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Ice Skate Class

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sun, 7 Oct 2012 15:25:00 -0400

Sep to Oct, 2012
Kate 5yr7m ; Ivan 4yr

Earlier I went to a day-care summer field trip with Kate because it was to the ice skate which as I know only one teacher knows how to do it. I was worried with a group of kids and teachers who don't know how to play, those kids will be just bumping into the wall and falling down on the ice. To be able to take care of Kate and re-experience the ice skate, I took a day off to get on the trip with them. I am glad I went because those teachers and kids do need extra help. Besides I could watch out for Kate while she was having fun. I can see Kate wanting to do ice skate fluently like some kids but she didn't know how to.

After that trip, I registered both kids to the ice skate class which my purpose is to let them know how to do it and be able to enjoy it while they have a chance going out for it. It is an-hour class, the first half is with teach and the 2nd half is open class which you can practice.

At the first class, they were pushing buckets on ice and also learned how to stand by themselves. Kate was improving fast on the ice skating skill because she wants to do it so much; on the other hand, Ivan fell couple times pretty hard which makes him afraid to let the bucket go.

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Play Date with Lili

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sun, 7 Oct 2012 13:16:00 -0400

Oct 6, 2012 Kate 5yr7m: Ivan 4yr

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Movie Night With Lili and Gabby

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sat, 6 Oct 2012 21:53:00 -0400

Oct 6. 2012 Kate 5yt7m ; Ivan 4yr

We were planning to see Disney On Ice tonight with some friends; however, it got cancelled so we decided to go to a movie which we picked is called Hotel Transylvania. We all went for dinner first before the movie and the kids were so excited that they kept talking about the movie.

In the movie, the kids were laughing and Ivan did pretty good until it was near 8:30pm that he yelled he wanted to leave to sleep. I took him to our car to sleep and wait for Daddy and Kate. 30 minutes later Kate and Daddy showed up. She was still very excited to tell me what the rest of movie was. It looked like she had a great time out to movie with her friends.

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Kate Plays Piano - Jingle Bell

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:38:00 -0400

Sept 12, 2012
Ivan 3yr 11m ; Kate 5yr 6m

Ivan

Kate plays piano - Jingle Bell

Kate's 1st Day to Kindergarten

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:36:00 -0400

Sept 10, 2012

Kate 5yr6m

Kate's 1st day to Kindergarten. She has been looking forward to this date for a while.

What frustrated me a little bit is first we got a letter from school which listed 5 items to bring in for her school supplies but when we had a meeting with her teacher before the school starts, the list turned out to be like 20 items. So the weekend before her 1st school, I had to take her to shop for those items. Because it wss near the end of summer vacation, most of the items Kate picked happen to be the last one in store. I kept telling Kate you are lucky, this is the last one here. I just hope if the school can do a little better on the communication. Just give me a list of items, exactly the color, the brand, the size, whatever you expect. One of my coworkers said they just gave their school like $15, then the school will get all the supplies for the student. That would be a great idea, especially to the family who is 1st time on this.

Since I told Kate what is the time her school bus will pick her up, she remembers it and has been saying it everyday. Today I especially work from home so I can record her 1st school day. The kindergarten here is only half day and she was assigned to the afternoon class so she went to daycare first then the bus picks her up from there then drops her off in daycare too.

Ivan wants his frog to be in the picture too.

She was so proud that she is taking the school bus to school.

Arriving at the school.

Came back to daycare from the 1st day of school

Kate's drawing of her 1st school day

Kate (left) School bus (right)

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Kate's Drawing of Gymnastic Class

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sun, 8 Jul 2012 13:16:00 -0400

July 8, 2012 Kate 5yr5m Yesterday Kate and Ivan went to their 1st gymanstic class. Very nice and professional place and coaches. They both had a lot of fun. Today I asked her to draw what she did in the gymnastic class and we can mail it to Papa and grandma. Below is the drawing and the video of her explaining what she drew.

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Kate's Kindergarten Orientation

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:38:00 -0400

May 17, 2012
Kate 5yr2m

My 1st time of taking school bus ride!

Today I took Kate to her future kindergarten school for orientation. Everything is new to her and also to me. The most exciting part is to go for a school bus ride. So this is how the kids get to school (in my mind). Being growing up in a different country, everything here is new to me. Because of Kate, I am "growing up" here too.

Photo Book

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:07:00 -0400

Click here to view this photo book larger

Shutterfly photo books offer a variety of layouts and cover options to choose from.

Easter 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sun, 8 Apr 2012 17:56:00 -0400

April 8, 2012 Easter Sunday
kate 5yr ; Ivan 3yr5m

Vodeo 1

Video 2

Video 3

Lion Dance

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sun, 1 Apr 2012 18:12:00 -0400

4.1.2012
Kate 5-year ; Ivan 3yr5m

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Kate's 5 Year Old Birthday Party

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sun, 1 Apr 2012 18:04:00 -0400

3.25.2012
Kate 5-year ; Ivan 3yr5m

Video 1

Vidoe 2

Nice Day Play Out In March

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:51:00 -0400

March 17 to 20, 2012
Kate 4yr 11m; Ivan 3yr3m

Couple days in March were gorgeous. Temperature was around 80F! It feels like we just jumped right from Winter to Summer.

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Chinese Dance Class

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:30:00 -0400

3.25.2012
Kate 5yr ; Ivan 3yr5m

Kate has been to this Chinese dance class for a while. Today I took Grandma and Ivan to see her dancing. Ivan joined the class and surprisingly did very well. He followed the teacher's instruction well and had a great time.

