Dana playing with her trains

We are getting ready to go meeting but Dana still playing with her cho-cho train. She's having fun with it and she looks so adorable with her yellow dress too. So I decided to take a picture of her and look at her, she is such a cutie!

The kids with Princess

Look at Dana's face, she was eating chocolate ice cream bar and the chocolate is all over her face now. She said, mommy my hand are sticky ;-) Don't worry baby, after you eat your ice cream bar, will wash your hand okay? We just give Princess a bath and she's laying down in the grass to get herself dry. It was so nice that Dustin ask me to take a picture of them together. This photo taken in our backyard :-)

My little super girl

Dana play pretend to be a super hero. She said she is the super girl hehe :-) She was so cute and funny. She pretend that she's flying and she play nice with his little brother. Nice to see them both getting along well together.

My little helper

I can feel the spring time! Since snow are melting and the grass are dry, my husband and I decided to rake outside the frontyard. The leaves are all over the yard! I'm glad we rake all the leaves and of course Dana and Dustin help as well. They are our little helper. Love them both!

We got Wii!

We just bought this Wii Mario Kart last Weekend at Alco for only $49.95. Me and Dustin having a race, Dana is just watching since she still don't know how to control the remote. She's still learning but she is happy everytime I'm in the first place. We're a team hehe ;-) It was a fun game and we also bought a Jeep racing game and this week we will try to find a family sports game so that if ever we have some visitor to come over the house for dinner, we can play the sports game and have fun for the night!

Kids bean bag

My husband just bought this two bean bag for the kids for them to play and sit at their play room. It was comfy and the kids loves it. Dana usually fall asleep on her bean bag and when she woke up, she's all sweaty. But she doesn't mind at all, next time I need to put a blanket under it so that it won't be too hot for her to sleep.

Dustin loose tooth

Dustin was so happy when his tooth come off and guess what? he doesn't feel any pain. His teeth has been loose for a week and last two days ago when he eat Pizza, he accidentally bite where his tooth loose, he cried when he saw the blood and he says it was hurt. I gave him some salt water, it helps to stop the bleeding. The tooth didn't come off that time then yesterday, I keep telling him to keep pushing his loose tooth with his tongue then when I check it, I started to wiggle it a little bit and woolah! it comes off easily without leaving any blood spot. I told my husband right away and he said he will buy him a present after work. I put the loose tooth in a small plastic bag and took a pictures of him. I will add it to his photo album as a remembrance! ;-)

Kids in their sled!

Sledding is surely fun and the kids love it. We make a little hill in the backyard that way the kids can sled anytime they want. We still have a lot of snow in the backyard and some part of it already melted but some are not. Well, as long the kids having fun, will try to invite other kids from our congregation to play with the kids. I am sure they would love it too. This is a nice picture of Dana and Dustin, you can see the happiness on their face ;-)

Snow fort

Dustin was so happy on his snow fort. Daddy made it for him that way he can play there anytime he likes. Just a right size for him to crawl in and out in that snow fort. Well, I called it snow tunnel. Dana doesn't like to be inside the little tunnel, she got scared but not Dustin!

Online Home School

We just sign up for my kids online home school for this year 2012 at time4learning.com. Actually we are planning to put him in a public school here in Monte Vista but then my husband doesn’t like the schedule for kindergarten. The school start very early at 7:45am until 3:00pm and as a parent we don’t want to put Dustin on 8 hour class. I think its way too much for a 6 year old kid to be in school that long. Maybe its okay for first grade to 8th grade but not the preschooler or a kindergarten. Dustin seems like the home schooling because he can learn a lot through the computer and I am here to guide him all the way. He is such a smart boy and her teacher said that his reading level is already in 10th level. We already did a lot of activities and he also complete all his lessons and he did pretty good. So far he can catch it up right away and figure it out by himself. He got 100% on all the quizzes and some of them, he got 1 mistake for the quiz and the rest, he did it right. I am so proud of him and so happy that he learns a lot and he enjoyed every moment he spend on the computer for his online home school. I can see that his progressing a lot and hopefully when he finish kindergarten, he won’t have hard time learning the first grade lesson.

