My greatest Olympians

Printing the Olympics rings 

 One of my greatest Olympians

 My other Olympian.

VBS - National Park

We learned the five true natures of God in this week's VBS: True peace, true riches, true power, true love and true hope.  God will give us these true natures if we choose to believe in Him.  There are 205 children from preschool to junior high in this week's VBS.  I volunteered in Haley's preschool class.  Our group name is Scampering Squirrels.

 Daily opening ceremony with songs and skit.

 Chester stayed in nursery during the 3.5 hours VBS everyday for 5 days.

 Enjoying his snack while watching the older kids played.  Thanks to grandma for tailoring the VBS t-shirt to fit Chester.

  Working on one of the class projects.

 Playground time.  Haley received many compliments from the reconstruction of her t-shirt.

 Snack time.

Chester loves sweets.

Enjoying their cupcakes at the volunteer appreciation lunch on Friday.

The children performed some of the songs they learned throughout the week on the Sunday finale.

Chester變左"牛王仔"

Chester finally stopped laying down on the floor during tantrums... but he picked up a new trick to express his frustration.  He will hit people by his hands.  I try to stop him before he swings his hands to hit.  I hold his hands tight and give him a firm no, so he will correlate it is not ok to hit.  It's been couple weeks now, he still hits whenever things are not in his favor.  It's very frustrating to hear Haley complains about Chester hitting her all day long and to teach him not to hit us.  The drill to hold his hands, and put him down on the floor whenever he hits is very exhausting.  Hopefully Chester will soon grow out from this bad habit.  He can communicate pretty well verbally on what he wants, but he needs to learn to use his words even when he's in a bad mood.  This is going to be a long learning process, Haley is still learning and so am I.

Olympics London 2012

We watched the opening ceremony of Olympics, and we explained to Haley what is happening in Olympics.  She asked when will the fire be out as the athletes lighted up the torch.  We told her not until three weeks later after all the sport competitions are completed.  I told her she can be in the Olympics if she becomes an athlete.  I asked her what kind of sports she is interested in competing, and she said she will be a swimmer.  Wow!  I think she really enjoys her swimming lesson a lot.  Olympics can also bring people's spirit up and be patriotic.  My emotions was overwhelmed when I see the athletes walked in the stadium.  It's going to be a busy three weeks to watch the Olympics.  Go Go Go!

Chalk art with daddy

 Drawing rainbow with daddy

Haley drew the little rainbow on the left, and daddy drew the big one.

 Helping out to water the grass

 Chester is helping too.

Swimming Achievement

Wow!  I am impressed.  Haley received her 2nd ribbon of excellence for passing preschool level 2.

 Chester gone wild while waiting for Haley at swim school.

Do Ra Me... fun fun fun!

Another fun afternoon with Sky at grandma's home.

Pool time with friends again...

Thanks to our friend Stella and Michael, allowing us to invite ourselves to their beautiful pool all the time.

 Haley and her friend, Claire.  These two girls is always in a love-hate relationship.  One minute they are like best friends, next minute they are mad at each other.

 Water fight with Uncle Ricky...he's the bad guy according to the kids.

 Chester got very nervous when we brought him in the pool.  He cried for a little bit and quickly enjoyed the water, but yet he clang onto us while he's in the water.

An afternoon at Studio Grow

Zoo day with friends

Our group of little fellows

 All the little ones...18 months, 14 months, and 20 months

 Haley loves to play with Shannon 姐姐

Ice skating 2nd take...

Another great night of fun at the ice rink.  Haley did much better the 2nd time.  She had more confidence in skating on the ice.  I lose count of how many rounds we skated tonight.  Nicolas was doing well too.  He was able to move inch by inch on the ice by himself. 

 

Summer session of dancing begins...

Preballet continuation is for students who completed preballet and age 4 to 5.  Haley can't get in when I tried to register her because she was not 4 years old yet, so I signed her up for preballet again.  Ms. Christie called the day before the summer session begins, she asked Haley to move to preballet continuation.  Haley was excited to dance again.

 Haley showed daddy the new post that she learned today at dance lesson.

Haley knows her ABC phonics

Do Ra Me

 Do Ra Me...  They love playing with their cousin, Sky.

They are laughing at Sky's silly act.

 Loving pineapple 

 

Bike riding

We decided to push our bikes to the nearby park and had Haley practiced on her big girl bike.  She was a bit nervous and wanted mommy or daddy to hold onto her bike while she rode on it. 

Chester also had a great time riding with daddy.  He enjoyed the breeze a lot. 

VBS - Sky

Haley had much fun in this week of VBS.   Everyday she comes home with a craft that related to the daily lesson.  She learned many new songs with movements during this week of VBS.  The theme is Sky, and she was in the group of Crazy Clouds.  Her favorite song this week is You You You.  I love to see her sing and dance the movements at home.  

Bible point for the week:

No matter who you are...trust God.

No matter how you feel...trust God.

No matter what happens...trust God.

No matter what people do...trust God.

Pool time with grandpa and friends

Chester didn't feel like playing in the pool today.  He rather rest in mommy's arms.

 This day is not as hot, but the kids couldn't resist to play in the water.

 Grandpa is chilling by the pool.

It took Haley a while to get comfortable and to build trust with grandpa in teaching her how to swim.

Chester's trial preschool day

I brought Chester with me to volunteer at Haley's preschool while Haley attending VBS at church.  At this age, his attention span is relatively short. Chester is on and off on the activity stations.  There were only 6 students during the summer session.  Chester is the youngest and the only boy.  The older girls are very interested in playing with Chester. 

 He loves building the blocks and knocking them down.

 Chester is holding hand in hand with one of the girls to walk to the playground.

 The girls include Chester in their sand playing games, and pretend to sell ice cream.

 Chester is lining up to wash his hands before snack.

 Everyone is so curious with Chester's presence.

 He loves to read books too.

 He joins the girls in playing with animal figures.

 He gives a high five to the gorilla.

 He is pretty clueless during circle time as Ms. Chen was teaching Mandarin, but at least he stays in the circle.

 That's it for the day.  He had fun and we are on our way to pick Haley up from VBS