Walking

This two-minute video is evidence that
a) John walks.
b) John chatters incessantly.

Gooooo, John!

Wakey, wakey!

 

Happy First Birthday, John!

John enjoying one of his birthday presents and showing off a Christmas present. Christmas present? Why, yes, that IS a custom T-shirt. Speaking of presents, here's the loot:

 

 

 

 

the canvas

 

 the final product. again demonstrating a failure to distinguish "sprinkle" from "pour."

photo credit Person A.


photo credit Person B.
any opinions on who got the better shot?
[In fairness, Person A got to work with lots of warm ambient light.]

My kids are so CUTE!

 

 

 

bedtime in the kids' room

A few months ago, night time in the kids' room looked like this:

 

 

A few weeks ago, it looked like this:

 

 

Nowadays, it looks like this:

 

Remember this from last summer?

Now this summer:

Happy Father's Day, Dion

A big daddy-pile-on in the works

Adam took over photography duty. We never did get everyone looking at the camera at the same time.

I can see why the kids are so cute.

I used to help each kid choose a father-themed book for Dion each year. But now there are three of them; one will have to do from now on. This year's is Some Dads by Nick Bland.

JK Graduation

The big event: KINDER Graduation !!

Around the classroom: Where is my family from? Adam writes: Canada, China, Macau

John exploring Adam's YMCA classroom with Gung-Gung before the ceremony

John and Mommy waiting for the ceremony to begin

Adam and Christina

celebratory mortar toss

proud as a peacock. Notice that all the other kids dressed casually. Adam went for a dress shirt and dress pants. He left the tie behind so that Poh-Poh could borrow it. She declined.

blurry but lovely

sharing

Gung-Gung smiles all the time. Unless he suspects there's a camera nearby. John got the better of him.

I don't know what it is, but it's cool!

An "oldie"

 

Big Kid, Little Kid

 

 

I can kinda see both the big kid and the little kid in these pictures. *sniff*

Happy Third Birthday, Naomi!

with her new "looking glass." She loves magnifying glasses for some reason. Now she has her own.

with one of her new books. This book caught my eye because of the Asian girl on the cover. Then I saw that it's about the ship-origami-story that Gung-Gung tells and I decided to buy it. Then I saw that it's signed by a local author. THEN I saw that it's by someone we know!

trying out the buzzle. It laughs at you if the wand touches the wire. Naomi is very dextrous, so I was pretty sure she'd enjoy it. The wire bends to make it more challenging. It seems popular with all ages.

The kids love decorating cakes, so we got Poh-Poh and Gung-Gung to order a blank one. They didn't really catch on to the idea of sprinkles. You are forgiven for thinking that the kids wrote the greeting. That was my handiwork. It's harder than it looks, okay?

Giving Kevin the stink-eye.

Ahhhhh!

Our birthday picnic turned out really well. It was great that the Hos and Chwang/Harrises could make it on short notice. The rain threatened but never really came, although I'm told it sprinkled around the time we were loading into our car. And the scorching heat broke, so it was more or less comfortable. Even the ice cream cake survived.

Hack

I've been using this Trekker for about four years and I've just now come up with an idea for making it more comfortable to carry the diaper bag at the same time. D'oh!

No child was awoken during the taking of these photos.
Colour-coordination is a coincidence, I swear.