The Days when YiYi was here... (Part 3)

We went to Washington DC for 3 days after our New York trip, but unfortunately we were met with a historic snow storm. 16-20 inches of snow hit washington DC and everywhere was closed. We were practically stuck in the hotel so we decided to play snow in the hotel's courtyard.

The kids were getting dressed in their snow pants.


This was the first time we played snow. It was quite fun actually. See how heavy it was snowing in the pictures.




The kids rosy cheeks....



2 videos of us playing with snow :




We tried to venture out to see if we could find somewhere open, but we had to go back to the hotel coz the snow was just too heavy. See the knee deep snow!


Check out this video.


And we played snow again at night (there was really nothing to do and the kids had watched sponge bob all day!)...



Need to wait for YiYi to send me the rest of the DC pictures....

The Days when YiYi was here... (Part 2)

Daddy had a study trip t0 New York City from Dec 13-19, so we tagged along. Since he had been to NYC previously, we went around on our own without him.

Here's some pictures taken at Times square :

Took the free Staten Island Ferry to see the statue of liberty. It wasn't very near the statue but we could still get a good view from the ferry.


This is Wall Street. Aedan looked grumpy in these pictures as he had just lost his pink balloon (Amber lost hers too at the ferry terminal).



We took the Grayline bus tour around NYC during the first 2 days of our trip. The kids were mostly asleep when the bus was moving.. haha.. It was quite cold sitting at the open top end especially during the night.

Here's the famous M&M store in Times Square. I didn't know M&Ms has sooo much merchandise.

We went to Central Park on Wed afternoon. The kids finally saw a playground and they had fun playing there. See the video of them eating oranges at the park. Amber finally 'likes' YiYi!

Here's one and only picture daddy took with us at Rockerfella center coz he finally finished his exam.

Last but not least, this was the kids' favourite past time at the hotel!

The Days when YiYi was here... (Part 1)

Haven't been updating this blog lately for 2 reasons :

1. Daddy was busy with his school work in the month of November and we didn't travel anywhere.
2. YiYi came for almost a month in Dec and we travelled too much!

Anyway here's some update:

YiYi arrived in the evening of Nov 28. Yup, that's Aedan's birthday. She arrived just in time to sing the birthday song and to cut the cake.


YiYi couldn't wait to shop, so we drove to the outlet mall at Wrentham for her to begin her shopping . Here's a pic taken at the outlet mall :


Brought YiYi to boston common and Aedan wanted to ice skate. YiYi gladly agreed, which she probably regreted later on coz she was literally pulling and carrying Aedan around the entire ice skating rink.


We went for a party at Aedan's school on Dec 10 and YiYi baked her famous shepard's pie there.


While Aedan's in school, Amber and myself went sightseeing with YiYi. Here's some pictures taken with Amber.

There was a free ice skating show at Kendall Square, just next to our apartment and we stood in freezing cold for half an hour to watch the show.

All thanks to YiYi, the kids had a chance to bake some cookies (even though it's ready made dough!). Think they had fun putting the sunflower seeds/M&Ms on the cookies.

And here is a video of Amber singing. Enjoy!