Mismatched Outfit

A night before Dylan's returning to school on Friday, he pleaded me to allow him wearing mismatched outfit for his school spirit. I normally don't like seeing my own kids wearing any mismatched outfit, but since it was for the school spirit; I accepted.

Boy, he was delighted when I let him wearing mismatched outfit. He let his beyond wildest thoughts. He had all of his clothes set up a night before Friday came.

On Friday at 5:30 A.M, he woke up bright and early to wear his mismatching outfit from head to toe. He even asked me to have his hair mohawk up, and the other part of his hair flat ! Don't forget to take a close look of wearing his mismatched shoes!
But the sad part when I came to pick him up from school, I asked him if anyone mentioned about his crazy mismatched outfit for school. No one had mentioned it to him about dressing it up for the school spirit day! It broke my heart when he tried his best to share his school spirit.

Detoured Our Plan

We were supposed to go out to Pumpkin Patch for the afternoon with Dylan and Ryan. But I should have known better that it does not open after October. After discovering it was not open until later on this week, the boys were a little bit upset with me for a few minutes. They accepted my promise that we would take them to Pumpkin Patch next Saturday.

Instead of waiting for next Saturday, we went to Viejas Outlet, not far from where the Pumpkin Patch. It was the first time for David and the boys to attend the outlet. Instead of gambling, we just shopped and played it around the Viejas Outlet.

The first thing we arrived, the boys were excited to see the other kids were walking on a small creek. Ryan was the first ones to jump over the small creek and climbed/jumped on the boulder while Dylan went around it. But not too long after that, Dylan accidentally stepped his dry shoes in the river.

From there, we allowed them to play a little bit without getting their clothes wet, except their feet. They were good just having their feet wet only especially at 88 degrees! Not only letting them just playing and exploring their new adventure, we even did stopped by at a small Border Outlet, Kitchen, and KB toys! We even wanted to explore for more stores, but the boys can pulled us down whenever we wanted to see what the inside stores have! At the end of the long afternoon, the boys were already worn out from their short, fun and free
activities !

David's New Toy

On our first Christmas in our new home, we received an useful gift from my father and step mother until David's old toy worn out. Then, David was up to getting his long waiting for his dream to come true. It is a stainless Viking BBQ!

Frankly, David is so exciting to get his new toy especially wanting to make his step father, Richard jealous. He is actually looking forward to seeing Richard's eyes when he comes over to our home for lunch or dinner. Isn't he crazy and competitive husband???

Speaking cooking a BBQ dinner, I have to admit that he is a real pro chef! He loves to cook. On that night, he cooked thick steaks and pineapples for dinner. It was even equal going out to Chris Ruiz's Steak Restaurant. Eating red meat is not my top preference when it comes for a dinner, but whenever David cooks, it is REALLY delicious.

The next time you are in town, don't forget to holler David to cook you out of his new BBQ! It is a lot cheaper than going out to a fancy restaurant. We can create you either a casual dinner with the family, or a romantic dinner as we have a beautiful mountain view in our own backyard. If you chose over having a romantic dinner, our kids would be not bothering you :-)

You're Invited!

Kids' Funniest Comments

We often wonder how the kids come up with the funniest comments or even wondered where did they come up with the wildest ideas...it happened to us over this past weekend.

David signed to Dylan without using voice: I demanded you to clean your trains up, or I will throw all it away. You will never get it back if you don't clean it up in one hour!

Dylan rushed and cleaned his toys up. Then he spoke it back to his dad in signing:

Dylan chuckled at his dad: " See I beat you less than one hour!"

So, Deby, my sister in law, was right that he is a competitor.

Ryan was on the other hand. He is not even in a competitor yet, but he did have a wildest thought.

While we all went out to have a dinner at Souplantation for dinner, he tapped my shoulder and said, " Mommy, I wanted to sleep here for 72 hours!" How did he ever come up with the time of the hours?

I replied to Ryan, "We do not have any blankets or pillow to sleep over the night." Dylan soon jumped in our conversation, " We all can warm each other up over the next 72 hours!"

Catchin' It Up

Pardon us for neglecting our update blog news. We have been focusing on other priorities and have neglected putting up a post lately! Everything will be putting it up late this evening, so look out for the update posts:

1) David's New Toy
2) Dylan's Mismatched Outfit
3) Kids' Funniest Comments
4) Pumpkin Patch

Down to the Wire!

Last Saturday, David and the boys were gone out to see the Red Bull Air Race Show at the bay area in Downtown of San Diego in order to free me up for a couple of hours. This idea began back in 2003, and has grown into a successful worldwide racing series. It also held on four continents and visits carefully selected, exciting locations around the globe. Thus, the boys and David were lucky to witness their lifetime show for FREE ! (It is too bad that my brother in law, Bob was not with them because we know he loves to drive on a small airplane.)
Actually, it was supposed to have a storm over the weekend. The blessing part was the storm was putting it on hold for the weekend for them, so they could watch the world best pilots. There were thirteen pilots from all over the world being a competition.

Before the show began, David parked his Jeep two blocks away from the bay. Three of them walked all the way to a vacant place, Shoreline Park not far from where David's work on a Navy Base. Overcrowded people made it even more difficult to find a vacant place. Yet, they were being optimized until they found a vacant place. The only vacant place was to sit on a huge black rock by the bay.

While waiting for the show began, they had a lunch. Shortly after they found a place and a lunch, the show began. It was amazing to watch the pilot from a helicopter followed each of the other small airplanes closely at approximately 300 feet from each other. All of a sudden, the helicopter flew too close to them which was about 80 feet above them! It scared them ! Lucky, it didn't give David or the boys a nightmare !

Then the other small airplanes began their contest. Each pilot must increase the speed over to 250 mph with 75 decimal. It was extremely loud enough to be heard, even for David, who is profoundly deaf. While watching the planes swiftly by them, Ryan and Dylan stood like as if they were a little bit of terrified. Yet, Ryan had mixed feelings: exciting and terrified at the same time.

The race continued for an hour, but the boys were being burned out after 20 minutes of watching the show. They were exhausted from the sun and sitting on the top of the rock becoming uncomfortable. Yet they were being good sportsmanship throughout the show and walked two blocks back to David's Jeep.

Besides of being exhausted of sitting under the sun, I personally think it was a worthwhile they experienced watching the world best pilots. It may be the only chance to watch the show in their lifetime for FREE.

Lil' Professor

On Monday night, Ryan had tracing shapes and letters for homework. Ryan was pretty upset that he has homework while Dylan already completed all of his 10 paperwork of homework, including reading five reading books. (It was Dylan's choice to complete all of the homework over the weekend, though it was not due until this Thursday.)

At first, we've tried to have either me or his dad to help Ryan tracing the shapes and letters. He kept saying in a full signing sentence, "No, I don't want homework!" It sounds like he is like another kids, who loathe homework!

Well, I had to find a way to convince Ryan to complete his two homework. Unexpectedly, Dylan volunteered to be a Lil' Professor. Once Dylan sat next to Ryan, Ryan went ahead to do his homework without obligation.
Dylan demonstrated the numbers with orange crayons- his favorite color. After doing of each number, Ryan traced the numbers with his second favorite color- green. Aren't they making a splendid team? They deserve to earn a goal medal for making "sibling team."