Friends and Family,
Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you are having a wonderful holiday and thank you for being a part of our lives.
See attached for our holiday card and here for our 2-minute holiday video.
Bryson (6 1/2) and Scarlet (2 1/2) are exhaustingly awesome. Bryson likes to play online chess during breakfast and speed reads through Who What Where books like Steve Jobs and Rosa Parks (Alex and I were talking about the Gates Foundation and Bryson chimed in, “Actually Dadda, Bill Gates put in about $30 billion). He is also obsessed with monopoly and Alex taught him how to enter each property’s info into excel, color code, and analyze which investments were best. Scarlet is very much in the two’s stage. Even Bryson tries to help us parent her saying, “Scarlie, if you don’t eat your broccoli, then you won’t be able to color.” She also loves to use Sharpie on our cabinets and also on her body. Analiza, as a result, has taken to passing out at 8:30pm.
Here are more survival moments from the year:
- Surviving a week swimming at a Delaware beach after finding out from a shark researcher next to us, “This is my favorite spot for fishing and tagging sharks. Last month I tagged a bull shark!” Bryson piped in, “That’s the most dangerous shark after the great white!” (Thank you Netflix 72 Dangerous Animals.)
- Analiza surviving yet another Alex crazy adventure summiting the Obelisk in the Sierra Nevadas. Day 1 consisted of a 6am to 9pm approach hike (lingo for – you’re not even at the climb yet) with no trail, bushwacking through dense trees, and getting lost four times. Day 2 was another approach for 6 hours over boulders and then another 6 to rock climb (we spotted a bear on the ground – thankfully we were on the rock) and then another 6 to head back (in the dark and running into a snake!). Then Day 3 was an “easy out” with a “late” start at 7am, and getting back to the car at 2pm to madly drive back to the airport to barely make a flight. Whew!
- Bryson surviving Analiza forgetting him at the airport (yes, this happened with Scarlet too – but that was a few years ago!)
- Surviving bears in our New Paltz backyard (baby and mama strolled through with Scarlet yelling, “Shhhh! Shhhh! There’s a bear!”)
- Bryson hopefully surviving a trip to Hawaii over winter break. Bryson wanted to learn about Pearl Harbor, and Grandma wanted to support his learning. Analiza also wants to support his learning – with finally knowing how to swim. So in her typical fashion, she has signed him up to go on a bunch of snorkeling trips with sharks, turtles, dolphins, and manta rays. Hopefully he is getting something out of swim class. Sink or swim!
- At a Mets game, Alex caught a ball and survived this debate with Analiza. If a ball was headed to your wife, do you let her catch it? Note that your wife played softball for most of her childhood. This is of course just hypothetical.
- Analiza surviving a ship accident. Ok, that’s dramatic. She was not on the ship, but it did run aground and so her Antarctica trip got cancelled (yes, for the second time! Hopefully next year is the charm.) She is now headed on an alternate trip to Oaxaca to work on her Spanish. Two and a half weeks. Solo. Yay! (And thank you Alex!)
Lastly – Analiza and Bryson are writing a children’s book Asian Americans Who Inspire Us. Analiza was hunting for a book with real life heroes that look like Bryson and Scarlet, and sadly there are not many. Hopefully the book will come out sometime in 2019. Sign up for a free e-story when it comes out here. More info to come soon!
Wishing you lots of adventures and survival moments.
Love and hugs,
Alex, Analiza, Bryson & Scarlet
PS: Here’s our 1-second a day video for the past year.
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