M regaling her audience with a tale from school...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
First belt test
Both munchkins are going great with their TWD lessons. M prides herself on being the loudest in the class and Y is quite aware that is he is one of the higher belt students in their batch. It was M's first belt test last month and she did awesome.
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Monday, April 7, 2014
Road Trip!!
First stop was Pleasanton to visit the cousins, after about 11 hours on the road. After a good bout of wrestling, giggling and a stop for mini-golf and water guns for about 1.5 days, we drove 8 hours to San Diego.
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| Goofy Kids |
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| Pit stop during mini golf |
Our little princess was quite surprised that there wasn't 'sand' in SANDiego. And anna was shocked that 'Sea World' was actually all land. Dada was blown away by how overpriced snacks were at theme parks. But, overall, Shamu and the dolphins and seals had us spell bound.
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| Interacting with the dolphins at Sea World |
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| Most colorful kids at Sea World. Shamu soft toy and Sea World backpack make an appearance. |
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| Exuberant whales |
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| At the actual sea world, with actual sand |
Day 2 saw us visiting the real world - seals sunning themselves at La Jolla coves and tidepools of Point Loma - which left the kids a bit underwhelmed after the antics of Shamu. Pool time at our hotel made up for boring old nature, though!! Yohan got to celebrate turning 6 with some Mexican food followed by his first (dis)taste of flan.
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| La Jolla Coves |
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| Oh yeah, I'm six! (Don't miss the tie on his shirt :)) |
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| Point Loma tidepools |
Day 3 was all about legos!
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| Yo and dada faking smiles before a roller coaster ride. (Nice t-shirt dada. Or maybe your wife has good taste ;)) |
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| I may be six. But I now have my driver's license. |
Back to the cousins' place (with a brief stop in LA) the highlight of which was Yo getting to cut a birthday cake with them! Eleven hours and a grand total of 2400 miles later, we were back home.
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| Cake time! |
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| Thank you God for trusty, roomy, comfy mini vans for 40 hours on the road! |
P.S. Full album and videos to follow.
Yo Turns 6!!
It's better mommy doesn't take the senti route on this one, or she'll dissolve into a puddle of tears that her first born is 6 years old!
He's a little guy who is sweet and kind and funny and really really smart and creative. He wakes up at the crack of dawn, spends his mornings reading the Bible and playing till his parents think it's a more reasonable time to arise, and is off to school and play. Back home for lunch and more play with some Taekwondo and homework thrown in. Nice life, little fella!! He loves learning about bugs, plants and planets, spends hours playing with his soft toys, prances and pounces like a cheetah, tries about 30 times a day to scare his mom, bullies his sister occasionally, and gets lost in his world of books and legos. He will never turn down Mc D Happy Meals and anything chocolate. He is reading like a champ now, writes without spaces between words and know way more about animals and American presidents than his parents.
He wanted a lego party his year. We invited some of his buddies from playgroup and school and they spent time building and creating and he got to cut a cake with his name spelled out in lego candy letters!
Monday, March 17, 2014
Messes
As a stay-at-home mom, you learn to live ignoring messes all day long. Along with "The living room looks like a dumpster," there's a sidetrack playing,"Just be happy the munchkins are entertaining themselves."
Here's a peek at some classic messes:
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Here's a peek at some classic messes:
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| Snowflake making results in..... |
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| ...Bits of paper, bits of paper, lying on the ground. |
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| Super heroes making super messes |
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| Caution: Snowball fight in progress |
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| So many projects, so little time |
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| And then there are some calm, sweet moments |
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