Nicholas & Wesley picked out their costumes for Halloween back in early September: Darth Vader & The Incredibles, respectively.
On Saturday, we attend the Jarvinen’s Halloween bash where both the adults and kids were dressed for an evening of fun and games. Nicholas as Darth Vader, Wesley as Batman (previous year’s costume).
On Sunday, Julia and […]

We picked up the kids from school today and headed straight to the ice show at 7:30pm. This is probably the first time we did a weeknight stint just to try out and it’ll probably be our last until the kids are a little older (It just got way to tiring for our kids after […]

Ever since Alex discovered the medicinal quality of garlic, he’s taken garlic pills, and tosses tons and tons of garlic into his cooking. I myself love garlic (including the raw kind) but try to avoid too much garlic as a courtesy to my coworkers who have to work with me day in day out. Alex […]

Yesterday I took the boys to swim class again expecting to see the same routine from the previous 3 weeks: gliding through the water guided by the teacher (head submerged, arms and legs outstretched) for as long as they are able to hold their breath (that’s about 6 seconds for Nicholas and 3 seconds for […]

So we finally broke down and decided to subsidize Nicholas’ daily lunch routine with hot lunches from school. We were running out of quick lunch prep ideas and with our time at home cut short by homework checking, reading practice, spelling practice, cooking, cleaning, laundry, among other things, we decided to just make our […]

a la Buzz Lightyear to Woody in Toy Story. This is what Wesley likes to say all the time to us, to Nicholas, to his friends. I guess this is how it all starts Then one day it evolves to quoting Dirty Harry or the Godfather.

Yesterday, the back left tire blew on our SUV enroute to pick up the kids. We were about a mile away from the campus when this happened so I took off running towards the school to catch them before the doors close while Alex stayed behind to wait for help. Actually, I was running […]

After a couple weeks of debating whether we should get a Singer sewing machine or a “how-to-sew-for-dummies” Brother sewing machine, I decided on the later. Trust me… this sewing thing is not exactly a walk in the park. The last time I sewed was in high school, and I had a fallback (namely Mom) to […]

… according to Wesley.  
e-vely (ĭ-vĕly’) adv.
1. a. To a greater degree or extent. Used as an intensive with comparative adjectives and adverbs: Looked sick and felt even worse.
b. Indeed; moreover. Used as an intensive: Even a child knows better.
c. Used as an intensive to indicate something that is unexpected: declined even to consider […]

So we got a 2nd Note last Thursday about Nicholas writing on tables at school. Looks like Nicholas likes to doodle a little too much. I know he got a note on his classwork one time because he was sketching pictures on the sides and I guess the teachers do not want any doodling on […]