Junior's afternoon excercise

Here is a short video of junior doing an afternoon kicking exercise. Pay close attention to the horizontal lines on the sweater in the upper-right quadrant of the video... You will see the belly twitch quickly.

Mom and Dad brought Thanksgiving to SF

Mom and Dad came up to SF to celebrate the Thanksgiving weekend with us... so we don't feel too homesick. Since Julie got Saturday off, we went out for a free lecture at the De Yeung Museum and a nice chilly walk on the Golden Gate bridge.

With our busy city lifestyle, we often forget how beautiful the city is. It is during touristy moments like this that we get to stop and smell the roses. All the prenatal classes teaching us how to be in the present moment really is what we need in this stressful world ^_^


Julie is always intrigued by this sign on the bridge... who would want to make a U-turn on the Golden Gate Bridge???

In the evening, we also went to Pier 39 to look at the Christmas tree there.





We also used the great weather to visit the Stanford museum. Eric really likes this picture because the name of the sculpture is called Round Cube... reminds him of (pregnant) Julie.

Chinese Turkey for Thanksgiving

Since we didn't want to risk another run to the emergency room while driving home for Thanksgiving, we decided to celebrate Thanksgiving with our friends in the Bay Area instead.

This was the first time any of us had tasted soy sauce turkey from 99 Ranch. Andrea ordered on Monday and picked it up on Thursday. She was shocked as to how big the turkey was... and we were only trying to feed four people ^_^ Here is a picture of the size of the turkey in relation to Mike:


Here is Eric demonstrating how to carve a turkey and Julie trying to help ^_^:


It was very nice of Mike and Andrea to open up their new home for us to have this Thanksgiving away from home.


After dinner, Eric and Julie joked that if junior arrived tonight we would have to tell him that he was an after-thanksgiving special. We originally planned to wake up early for the black Friday sales... but I guess sleep was more important for us... we slept in instead ^_^

Sweet Pea ( or Edamame)

Julie spotted this cutie at dinner. Doesn't the edamame look like it's smiling? Eric ate it anyways...

A Pregnesia Moment

One of the side effect of pregnancy is probably pregnesia ^_^
Julie often forgets what she was saying in mid sentence and needs reminders as to what she was doing the moment before.

Today, while Eric and Julie went to check out a store, as they return back to their car... Eric witnessed Julie walked to the car parked next to theirs and try to open the passenger side door while a stranger was sitting in the driver side of the car. The driver was shocked that a pregnant lady was trying to break into his car... luckily the car door was locked ^_^

Julie was mortified... she seriously thought it was their car... sigh -_-

SF Fashion Feud

San Francisco is finally growing on us. There is always something fun happening in the city and Eric is always looking for free cheap fun events to take Julie.

This is round 3 of the SF Fashion Feud. Each designer gets 1 hour to come up with a clothing design with the fabric given. It was so exciting. It was a more experienced designer versus a less experienced designer ( she must have been a high school student or early college student). Julie was rooting for the underdog ^_^




Julie really liked the red outfit by the younger designer.

However, the green/brown dress won due to better workmanship.

Monster crib

Thanks to Julie's co-worker, junior got a really really nice crib ( or really really BIG crib). It was so big that it would not fit in our car. Eric was pretty excited because he finally got to use the hitch on his car to tow a trailer.

We tied the crib down on the trailer and even went on the freeway to bring the crib home.

Although the crib was able to fit through our front door, it was just 1-2in too big for the bedroom door ( even after the doors were removed). We ultimately had to take the crib's railing apart to move the crib in the room. Now it is going to stay in that room until we move ^_^