Chez Mui Richard

It has been forever since my last post, sorry, but with Laurent in France for two weeks and work as crazy as usual, the time just seems to continue to fly by. Thank gosh for my parents who watched Chloe while Laurent was away and bless my mom for living with us those two weeks. It’s an absolutely AMAZING thing to come home from work and have dinner ready on the table. Love you mom. Here are some updated pictures of Miss Chloe during these two weeks.

She looks so sad in the last one, as if to say “Daddy, why am I sitting in the diaper box?”

Chloe is not yet walking on her own yet, but she’s definitely in walk mode but she needs something to help her maintain her balance. Hence, she laps around the house from living room to dining room to hallway holding onto the sofa, the walls or the chairs. Check it out.

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This video is most recent. It just sort of randomly happened. She turned on the metronome herself and just started rocking. I guess our girl has got some good rhythm. Might have to start those piano lessons sooner rather than later!

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Chloe’s latest new activity is walking the length of the staircase, hanging onto the banisters for dear life as she goes up and down the hallway. I’m a little worried because she’s getting to the point where if she stands on her tippy toes, she can reach the release latch of the staircase gate. Something we’ll need to keep our eye on, I doubt she’ll figure out how to open the spring loaded release but you never know. And I don’t know when we started singing the Chipmunk song “Oo ee oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang” but I think Chloe seems to get a kick out of it, what do you think?

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And of course my FAVORITE part of the whole clip is this picture I’ll leave you with. She’s so DARN CUTE!

Nothing much to report, another very cold week of snow and ice. Thanks to Grandma, Grandpa and Auntie Queenie for lending their assistance in shoveling and clearing all the snow for us! Weather forecasts next week show temperatures in the mid 40s so while it’s not exactly spring, perhaps we’ll be able to take Miss Chloe outside in the stroller to the park for a quick visit and get some new pics. But for now, here’s Chloe’s first introduction to her baby brother Sebastien.

I don’t know about you, but I am definitely ready for some spring weather. Miss Chloe too. Poor thing has been cooped up in the house for I don’t know how long. If she’s lucky, she spends two minutes outside before she’s ushered into her car seat and off to see Grandma and Grandpa we go.

Although according to the Mui’s, it’s never too cold for a little ice cream. Let’s see, Grandpa loves ice cream, Mommy loves ice cream, Daddy loves ice cream… do you think Chloe is going to love ice cream? You tell me from the gleam in her eye and that tongue sticking out!

And you know that’s Grandpa tempting her right? Who else? But Chloe loves her Grandpa. Check out the great video Auntie Queenie got this weekend of the two of them sharing a moment.

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Now that Chloe is one year old, I think it’s time for another portrait comparison. Any resemblance? What do you think?

Little Miss Chloe is finally getting over her cold and what’s on today’s agenda? Three shots AND blood needs to be drawn. Poor thing. Off we go for her one year check up. I totally thought we would tip the scale at 18 pounds but perhaps these last ten days of this cold have affected her weight gain. Well it’s not like she’s tiny or anything, so not to be worried. First time she got to stand on the big person scale, no more baby scale, hurray!

Wishing everyone a very happy Chinese New Year! Good health and prosperity to all! If I had to guess what Miss Chloe thought of her first Chinese New Year, her expressions below would accompany the following thoughts:

Left: OMG! It’s Chinese New Year? Well why didn’t you say so?

Middle: COOL! I get to wear pretty red clothes and receive lucky money!

Right: OH-YEAH!

It’s crazy to think that a whole year has gone by now with Miss Chloe. It’s been an amazing year filled with so many laughs and great moments. Who knew it would be this much fun? Thanks to everyone for joining us in celebrating this special day.

Just for fun, here’s a quick look back at Chloe’s first year, enjoy!

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I didn’t have a chance to edit and add this clip during the last Abby and Chloe post, but the video is just too funny not to share. Definitely going to make the effort to get these two characters together more often just to see what kind of trouble they can get themselves in! Enjoy!

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It’s cold and snowing outside so Chloe and Daddy decide to have a One on One conversation although Chloe did most of the talking, check her out.

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In celebration of the girls’ first birthday, we traveled down to Sunny Virginia Beach to spend time with Michelle and Abby. Look at how big Miss Abby is and all that hair! So jealous!

Chloe got to play with all of Abby’s awesome toys. I especially like the airplane scooter. =0)

Say hello to Nicole and Gracie. And look, Chloe is wearing a hat!

I love having these two little cuties together. I just want to pinch both of their cheeks, they are so CUTE!

And of course, happy (early) first birthday to both Abby and Chloe!

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