Archery and more + visit from aunties

Today, we took the kids to the local Conservation/sports association for some free fun. They got to try their hands at archery, fishing and firearm. J enjoyed the archery best, and Prime really liked the shot gun. Prime liked the shot gun because he couldn't quite pull the trigger all by himself so he wants more tries next time.





Both kids got a $1 coin for trying their hands at shotgun. They also got a patch to iron on their shirt.

Later, their aunties came for a visit. J and Prime was so excited. J really wanted to show them her newly re-arranged room and play "restaurant" with them. Their aunties were really impressed with J's pretend food, esp the sushi she rolls with colored felt complete with ginger and her fast made donuts made with paper. The best part everyone likes about J's "restaurant" is that many of her food is free! Who wouldn't love that? :)

In- line skating seen through J's lenses

Today, Prime tried in-line skating. Even though it was his first time, he did great. It was probably due to the fact he has taken a session or two of ice-skating. I might consider signing him up for in-line skating lesson or maybe father and son can do it together since daddy have the shoes (I think) and knows how to. First, let's see it through my lens.

Sweet love. J holds Prime's hand while I get a chance to take a picture. :)

Hi, buddy, are you doing a dance? :)

Now, we will see it through J's lens. See how different they are? She is more interested in capturing a story it seems. :)


Our fallen rose petals smell so good, esp. the bright pink variety. Ahhh.... if I can only preserve the smell somehow. I don't have enough rose petal to make rose water.

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).

1st Super Bowl

Just want to post : J and Prime watched Super Bowl last night!

It is the first Super Bowl J and Prime watched. Also the first one for me! I actually like it a lot! It helped that daddy was able to explain what is happening to all of us. :)

Prime/J and I rooted for the Cardinals (we call them the red birds) while daddy rooted for the Steelers based on their past history of winning in the Super Bowl.

After a while, Prime lost interest and was doing his creative play and later fell asleep on the couch. J, on the other hand, fought to stay awake and watch. She said she really like it.

Prime/J/I all commented that the reds birds need a lesson in courtesy since they had quite a few personal foul for personal roughness and for grabbing the other team member's helmets. But later, Steelers had quite a few of those of too. So we said both team needs a lesson in courtesy.

It was an exciting game and Steelers won against the Carinals (27 vs 23). I think the game really taught me that anything can happen and to be vigilant at all times and to NEVER be complacent.

After the game, J commented that she had an observation about daddy which is that daddy predicts correctly. Good observation. :-)