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2010
2009
- Kid Tales Dec 09
- Hopey and Wyatt Fall 09.
- Kid Tales Sep 09
- Hopey and Wyatt Summer 09
- Kid Tales July 09
- Kid Tales May 09
- Hopey and Wyatt Spring 09. Wyatt is walking and can say Mama, Wa[ter], Ball, Ball[oon], Je[big sister], Dajia[together, everyone must stay] and with a perfect English accent, “No.” His favorite hobby is throwing things. Hope is Hope (stories coming next).
- Kid Tales Mar 09
- Kid Tales Jan 09
2008
- Hopey and Wyatt Winter 08. Wyatt used to seem very large. He may be large for his age, but he is now trying so hard to walk. So he looks very small for someone trying to walk. And he does not so much walk, as plummet. But he does crawl pretty well now. Hope continues to test limits of her abilities and our patience. She is pretty quotable nowadays, so we’ve started keeping track of her more memorable ones (see below). Wyatt’s quotes are mainly pterodactyl screams, which don’t translate well to the printed page.
- Hopey Quotes Dec 08
- Hopey and Wyatt Fall 08 Part 2
- Hopey Quotes Fall 08
- Snuggle Puppy. A brief movie of Dad, Hope and Wyatt mistreating the piano.
- Hope and Wyatt Fall 08.
- Wyatt is still big and smiley. He saw some babies crawling so he taught himself how to roll onto his tummy in a day and has been working really hard to crawl. He’s just not ready muscle-wise and he gets so angry. He starts baby-cursing and yelling.
- Hope has started preschool proper (she was in “transitional” preschool last year) and is just eating up being around the new older kids. She had her 3 year checkup the other day and was nervous about it (worried about shots I think). She was pretty quiet while the doctor and I chatted about her, going down the questionnaire. Around the time we got to the “Does your child ever speak complete sentences?” item, Hope got up her courage and said, “Excuse me, where is your stethoscope?” The doctor cracked up.
- Hope and I were talking about animal legs. She then said “A tree only has ONE leg!” which was pretty clever and we had a laugh about it. I said “That’s silly, did you ever see a tree walk?” Hope replied, “A tree has to HOP!” She’s a little comedian.
- Hope and Wyatt More Summer 08. Hope has gotten the hang of being a big sister and is dealing with it pretty well. Wyatt has gotten the hang of eating and is now a child of enormous magnitude. He’s off the charts in weight and height. He smiles and laughs and is generally pretty fun to have around. He sometimes needs some help napping, so his dad will hold him while doing some Nia exercises. He then sleeps. It all works out.
- Hope and Wyatt Summer 08. Wyatt Li-Yan Hsu is here! Hopey’s birth was a real odyssey. In contrast, Ellen felt Wyatt’s contractions get serious around 2:30am, then she woke Eric up at 6:30am, who drove them at high, but safe, speeds to Walnut Creek, where they were admitted to a room at 7:30am, and Wyatt popped out at 8:30am after a very intense hour of labor.
- Hope Spring 08
2007
- Hope Winter 07
- Hope Fall 07
- Hope Late Summer 07
- Hope Summer 07
- Hope Spring 07.
- Bonus Blurry Videos. Hide and Seek, Hopey Eats A Burrito, Sliding.
- Hope Winter 07 part 2. Hopey’s first experience of snow, goofing with relatives and friends, and the Lunar New Year parade.
- Bonus Blurry Videos. Hopey and Rylyn Are Jumping Beans, Hopey and Maize Scarf Blueberries, and Hopey and Maize on BART post-New Year parade.
- Hope Winter 06-07
- Special Blurry Video Bonus: Hopey Tries Olives. Personally, I don’t understand how anyone can eat olives. - Eric
2006
- Hope Fall 2006
- Hope Aug 2006, Special Blurry Videos
- Hopey Feeds Mom and Dad Grapes. On Theresa and JD’s deck, Ama and Akong encourage her in the background. Totally unfair to Dad.
- Hopey Likes Water. Not that exciting, but really really wet.
- Hope on the East Coast, Aug 2006
- Hope July and August 2006
- Hope July 2006, Special Blurry Videos
- Hopey Tries Squid.
- (Notice how she uses sign language in the middle demanding “more”.)
- (Can you tell whose picture is on her shirt?)
- Hopey Tries Perrier and a Lemon.
- We didn’t foist them on her for fun; she demanded both.
- Hopey Tries Squid.
- Hope June 2006
- Hope May 2006
- Hope in Antigua
- Hope Passport Sessions 2006. Ellen and Theresa took a bunch of pictures for Hopey’s passport. All of them but one were adorable, but legally unacceptable. Can you guess which one made the cut?
- Hope Mar 2006
- Hope Feb 2006
- Hope Dec and Jan 2006
2005
- Hope Xmas 2005
- Hope Month 7
- Hope Month 6 Part 2
- Hope Month 6
- Hope Month 5
- Hope Month 4
- Hope Week 15
- Hope Week 13
- Hope Week 11
- Hope Week 9
- Hope Week 7
- Hope Week 5
- Hope Week 3
- Hope Week 1
- Hope's Birthday Hope Ying-Yi Hsu was born at Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek after a 26(!) hour labor. She weighed 6 lb 8 oz. By the time she was born, we were both so exhausted that we were primarily feeling relief as opposed to overwhelming emotion at the arrival of our lovely daughter. But as they put her on Ellen’s chest and Hope was crying and screaming, we began to sing a little lullaby that we’d been singing to her in the womb. As we sang she opened her eyes, stopped crying, and looked at us calmly. That was when we knew that our daughter had arrived, and she knew that her parents were greeting her.