Tag: YiMa

Copying YiMa

Every Wednesday, we go to YiMa and YiGong’s house for dinner.  As always, the dinners are deliciously scrumptious because YiMa is an amazing chef.  She was never trained to be a chef, but cooks as if she had gone through years of cooking school.  Today, the food was no exception.  In fact, for the first time, I sampled some of YiMa’s cooking.  I had miso tofu and braised daikon radish.  It was yummy and I brought smiles to YiMa and YiGong’s faces when I opened my mouth really, really widely to eat chunks of tofu and radish. 

After dinner, YiMa and I started making “poooo” sounds with our lips.  YiMa says that in her choral training, they actually practice to relax their lips by doing these exercises.  I can do them quite well and I even started to mimick YiMa.  See me in action:

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Daddy Day Care

Mommy was on call for 16 hours on this beautiful Easter Sunday.  *Sigh.*

“Where did my wonderful Daddy take me this time?”  you ask.  Well, he took me on a trip to Whole Foods to get my YoBaby Yogurt (something I have everyday for breakfast now).  Then after my morning nap, Daddy took me to Clemyjontri Park. 

For those of you who don’t know Clemyjontri Park, it’s probably the best playground park in Fairfax County.  It seems that it’s a little hidden gem since Mommy & Daddy have lived in Fairfax County for so long and only stumbled upon it when Daddy was surfing the internet looking at aerial views of the McLean area.  Daddy saw photos looking like this, showed Mommy, and immediately the two of them thought, “Where the heck is this place & why do we not know about it?”  After further research, we discovered it’s actually a well-known playground for kids…well-known to mostly the McLean community.

The park’s valuable McLean land was donated by a wealthy woman who named the park after her children (The unusual “Clemyjontri” name is actually a combination of some letters from each of her children’s names.)  It is described as “a two-acre playground with carousel where children who use wheelchairs, walkers or braces, or who have sensory or developmental disabilities can enjoy a complete and unrestricted playground experience.”  All children with or without impairments can play together there.

Mommy actually visited the park for the first time when she was pregnant with me and then again when I was only 2 months old in a Baby Bjorn.  Believe it or not, I am now big enough to be in a swing all by myself.  See me in action:

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Before going to the park, Daddy took me to YiMa’s house because YiMa lives like 2 miles from the park.  For the first time, YiMa let me bang on her very nice Yamaha piano. 

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What a nice day with Daddy!  Pretty soon, I’ll be running around the park.  Stay tuned…