Arrived safely in houston last night

Despite an hour delay, kids were happy and we arrived safely in houston last night at 8pm. Having lots of movies on the plane really helped. We flew one of those international planes on united so had a monitor and choices of hundreds of movies and games in front of each seats. ;-)

Ready for our trip to houston

They are so excited

A blessing in disguise - Alexis loses a tooth

10 days ago Alexis fell on the stairs at her preschool and knock out one front teeth. She was very brave and only cried a little.

The tooth fairy of course came and she found $2 crisp bills under her pillow where the tooth used to be (now safely in Mommy's drawer, shhhhh)

What is a blessing is we used this opportunity to help Alexis stop sucking her thumb. We convinced her she may lose another tooth or her tooth can get infected if she still sucked her thumb. It's not completely false. There is an chance.

Alexis had been sucking her thumb since a baby and we tried all different soft methods to help her stop. No luck until now. We are secretly hoping this will stick. She agreed to wear a small glove at night to help her remember not to suck. Since it would be yucky to do so and that reminds her. It has been a week and we think it's working.

Crossing our fingers. ;-). Still a cutie with missing tooth. My cutie.

Alexis work from preschool

They are teaching her a lot of Chinese and math. She loves it

My big monkey isabel

She is getting to be so long and strong

via https://youtu.be/-m-7lHBVD-M

Help pls: isabel school need your vote

Please help.  Our school is poised to win $10,000 from the government.  We are currently #4. 

It's free and you can vote everyday for two more weeks.   All you have to do is go to this link http://www.myscholardollars.com/#vote-now 

1. Type in Starr King to search

2. select this "King (Thomas Starr) Elementary" and click on " vote for this school"

3. enter your first name, email, and zip. 

Thank you. 

Lei

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I didn't know I can draw

My kids loves to draw and I decided to give it a shot on Saturday. To my surprise, I can draw. Who knew? The first two and last one are mine, isabel drew toothless and Alexis drew meatlug. A new hobby. Yay! Very fun. ;-). My kids are inspiring me to try so many things.

Isabel and Alexis "house"

Built at the creativity museum

via https://youtu.be/JTu2HXE8m7k

Isabel parent teacher conf results

Jaime went to this one and took excellent notes. Isabel is growing up so fast.

Isabel and Alexis fun weekend with Bita and Bito

Jaime and I went to vegas this weekend so Bita and bito came over to play with the kids and agnes. They had a blast

Happy Valentine's Day!

This was the perfect set of cards from our kids for Valentine's Day! :-)

A thank you card from isabel to her teacher

Who is going back to Taiwan on sat.

Silly fun Sunday

After being sick for 5 days, Alexis finally recovered and having fun again. She had high fever, cough and stomach pains. Poor baby. But kids are so resilient. Look at her today. Laughing and wiggling her butt with big sis. Both so cute and happy :-).

via https://youtu.be/6L1MrFXKIYI

Mystery box challenge

What a great idea. You randomly pick a card and then a mystery box of scraps and using tape create something out of your imagination. They made "breakfast for a bear" , "an outer space car" " an upside down house" etc. so much fun!!!

Fun morning at creativity museum

I am making a tradition to take Alexis to creativity museum every Sunday. She loves this place. So do I. Inspires so much creativity. Isabel joined us after her watersleeve dance practice. Isabel will be in the cny parade next sat.