Kids update

It's been one month after the school started, and I have to say I am very relieve, my son are enjoying the school so far. I thought dragging him every morning to school would be a pain, well getting ready and rush 2 kids yes still a pain, but I haven't heard a single peep, and we found out it's all thanks to soccer. He's looking forward to play soccer with some boys. He already has his group buddies. He chit chatted with my husband this morning and I heard he said, "I like playing soccer during recess, lunch and recess again."

We were aware of the trend nowadays to hold the early baby for kindergarten since we are in CA, and the cut date is way off in December, but still I was shocked when physically I can see that clearly, I can hardly see my son in the crowd. The good thing is he adores older boys, he think they are way cooler. So he mingled with them with no problem at all. My son's best friend in the class right now is a year older than him, and a whole hand taller than him.

When it comes to homework, I have a mix feeling, some days I think he's right on the spot, some days I sighs. We'll see how he grows this year. I keep telling myself, maybe once he has his 5th birthday which is next month he'll have the maturity that he needs, don't know how one month will make any different.

hardly can see him in the crowd.

And surprise to myself too, I am a co-room mom for my daughter's class, and my daughter is super excited, she even have ideas for this coming fall party. 

School starts

Ok....a week after I bragged about enjoying summer, I was done. Yeah 3 days before the school started I was actually ready. They started on Thursday and today is actually just the 3rd day of school, I don't know what's gonna happen with a full week of school for my 4 years old. The heat is not helping either, my son came home tired, and all that he wants is playing with his toys. Now, I have another challenge, homework, yeah it's not due until Friday, but I would like him to do it everyday so it won't be too much for him in one day. I was so nervous, after some snacks and play a little bit, I asked him to go up and do his homework, he looked me and said "I'm very tired". In the beginning he scared the heck out of me, he looked like he didn't know anything, I was shaking, I was scared, I'm thinking too myself, this is why all the other parents hold their kids for another year when they are too young. But somehow he slowly picked up and even gave me a smile and said "Are you sure I only need to color the flowers? not the vase?" wow....I was a happy clam again, let's see what's gonna happen tomorrow and the rest of the week, I'm still crossing my fingers that everything 's going smooth. Happy Monday!!!!

He posed after he's done with homework.

Summer party

So, actually I planned this party in the beginning of the school vacation, but my daughter got sick, with fever and all, so I didn't have a chance to re invite the friends until a couple of week ago. I promised my daughter and her little brother that it will be a party, so I started to browse around, looking for some free printable tags, labels and some ideas for food and decoration (I found a lot from www.partyblog.mygrafico). Printed all the freebies, cut, glue and stick. These are what I gathered, the kids had fun swimming, the moms were basically chit chating and was enjoying one of the dish that one of the mom brought. It was a persian rice dish with yogurt and pickles.

Squishy

My daughter's birthday is this month, but in the late January she was really crazy about squishy, I think whoever have kids knows about this collectibles. She started browsing online, she said just want to look around. My husband is a big online purchaser, so he's been explaining about ebay to her for a while. She started looking at ebay, and there they are, all squishy toys are there. She asked me if she can have squishy for her birthday gift, I said she can buy them now, but that's her real gift, we will not give her any other gift. She excused herself to the bathroom to have sometimes to think, i had to giggle when I heard that. After 10 minutes she came out and said she's ready, she will take that as a gift.

Monday, we got the package, her little brother hid it so she wouldn't see, but he told her that the squishy was here.

Tuesday, she got the itch, and bargain with me to open the squishy, but agreed to wait for her dad to come home from Vegas so we all could see her open the gift.

Came Wednesday.....

Rare octopus

Rare penguin too

The fun part to open each tiny balls

24 in 1 big plastic ball, some rare, some ultra rare. I learnt so much more about these squishies

Rare pink sheep, I think this sheep is very cute no matter what.

And yeay to us we don;t have to think of gifts anymore for her.