Fast and Fabulous

First time saw Blue Angles' performance. The experience is indescribable. But to Alvin, Ava and Mason, the fun was too much to take - they all slept on the way home, skipped dinner and didn't wake up until the next morning.

Artwork on a Snow-in Day

Alvin and Mom both got a snow day off! Mom couldn't tolerate 9 hours with a toddler so she decided to give him a stack of paper to draw.

Surprisingly, Alvin drew all the pictures by himself and he even named each single one. Followings are some samples. He did all these without any supervision!

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1. Whole Family: Alvin loves to draw a whole family picture. The biggest one is always Daddy.

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2. Spaceship: it is pretty cool, right? I didn't know there are 3 parts of a spaceship.

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3. Snowman in honor of our Snow Day

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4. Moon and Alvin

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5. Monsters: I think they look more like ghosts.

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6. Little Boy with a big Belly button

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7. Alvin's portrait

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8. Alien with a STOP sign (he wrote the word from right to left)

Let it snow!

To Chicago folks, this storm is probably a sneeze but for us, it is a historical one. I don't really know how many inches we got but after a day of digging, we couldn't even get one car out and we probably have to sleep with the help from Advil tonight.

Happy Holidays

Dear friends,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!

Cannot believe another year has flied by so quick, and more importantly, we survive with lot of work and very little sleep! For the past year, over all the boys have been listening and behaving well (oh well, more or less). We were lucky that both Yuelun's parents and my parents visited us, helped us out and spent some quality time with their grandchildren. Life has been wonderful!

Alvin is three and half now. He is still sweet, smart and loves music. He started to write letters and words by himself couple months back and he also loves to draw pictures. He joined a soccer team not long ago and enjoys it more than anyone else.

Mason is some one special. If you know Alvin well, Mason is just the complete opposite. If you ask him to "come", he would "go". If you say "No", he would just take it as a "Yes". The worst of all, he has that innocent smile on his chubby face and you know he is exempt from being punished.

Good or bad, Mom is now officially a soccer mom. But, between her new job in Georgetown and taking care of the boys, she still finds time to relax and remain her sanity.

Daddy has more bond with the boys now as he takes more responsibilities around the house. He often finds himself cleaning Mason's face twice and then finds out the spaghetti sauce is still on Alvin's face.

That is a good summary of our daily life. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. We wish you all a spectacular 2010!

Yuelun, Hope, Alvin and Mason

Are you sure?

"Are you sure you want to restore the system?"

Yes, that is what displayed on our laptop when Daddy seized back it from Mason's hands. It was a very close call to have our pictures and everything else wiped out on the laptop.

Next time before you allow your toddler to touch your computer, think twice.

It is winter!

It is officially winter time!

Fall into Fall

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!

Salute to President Thomas Jefferson?

I love this picture. Don't you?