I thought this is a little sweet memory that I would like to read when my memory fades someday and I’ll bet it will be very soon! Anyway, Nathan and I were playing Candyland board game. He won the game 3x in a row. After the third game, I pretended to feel sad that he won the games so many times. Initially I thought he would response proudly because he won. But he has such a gentle spirit!! He consoled me that mommy you could win the next time! Then I pretended to be more sad. His response, started flipping through the cards really fast and said: “mommy, I’ll help you to win this time!” I’m so  blessed to have this sweet little gentle boy as my son. Thank you God!

You know that you’re a mom when your lil’ son offers/tells you the sweetest gesture/words. He doesn’t need to be the smartest one in the school (well at least for me!). And he can behave badly for the past few days.. still it’s so sweet to hear this from your own son at least sometimes!
N: “Mom, next time you don’t have to get up so early. I’ll come in to take care of baby.” Then he also proceeded to brush his teeth, to change his clothes, to make his bed and to eat his breakfast!
Wouldn’t you be glad to hear this from your 4 years old?

These are the yummy treats that Andy bought for me for Valentines’ day this year! They are so yummy!!! Thank you very much and I love you!

Nathan was playing play doh in his room then he ran to me and told me this:

N: “Mommy, do you know that turquoise is green + blule?”

M all impressed and wanna find out more: “How did you know? Did your teacher tell you about that?”

N: “Nope, I mixed my green and blue play doh up and they become turquoise!”

M: “great job son!”

I’m really proud of him finding out the new things himself even through the little thing like playing the play doh!

Finally the snow is here… This might be the only day for this winter but I don’t miss them at all!!! Well, if you’ve a kid then you would know how eager/long for the snowy days!! Thank goodness I don’t have to venture out in this chilly day with my son. He is just content to explore the backyard on his own!

The little decided to put on the hat( i bet he would love to join his brother to go out but mommy is just too chicken out to go out in this chilly day!) after seeing the big brother is all dressed for his adventure.

Last night I was reading a book: “Career Day” that we borrowed from the library to Nathan. Obviously it’s about different kind of careers of the children’s parents. So, I stopped and asked things related to the book. Here is our conversation.

Me: “Do you know what’s daddy’s job?”

N: “I don’t know”

Me: “He is a business analyst. He does most of his work on computer.”

N: “So, what is your job?”

Me: “What?? you don’t know what my job is and you stay with me everyday??”

N: “I know, you buy things!”

Me… speechless

Ok… I know I’m so emotional but I just can’t get over that my oldest son is now 4 years old. And now he is riding a big boy bike but still with 3 wheels Check out the big boy!

He got this tricycle for his 2 years old birthday!

2 years later, he upgraded to a “big boy” bike. Oh time time, please don’t fly by too fast and God help me to treasure each moment with my sons!

We were at a friend’s wedding in Dallas last week. It was a beautiful wedding. After the wedding, we had a little ISCA reunion with all the old friends. It was fun catching up with all the old friends! We didn’t get to take pictures with the bride and groom because Andy was so busy helping out in the kitchen and I was of course busy with the kids. But we had a good time and we got to take a family picture that we seldom has a chance to take together. When you have kids, the camera is always focus on the kids and many times the parents are almost always out of the scene or sometimes you manage to get a picture of one parent or the other but seldom both! But we managed to take one and the picture turns out great too!

I can’t imagine myself saying this: My Nathan turned 4 years old two weeks ago! How did the time go by so fast! I told Nathan one day that in about 14 years he will leave home and probably not thinking much about mommy anymore. He replied: “I still need you mommy!” hahha… yes for now but not too long! We had a birthday party for both Nathan and Noah at Boingo Bounce. Both of them and their friends had a blast there. Thank you for all the friends and family who spent the time to celebrate their birthdays with us!

Did it just happen with the blink of my eye?? My baby turns 1 today!!! Despite the rough spot when he was younger, he is growing now like weeds! He started walking when he was 11 months old and of course he is having so much fun walking especially he is now could do a lot of stuff like all of the other family members, esp his gor gor! I would commend on how he has really persistent in walking! You know when a baby is learning to walk, most of the time when he/she falls down, usually he/she will probably prefer get back to crawling to finish up his/her course of destination. But not with Noah, he would stand up and try again and again! Bravo for being perservarence and persistence! As a result, he is walking pretty stable now! Well, he is allergic to so many things! So, for his 1st birthday, I made a little cup cake that without using eggs or dairy! I really pray that he will outgrow his allergies soon! Oh.. did I mention he slept through the night in his crib without crying on his birthday!! hahha.. I know it’s about time but I just happy to report that!