Saturday, November 1, 2014

This morning, Iris had her first swim class at the YMCA. She’s in the “Shrimp” class which is an introduction for babies to water. She was a little concerned at the beginning of the class but eventually got into blowing bubbles in the water and kicking her little feet. It’s quite a feat to shower and change clothes after class though so we are a little haggard looking after class.

We went for a snack at the Downtown Berkeley Farmer’s Market while we waited for Simon to finish his swim class. This session he has moved up to be a “Ray” (previously he was an “Eel”) and is in the deeper pool.

In the afternoon, we went to a birthday party at Cedar Rose park.

All the “kids” had fun playing on the swings.

And relaxing on the lawn chairs while having snacks.

There was also a pretty funny entertainer that did juggling, jokes, unicycle riding, playing with fire, etc.

When did my baby become a little girl?!

Today also happens to be Hello Kitty’s 40th birthday! I wish I could be at Hello Kitty Con in Los Angeles but kiddos are my first priority these days. Maybe one day they will come with me. They are already familiar with my love for Hello Kitty so I think they would enjoy spending the weekend with me seeing all things Hello Kitty. This is my treat to myself that I’ve been wanting to get, a dancing Hello Kitty doll. It dances when you play music (or sing songs) or dances to it’s own songs. Love it!

Friday, October 31, 2014

So today I dressed as a cat, wearing my Hello Kitty ears, made a paper mask with whiskers, an all black outfit, and a black tail made of ribbon. Iris saw me with the tail and she kept on pulling on it and pointing to her backside, indicating that she wanted one too. So I quickly found a belt that looped it around her body and turned it to her back. She was quite entertained by her “tail” and swinging it side to side.

In the afternoon, Simon’s school had arranged for a Halloween walk. Basically a walk around the block in costume to collect a few treats before the end of that day of school. It was pouring rain in the morning but we were super lucky that it stopped right before the walk so we could actually go outside. They had an indoor plan as well but I’m glad the kids got to go outside. Simon dressed as a fireman and Iris as a fairy princess. Iris enjoyed watching the other kids and exploring the classroom. Simon was excited for some trick or treating.

There were three stops planned by the teachers for the walk at each corner around the block. They passed out Halloween cookies they made yesterday, a little stationary set, and a snack pack. Iris wanted to walk by herself and was so happy to collect one snack pack for herself. She patiently waited until we got back to the car to eat the rice crackers even though she immediately asked me to open it (she says “kai” for “da kai”).

Afterwards, we went to Oakland’s Temescal business district to walk their trick or treat event. But first we stopped by to see Grandpa Tam who was covering for me so that I could enjoy trick or treating with the kids. Simon changed into this other costume, Bumblebee from Transformers.

The princess wore her crown for a minute. Poor little girl was already a little tired and actually so was Simon.

Both perked up though as we went to trick or treat. Especially with their chocolate chip cookies from Pizzaiolo.

There was one vendor that had something healthy, raisins, which Iris loved. Trying to avoid giving too many sweets to Iris for now. Simon loved checking out the candy baskets though but we’ll have to wean out the peanut containing ones later on.

After we finished the walk, we headed back up Telegraph Ave to have dinner at Lane Splitters pizza.

Cheers!

Both kiddos fell fast asleep on the car ride home. Our exhausted little Transformer.

Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween!

Thursday, october 30, 2014

What do you think of my princess crown? How do I look?

Dracula ate too many oranges?

Or maybe this hat for tomorrow?

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Ahhh! Attack of the cute shark!

Hee hee!

My handsome little man in his kung fu outfit.