We went to Tanaka Farms to pick out a pumpkin with our friends! Linus got to feed the goats and ride the tractor and play in the dirt. Good times was had by all.
Then halloween came and Linus got his first taste of CANDY! SO MUCH CANDY!
Linus got to feed the goats at the petting zoo.
And decided this was how he would hand out the halloween candy: “One for you, 50 for me.”
And lastly, a video of L’s dance moves.
End of September, Linus and Mommy hopped on a big plane and flew to Hong Kong to meet up with A-Gong and PoPo. Linus was GREAT on the plane. Everyone who sat around us told mommy how good a baby Linus was.
We started off in Hong Kong and played with our cousins.
Then we went to the hugely anticipated family reunion of the Du family. There were so many people! We met so many uncles, aunties, cousins, nephews, and nieces! It was totally worth the trip to get to be apart of this.
So, I’ve been lacking in the updating department. Bad bad bad!
So here’s what happened in the past few months in no particular order:
- We went to vegas!
- Linus went to the zoo and met a gorilla.
- We met the pony at the petting zoo.
- Linus went to his first baseball game.
- We celebrated birthdays with Julian, Raymond, Lillian, and Alton哥哥 .
- We had Korean BBQ with 爷爷 and 嫲嫲
- We started a vegetable garden (that the dog then dug up, but we’ll start it again!)
Linus learned to use a spoon. Here’s him feeding BaBa.
Linus says, “Get OUT!”
Linus has his first taste of icecream and learns to nod “Yes!”
Our little Picasso paints his first painting.
Linus slides the big slide at Alton’s party.
Whew! That was a lot of work for me. It was a fun summer!
I will try to be more regular with the updates from this point on. Try being the operative word.
Linus is a lot more confident now walking around. He doesn’t really need you to be standing right in front of him anymore. Here he is showing off at the park on Sunday.
Linus took his first real walking steps today. Check out my big boy.
Linus is so lucky to have these Grandparents, Aunties and Uncles, cousins, and friends who love and care about him. We would like to thank everyone for coming to Linus’ first birthday party and celebrating with us.
And also to those who did not attend, thank you for all the birthday wishes you sent!
Check out this gift from Raymond and Julian. It’s bigger than Linus!
My little baby is one years old now. This was the fastest year of my life. He loves oranges and smoothies and cars. Everything becomes a toy car and when he drives his cars he goes, “buuuu buuu buuuu”. My little speed demon. He knows how to say 妈妈 奶奶 and 走走. He loves to go on his morning walks with PoPo to see the peacock. He still loves to flap his arms and say “a-jijiji!” He’s full of smiles and rarely cries. He truly is my little bundle of joy.
Mommy made Linus birthday pancakes. Yum!
He got some sweet new wheels from Mommy and BaBa.
And he got to eat as much cake as he wanted. He didn’t know what to do with it, and was just confused and upset by the whole scenario. Poor baby.
Linus turned 11 months old today! Maybe it was because he was too excited to be a big boy because Linus decided to wake up EXTRA EARLY today. 
In the past month, Linus began looking more like a toddler and less like a baby. He also understands a lot of things like the things he likes to eat, the birds and planes in the sky, the ants and bugs crawling on the ground, and the big garbage trucks that come by every week.
Linus loves his bookshelf and books. His favorite game is pulling ALL the books out of the bookshelf and making a mess in the playroom for mommy or PoPo to clean up. Here’s the little bugger caught in the act.
There was a fundraiser carnival at a local school this weekend and we all went to have some fun. We played games, ate food, and best of all, Linus got to ride the Ferris wheel and carousel for the first time.
Linus figured out that wheels must face down to roll and now will drop the car until the wheels are on the bottom before he goes “driving”.