Kate 5-Year Old

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:46:00 -0400

March 23, 2012
Kate 5-year ; Ivan 3yr5m

Papa, Grandma and Uncle Wack came to our house to celebrate Kate's 5-year old birthday with us. Aunt Barbara and dog Roxie sent Kate gift and called to with her happy birthday. Kate got basketballs, soccer balls, nets, and books for her birthday. She especially love the unicorn bicycle Daddy got for her which she has been talking all the time since the day she saw it in the store.

Kate and Ivan kicked balls in the backyard and ride her new bike around the corner. Next morning when she woke up, the 1st thing she wanted to do is to ride the bike.

Per birthday girl's request, Mommy is making the chocolate cake.
Papa and Kate are trying to taste some of them before the cake even is made.

Kate's birthday cake finally is done. My feet were very sore then

cute little bunnys

dress for her birthday

bubble gun. so much fun. Mommy regrats that she only bought 2!

open gifts

go out to play the soccor ball rigth away

Kate's favorite unicorn bike! She loves it a lot!

My cute little boy, Ivan.

cake time.

Thanks to Hailey and Marcel for the birthday gift. Kate was writing, putting stickers/ribbons, and coloring the diary once she opens it. She loves it.

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3.1 to 3 Play Snow

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:55:00 -0400

March 1 to 3, 2012

3.1 Dinner Time

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:57:00 -0400

March 1, 2012

Kate Lost Her 1st Baby Tooth

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:36:00 -0500

MARCH 6, 2012
Kate 5 years old

Kate lost her 1st baby tooth on the night of March 6, 2012.
6 months agon the dentist already said she has a loose tooth. Now it is officially out.

Couple days before the tooth got out, she has been playing that loose tooth with her tongue everyday. The night of March 6, she was playing with Ivan and Mommy was watch the basketball game in other room. She came in pretending as a dog and "barked" at me. Suddenly I saw her mouth was full of blood then I just realized her loose tooth was gone. I asked her to rinse her mouth and tried to find her 1st tooth. Luckly Daddy found it and Kate was so excited to see it.

I put that tooth on my hand. Oh my, it is so tiny. Ivan was a liitle upset because he wants to have a loose tooth just like Kate.

When Kate was 8 month old, those are her 1st two baby tooths.
She has her 1st tooth in Oct, 2007.

Here is the baby tooth.

Kate is 5 and lost her 1st tooth.

So tiny.

Kate is so excited. Of course, tooth fairy came and left 3 coins under her pillow for exchange of that tooth.

You can see how unhappy Ivan is. He really wants a loose tooth too.

I guess he wants the attention like what Kate had too so next day he finally told me he wants to poop in the potty and he did poop in the potty for the 1st time. Of course, he was very proud of himself as he was dancing for it. We are very happy too because the day to say good-bye to those diaper is not far.

Dance with Happy Feet Songs

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:32:00 -0500

Feb 25, 2012
Kate 4yr 11m ; Ivan 3yr 3m

A while ago we took them to watch Happy Feet II movie. They loved the music. Recently I bought the sound track of that movie. Since then they both love dancing to the music.

Kate's Dianosaur Picture Book

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:18:00 -0500

Feb 25, 2012
Kate 4yr11m

Recenly Kate would go to the dinner room for a while working on her own then she came out some artwork by herself. Being her Mom, I am very proud of what she did.

A Valintine's card which she took part of the napkin to be the border of the card.
At the beginning, I was wondering why she tore apart those napkins...

Kate's Dianosaur Picture Book she drew everyone of them then Daddy heped to staple them together.

Video- Kate talks about hier Dianosaur Picture Book

Lets hear what she said about her book.

Happy Chinese New Year

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:32:00 -0500

Jan 28, 2012
kate 4yr10m; Ivan 3yr3m

I know this is a while ago now. I have been "lazy".

Those pictures and video were taken when we were preparing some fruits for Taiwanese New Year Party (about 150 people).

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Kate Sings Chinese Alphabet

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:52:00 -0500

Jan 21, 2012
Kate loves singing the Chinese Alphabet from the kids Chinese class.

Kids Chinese Class & Party

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:22:00 -0500

Jan. 21, 2012
Kate 4yr 10m ; Ivan 3yr3m

Today is our turn to have the kids Chinese class in our house plus it is just right before the Chinese New Year, we tought to also have a dinner party with a little activities to celebrate.

Teacher is teaching the kids how to make dragon. Everyone is very busy.
For little kids, they do the coloring and Mommies were busy on cutting out the shape.

There are quite a few parts need to be put together to become a great dragon.

Kate is the youngest one of all.

Look at my dragon!

Everyone is showing off their dragon.

Happy Dragon Year!

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I pretend to be.....

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:15:00 -0500

Jan. 11, 2012
Kate 4yr10m

Subject: I pretend to be.........

Kate's art: a dragon, ballerina, rockster, and unicorn.

Playing My Christmas Gift

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:41:00 -0500

Jan 7, 2012
Kate 4yr10m; Ivan 3yr3m

It is my Christmas gift but looks like they have much more fun than me.

Watching Dora & Snow Princess

noreply@blogger.com (Daphne Pu) — Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:43:00 -0500

Jan. 8, 2012
Kate 4yr10m; Ivan 3yr3m

Today Ivan got scared of the Dori TV show - Snow Princess because there is a mean witch inside. We have read this book many times but maybe the witch in TV show is more like live which makes him scared.

I asked him to sit with Kate and also asked Kate to take care of him.

It turned out Kate asked Ivan to sit on her lab just like what Mommy will do.(Even Ivan is younger than her but not much lighter)

It looks like she can't handle the load of weight from Ivan anymore...
(Ivan! you are going to break my leg)

(Man... I ~~~ can't~~~ take~~~it~~~ any~~~m~~ore~~~)

(Ivan, are you still scared? )