Aedan Kungfu Display

Aedan wants to show yiyi the silly video about him displaying kungfu. This is one about daddy trying to teach him 'yong chun chuan' :

A nice day at Boston Common

It's spring time and the weather is great. In fact it has been hotter than normal for most of April. Here's some pictures taken at Boston Common. The tulips are really beautiful!

TCC Preschool Art Show

TCC held an art show for the preschool classes in April. Aedan was really excited about the art show and he kept telling me about it weeks before it. He reminded me almost everyday nearing the show. According to his teachers, he had worked really hard for the art show and wanted to show his work to us.

This is his self portrait :

This is the ocean 'sculpture' that he had worked on for weeks :

A Van Gogh in the making (I like this the best) :

A class effort by the preschoolers :

Now you see... now you don't!

Aedan had his hair cut few weeks back. Initially we just trimmed it a little but i insisted that it should be shorter else he looked like ah wang. In the end it was much shorter than i expected, but luckily he was quite alright with that.

Here's a picture before :

And here's a picture after :

Here's a close up of both kids :

California and Las Vegas Trip (March 2010)

We were in San Francisco from March 12-20. Thanks to daddy's course, we stayed at a really nice hotel (Westin St. Francis) right in front of union square. San Francisco is a beautiful city. Took the cable cars and buses everywhere since we bought the city pass for a week. Went to chinatown everyday to have chinese food! The last time i was there was about 15 years ago and this time i can really appreciate the beauty of the city.

Cruise around the Golden Gate Bridge and at Pier 39:

Cable car ride :

We flew to Las Vegas on March 20 and drove to Williams at Arizona to stay for a night, before we proceed to Grand Canyon the next day.

We drove back to Las Vegas and stayed at Excalibur hotel (the 'castle' hotel) for 3 nights.

Made a trip to the premium outlet where the kids took the kiddy rides while i shopped. Look how happy Amber was....

We then flew from Las Vegas to Long Beach and drove down south to San Diego where we visited the seaworld. Think the kids enjoyed seaworld the most for the entire trip. Till now they keep telling us about shamu (the killer whale). We didn't take a lot of pictures at seaworld (mostly the sea creatures), so here's 2 that we took.

Visited some relatives at Long Beach before we took a trip to Hollywood at Los Angeles. Here's a picture with Wolverine and the teeny-weeny "Hollywood" word in the background!

Video below is the Fremont Street Experience that we took in Las Vegas. Quite interesting with hundreds (or thousands) of TV screens above you. Amber was frightened by the bright lights and loud music while Aedan enjoyed watching the "TV" (as usual)....

Skiing at Cannon Mountain

Yes. We went skiing again. What's there to do in winter except for skiing. This time we drove all the way to Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire on the first day of Chinese New Year. It's about 2 hours away from Boston. We put Aedan in the ski school again and this time he was much more excited about learning at the ski center. I had fun skiing too (with falling!) coz Yen Ning's parents once again help us to look after Amber. Not sure if daddy had fun coz he said he must had fallen at least 30 times at the summit.... haha.. anyway here's some pics and videos. Enjoy!






Here's a video of Aedan learning to ski :

Here's a video of Amber sliding down the slope on a plastic sheet. She enjoyed it so much that she kept asking to do it again.

Tubing at Amesbury Sports Park

Few weeks back, we brought the kids to Amesbury Sports Park for snow tubing. It was quite an experience speeding down the slopes on the tube (tyre). The kids had a wonderful time sliding down the tiny slope for children. Aedan was afraid of the height and speed so he didn't go up the big mountain slope with us.

Wachusett Mountain (30 Jan)

We went to Wachusett Mountain a second time last Saturday with Chee Wee and family. Thanks to Yen Ning's parents for taking care of Amber, I was able to ski much more this time. Aedan took the polar kids class while i took the adult lesson. I must say i didn't really learn much from the class. Daddy did a better job teaching me how to ski. I must have fallen a thousand times that day. At the end of the day, i could skied down the indian summer (easy slope) without falling! Only took a few pictures there as we were busy skiing.

Managed to take one video of Aedan during his lesson (he almost didn't want to go for the lesson!). He could ski on his own on a tiny slope.

Snowing in Boston

We are more than half way through winter and the kids simply love snow! The snow in Boston was at times heavy, but none can be compared to what we have seen in Washington DC (so Yiyi, you haven't missed much). Took some photos and videos of the kids playing snow here in Boston. I'm sure they will miss all these when we return to Singapore.

Here's one video taken in early Jan at the garden level at our apartment :


Here's another one taken just a week ago at the same place. This time there wasn't much snow accumulation, but i just brought them there to have fun.

Song of the moment

Current song of the moment is Hu3 Gu1 Po2. The children sing this song almost everyday. Took this video of them at the hotel in Orlando. Note : The background noise is from the hair dryer.

Orlando (Jan 2010)

Went to Orlando for 10 days from Jan 11-21. It was really cold when we first reached Orlando as it had just snowed 2 days ago. Still, the weather was better than Boston. One of the first thing that struck me was the the trees in Orlando had leaves! It's been 2 months since i've seen trees with leaves. We bought a 6 days pass for the Walt Disney World. At the end of the trip, the adults were a little overdosed with disney while the kids wanted to go back again... err.. i think we won't be visiting disney again in the near future. But everytime the kids talk about going back, we said "Okay we will go again next time.." haha..

Took many pictures and it's impossible to upload all, here's some of them taken at the various parks.

1. Animal Kingdom - This is the park we enjoyed the most and we went back for a 2nd day.
There is a safari like ride where you can get close to the animals. There is also an animal patting area where the kids like. The Finding Nemo musical is really really good!

Here's a video of the kids at the patting area. To our surprise, Amber's not afraid of the goats and sheeps. She just ran around touching and patting the animals without fear.

2. Disney Hollywood Studios - This is the smallest park of all and it was really crowded the day we went. Didn't take a lot of pictures here as we were in the shows/rides most of the time. Oh yah, i tried the Tower of Terror here and had the fright of my life!

3. Epcot - The most enjoyable attractions for the kids was the Nemo ride with the big aquarium where there were sharks, turtles, dolphins. Nice big park to walk around.

4. Magic Kingdom - This is the first theme park and the last that we went. There were many rides for the kids so we decided to go again on our last day. I think i've sat the dumbo ride twice, the aladdin magic carpet twice and the carousel 3 times!

Here's a consolidated video of the kids meeting mickey and his pals.

Aedan meeting Peter Pan while Amber was sleeping. Apparently this Peter Pan hasn't flown over South East Asia before.

5. Kennedy Space Center - We went to Kennedy Space Center in between our trips to the disney theme parks. It's about 45 mins drive from Orlando. This is where the space shuttle takes off for the space missions, including the famous Apollo missions.

6. Orange Picking - We also took one day off the theme parks and went orange picking. We picked a 1/2 bushel bag and a 5lbs bag of oranges/grapefruit. We gave some away to our friends and lugged the rest back to Boston. The kids also enjoyed chasing the ducks and chickens.