone takes pretty nice pictures when there is enough
light...but it's so slow. For this one, I pressed the button and just
hope that he smiles. Not bad eh?

Cute smile

He makes the cutest smiles...but wont do it when the camera is on him.
But this will suffice until I can grab the shot I'm talking about.

Driving home

Almost home from LA but hit traffic. This sucks. It's past 10pm. Must
be an accident somewhere.

Champong

Trying a new Champong place out in the Super H Mart in Diamond Bar.
It's hot outside but it's nice and cool here in the food court. Mmmmmmm

A Special Mother's Day...

Julie, Terrence and I drove up to Santa Ana to meet up with Julie's family to celebrate Mother's day. Afterwards, we drove over to Dana Point to celebrate with my family with a low key bbq at home. Nancy helped to plan the event, but faith would have it...her water broke that morning and she went into Pomona Valley Hospital to begin her journey to motherhood. My family and I all waited and tried to best enjoy ourselves while eager to hear news of a successful birth. I told Julie that I expect the baby to come at about 5.

Baby Calvin came into the world shortly before 5PM, officially making my youngest sister Nancy a mom and me an uncle. On the perfect day too since it is both Mother's day and my birthday. Congratulations Nancy and Walton. And a big Welcome into the world baby Calvin. Baby arrive at a nice healthy 7lb 3oz. Here are some pictures taken when we arrived at the hospital a little after 7pm to visit with Nancy and the baby. Unfortunately Walton was not in any of these pictures because he was downstairs watching over Terrence while Julie and I visited. The hospital has a rule that bars anyone under 12yrs old from being up in the maternity ward. boo

New mom!!! You did awesome!

Look at that cutie. Who does he resemble more?

Awww...so cute. How could you not smile?

Looking upon her new son's face. A happy and content new mom.

A partially hidden yawn.

A capture of the baby crying. Always so cute in a picture since you can't hear anything. :)

Julie with her new nephew. She's now officially an aunt.

A closer look of Calvin as he suckle on the backs of his hand.

Nancy looks really great for just having given birth. I guess the hard part was over. Here the nurse is helping her get into the wheel chair so they can take her upstairs to her new room.

After arriving at her new room, the nurse had us waiting outside until she does her routine. Here's a picture of my grandma looking on with my dad once we were finally let back in to visit.

Driving over to visit new cousin

Sleeping in the car ride over to visit his new cousin.

Posting from iPhone

Driving up to the OC

Terrence in his car seat on the way to meet with grandma.

Word of advice to the single guys...

I found out from a reliable source that if you want a Japanese girlfriend and possibly wife, these are the reading materials to get. It's been tested and proven to work 100%. ;)
And just in case you want to net a Chinese girl first, the Chinese Astrology comes in handy too.

Computers in the future...

Considering how short the history of computer has been and the advancements that has been made. When I see Terrence like this, I wonder what the computers will be like once he's my age. Will he need to use a keyboard and mouse to interface with it. Or will it just all be mind controlled? Terrence, probably like most kids his age, gravitates towards anything electronic. Here he is escaping from my view for a sec and putting his paw all over my mouse and keyboard. At least he shows promise in that like his dad, one hand is aways on the keyboard with the other on the mouse. This allows you to control the mouse and also hit shortcut key combos to multi task even faster. :D

Creating good habits...

About a week ago, we started Terrence on the habit of brushing his teeth before bed and in the morning. He took to it pretty well. In part thanks to the cool glowing toothbrushes that aunt Karin and uncle Ham sent down. Overall, he seems to enjoy having his teeth brushed. However, the only problem is...he seem to want to eat the bristle of the brush. Anything that goes near his mouth, he wants to eat. A pig as always.

Julie brought him over to me last night because he's so cute with the toothbrush. I snapped a few in the dark. The glow of the toothbrush reminds me of a mini lightsaber or something.

Here are a few of him the following morning.

Photos from April 12th

Hi everyone. I am trying to catch up on photos. I need to figure on the back end how to get photos posted easier with the highslide effect on blogger. Some changes to the photo hosting site made the process more tedious than need be. So if you have any ideas, let me now. I may just move to wordpress instead.

Here are a few from a April 12th. I let Terrence run around the loft area and snap away. He was having fun just being silly.

I love the b/w tones of this picture. Terrence still has some cankle fat oozing.