Weekend

We had a lovely weekend. I enjoyed a trip to the mall all by myself Sat. while the kids had fun with their cousins and their auntie/uncle. Lots of goofy poses and lots of treats give by auntie T after a fabulous egg hunt. Everybody also had a special extra-large egg with special treats inside. Thanks, auntie T!!



Looking at these pictures just makes me smile. :)

We also cleaned and prepared our garden for the season this afternoon. W found a lot of worms under the bricks and we are starting a worm home. :)

Discovered a centi or milli (?) pede. We found our peppermint is "thinking outside of the box" and growing too prolific. ;-)

J doing some planting and cleaning. She was such a good helper. Love you lots, J!

Later, we will celebrate Jesus' resurrection with some friends.

all play

Today, it was all play for the kids. From the time since they got up, til they fall asleep tonight (they are having a sleep over with their cousins at a hotel), J/W have been playing. First in the house, then at the mall, and finally at the hotel.

J/W were very excited this morning because they knew they were going to be swimming today with their cousins. J got more excited when she learned she could spend the night at a hotel. J/W loves hotel (for what reason I'm not sure, but a scrumptious breakfast is always a good thing) W was a little more tentative but he usually likes to stick with his sister. J got 3 sets of clothes out and told W to do the same thing. It was a mess in J's room. Then she came to my room to lug out my suitcase which I used when I was flying out of town!! She also packed her bible and another bible story book. Her school bag was bulging so much when were done packing.

Anyway, we got to the mall to meet up some of our friends and spent about 4 hours at the mall- at the play area. J was acting very motherly toward E and Iz. She would hold the little one's hand and let them direct where she was going. Very cute. More impressively, they clung to her. There were about 6 kids (exclude 2 little ones) there and they all played well together.

Then it was off to the hotel. After a nice dinner, the kids were all in the swimming pool. J/W sort of forgot how to swim (especially W boy), but after a little while, they were swimmers again. I took lots of pictures until my camera's battery died. Some of the best pics were toward the end, but suffice to say, J/W had a fun doing what they love to do, play!

A funny story is when Iz was in the floater and my hubby tried to help and push her, she turned around, looked innocently and straight at my hubby and said, "Kow-fu(uncle in cantonese), I don't need you. I need MZ(J's name in cantonese)." LOL! Later, when I said, "Iz, you stabbed Kow-fu in the heart today." she said, "I know." :) She is 2, almost 3years.


Here is the crew of 5 (2 hidden in the back) and one is missing in action (with daddy). There is E in purple. There is also Julia in the back with her mommy but too blurry to see. See how J is being "motherly"?) :-)

After all that play, snack break. Those pretzel are good, huh? Or just some very hungry kids. Here is the camera shy N. But he loves cinnamon sugar, licked it clean. :)


J at the hotel. That bed is really comfy. The 4 are trying to get adjusted to the water. W and his goggle. He swims so much better with them. Later, Julia and Jacob came too.

More presents....

Today we had a 3 hour dim sum with our extended family. The kids got their Christmas presents from their uncles and aunts. W boy could not wait to go home to play with his presents so he kept telling us to leave. He was also shy today at dim sum and took a while to warm up to aunts/uncles wanting hugs. Kisses were definitely out of the question even for J.

W opens his present. J shows one the presents she got. A floppy ear bunny which she carried everywhere.


1) W tells Uncle J to come over so W can take a picture of him and his sweetie. W is quite the photographer.
2) J explains the available choices of her Girl Scott Cookies to auntie S. She sold 17 boxes today. Thank you everyone for supporting J!
3) J/W with their cousins. ( Iz loves J and she give big hugs to J and was always mz,mz(J's Chinese name; It was so cute.)