Grace’s friends have been contributing to a fund to help others. A good discussion about what to do with it. Here were some suggestions: * “Northwest Harvest”:http://www.northwestharvest.org/. Even a country as rich as the US has folks who don’t have enough food. It’s also easy to donate. Either drop it off at “Cherry Street”:http://www.northwestharvest.org/cherrystreet.html which […]

A Musical Journey. A great gift that Grace got for Christmas, this is a illustrated book that takes you to the various areas in China and let’s you hear the music. Beautiful and the original folks songs are great. By the way the author has some great recommendations for learning what I’d call practical Chinese. […]

Thickness of Saturn’s Rings. _Grace asked how much does Dad know and one question was, how big are Saturns rings, so google helped him…_ The rings are very wide, about 170,000 miles across, but only about a mile thick.”

TheSims2.com – Home. finally a modern game that Grace can love. This lets you basically play “dress up” on the computer. You can give clothes to a family, plan a picnic, etc. The neatest thing is that The Sims plugs into Sim City, so that they can live in a town. As Connie says soon, […]

Here’s Grace’s T-ball schedule for Montlake: | Date | Time | Opponent |Field| | June 17th|5:15pm|Stingers Jorrit Van der Meulen |5 | | June 24th |5:15pm|South Park Carmen Martinez |6 | | July 1st |5:15pm|Mighty Mice John McHale | 4 | |July 8th |5:15pm|South Park Carmen Martinez | 6 | | July 15th |5:15pm|Cougars Sean […]

Grace is another one of the Tong’s who is far older than her chronological age. I’d guess she’s about 35. Recent evidence are what she told me over the last week: * Refrigerator in the Bathroom: “Dad, the water isn’t cold enough in the bathroom, when I grow up, I’m going to have a refrigerator […]

Here is Grace’s home page. As Connie says, she is the digital baby, so here is what is going on., Here are some early pictures of her. Backpacking at the Grandparents Back at home she’s in the living room Here is a great sequence as she looks a Daddy. She’s about 8 months in these […]

Grace as a six month old. She has learned to sit up and she’s always curious as she looks at Dad and the camera in our family room:

Grace as a newborn in the first month or so. Many folks came to visit here and the boys just think she is great… Here is Calvin and you can see how much he loves his new baby sister… Heather with Alex and Grace. These are rare shots of Heather. Typically she is hiding behind […]