A composition by Wesley Truong.
Love means a person loves someone like I love my mom. I love my mom and dad I like them.  They help me clean up when my house is really dirty or white after im done playig with my toys.  I love my mom and dad.  When I’m sad my mom […]

This year, we did something a little different for the boys’ birthday celebration.  On January 2nd (Wesley’s 6th birthday), we let the kids pick how they wanted to celebrate their special day. Nicholas had a dentist appointment on his birthday so we did both celebrations together on this day. I don’t think they minded though […]

My sister told me about this TV series that airs on Nick Jr some time ago, and it was only recently that I recorded some episodes to check out. She told me that so many of her coworkers’ kids are learning Chinese by watching this show — it’s basically a Chinese (Mandarin) version of […]

Hooray! Wesley finally earned his Sea Turtle ribbon today, and Mr. Justin was so excited that he was practically jumping out of the water. Alex and I were equally happy too as we watched from the “viewing gallery”. Wesley did 4 beautiful arm strokes along with those straight leg kicks he’s had such a […]

Today, both Nicholas and Wesley had lady substitute teachers in class.
Nicholas’ sub did a great job correcting the way Nicholas’ hand enters the water after each stroke. The angle of his hand was a bit off so it almost seemed as though he’s slapping the water instead of “slicing” into the water. He’s been doing […]

Latest Breakfast Craze: Plain Boiled Eggs. A discovery made on our Carnival Cruise.
Favorite Snacks: String Cheese, fresh Vine-riped tomatoes, Kettlecorn, and Pringle’s newest line of baked cracker sticks (similar to Pocky sticks sold in Asian markets).
Favorite Dessert (aside from ice cream): Poached Pear. I skin the pears, cut out the seeds, drizzle on honey, […]

Today marked the last class for this winter session.
Mr. Adam was working so hard to help Wesley earn his ribbon, but his efforts failed last week during the testing phase when Wesley kicked with all his might using only the bottom half of his legs. To get past his current level, the student must be […]

Wesley is very excited about going to school these days because he is starting to read the school’s “big books” now. Since the beginning of the school year, he has been bringing home little readers each time he finishes reading one at school, and now he has finally moved on to the more difficult […]

I got Nicholas a new pair of shoes for school this week since the velcro on his current shoe is half gone from all the wear and tear from PE and soccer in extended care. He’s been begging me to buy him laced shoes, but I refuse to because Alex and I are the […]

Wesley’s teacher asked us a couple weeks back if we wanted to do an introduction of our culture to Wesley’s class so I decided to do it since I rarely volunteer at their school. I brought in several souvenirs from China (given to me by my parents/sisters) to show the kids: a child’s toy drum, […]

Since Nicholas and Wesley are at opposite ends of the pool area now, we had to find a prime seating location to view both during class.
Miss Ashley taught the entire class today and she put a lot of focus on Nicholas’ bent arm freestyle. I had a talk with her in the shower area after […]

Today was a good day! Wesley was excited about class and both kids were well-behaved and in good spirits. Mr. Adam had Wesley and another child on opposite sides of a kick board swimming against each other. They also practiced sitting dives from the pool ledge and back floats. Wesley still does his silly […]

Nicholas is now enrolled in the Sea Lion class and he has 2 teachers this session: Miss Ashley and Mr. Darrick. Also, he gets to swim in the lap lanes (which gets gradually deeper toward the middle section of the lane) so they put these removable ledges in the water for the kids to stand […]

Since we went on vacation a couple days early, we knew that Wesley would not be able to perform in his Christmas program this year. When we broke the news to Wesley and his teachers, they were of course a little disappointed. The director actually called Alex one morning to invite us to Wesley’s dress […]

Wesley has been practicing slides on our wooden floors (similar to a slide into homebase) these past weeks in both back and side positions. I saw Nicholas do that on the concrete floor at school too, but after I scolded him about it for ruining his expensive uniform pants, this activity subsided soon after. I’ve […]