Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's day to my mom and my Mother-in-law, all my mommy friends and to-be-mommies!

I had a great Mother's Day! My birthday was on Friday, that happened to be our bock party! Kaitlyn hurried off back from her piano class and was mad she was late for the party for 30mins! Of course, she's not about food, but play with her friends!

As you can see how many kids we got around the corner! Average of 2kids per family, most of them are in close ages! One family brought a pinata, that's highlight of the night for the kids! I can't get a picture of all kids together! And we do need more girls. Right now, boys outrun girls by twice as much!

When we cut the cake next day, daddy caught some interesting pictures! Do these pictures tell you something about my two girls?! LOL...

Story started with a pretty cake and my two lovely girls: One looks at her big sissy and asked what's that? Can I have some?

NO! That's mine! One says "Stay away from my cake!" The other one says "Fine, move on to the big cake, that's not gonna stop me from finding troubles!"

The big sissy thinks as long as you don't touch mine, go for it! Big sissy thinks, oh mine, please take this little trouble maker out of my sight!

Ohh, no! Sneaky baby turned around for big sissy's water class!

That's no fair! Mommy, get her out of here! That's my water! I already let you have the big piece of cake!

But I want both! See one hand go for water, and another one hold on the cake!

Ohh, mine! She sure gives me headache! Mommy, help!

Baby Meghan would not waste her chance studying food - a yogurt wrap Kaitlyn left on the table! How does it work?

Now, back to Kaitlyn. We went to Michael's last week to make earrings! Not that either one of wearing earrings. But Kaitlyn loves crafts and she said she wanted to make one for me! That's so sweet!

One for mommy!

One for me!

Pretty cake! Thank you Chung!

Here is my sweet girl with the birthday cake!Here is a poem Kaitlyn wrote for me - I'm so touched, the best mother's present I can ever asked for! Notice the one, she came up with a list of things, with first letters spell "MOTHER" all together! Wow, how creative she is!

Ohh, here is a quote from Kaitlyn today I have to write it down now before I forget: "Can you all be a little quiter when you congratulate her!"

We were at the dinner table, Meghan did something funny and silly. Me and my mom both laughed. That's when Kaitlyn mumbled to herself, and I heard it. She wasn't mad or sad or anything. I tried to explain to her we weren't congratulate Meghan anything, she won't buy it! I know, she still haven't get over the jealous feeling! She won't, and Meghan will have it some day as well! As a parent, no matter what we do, the kids will always think we're playing favors to one or another sometimes...

Bitter and sweet

I asked her to go to Katy Mills with me, she said no. I bribed her with a carousel ride.
She said " I don't want to play that anymore!"
I asked her why? She said teenagers don't like carousel.
"But you're not teenager?" I told her.
She then told me "Teenagers tried to get away from riding carousel with their little sisters or brothers by saying 'Got go to the bookstore or something like that'", and "I'm not a teenager, but I'm growing up! "

Bitter sweet feeling for mommy...

Random updates

Seems like I can never catch up how fast kids grow and how quickly they learn new things everyday. There are tons of videos and pics in my computer that I want to upload, then as day goes by, they're still sitting there. At least I still have them as memory.

Before I forget, an interesting story told by Kaitlyn - she got home from school the other day, showed me two pretty marbles out of her pocket. I asked her where she got it from? She proudly claimed she traded her pencil with Austin(a boy on her bus) for those. Trade?! Since when she learned to trade with other kids? I joked with her to trade her marbles for 10bucks, she said no. I asked her if she would pay $10bucks for those. She said no, and she would no take things from home that's not allowed by daddy and mommy. That's good! But I'm really surprised she now move onto "monkey business" with her school kids. Totally a different level as a school-age kid!!

She is so like a big girl now, hard to describe in word, but definition from her action, expression. I can discuss many serious issues together, and she has her own opinions.

Well start with Kaitlyn based on pics on my computer:

She went to Katy ISD Folklife Festival with daddy couple of weeks ago, seems like a lot of fun. I was home with Meghan:-( That's when I wish Meghan would grow up faster, walk by herself and eat by herself, so I can take her out more for fun.

