This morning, I took Tyler shopping to look for a shirt for his piano recital. During the car ride home he asks me:
“Mom, you know when people get married and then you kiss the bride and then a baby comes, how does the baby come? ”
Me: what do you mean? (I’m nervous at this point. Not ready to explain this)
Tyler: how does the baby come out?
Me: it just does. (Pause) It comes out like poo. It just comes out.
Tyler: what?! That’s so wierd!

It’s always fun to go to Open House each year at school and look at all the work the kids have been doing. Tyler was especially excited to share the project he was working on – researching snow shoe hares. We also got to see the chrysalis stage of the butterfly metamorphosis.

This is a video from 2010 on the way to Nat’s first Open House

My brother, the trapeze artist. Or is it just a creative way for him to do arm exercises?

This is Tyler back in Nov 2007 (about 1 1/2 years old)

This is Gavin today (also around the same age)

Natalie’s class had a project researching college’s. The project was called “I’m off to college Mom and Dad!” The college she picked was California College of Arts. Each student had to research their school of choice and present their learnings along with a budget sheet. According to her calculations, it’s going to cost about $127,000. I die.

Riding bikes like this use to be one of my pastimes with my younger brother. Looks like it will be for Nat and Tyler too. They had fun riding around the block over and over taking turns standing in the back.

Today in the car, Tyler saw two boys ride their bikes passed us. He said, “oh they look like short stature people.” I didn’t understand what he said (because of his accent and because I didn’t expect him to say that.)
Ty: I know a short stature person. He use to be a Bear. (Bear’s are what his teacher calls her students)
Me: A short stature person?
Ty: Yeah, a short stature person. His name is Yan. He’s so smart, he got to go to college for free. He’s the first short stature person to run the Boston marathon. (I’m not sure if this is true)

This is the first time I’ve heard of little people being called ‘short statured’, but it is very politically correct.

The kids had some friends over for a play date over the weekend. Organizing play dates can be a bit of a chore. I try not to do it too often cause it really takes away relaxation time from the weekend. Although the kids entertain themselves, there is still “set up” and “clean up” involved. Luckily it was a warm day, so the kids were able to spend most of the time in the pool. Then we had dinner at Sweet Tomatoes.

Yesterday while practicing piano, Tyler started to cry and said his finger hurt. I ignored him thinking he was trying to get out of practicing. A few mins later he starts to scream “It’s turning purple!” I go over to look at his finger and sure enough it’s turning purple. It was bleeding underneath his nail. It turns out he smashed it under the piano bench cover. Hope this teaches him a lesson to not fool around when practicing piano!

The kids and David woke up very early this morning to cook Mother’s Day breakfast. Tyler was up but probably just to watch TV. I know Nat helped in the kitchen a lot. I heard her direct Tyler to do a few things like set up the table. At one point, I heard her say “Tyler, if it weren’t for Mom, we wouldn’t be here.”

Yee Po and Uncle Wen came over for breakfast and later Hayden and Mason came too.

Nat made this for me

And Tyler made this for me at school

Today was “Bring your kids to work day” at David’s office. Nat and Tyler got to leave school early today and spend most of the day at Coupons. They got to do a lot of fun activities, play games, have lunch from food trucks, and they came home with a lot of free stuff!