"A successful man is someone who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of others and the love of children; who leaves the world better than he found it; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty ; who always looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. " - a variation of "Success" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, it is a beautiful Fall day so we dragged our exhausted bodies to take the boys to Falls Road playground and then headed straight to DC for some extensive touring.
If they are always close to each other like this, we could have another one!
Alvin is moving along with his writing skills lately. He can now write letters A to Z and number 1 to 10 on his own without supervising. And, he is very proud of himself.
It was in early October but we got a little bit taste of Christmas already.
The movie "Christmas Carol" just came out last weekend but we were invited to its train tour in B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore in earlier October. The 3D high tech movie didn't attract my boys that much but they loved the railroad museum. Especially for Mason, playing with trains is his life.
B&O Railroad Museum in downtown Baltimore
This museum is so spectacular! It has over 50 real trains on display and also a mini train display. The boys went wild!
Our future Engineers ...
If you know a little bit background of this movie, you probably want to know how to create the movie. Here are some hints: 1. They have these mini scriptures nicely crafted. 2. They have real actors and actresses like this one. And, of course, our family were invited to be in the movie also. They use their animation software to transform an actor/actress face into an animation character.
Can you tell following three "famous" actors and actress from our family?
3. Then they put the scences and characters together and they place motion sensors on faces and bodies of the actors and actresses to make the movie more like a real movie!