So Amanda & Malakai came to visit us sometime ago and here is what happened;

I’m not writing this to portray myself in a bad light or to show that I’m not scared of anyone or to show that I really do take awesome pictures, but to show you a moment that made me grow up and realize my role as a parent.
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Alright…so last Friday night, Josh, Jaymie, Kat, Matt, Sarah, Adalie, and I went to go eat at Red Robin at Provo Towne Center cause I was craving their Mushroom burger! The wait was an hour long though, but we decided to wait and went outside on this bench by the escalators. So I was snapping some shots of everyone and was taking this one of Kat…when this college age preppy guy (the guy in the white shirt behind Kat) made this STUPID face and stuck finger with his left hand.
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Thinking that he was clearly in the picture, he and some “big boned” girl (sorry disapproval by association) and another couple laughed out loud a lot as they walked by because of this kids ignorant gesture. Most things don’t bother me, but when you stick finger at me for no reason-I’m goina give you a piece of my mind! I looked straight at him and said “Don’t worry, your ugly face wasn’t in the picture!” and proceeded to put the camera away. A couple seconds later as they were riding up the escalator directly behind us, he mutters “Your mom’s ugly!” then stuck his middle finger slyly off the side handrail of the escalator. That was it for me-I dashed up the escalator and just as he was getting off, I got 2 inches from his face and this was the convo:
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Me: “What’d you say? You got a problem with me? Say what you just said to my face!”
HomoKid not anticipating the confrontation: “Oh, uh, um, uh…”
Me: “Why you gotta act stupid, flick me off, and call my mom names! I dare you to say it again to my face!”
HomoKid poopin in his pants: “Um…I don’t even know your mom. Look, I don’t want any trouble. What are you trying to prove?”
Me: “Tough ah when your far away…don’t be talkin crap and doin stupid stuff if you can’t back it up!”
Homokid scared for his life doesn’t say anything…
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I turned to walk away and under his stink breath he tells me to “f-u”
~SERIOUSLY…this kid got is stupider than i thought possible…
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Me: “What’d you say?” and I pushed him and got right up to his face again
Homokid’s big boned girlfriend: “Just let us go, he was just playing around, you want me to call the cops?”
Me: “Call the cops…this kid got a serious problem- Playing around? Don’t EVER let me catch you doing something stupid again, I should break your face and your finger right now!”
Sarah sprinting up the escalator: “JASON CHUNG YAN TYAU, GET OVER HERE NOW!!!”
Me to homokid: “Your lucky…real lucky.” and I left
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I could not believe the ignorance that this kid had to do something SO stupid! Sarah was pretty upset and disappointed at how I reacted to the situation. I felt justified in my actions because of the gestures he did and I’m not going to let some retard do something disrespectful and stupid and just get away with it-someone gotta teach him a lesson right? But at the same time she said something that really hit me and caused me to reflect: “Your a dad now, do you want Adalie to see you act like that when she’s older?”
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WOW…way to make me feel guilty eh? They have a saying in the church in Chinese that translates to: “No success can compensate for failure in the home” I know that I can’t justify my actions, neither can I say that two wrongs make a right. Cause in the end what would beating up that Haole kid prove anyway? I would be crushed if Adalie was old enough to comprehend how I had reacted and that to me would have been a failure. I am so thankful for a wife that loves me so much that she ran after me and told me to “turn the other cheek” …but part of me still feels justified 😛

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Sleeping Update: I am WEAK SAUCE no more!!!

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So the other week we went to meet up with all my Goo cousins and talking with Charlene and Megan, they both gave suggestions about how to help Adalie sleep. Charlene gave us a book that Sarah read and she tried to do a couple things that they recommended:

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1. Always put your baby down to sleep right before they get tired and fussy

2. Put your baby to sleep as early as possible (like 6:30pm-ish)

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We tried these two suggestions and in a weeks time, she’s slept about 6 days like a little angel and even slept from 10pm-6am last nite! Wow-Sarah’s been so dilligent and I am just amazed at how much less grumpy we are and how much happier she is! CheeHee…

Sometimes I just stare at her while she sleeps cause I miss her sooo much and she’s just so cute!

She ALWAYS sleeps with both hands up!

Good nites sleep = One very cute, very happy baby!

So we just got our new camera and we’ve been in LOVE with it! Pictures are worth a thousand words and even though we’re not pro’s yet, we can definetly tell a difference in picture quality! These are some pictures that we took recently of Adalie being a good little princess!

After MANY MANY MANY sleepless nights (Sarah more than me, but I was affected too!) we decided to try to let her “cry it out.” She LOVES to be held and usually falls asleep everynight laying on my chest. I don’t know how that would be comfortable as it’s hard as a rock???…but she sleeps a lot longer sleeping on my chest than by herself. As SOON as I put her down, she’s up within an hour if that. She seems especially good at waking up 1, 2, 3, and even 4 times a night on Saturday night when she KNOWS we have church at 9am Sunday. So after repeated attempts and various “sleeping techniques/tips/routines” that we’ve tried, we tried the infamous yet excruciatiating “cry it out” method. So at 10:14pm I layed her down when she was semi asleep. I went downstairs and Sarah and I used our quiet voices to talk. She would wimper her cute “do you hear me” wimper and then suck her fist again. Her cries got progressivly louder and despite all attempts to ignore it, it tore my heart up to hear her cry. At 10:55, I couldn’t take it anymore and went and picked her up and held her close to me…she cried even louder as I picked her up as if to say “I can’t believe you just left me there this WHOLE time!!!” She calmed down and was out within 5 minutes and slept on my chest the whole night…shesh, I’m weak sauce! I wish she’d sleep like she does in the pictures!!!