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Happy Chinese New Year!! This is the year of the horse, for those friends of ours' who are going to be giving birth in a few months. As usual, the kids receive red envelopes.
I had wondered when the kids would start to learn about the value
of money, but even at last year's Chinese New Year Buzz (at 3 years
old) had already learned to put money given to him straight into
his pocket! This year, the minute the kids got their red
envelopes Daddy took them straight into their room and they all put
their money into their piggy bank! Hopefully, the year of the horse will bring you prosperity and happiness!!
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Ahgoo with Comet the horse back in November 2012.
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Posted Jan 32, 2014 |
A few days ago I was driving the kids to school. As we got closer, I pointed
out to Buzz (who's carseat faces forward) that the tall building up
ahead is their school. The kids' pre-school is on the first floor of a
tall building. Buzz then started to ask me what are in the floors above
his school. I told him probably office spaces where people go to
work. But then I remember that the teachers would take the kids on
"field trips" by taking them to walk around the outside of the buildings
and even through the first floor of their building. The older kids
would go separately from the younger kids, just holding hands.
The younger kids would be carted around in a giant wagon. They would
explore and pick up natural objects like leaves and rocks.
So I told
Buzz that maybe he can ask his teachers if they can go see what's
upstairs. I told him that she may say no, but she may say yes too. So
when we got to school, the first thing he did was asked his teacher if
they can go on a field trip upstairs! I told her that she can say no.
But to my surprise, she told us that she would ask the building
coordinator and see if the big kids can tour the upstairs. The next
day, the teacher told me that she initially thought that the floors
above were all just cubicles and boring offices, but it would satisfy
a young child's curiosity. But after talking to the folks who run the
building, she found out that there were some really cool labs upstairs
that even she never knew were there!! She told me that the building
people are super supportive and will try to organize a tour for the big
kids!! She became super excited about the whole event!
I
am so proud of Buzz for having such a curious mind. Because of
him, his entire class will get to see some cool science labs! I
never even thought that he would think about such things as, "What goes
on above my school?" I hope he also learn that if you don't ask
for something, you'll never get it!
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My big boy!
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Posted Jan 23, 2014 |
Sorry for the lack of blogging
lately. I'm going through a period of "blahness." Every
time I have something I wanted to share on the blog during the day, I
end up losing steam by the time I get into bed. I've been so
tired lately, mainly from working, taking care of the kids, and still
working on the new home that by the time I crawl into bed, I just want
to veg and watch TV or play Sodoku!
On the home front, I
still have some projects to finish, including haning up pictures,
cleaning out our file cabinet, and installing light fixtures.
We're also awaiting on some new furniture to arrive. So I
will hold off on showing you pictures of our house. But I will
show you a few picture of my on-going obsession with lanterns.
I've had these lanterns for years, maybe even a decade. I'm
still uncertain about where I will keep the lanterns, but for now, they
are situated in both our front and back patio. I'll share more
home pics soon.
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I love this shepard's hook from Cost Plus. I may have to get a few more.
| My lantern obsession in full display.
| Our front patio.
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Posted Jan 22, 2014 |
On Buzz's fourth birthday, we made
our very first height mark in the new house. I can't believe that
my baby boy is four!! He's definitely grown into his own person.
Like most guys, he LOVES movies and reading books, and watching
television. He also loves playing with his little sister.
Buzz has mastered how to float on his back in swim class, he
continues to learn Chinese, and he's slowly expanding his taste buds
and are eating much better. But I suspect he'll always be a picky
eater. At school, his teachers tell me that he's the "big man on
campus." He's a social butterfly and is friends with everyone.
I'm so proud of who he's become and look forward to seeing him
continue to learn new skills and grow with his sister. The two
of them are like two peas in a pod and love to play with each other.
I am so glad that the kids will be able to call our new house
their childhood home. Many more birthdays and height marks to
come. Since we're following my process of only having
birthday parties on odd birth years, we decided to take Buzz to
Adventure City this year. It is really the perfect place for
young kids! It is much cheaper than Disneyland and he can go on
most of the rides. Also the wait time at each ride is only about
10 minutes at most! Even Ahgoo had a wonderful time, she
LOVED the carousel and rode on it four times! Since there
were hardly anyone on it, they let us just stay on the ride the whole
time. We invited Buzz's friend from Chinese School to join us and
the two boys had a blast running around the amusement park from ride to
ride. His friend was more cautious and didn't like the fast
rides. But we discovered that Buzz is a bit of a daredevil and
loves the roller coasters. After a day of fun at Adventure City,
we came home to have cake and open presents, Grandpa and Grandma
complete spoiled him with a brand new bicycle! A week before his
birthday, I asked Buzz what kind of cake does he want. Without
hesitation, he yelled, "A Buzz cake!" So after some
web-searching, I found this picture
and decided to reproduce it. I asked my MIL to bake me a simple,
round, two-layer cake. She even frosted it nicely for me.
She also gave me a great tip, to first use a toothpick to draw
out the design before I use any color frosting. Mixing the right
colors was pretty easy, except for trying to make skin color. I
messed up the first time using the color formula on the cake website
but I discover that if you just use a tiny bit of orange color you can
make tan pretty well. To apply the color frosting, I simply used
ziploc sandwich bags and snipped off the tips to make a pipping bag.
I think the cake turned out well! Only thing is that I
forgot Buzz's eye brows, but our birthday boy didn't seem to notice.
He loved the cake and wanted to eat Buzz's eye!
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Mixing colors, I felt like I was creating a painting.
| The beautiful canvase, a double layer chocolate cake!
| The finished product! Later, I realized that I forgot his eye brows! But no one else seemed to care.
| Counting his candles to make sure all four are there.
| Having fun at Adventure City!
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Posted Jan 7, 2014 |
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