Just another day in Paradise...

We celebrated our two year anniversary with a glorious vacation in Bali!  We stayed on the southern coast of Bali, in a town called Nusa Dua, and were absolutely blown away by the beauty and tranquility of the island.  The Balinese absolutely adore children, and Tyler was treated like royalty by the locals.   

The Grand Hyatt resort was incredibly family (and stroller) friendly, with a fantastic pool winding throughout much of the property. 

My dinner dates!
SRB riding the waves...
The boys catching some rays at the pool...
Winding down after an exhausting pool day...
Master T cruising the boardwalk for ladies...
More pool day fun!
Dinner on the beach...


Tyler in his speed boat...
Our new favorite vacation destination!

9 Months!

Tyler is 9 months old today!  This is a first that I'm actually posting the day of, but Steve is travelling in Dubai and it's amazing what I can accomplish while he is away!  So I had to cheat to capture this picture, as you can see from exhibit B, Tyler would rather eat the sign than pose for me.

We took Tyler to his first amusement park last week, Ocean Park, located on the south side of the island.  The theme park is home to a variety of animals, there is a Giant Panda exhibit, dolphins, and this is going to sound really lame, but an amazing goldfish display.  These suckers were huge, it was an entire room dedicated to numerous funky breeds of goldfish.  Tyler was enthralled!  

 

The ladies man with his good friends Lauren and Emily...

Phuket

Okay, so I'm a couple of weeks behind on this post (actually months, but who's really keeping track here!), so you'll have to read my previous post for my extremely valid excuse.  Honestly it has taken me several weeks of blood, sweat, and tears to recover all of our pictures after our computer crashed!  Long story short, I was able to hack in to our Apple Tv and get all the photos that had been synced prior to that ill-fated day.  Lesson learned, back up your hard drive.  

Anyhoo, by the time March rolled around, we started to get a little cabin fever and to borrow a phrase from our favorite tv series, it was time to get off the island!  We travelled to Phuket, Thailand, a short 3 hour journey from Hong Kong, for some much needed fun in the sun.  We stayed at the Sheraton Grande Laguna and had an absolutely amazing vacation!  The beach was lovely, and there were a dozen of fantastic Thai restaurants all along the stretch adjacent to our hotel.  The food was great, and unbelievably cheap, and the scenery was breathtaking.  

T getting the party started early...  

Did someone say hot body contest?
Our little pork chop...sunning his buns!
The open air lobby of our hotel...
Tyler's first speed boat!
Lucy and Lily, two darling elephants from our hotel...
Dining alfresco!
Watching the sun go down with my boys!
Tyler's feeding the fish!
Our boating adventure to some of the islands off the coast of Phuket...
The boys new playmate!
Another beautiful sun set!
Another dinner alfresco!
The ultimate vacationer!

8 months

So apparently this has become somewhat of a monthly blog!  Tyler is 8 months old, crawling like a madman, terrorizing Bailey on a daily basis, and typically getting into pretty much everything.  He has started to pull himself up, which makes getting him out of his crib much easier, but nonetheless scary at times since his balance is so poor!   

7 months!

Okay I've been totally slacking on the blog posts lately, for two very legitimate reasons.  A) my macbook totally fried and I lost ALL of our photos, music, documents, etc.  (aka if you do not receive a Christmas card from us this year it is due to the fact that I do not have anyone's address); and B) there just aren't enough hours in the day.  I realize this is a pretty flimsy excuse considering the fact that I'm not working, but honestly my productivity output has severely decreased this past year.  I had this vision when I was pregnant that I would get so much accomplished during Tyler's naptime, train for a marathon, organize my recipe box, master Cantonese,  GOOD ONE!  This child sleeps maybe 45 minutes at a time, I consider myself lucky if I get to squeeze in a shower.  

Our little pork chop is seven months old now, and just started crawling!  Life just got a little more difficult.  Bailey was his total inspiration for this forward movement, he thinks she is just the greatest thing ever created, and chases her all around the apartment on all fours.  Bailey, apart from the occasional lick, wants absolutely nothing to do with him, due mostly to the fact that he yanks fistfuls of hair out whenever he catches her!  Notice how crumpled the 7 month sign is on the picture above, this would be due to the fact that nothing is safe from Tyler's mouth these days, he'll eat just about anything!  

Horvath Family Visit

My parents arrived in February for a week long visit.  Fortunately they had spent the week prior in Vietnam, so they were already fairly adjusted to the time change.  

Our pirate ship awaits...we took a tour of Victoria Harbour on this Aqua Luna Junk boat!

Cruising the harbour with cocktails...

View of Victoria Harbour from the Peak on a clear day (somewhat of a rarity spring time in HK!)

Grandma & Grandpa Horvath at the Peak

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Standing in front of the harbour in Kowloon...

Kowloon side...looking out on Hong Kong Island.  Fun fact:  the tallest building in the distance is the IFC building, which was used in the Batman movie, The Dark Knight.  It's the 7th tallest building in the world.  

Hiking in Tai Tam Country Park, overlooking the reservoir.

Visiting the Big Buddha on Lantau Island.

A view of the Big Buddha in the distance from the Po Lin monastery...

Inside one of the temples in the Po Lin monastery...

Our last night with our visitors...hopefully they'll be back soon! 

Half a year old!

It's hard to believe that Tyler is 6 months old already!  So much has changed in our lives in such a short time span, and the days have just flown by.  Our little pork chop weighs in at nearly 20 pounds, is eating solids, sitting up on his own, and scooting all around the apartment (albeit backwards!)    

As you can see below, Tyler hasn't missed a meal!