春天到嘍！ @ peggyhuang1

Spring is here! We started Spring time last Sunday morning(spring forward 1 hour), so spring is really here. We lost 1 hour due to time change, but all of us are adjusting just fine. Last Saturday I did a crazy thing, Melody, Cherie and I took Cheries' van to go shopping in San Marcos( which is 3.5 hour drive one way). I was a little nervous beforehand but wanted to go anyway because it could be my last shopping fun before the baby comes. Philip was very sweet, he offered to watch the boys and let me go with the sisters for the whole day.
We left at 8:30am and had a great time chatting and fellowshiping on the way there. At lunch time we arrived at Austin so we ate lunch at "Tapioca House" a chinese fast food restaurant. The food was ok, but the lavender milk tea was very good. After lunch we kept going, and it only took 30 minutes to arrive San Marcos Primes Outlet Mall.
   We wanted to go to the new gymboree store there, but Cherie and I were VERY disappointed. Their price was about 20% off regular retail store prices, and not much sale going on. So we bought nothing there. Then we went to pottery barn. Again quite disappointed. I found their bedding stuff has decreased a lot while a lot more room for furnitures... but we didn't really care for furnitures. I managed to find some cute quilt pillow cases and Cherie only spent $5 there!!! We then shopped at Coach, LOTS of people, I saw a bag I kind of liked, and it's about $85, but I put it back and just after 2 minutes someone took the bag, GREAT, just saved me some money. We then went to Gap, Old Navy.... and finally were glad to end up in Disney store. They had some really cheap clothes, both Cherie and me bought some cute clothes for our girls :0)
   I bought some clothes(shirts and pants) for Jacob, and some clothes for baby girl, bought 1 pair of pants for my post-delivery phase from Banana republic, a pink stripe short sleeve shirt for myself and we headed home.
   The shopping part was not too exciting, but I really enjoyed the time talking with the sisters in the ride. We talked about a lot of things... and it felt great to be with the sisters alone for the whole day. Baby cooperated really well, I walked for about 6 hours and didn't really feel too tired... of course, legs were a little sore. But since I didn't have to drive it's ok.
   I got home at about 1:30am. Philip was still up waiting for me. Thank you dear Philip!!
    Last week we also painted our walls, so far 3 colors: light green, pink and golden yellow(more like orange). We are not too happy with the orange yellow it turned out, but I really like the light green in our family room and the pink I painted by myself under the counter. Philip didn't like pink too much, but I wanted to add some girly feeling to our house, since we are expecting our little princess. I will use the pink space to hang the kids' art, and it shouldn't look too bad. We have to get things back to their normal place by the time Dad and A Yi come next Wednesday!!! Yay!! Daddy is coming to visit me!! It was quite a surprise, but I was glad he decided to come, since I am not going back to Taiwan this year... and I really miss him. They will be here for maybe 5 days, and maybe more. I know Texas is really boring so I hope they will be ok here. They come here to visit us, and not really doing sightseeing... The boys will be off next Friday and so is Philip. We will probably go to Houston, Austin, and San Antonio for the weekend. We'll see.

I took the boys to the park yesterday and today after picking up Jacob. The weather is great, and probably the best time in the whole year to play. They installed brand new playsets in the park, and the boys really enjoyed playing. There were 14 baby ducklings yesterday with their mommy, and when 1 duckling got stuck between the woods, the mommy duck was very worried and kept making loud noise, at first we didnt know what happened, but finally the boys saw the duckling stuck and when we were about to rescue, the baby got out by itself. Wow, even an animal mommy can be so protective over her babies. I was amazed. Today was great, we even saw a big snake in the water, and a big and ugly toad, and some turtles. I think the snake will eat some of the baby ducklings. I wish we didn't have this kind of ugly animals in our park. I have to be careful not let the kids get too close to the snake. Good thing it stays in the water.