I've Turned!

Travel Log

2009

April 25 - 26 : Wilmington, Delaware : Back to DE to play with Uncle John and Auntie Jennifer.
April 23 - 25 : Washington, DC : Natural History and Air & Space Museums, and several monuments.
April 22 - 23 : Wilmington, Delaware : Visiting my cousin Caleb at his new home in the US of A.
April 19 - 22 : Lindenhurst, New York : Visiting my newest cousin Gabriella and her fun brothers.
February 19 - 22 : Rochester, New York : Cousin Rebecca's wedding to Timothy Minter - congrat's!
January 1 - 2 : El Paso, TX : New Years with the Liu family, including my awesome cousins.

2008

December 24 - 31 : El Paso, TX : Christmas with the Liu family, including my awesome cousins.
November 29 - 30 : Schroon Lake, New York : Quick visit to Nana and Papa's.
November 26 - 29 : Rochester, New York : Thanksgiving at the Romero's.
October 10 - 12 : Rochester, New York : Cousin Rebecca's bridal shower - congratulations!
August 23 : Nippo Lake, Barrington, New Hampshire : Splashing and kayaking with Isaiah Bunten and friends.
August 7 : Manchester, UK : Shopping for Jiu Jiu, Pizza Express, and playing in fountains at the town hall.
August 3 - 6 : London, UK : Whirlwind tour of major tourist spots and lots of food and karaoke in Chinatown.
August 1 - 3 : Northampton, UK : Visiting Uncle Oscar and touring Warwick Castle.
July 31 : North Wales, UK : Day trip from Liverpool to tour Conwy Castle.
July 28 - August 1 : Liverpool, UK : Visiting Jiu Jiu (Uncle Mike) and Jiu Ma (Auntie Hye Jin) and touring Speke House.
July 11 - 12 : Lake Moxie, Maine : A Charis Whitewater Adventure on the Kennebec River.
July 5 - 10 : Rochester, New York : Visiting Uncle Bob, Aunt Karen, Ruthie, Rhianna, Buddy, Brian, and Taylor.
April 26 - 27 : Mystic, Connecticut : Celebrating Auntie Jen's Birthday with golf, gambling, and brunch.
February 16 - 19 : Lindenhurst, New York : Celebrating Uncle Steve's 40th, visiting Uncle Mike et al.
February 8 - 10 : Sunday River, Maine : A Charis Ski Adventure II!
January 19 - 20 : Poughkeepsie, New York : Wedding of John & Joy Schreck; visiting Auntie Irene.

2007

December 19 - 31 : El Paso, Texas : Christmas with family (on Mommy's side).
November 21 - 25 : Lindenhurst, New York : Thanksgiving with the entire Sailer family.
October 12 - 13 : Nice, France : Bye bye car, hello beach, explore, relax, and head home; bye Auntie Hye-Jin.
October 11 : Avignon, France : A fancy little city, the Pont du Gard, and wild white horses.
October 10 - 11 : Arles, France : French food and wandering in a small riviera city.
October 10 : Monaco : Lunch, exploring, and mingling among the rich and famous.
October 8 - 9 : Cinque Terre, Italy : Vernazza, Montorosso, Manarola, and Riomaggiore (four out of five).
October 8 : Pisa, Italy : Lunch, a leaning tower, lots of tourists, then back on the road.
October 7 : Siena, Italy : Another old city, but with a piazza like none other.
October 7 : Orvieto, Italy : More food and more exploring in this old, small, hilltop city.
October 3 - 6 : Rome, Italy : Exploring the city, lots of Roman ruins, and the Vatican; bye Uncle Mike.
October 1 - 2 : Florence, Italy : Best Italian food, art, sculptures, and Michelangelo's David.
September 29 - 30 : Venice, Italy : Joined Uncle Mike and Auntie Hye-Jin in the sinking, tourist-packed city.
September 27 - 28 : Reutte, Austria : Climbing around castles, museums and ruins in Füssen/Hohenschwangau.
September 26 : Rothenburg, Germany : Exploring a walled-in medieval city.
September 25 : Munich, Germany : Enjoy food and fun at Oktoberfest, pick up the new car at BMW.
August 23 - 26 : North Conway, New Hampshire : Story Land and Echo Lake with Lee's, Bunten's and Yeh's.
August 17 - 19 : Schroon Lake, New York : Charis SG outing at Daddy's parents' cabin.
July 27 - 29 : Schroon Lake, New York : Visiting Daddy's parents with the Yeh family.
July 14 : Nippo Lake, Barrington, New Hampshire : Sunning and boating with Isaiah Bunten and friends.
June 1 - June 3 : Pine Acre's Resort, Oakham, Massachusetts : Daddy and Mommy's 11th anniversary.
May 12 : Rafe's Chasm, Magnolia, Massachusetts : Uncle Eric Ding's [GCTS] graduation party.
April 8 - April 25 : El Paso, Texas : Visiting family (on Mommy's side).
February 17 - February 19 : Camp Maranatha, New Durham, New Hampshire : CBCGB Sr. High winter retreat.
January 12 - January 14 : Sunday River, Maine : Charis Ski Adventure!

