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n is 9!

March 19, 2018 No Comments

n’s birthday celebration lasted for about a week. Last Sunday, we had a dinner at my parents’ house with my side of the family. On Friday, we had a small birthday celebration at home with just us. And yesterday we went skiing in the morning/early afternoon and had a dinner party with some of his friends at Benihana.

For the dinner at my parents’ house, my mom made it an emoji-themed party.

Yes, those are what you think they are.

If you need another clue, look at n’s new slippers–ha!

For n’s birthday dinner at our house, he requested his favorite, salmon. I bought a large slab at Costco and he basically ate it for Friday dinner, Saturday lunch and Saturday dinner–ha!

I found these cute strawberry shortcake desserts at Costco. When I bought them I did not even realize that they come with six real glasses. Not bad for around $11. I want to make my own mini parfaits now!

Happiest of birthdays to our n. I love that he still calls me mommy, likes to give and receive hugs and tells me that he loves me. He is my affectionate one, for sure. I am not sure how much longer that will last, but I will take it while I can!

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Blue Sharks End of Season Party

November 9, 2017 No Comments

We had n’s end of year soccer party at Chuck E. Cheese last night. We really liked the coach and team this season. Too bad his coach is not continuing to coach next season.

The last time we went to Chuck E. Cheese was for n’s birthday party. We still had extra tokens from back then, but they no longer accept tokens! They changed to an electronic card system, but it was easy to transfer our tokens to the card.

I made my first .gif of cute k playing Fruit Ninja and messing up.

It was fun watching n receive his certificate and trophy.

The coach said some nice words about each boy. D had his phone ready to record it…we’ll miss the Blue Sharks!

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Legoland + Robotics With Cub Scouts

November 2, 2017 No Comments

Monday was a teacher work day for our school district, so our Cub Scout den scheduled a field trip at Legoland. Our family was able to use our annual passes, so that was nice.

There were some Halloween decorations. Now that it is November, I guess it is on to Christmas!

The weather was nice and overcast–perfect theme park weather!

n blowing a bubble and looking at the Star Wars displays. k was able to hang out with a couple of Girl Scout siblings, so that was nice.

After lunch, there was a short robotics workshop called We Do 2.0. n put together a Lego froglet on his own and used a computer program to make it move.

Junior Engineers!

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Sports Weekend

October 23, 2017 No Comments

This past weekend was filled with sports. k played in the VFW basketball tournament (two games Saturday, one game Sunday) and n had his regular LA Galaxy OC Saturday soccer game. Although we felt busy, I know of other families with three kids playing in the tournament, so that could be like nine games, which is just insane. I am also very fortunate to have my parents who are willing to take our kids where they need to be when there are overlaps.

It is fun watching our kids develop their skills and confidence in their respective sports. Since now I actually have some memory for my phone, I have been trying to take more video. To date, we have not had a good video of n scoring a goal. I am so glad I was able to catch this one on video. Be sure to turn on the audio for the full effect.

Yes, that is D at the very end: “FINISH IT!”

Last year, k’s team won the bronze division, so they were moved to silver. They did not fare too well there, but I must say that k put in a good effort. These are a couple of shots on her highlight reel from the weekend. 🙂

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Cub Scout Bridging from Wolves to Bears

June 17, 2017 No Comments

We had a busy Sunday last week. First, the kids participated in Promotion Sunday at church. n’s class did a short presentation and n’s part was about Paul spreading the gospel. We had to leave early so that n could attend his Cub Scouts bridging ceremony.

n is now officially a Bear! His bridging ceremony was conveniently located at Irvine Regional Park in the Irvine Recreation Outdoor Education Center. They started out with some ziplining. This was n’s first time, and he did great! (k has already done this zipline with Girl Scouts).

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVONSdJnT2f/?taken-by=derek.cal

It was nice to have an overcast day, even if it was a little misty.

This was our first bridging ceremony since we missed last year’s. It was interesting to watch the dads construct the bridge. Where does one buy such a bridge kit and where does one store said bridge? are some of the questions that came to mind.

I think there may have been a Lion who fell off, but I think everyone else made it across safely.

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Yakult Factory Tour #2

July 15, 2016 No Comments

Last summer we visited the Yakult Factory with k’s Brownie troop. This summer we visited with n’s Wolf den (and pack).

Even though it was our second time, it was still fun to learn about fermented milk products!

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n’s 6th Birthday!

March 18, 2015 No Comments

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Handcrafted Goodness

March 11, 2015 No Comments

n is currently learning about wood for his science unit in kindergarten. A dad of one of his classmates came in to talk about his wood-working hobby. He also made a mini dry erase board for each person in the class. I was seriously so impressed by its clever design! There is a hole on the top where the dry erase marker goes. The top piece of wood swivels to cover the hole so the pen does not fall out, and there is a small magnet to keep the top in place. Genius!

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National Napping Day

March 10, 2015 No Comments

Did you know that today is National Napping Day? I took this picture on Saturday, but I thought it was appropriate to post today. This is proof that n can still fall asleep anywhere. Keep in mind that this brief cat nap was taken before the switch to Daylight Savings Time!

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Little Hoopsters Closing Ceremony

September 15, 2014 No Comments

D and I served on the Little Hoopsters Committee this year, and both k and n played. This was n’s first year and k’s last year. D was able to take some pictures of n playing in our church parking lot, on one of the hottest days of the year!