Such a big bubble!

Something mommy would never never touch! Yikes!
Kaitlyn doing corn grist mill:

Making a doll in native Indian style: Now we're proud parents of Cinco Ranch Swim Team league. She is so excited to join the swimming team, and started training herself couple weeks before team meeting. Now she can swim across the whole lap easily. She is working on her freestyle and backstroke, while her favorite one is doggy.

Looking back see who is after?

Go go going!

Pretty smiles!

At her friend's birthday party for skating:

I like this one - I don't know what happened to my camera, everyone around her is blurry, her haircut really stand out! Catching up with friends:

Best buddy from kindergarten:

Don't they look like big kids in high school! I foresee that in this picture. Note: As I wrap up this post, Meghan woke up from her nap. Kaitlyn ran into the room to turn on mobile, pull up curtains and play with her, so I can finish up here. What a big helper!

To be continued later...

I'm crawling

After 2.5hr nap today, here come the girl crawling fast. It's funny she skipped lunch earlier I thought she will be hungry and fussy. But she is crawling so fast, at least that's what I think she's doing.

And you can hear me and my mom giggling in the background.

Happy Mother's Day!

Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. When you were born, I saw your face and knew I was in love. I traded eyeliner for dark circles, salon hair cuts for buzz cuts, long showers for stubbly legs, late nights for early mornings, designer purses for diaper bags and awesome shoes for flip flops. I LOVE MY CHILDREN and wouldn't change any of that!!

Letting Go of Your Kids, Little by Little

A beautiful article makes me laugh and tearful - how amazing my two little girls have changed my life!

Even though she has a boy and I have two girls, I do feel her as a parent and witness how kids grow - Kaitlyn is about the same age as her son, Henry, and I'm starting from zero with Meghan. Life is amazing, cherish every moment!

Letting Go of Your Kids, Little by Little

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Piano Recital, and all about Kaitlyn

Today, it's all about Kaitlyn's fun activities. Some happened this past week, some happen a while back I just sorted out.

This is at her Reading Restaurant. It's a really fun meeting for parents to see what they did at school. They put a lot of effort to design their hat, prepare menu and plates, and picked out books, rehearsal for restaurant manner, etc. All kids took it seriously, ohh, even with invitations! Thank you so much, Mrs. Branch! Busy restaurant - my little chef and server

The plate Kaitlyn made it for me. Outside her classroom with her Mercy Watson reading poster. She really looks like a big girl now! Daddy got some really nice roses over the weekend. Here is my sweet little girl in her rosy dress and pretty roses from our garden (all daddy's hard work).

Ohh, yeah, Kaitlyn had haircut this weekend. It turned out pretty good. We both like it!

More lovely pictures...

Who is prettier?

With mommy

At her friend's birthday party - skating with her best kindergartner friend. She had so much fun! I'm jealous since I wasn't allowed to go places like skating ring at her age:-(

Don't know how I got this picture with fuzzy surrounding

Haha, I found this picture in my cell phone, must be taken at least two years ago.

My girl at reading - so serious, not pretending

The story must be really interesting - no wonder she couldn't hear us at all!

One of her writing homework - Kaitlyn officially changed her mind of what she wants to be when she grows up - instead of a farmer or veterinarian, she wants to be a writer!

Here she is writing her diary - my little is having secrets now.

This one was taken on Easter, since we couldn't go to the service as Meghan didn't feel good. She was reading this Bible story all day long. I'm so happy for her.

These pictures are from Bonzer Bash at her school last month. Check out her red hair! It turned out so pretty!

Haha, little money on the light pole to see her teacher playing sunken duck game.

Rose blooming season starts...

After a tired day, Kaitlyn is finally settle down with all of her toys. The collections keeps growing. Soon there won't be enough room on her bed!

Piano recital was last weekend. Kaitlyn did extremely well! She didn't show any nervous at all!

Here is at the parking lot when Meghan try to grab Kaitlyn's hair, I guess...

Her trophy and good "purse" reward

With her teacher

Checking out other pianos at the studio.

On stage performing - I need to upload the video sometime.