2006

November 23 - November 26 : Schroon Lake, New York : Thanksgiving with family (Daddy's side).
November 4 - November 12 : El Paso, Texas : US wedding of Uncle Mike and Auntie Hyejin.
September 22 - October 2 : Seoul, South Korea : Korean wedding of Uncle Mike and Auntie Hyejin.
August 12 : Nippo Lake, Barrington, New Hampshire : Summertime chilling with Isaiah Bunten and friends.
August 4 - August 6 : Lindenhurst, New York : Visiting Cos Stephen and Matthew et al.
July 27 - August 3 : El Paso, Texas : Visiting family (on Mommy's side).
July 15 : Salisbury Beach, Salisbury, Massachusetts : Charis small group outing.
June 27 - July 1 : Grand Bahamas : Sun, sand, and surf with Uncle Chris and Auntie Emily.
June 24 - June 25 : Rochester, New York : Cos Rebecca's graduation party (Monroe College).

Originally Posted 2/16/2007

While heading back home to Boston yesterday, I realized that as a 13-month-old I've logged a fair number of trips under my belt.  Well, I don't wear (or own, for that matter) any belts, but you know what I mean!    So, I figure it's about time I start a travel log, including [more-or-less] all trips that have taken me outside of my home area or where I've stayed overnight, in reverse chronological order.  Wow, that was a mouthful!  I think I might need some help from Mommy and Daddy, tho.  Maybe they'll be nice and pitch in with some details for me.    Okay, here we go..

Happy Birthday, Nana!

My Nana's birthday was yesterday so I made some videos for her.  Happy Birthday, Nana!

A Backdated Update

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Months 25 and 26

I'm all done turning two, and on to bigger and better things!  Here's what's been going on during my first two months as a two year old.. 

For Easter dinner, Uncle Milton and Auntie Maggie had me and a bunch of people (big and small) over for a very nice dinner.  Here I am playing with my good friend Charissa.  I have no idea what's going on in those two pictures on the right - so embarrassing!

Here is baby Benjamin - just one day old!  Welcome to the outside, Benjamin - you will like it here!  Us March babies will rule the world some day - one playground at a time.

Nana and Papa came over in late March to hang out with me.  Here I am helping Papa and Dada with nailing studs together to frame the walls of the basement office.  Without my help I don't think they'd ever get done!

This tool made lots of noise and sawdust - it's very cool.  I didn't get to operate it (nobody would show me how), but if they would have left me alone for a few minutes with it I'm sure I would have cut something up pretty good!  Many thanks to Uncle Kris for lending this to us, by the way.

Break time!

After a couple of days I got promoted to site supervisor.  Here I am hard at work again.  "You!  Put that camera down and bring me my Nemo milk!"

Every once in a while my parents take me out to Lemongrass for Thai food.  It's so yummy and I get to eat oranges for dessert nearly every time.  While I was distracted chomping on some sweet oranges Dada took the opportunity to give me chopstick antennae and pretend to eat my head.  I know he won't really eat me, although I have to remind him a lot that "Jaden is not food!"

