Weekend to LA

We made a quick somewhat spontaneous (hence driving instead of flying) trip to LA last weekend to visit family. It was great to see everyone! Here's some random pics from this weekend. Or see all the pics on his picasa page :)



Car Ride:

• YAY! COWS!
  As usual, Caleb was really great with the drive. He LOVED seeing the cows. He kept saying "Cow! Moo! More Cows! YAY! (clap) More cows! YAY! (clap)." He did this for a really long time and I was sad that I had the camera in the trunk :P After some time, I realized I should just use our phone to take a video since it was so funny. I caught the end of the cow area...but need to d/l it from Gabe's phone. :) Will post later.
• Stuck in Mama car
  It was really funny. After some time of sitting in the car seat and singing songs and pointing out "Mama Cars" and "Dada Cars," Caleb paused and said "Baby stuck in Mama car." It was totally funny. He wasn't complaining really, more just saying that he realized that he was stuck in Mama's car.

Caleb's favorite "LA" things

• Coo Coo Clock
  It's funny, Caleb has a great memory and always recognizes places and remembers people even if he hasn't seen them in a few months. One of Caleb's favorite things in my parent's house is the coo coo clock (which Gabe and I actually got them from Switzerland 5+ years ago from our honeymoon). So every time we pull up to the house he says "Wai Poa! (Grandma) Wai Gong! (Grandpa) Coo Coo! Coo Coo!" Even when he looks at pictures in my parent's house, he'll point off the picture to where the coo coo clock would be and says "coo coo!"
  
• Apples
  Caleb LOVES to pick apples. He loved it in our first house and he loves it at my parents house. He'll look outside and say "Apple! Apple!" Actually, this is semi-unrelated, but Caleb knows how to spell apple now! Here's a quick video

It's funny, he learned this from a Chinese book about fish :P Many of the pages showed a picture of an Apple can that said "Apple" and had a picture of Apple. Since Caleb knows his letters, he'd often say "A-P-P-L-E...Apple!" and thus learned how to spell Apple from a Chinese book about fish :)

• Kumquats
  Along the same lines, Caleb loves to pick and eat the kumquats...even though they're so sour! Here's a recent picture and an older video :)

• The purple chair
  My parents have this purple plastic chair. You'd think it's not a very exciting thing - especially when Caleb has lots of really cool toys there - but he loves it! He thinks it's so funny. Here's some pics from last weekend and a video from last time we were in LA.

• Harmonica
  My dad has always loved to play the harmonica. And now there's someone who loves his playing :) Yi Poa (Great Auntie Cynthia) also got him his very own harmonica this time. He loves it! Caleb's been playing nonstop! He actually has been playing the harmonica with one hand or no hands so that he can still read and play with other toys :) And oh boy...we heard a lot of harmonica playing on the way up from LA! He calls it "haaa-mo-ka"

• Snacks!
  We usually hide from Caleb when we eat snacks...but in LA...boy oh boy. People spoil Caleb! My parents always have tons of snacks on the table. And whenever we're there, there's tons of people tending to Caleb. So he gets spoiled and gets lots of snacks :) Here's Caleb with a little can of nuts. :)


When he looks at you like that...how can you resist giving him a nut? :)