peggyhuang1

今天是弟弟同學Mason四歲生日, 我們去參加他在MainEvent辦的保齡球派對, 還蠻好玩的.
剛開始兄弟二人都不太想玩, 一等到丟出第一球才發現很有趣, 就迫不及待等到再輪一次.
我們尚傑還打出二個strike哩, 真是太有天份了....弟弟一直等著要吃蛋糕, 我告訴他
要認真打完才有的吃, 他還真不賴, 一個小蘿蔔頭竟打了第二名(哥哥第一名woohoo!!),
我這老媽樂透了!!

Then we ate pizza, ate the cake & cookie, played a bunch of games,
won some little prizes...then went home happily. We spent 3.5 hours
in there!! Pretty fun event! American parents are willing to spend
tons of money for their kids' birthday parties. I can't figure out
why... I think it's almost competitive for them to do so. I figured
Mason's parents spent at least $200-$350 for today's party. As for
us.. we had a great time and spent about $15 for gift. :0)

Today is Timothy's 4 year old birthday!! Happy birthday, mommy's little boy!

In the morning near noon we went to a park where the church was having a
children's outing. There were a lot of people, and some sisters prepared
several games/activities for the kids to play. Everyone had a good time,
except for me, for some reason I was very sleepy.

Yesterday I went to the pumpkin patch field trip with Timothy's class. We
picked up 3 pumpkins(3 different sizes), Timothy kept asking to go home, I
guess he didn't have much interest on the pumpkins, or because he was still
not fully recovered.

Cherie and I went to Albertson's to buy a cake for Timothy. It was not too
sweet, very unusual for American cakes. And it's got fresh strawberries, even
pudding cream in the middle layer :0) Jacob and Timothy blew the candles
together. A very low-key but sweet birthday.

HAPPY 4 YEAR OLD BIRTHDAY, MY DEAR TIMOTHY.

We have 2 little artists at home. They really love to draw. Timothy can
draw dozens of drawings in a day. And they are really good at it too. Unlike
me, I have never liked art so much. Philip gave me a really good suggestion, to take a picture of the kids' each drawing, and I will be able to save these prescious pictures forever. And I can post them here too!! :0) Another note, I am SO SO SO MAD at our fitness club. We joined last year, mainly because we wanted to encourage the boys to swim, since Jaocb has asthma, swimming is the best sport for him. According to researches, breathing near the water level is very good for his lungs. Ok, back to what I am so mad about. Ever since last month the club started "winter" family hours, which greatly reduced the familily swimmin hours, we used to be able to go swiming after Jacob's school, now they only open from 12-3pm, also 2 nights a week, which is almost impossible since on Friday night we have small group meeting... and during the weekend we are always so busy. OK, we were there at the club tonight and all of a sudden the pool was closed due to chemical inbalance!! And the worst thing was they had terrible customer service. They really didn't care what we members feel and think. The manager even said if you want to cancel tonight here is the form!!! I AM SO ANGRY! URGH!! but the sad thing is that we really can't do anything to change their policies, all they see is $$$$$$, they won't care how we feel. I try to go to yoga classes 2 times a week, and it has really helped my backaches. I guess we will have to stick with this terrible club. Because it's the only one so far that allows the kids to swim in the pool. SIGH.