The Zhao Family

We're definitely on a full schedule! This past Saturday was packed with fun! We started the day to go blueberry picking but the line to get to the actual patch was an hour long so the boys played water duckies instead.





After swimming class, I decided to take the boys to a nearby remote control airpark! It was way cool for the boys b/c they loved the plane show last time and on that day they had an open house for the remote airpark. I thought we got here late but we were just on time to get into a game they have set up for little kids. They all get small plane wings and shoot them into the air!








As you see all the models lined up for take off, the boys enjoyed burgers and dogs while they watched the show!




Then there's the horse ride right next to the place! All the boys hopped on and were given rides!




Even Cayleigh enjoyed the fun!






And we ended the day at the Azucena's house for BBQ and swimming! The boys loved swimming. They stayed in the pool for over three hours. Brennan's got a huge tan and its very obvious compared to his white buttocks (not shown) But you can see the fun they had for the day. Put it this way, they slept well for the night.












You can see more photos of the BBQ here.

Happy Birthday Brennan!!! He's five year's old now. He's been telling everyone he's turning 5 for months in advance. And finally he day arrive. Oh boy was he happy! It has been a very busy year and so we kept this year's birthday simple and just celebrate it with family. The food was good, the gifts were great! and everyone had a fun time.

This is a late post but we went to Dutch last week! It was just perfect weather! Cloudy, cool, and not raining with barely anyone there!! The kids to get to go on all the rides and enjoyed the whole day. The Chang Family accompanied us which made it even more fun!



You can see all the pictures here.

So let's make a small comparison. I know that most parents really don't like comparison especially when it becomes personal or with a child of theirs against some other child. But I must complain. Every morning I must drag myself to wake up at 6:00am to go work so I work my butt off (including tennis) to make enough to feed the family. Which brings a up a good point: I go to work without breakfast and when I come home to see pictures of what they had for breakfast (see below) I was speechless. Yet when I am home on the weekends, I end up making pancakes. I am so jealous that the boys get fed such a breakfast but yet I have to cook on my day off!! Hm.....this does not sound fair: mom loves the boys more!

So on Saturday we started with our normal day cooking pancakes and eggs. Then we decided to go my sister's place to cook for them as well. That was yummy. The starts. We went to eat strawberries at the Orchard for about 30 minutes, followed by going to Pearl's Birthday party at the Splash Playground. (Story continues below..)








We didn't get much of the party but managed to get photos of the boys playing with water!




They had so much fun that we skipped Brennan's last T-Ball game so they can stay longer. We literally ran there on time for Brennan to hit the very last ball for the whole season. And he did a very mighty job too because if you look closer at the photo above, they plastic stand is bent. That was how powerful his hit was.






He got his Met's Team T-Ball trophy!!




A proud Mets player. He had a wonderful season.

After T-Ball, we went straight to Brennan's Immersion program classmates' pool party! And I tell you, the boys were not shy meeting new people nor playing in the water. Thanks to the great hospitality of Noreen and Sean, we had a terrific time.


Fishing for grass..what a wonderful idea...


..and he wasn't alone either! See Clayton's smile.


Brennan has no problem jumping into the fun at the pool playing with the older kids.


And of course, Clayton gets his megaboat and invited all the ladies too...(I wonder who he learned that from)





And of course, can't end the day without someone crying.....

It was actually James' company outing that we were invited. Thank you James and Tram! because it was an excellent BBQ and boy oh boy did the boys love the place.


Let's start with Mr. Clayton's face painting... he was very patient to wait for 4-5 people in front of him and what did he want?...a Tiger!!


He's gotten a lot better with people and let them hold him and things like that...


For some odd reason, he feels like he's a tiger and got on all his paws and started haunting like a tiger...good thing for fast cameras b/c it only lasted for about 3 seconds...









And the rest of the day was history for Clayton.


But prior to that..the boys were in race car heaven! They had really nice remote controlled race cars and s small track for the cars to run. Man did they love the race cars.


Despite what you may think, Brennan spent all his time (apart from eating) to continuously race on the track. He actually knows how to operate the throttle and the wheel. He'll race the other older kids, the adults, and have no problem asking for a booster chair when he needed one.


Poor Cayleigh, she didn't get to have the fun as her brothers' did. Hence she's biting her nails for missing out all the fun...maybe in a year or two.


Here's uncle Yuan! Cayleigh's always so ready for picture taking...