Of shoes and independence

9 December 2012

Its pretty amazing (at least to me) that my baby girl can wear her own shoes (not the slip-on type) at 2.

Heehee Mummy is super proud of you :) Another sign of independence...

Milo turns NINE!

Happy 9th birthday Milo!

May you live to a ripe old age and be with us always...

Love you forever :)

Daddy, Mummy & your 2-legged siblings

Ashlyn's 2nd birthday

26 November 2012

The school has planned Ash 'birthday treat' on the 26 December since her actual day was over the Thanksgiving's holiday. 

We brought a cake and some goodies bag for the children... All the little kids got so excited the moment we stepped into the class except for Ash! She must be wondering why school's over so early today! Haha

11 November 2012

Ashlyn had her 2nd birthday party at Winger's, one of our favourite restaurant in MH. Praise the Lord that everything turned out exactly the way we hoped it would be! Nice food, wonderful ambience and great company :)

Heartfelt appreciation to all our friends who came and the blessings they have showered upon Ashlyn. Hope you guys had as much fun as we did!

Finally HERE!

The canvas print that I have ordered few weeks back is finally here! Very happy with the quality and I can't wait to have this up in Ashlyn's room back in Singapore... Woohoo! 5 more months to go!

Mini's development milestones @ 2

Ash's statistics at today's development checkup...

Weight @ 10.4kg and height @ 84cm

After such a long time and with her STILL eating so little, I am happy to see an increase in her weight, even though its just a mere 1.1kg (over 6months).  Heehee... guess so long she is healthy and growing well, that should be all that matters :)

Anniversary Breakfast @ Goldy's

Today marks the 15th year of our time together. That is like... almost half of my life spent with this man! Haha... how could we still remain 'fresh' after so long? *oops*

A little love note to my old man...

Although the past year of our time here hasn't been an easy one, I am glad we managed to survive through every challenges that crossed our path.

And yes, we have emerged stronger than before :)

Happy Anniversary & love you many!

p/s: Thank you for the breakfast at Goldy's. The food was indeed yumilicious :) Please take leave and bring me there again ok?*wink*

STILL as Handsome

A vision screening done in the school last week suggested that Kaeden needs further evaluation by an optometrist hence we made an appointment to have his eyes check thoroughly at Walmart...

Conclusion: He is far-sighted and that could be the cause of his messy handwriting since he has problems focusing on near objects. 

How? Wear glasses lor!

Then again... my son looks quite handsome in glasses right? Heehee, welcome to the 4-eyed club!

Happy Halloween!

Ha-ll-o-ween!!!

With Daddy being far far away at work, its just US and our friends on this spooky night...

All of us had so much fun especially the kiddos :) Their buckets got sooooo full of candies from just one round of trick-or-treat around Bear Loop!

Socky the Monkey

I went up to Kaeden's room and literally walked into a 'birthday party' for Socky! So that's what he has been hiding in his room for :)

The first thing that came across my mind... my son is sooooo sweet!

Some background story on Socky...

Few Saturdays back at the Build-A-Bear store at Boise Town Square, Walker saw the advert for a Sock Monkey and he found it very cute (yessssh, its WALKER who suggested it first!)... so the both of them went inside and that's how Socky the Monkey came into our family.

Inside the package with Socky was his birth cert and a calendar that mentioned about the Sock Monkey turning 15 on 21st October. Haha obviously Kaeden took note of it and wanted to celebrate his birthday!

Down Truckee River

09 August 2012

River rafting is really FUN and exciting!

We waited for our raft to be ready...

took turns to paddle...

to rest...

and most importantly... we did something together as a family :)

It was indeed an experience for all of us... especially me, who probably wouldn't even give it a try if not to meet the 'at least 2 adults per raft' requirement. Very glad that we made the trip back to Lake Tahoe for this.

Linder Farm

Dusty!

...was the first thing that came across my mind when trying to blog about our recent visit to Linder Farm!

But then again, everyone had fun and I was the only one affected by it :( Well... blame it on my weak lungs... haha

We went over after our lunch at Pho Tam and was surprised to see that its such a HUGE farm! Looks really fun and will be fun if not for the dust... *oops*

My fav would have to be the hayride...

...which took us through the corn maze and out to the pumpkin patch where we 'harvested' some pumpkins for Halloween!

The kids enjoyed themselves in the corn box and how I wish I could join them as well......

And then Daddy took us through the corn maze BECAUSE his friends highly recommended it, hence its a must-go...

Indeed it was quite an experience getting 'lost' amidst the cornfields and I trust that the bigger corn maze would have been more challenging. Heehee... too bad the kids got restless so we decided to give it a miss :)

Ash's bracelet

Ms Debbie handed me a bracelet that Ash made in class today and even commended her on her patience. Haha... seems like Ash is the only one who managed to complete it!

*drum roll* Presenting Ash and her first piece of craft work :)

Yosemite National Park

08 August 2012

After what seemed like many hours on the road, we finally reached the entrance of Yosemite National Park!

Once inside the park, it felt as though we were led into another world surrounded only by beauty in its most natural form... WoW

Everywhere is so so beautiful...

The highlight of our trip was the drive up to Glacier point, which is an overlook of the Yosemite Valley, Half Dome and Yosemite Falls. The view from up there is simply breathtaking that the photographs does not do justice to it.

Half Dome... the iconic symbol of Yosemite National Park

Cold cold Mid Autumn Festival

The image of Mid Autumn Festival has always been one of playground filled with kids, lanterns and burning candles but over here... we looked like 4 lost souls roaming around Bear Loop with a lantern in our hands!

Nonetheless, it was quite an experience for the kids, especially Ash who enjoyed herself tremendously... both with the lantern and my snow skin moon cake :)

Happy Mid Autumn Festival!