a little bit of this and a little bit of that

Some of you might have already seen this, but Teaching Handwork blog shows you how to do a double loop finger knit. Anyway, I tried it out and it was fun. Here is the link if you are interested.


Here is mine. Kids younger than kinder can do this, so she says. Anyway, my kids want to make it so we went to hunt for some nicely colored yarn for them to double loop. And those are what the kids picked out. Prime's colors are bold and J's color are springy. They haven't made it yet. They came back and wanted to play tennis and got their rackets and balls out. But I suggested they jump instead.

On our neighbor's trampoline. It's still chilly where I live but the sun is nice. They are having a ball. I can still hear them. :) I love that about spring and the pretty flowers which I'm looking forward to seeing.

I also got these seeds packets and hope to plant them. I wonder where I should plant the sunflowers. Anyone know when sunflowers can be planted? I'll have to do some research.


The kids set up outside a local Blockbuster video and sold lots of cookies. J was on the first shift (1 hour). It was really cold so when there was no one, the girls laid inside a fellow mom's minivan. It was a good experience for J as she doesn't talk to strangers and acts very differently if we don't know the person. ( I think this might be my fault, taught her this a little too well).

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.)

J's new hair cut

J's hair has always been very tangled; not sure why. I think it is related to the way she sleeps and just the texture of her hair. So today, I decided to cut her hair. She had always wanted long hair and that is why we had let it grow. But J also had enough of the tangled hair. Anyway, she is very pleased with her haircut. She says it feels much lighter. I think all her aunties will be surprised by J's short hair.
Much shorter now, huh?

Another set of present came for the kids in the mail today. This time from my friend, Jess. Clothes is usually a safe bet. J/W are not very picky about their clothes.

J has also been practicing her "asking for help"/"selling" skill. We will be meeting our extended family tomorrow for dim-sum (sort of like brunch) and J will be trying out her skill in selling her Girl Scott cookies. I'm confident she will do a fabulous job. I taught her a little "small-talk" skill as well since J sometimes is a little shy especially around male adults.