Kaelan invited me and a bunch of other small people and their parents over for dinner at his house in April.

Lots of my friends made it out, including baby Alison.  It seems like she's really into cups these days.  She has such a cute little stare and it's fun to try to get her to smile.

Abby was there, too, and we had a great time playing together - that is, until we had a minor skirmish over a very comfy chair.  All in good fun!

Early in May Uncle David was baptized at CBCGB, and a bunch of us went out to lunch with him to celebrate.  I was having a good time with good people, good food, good stickers, and okay parents.  Somebody must have let out my secret that I really like rice.  Uncle Ben got a little carried away with that information, don't you think?

I really like yogurt, too, and so does Clarissa.  Here we are taking a break after some intense playing and couch jumping.  I'm not sure exactly how much yogurt got on the chair that day, but I'm absolutely certain it wasn't my fault (or Clarissa's).

Sometimes I let my parents do awful things to me, just to keep them amused.  Yeah, I'm a good kid like that.  Here I am at Iguana Cantina pretending to enjoy wearing a foam flower lei.  It looks much better on Mama.

Now that the weather has been getting really nice we spend a couple days each week at the park with friends.  Isaiah and Nathan have come a few times and Charissa, too.  She showed me how to count while bouncing a basketball.

So I tried to do it just like her, but when the ball would stop bouncing I'd go right into kicking.  Dada reminds me to try my left hand and left foot every once in a while so I can be a good dribbler (in basketball and soccer) some day.

Most people at the park throw around a Frisbee disc the whole time.  I haven't had much luck throwing the disc, so I found a few other things I can do with it, like wearing it as a hat, rolling it on its edge, jumping over it, and doing a partial headstand on it.

The past two months seem to have marked the end of cold weather and snow.  Here is one of my last outings - walking Willie - where I needed to wear my awesome blue winter coat.

It's a good thing for me that my Yeh buddies gave me this awesome green rain coat!  And if the weather is just too yucky to go out, I can always find something crazy to do indoors - like jump off the humidifier and over the bedroom heater.  Most of the time I land right on my feet and Dada cheers and yells something about the Olympics.  I'll have to look that up somehow - I'm worried he's up to something!

Overall, these two months have been kind of rough for me.  I started out with a sinus infection and got some amoxicillin, but that led to an allergic reaction and I ended up with hives for a month.  Thank goodness they finally went away.  On a happier note, these days I'm picking up words at a fast pace.  I put sentences together regularly and I'm happy imitating pretty much anything my parents say, but with varying success.  They seem to know what I mean most of the time anyhow, so I get by okay.  I sometimes surprise them by pulling out words that they didn't teach me.  They just look at each other and go, "Where'd he learn that?"  Duh, Dada, Mama, you send me to school everyday!  Every once in a while I'll count to 13 (I stop at 13 because Mama counts the steps as I jump down each one in the mornings) or sing the alphabet (I first did this at my Chuck E Cheese party) - this really gets my parents charged up for some reason.  When I count I usually skip the number 4; not sure why I just can't seem to remember it!  I like to fill in the words at the end of each line to some songs, like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (though I started with this one before turning 2), Bumble Bee and The Wheels on the Bus.  I have a great time at playgrounds now that I can climb pretty well and do all the slides.  It's great to be bouncing and kicking balls outside these days, too!  I'm starting to think I'm right-handed, but I still like to swing a baseball bat left-handed like Papa.  I don't know about golf, tho - I'd be bummed if I couldn't use the nice bag of right-handed clubs Dada got for me last year.  I like to color things - mostly purple.  I'm all adjusted to K2 and Toddler 2 class at daycare.  I have lots of fun at both.  I love pointing out school buses, bicycles, and motorcycles and any kind of helmet.  Mama even bought me a bicycle helmet of my own!  Now I have a football helmet and a bicycle helmet.  I love my baseball cap too.  One of my favorite games at home is bouncing on the sofa and flipping myself over the big green ball.  Dada has lots of video of me doing this, and if he ever buys a computer that can convert AVCHD video format to something I can post online you might even get to see it yourself!

Being two is tons of fun.  I'm just learning so much everyday!