Ray & Ashley

It’s Chinese New Year and we dressed Em B up in her last years chines Outfit. The pants were too big but the shirt fit perfectly. We found some red pants anyways and she was quite festive.
We didn’t do much else this year to celebrate the year of the dragon but Em b always [...]

Emery knows So many words now. She is a regular bubbly girl at home. Here’s a list of her favorite words at 20 months. These are words she can pronounce as well as know the meaning of below.  Also check out this great audio of her and Ashley together.  Emery Shows Her New Vocabulary
Nai Nai [...]

A few snaps of Em B in Dec 2011

Wow another long stint without touching this blog.  I don’t really have much of an excuse, I am on the computer a lot, my phone has a app that can post to the blog any time yet I still manage to be such a slacker.  My resolution for the blog this year is to post [...]

Our wonderful Emery turned one today. It’s been amazing to watch her learn and grow out of the newborn and infant phase into a little babbling little person. Although she is only one, Emery has learned many things at this point. Emery can:
- crawl
- sit up and roll
- pull herself to a stand up
- stand [...]

We took Emery to the Atlantic Station’s park where they have some AstroTurf. We thought Emery would enjoy the freedom and crawl to her hearts content. Unfortunately Emery was really unhappy with the prickly plastic grass and made all sorts of funny faces.

On the plane back from about 12 days in India. I went to Delhi and Gurgaon again to meet my team and work with them for a week and a half. This marks my fifth time to India and in total I think I have logged almost half a year combined stay in India.
As [...]

Ever since the evening we got back from Charleston, Emery has picked up the ability to pull herself up from a railing like the ones on her crib or in her play pen. At first she was struggling with all her might to put up on foot and then the other, but now she is [...]

I am sitting on a enclosed patio deck in a rocking chair sipping my favorite iced coffee, listening to music. Ash is curled up in a lawn chair next to me reading a gossip magazine and Nai Nai is to my other side playing with Emery. Yup we are on vacation!
We are in a [...]

Emery loves bath time. At first she was really afraid of the water and gasped whenever we put her in the tub. Now at 9 months Emery is splashing and holding her little Ducky like a fish in water. Here’s some Emery bath pics with her and the blue Ducky.

Last night a long awaited event took place. Emery and her Great Grandmother (whom Ashley and I call Nai Nai) safely arrived in Atlanta! Nai Nai was so excited and happy to see Emery and Emery felt the same way. The two hit it off immediately. Nai Nai is going to stay 2 [...]

We’ve been trying to get Emery to drink more water and got her this Sippy cup. The funny thing is she looks like she is intently sucking on the straw but after a few minutes we look and the water level hasn’t gone down! She is so cute.

It’s been way too long since I have blogged and so many things have happened. Our blog itself has sort of been in suspended animation for awhile. My to dos will be:
1. Update posts about Emery
2. Add Emery to our family page
3. Time to update the top masthead
4. Need to switch out the right module
5. [...]

Today was Emery’s first day at the YWCA day care. Finally after 9 months of staying home with Ash, Emery was ready to meet other babies, and be a big girl. I took the day off in case Ashley needed a shoulder to cry on. It was also Valentine’s day, so we got to spend [...]

Yup, as of today Emery took her first four legged crawl. It all started with her sitting nicely on the alphabet mat. Ten she notices a plastic bag that crackled loudly. She leaned over and almost as if it was just another normal thing to do began to move her hind legs and arms together. [...]

We celebrated Chinese New Year by dressing Emery up in a traditional outfit. Ash tool her to Chinatown to look for outfits. The lady at the store loved Emery so much and asked to hold her. She then proceeded to give Emery a personal tour around her store!
Emery looks so cute in her [...]

This Christmas we had quite a number of guests over. Ashley two sisters along with their family came over. So our little one bedroom was a buzz with activity. There were 6 adults, Ash, me, Audrey, Tomo, Ziggy and Tomo. There were three kids, Emery, Megan, and Dylan. And last but no least our two [...]

Emery’s been growing day by day. She still sleeps a lot but when she is awake she is always looking around checking out the world. She’s looks at us a lot and is learning to smile when we interact with her. She also makes a lot noises just on her own, making [...]

That’s a a long running joke but I think it deserves to be mentioned here that Ashley and I have been living in New York for over a year and a half because of a project that I have been working on during that time. My client is Allianz Global Investors and our job [...]

Ashley loves seafood, especially oysters and shrimp.  So for her birthday, I took her along with Emery to “Fish” a great but reasonable seafood and raw bar in the West Village.  I excused myself from work early so we could avoid the crowds and we took a little family trip.  The restaurant was great, awesome [...]