We had lunch at Vietnam town today in South San Jose. When we got there, there was a parade of monks walking through the front of the plaza. I’m not sure why they were there, but it was interesting for the kids too see.

I was clicking through some old photos yesterday and found this picture of Natalie. She was probably only 4-5 months old here. Big head, skinny body! I showed the picture to her today and she didn’t even know it was her.

I was cleaning out Tyler’s backpack today and found this. It all makes sense now.

It reads:
I totally want to catch a leprechaun
Step 1: first I dig a ditch
Step 2: after that I put the food on the other side
Step 3: later put leaves on ditch
Step 4: then wait… Catch

Now it’s my responsibility to take care of the leprechaun.

This afternoon after I picked the kids up from school, a funny conversation happened in the car.

Tyler: Mom! When we get home, I want to set up a leprechaun trap.

Me: Why would you want to trap a leprechaun?!

Nat: Oh, I know how to set up a leprechaun trap!

And then the two went into a conversation about this which I got lost in, cause from the beginning I kept thinking to myself, “where does the boy come up with this stuff?!”

Yesterday was Crazy Hair Spirit Day at school. Nat didn’t do anything crazy to her hair, just added some flowers and chopsticks, but Tyler got crazy!

This morning while lounging in bed, Nat started an almost “where do babies come from?” conversation.

“If someone wants to have another baby after having one, can they always?”

“Not always.”

“If someone doesn’t want to have another baby, does it come anyways?”

“Sometimes.”

“Did Auntie Marissa want a 3rd baby or was it a.. a…”

“A surprise?”

“Yea, a surprise.”

“I think it was kind of a surprise.”

My boy turned 8 today.

He celebrated at school with his classmates with a nice birthday song and he passed out bubbles to all his classmates for a birthday treat. The school doesn’t allow food anymore, so we couldn’t do cake or candy. For dinner, he wanted to go to a pizza place with an arcade, so we went to Cicero’s Pizza. He brought a stack of quarters and blew them all. Then we had dessert at Yogurtland.

Over the weekend, we had a party at home and Tyler invited 10 school friends. It was going to be an outdoor party and we were going to set up a Nerf arena but it rained, so at the last minute, we set up a few video game stations and a rainbow loom station. I was worried that it might get a little too crazy with so many people inside the house, but it turned out OK. Nothing broke and nobody got hurt!