Manners Made fun.

2 o'clock group.

Past 2 weeks Regina has been attending College For Kids course Manners made fun by Mrs. Laura Little. Mrs. Little has been teaching this course for 25 years and each time course ends with Tea party in Ritz Carlton. So did it this time.

(Regina and Mrs. Laura Little) Children were presented with manners Made FUn diplomas and we all enjoyed tee, and tea sandwiches and Cute mini desserts.

Mrs. Little thought children Phone manners, how to set table, how to shake hands, how to introduce your friends and parents.. and more. I think it was wonderful 2 week course for girls and few boys.

(Reginas Signature Pose)

And of course my fave part was Tea in Ritz Carlton. This hotel is AMAZING.!!

EVERYBODY got this plate with delicious Desserts.

Cute and tasty tea sandwiches.

Poor Regina :(

My baby is not doing very well right now. School during summertime is not a great idea. She hates it.
Also Regina got a nasty bacterial vaginosis and she is miserable. It is really painful for her and she does not know how to deal with it.
Her mouth sores are getting better, and they were due to some virus that was going around( yup, we found out lot of kids HAve it right now. Not sure how she got it. She washes her hands gazzillion times per day..

Also- We are wishing you all HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!! Have fun !!

Check out my Friend Risa's blog. If you guys remember she was the one who planned a amazing tea Party for Regina last year.... Now... She is not doing tea parties anymore( I hope she will do them at one point again, because she is just born to do Tea)

I think she is one talented gal. Right now she is doing face paintings, and her face art is amazing. Check out her blog for more info.

http://www.colorfulfaceart.blogspot.com/

Great weekend.

This was one busy weekend.
Before I go ahead and tell you all about our weekend stuff, i ask you to send some healing thoughts to Reginas way. Reginas Impetigo is back ( it is healing right not and is past infectious state, but it still bothers her). And Regina has headache - today is her second day to have it. I just hope that it is due to her Avastin(anti-angiogenesis) treatment. I will call Dr Dhall tomorrow if Regina wakes up with a headache.

NOW, our weekend.
On Friday we decided to host a dinner grill party. We have not had any grown up party's for a while and it was time for it. Our dear friend Steve came over and took care of grilling. I marinated meats, but he made sure they were grilled to perfection. :) thanks Stev-O. Last patch of people left around 11.30. IT was sooo much fun:) About 25 grown ups and their kids showed up:) Thank you for coming.


On saturday we went to celebrate our friend Jordans second birthday. Again, lot of food, great people, and whole bunch of grazy kids. Regina and Gabriel are done with bounce houses, so I took them home hour after party ( we live couple of houses up from them), Nick was home OF COURSE. Myself I went back there and enjoyed some fun sweet ( yuck) coctails.

THEN, on Sunday( today) we went to bowling party , that We Can( Bediatric Brain tumor Network) organized
http://www.wecan.cc/

Bowling party was in Santa Monica, It is about 65 miles from us ( about 80 km). But regardless of high gas prices, we did not mind the drive. We knew that this event will be fun- And it was. Thank you Kathy and Cris for organizing this event. We did 2 hours of bowling and we think we are done.

There are couple of really exiting events coming up, but I will write and post pics about them when we attend them :) I hope you all are having a great summer :)

New Hair :)

Thanks to Robert Ferrari , Regina has a new beautiful set of brown real hair. She has been asking about her new NO ITCH hair for since we went to see Robert couple of months ago, and when I told her that her wig is in, she was She looks adorable. Honestly, she looks too adorable. She looks just like her American Girl Doll now:) So cute :)
I know, it looks like whole lot of hair, BUT we have a reason to keep her hair that long. Since it is a wig, hair will not grow ( duh). SO, if she feels like she wants shorter hair next time, we can cut it into different style.

So guys, if you need a great hight quality wig, or hairpiece ( all of you who have bold spots) contact Mr. Ferrari and he will hook you up with bestestestest wigs or hair pieces...

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Now Before and after pictures

HAPPY BIRTHAY TO GABRIEL!!!

On June 22nd, 2001 I gave birth to my second child- Gabriel Austin Tan. Labor was short sweet and easy ;)lol

Today we celebrated Gabriels seventh birthday . Couple of months ago we got this letter from some new place that had opened up close to our home, and I decided to visit them , to check them out. Place is called http://www.wowzville.com/ the moment we stepped into that place, We knew that Gabriels birthday party will me in there. They have 3 interactive theme rooms. Gabriels favorite room was NASCAR RACING room. IT was so much fun for kids.1 and 1/2 hours of uninterrupted interactive racing I was surprised how well kids behaved. They loved every minute of it.

Gabriel wants to say HUGE thank you to all of you for Remembering him on his birthday. He is really shy boy, but I could see sparkle in his eye .


Also- today is THE day- June 22nd, 2007 - Regina had her second brain surgery:):):):)

And one more thing- OUR number one friends ( yes, we are still on middle school), invited us ( regina and I ) yesterday to see High School Musical on stage. Oh, it was cool play. I laughed out loud couple of times. Fun times :):)( Yes , we had very busy saturday- First beach party and then High school musical.)

Sunshine Kids annual Beach Party

It was fun saturday afternoon. Lot of Sunshine kids, great weather, awesome food and well behaved kids.( mostly). Thank you Sunshine kids Amy and Brooks and all the other who made it happen.

G.W. Bailey
Executive Director, The Sunshine Kids Foundation( you may know him as Capt. Harris in the POLICE ACADEMY film series) and Kyras daughter Sosie Bacon. Regina and her made sand drop castles and played in ocean together.


Kyra Sedqwick and her daughter also attended sunshine kids Beach party. She looks stunning in person. :)

What a difference year makes...

Today was such a glorious day. Do you know what made me happy today? People remembering what happened last year. Thanks god for HUGE sunglasses , but couple of times I did tear up.. I am just so happy that Regina is still in peoples thoughts and prayers. You have no idea how many people came up to us today and yesterday and congratulated us , and just reminded us what a difference year makes. Last year this time things were quite different. We were in ER , last day of school. Me sitting on the floor crying my eyes out just not knowing what that massive mass on her head was. Doctor trying to keep straight face while giving me the worst possible news, avoiding looking into my eyes while doing me... , REgina being transported from Mission Hospital to CHOC hospital by paramedics... Her head lever had to be right and I was not allowed to take her there with my own car. Moments before her surgery... not knowing if she could survive it... Crying the whole 4 hours while she was on surgery, crying after we were told there nothing they can do. Leaving hospital with not knowing what going to happen tomorrow...
I am just so thankful to all of our friends and strangers who have reached out to help us during this past year. All cards, emails, phone calls, babysitters.... FOOD, gifts, floweres, hugs, it all has been amazing. I really am thankful... I am not that emotional " American" way, but I am happy that I live in this country full of options and hope.:)

TOday was last day of school. Kids got report cards. Gabriels report card was excellent. He is my genius . REginas Report card was ok. She missed lot of school and she is slower than most of kids at her age, but she did ok. I am proud of her:) MOnday she will start summer school:)

Also I am so happy that I met one of our good frieds after school was out. SHe invited us to her Annual pool party. Oh gosh, it was so much fun. Seriously. TOday was glorious day and perfect pool party day. Kids had lot of fun, I had lot of fun, and everybody else was having splendid time. Thanks for inviting us:).... pool was filled with energetic kids, poolside with "happy" moms... and couple of dads. ... summer can begin now.....:)

I am still taking my happy pills... Celexa every other day. LOVE IT!!!