classroom program

This morning, I witness Dustin’s classroom program at their class. My son got a part of the program, he is the one reading the winter poem. He is such a good reader and he did pretty good on his part. There are times that he stop in the middle and say “did I miss any page?” and when somebody tell him to read it louder, he will say “okay…” then he will read it again. It was fun and I am really proud of him. He is very confident and he knows what his doing. After the school program, we did a cookie decorating and of course all the parents are there. I help Dustin to decorate his cookie but Dana already had a bite in her cookie. It was fun and since we are moving, I am sure Dustin will going to miss all her classmates, teachers and friends.

sick kid

Having a sick kid in the house is not really good. Parents don’t like to see their kids get sick but what can you do if they get sick because of the season or maybe they got it from school or somewhere. It affects your sleeping schedule because you can’t sleep when they are not feel well. They keep crying at night and you need to take care and watch them all the time. Like my two year old daughter, she starts coughing at night 2 days ago and we’re giving her cough medicine. She doesn’t have fever though but it scares me whenever she cough because sometimes, she ends up throwing up in the bed. On that reason, we never get a chance to go service yesterday, Saturday and only Dustin and daddy went on service then today, Sunday, we didn’t get a chance to go meeting either, so me and Dana stay home and daddy and Dustin went to the meeting. She is really grouchy, she cries and wines a lot. Well, I know why she does that, because she doesn’t feel good and she really needs my attention. Hopefully she feel better soon. Can’t wait to see her being happy again and not being sick. It breaks my heart every time I see her crying. If she doesn’t feel good until tomorrow, I might need to call her doctor and let her in, just to make sure that she is okay.

Dana's yellow polkadot dress

This is the latest dress I made for my little girl. It was a yellow polkadot dress. Yellow is one of my favorite color and yellow is a perfect color for my little girl, her complexion becomes more lighter when she wear light colors like yellow, orange and pink. She looks very adorable in this dress. I'm glad it turns out really good. Another thumbs up for me! hehe :-)

Dana's Potty train

So far, Dana's potty training was pretty good. She already know how to hold her pee at night and woke up in the morning and go to the bathroom and sit on her potty train toilet set. I always praise her when she do that. Before she go to bed, she also go pee in the bathroom. But usually in the afternoon, she get so lazy to get up and walk in the bathroom that's why she ends up peeing her diaper. I don't scold her when she do that, I just talk to her and let her know that it's nice if she pee in her toilet set in the bathroom because she is a big girl now. I think she's learning really well and time will come, she will realize that the best place to pee is in the toilet and not in her diaper. :-)

Dana's little kitchen

I found this play circle table top kitchen at Target for $21.00, regular price of $29.99. I got a good deal with this little toy  kitchen for toddler. Dana likes to play all the pot in our kitchen so we decided to  buy her a little table top kitchen with a plastic fruits, vegetables, food and some plates, pots and utencils. She was so happy and excited to play, both her and his brother Dustin play pretend together ;-)

Dana new top and short

This is the new purple top and black short I made for my little girl. I really like the fabric, I made a dress for myself, for my friend and also for my little one. She looks very adorable on this photo. The top and short I made for her looks really cute on her! ":-)

The Kids new train set

Two weeks ago after the meeting, Dustin got a chance to play with his friends outside the kingdom hall and one of them brought his train set. Dana and Dustin love the toy and they wanted to have one also just like that. When I told them that we need to go home, they don't want to go instead they still keep playing the train set. I told my husband that maybe we can buy them a train set so that they can play it at home. I am not sure how much it is because maybe it's expensive but will see. 

We went to Walmart to find that train set and we found the one for Dustin and Dana. We let the kids choose the one they like and both of them they also got a two pair of trains. Dana choose the blue train and Dustin choose the red and green. Dana pick the one who has a tunnel in it and Dustin got the train station and we connect it together. That's how it looks like in the above photo. They love to play their new train set!

Toys!

Kids never get enough with toys. They want more! There are many educational toys that you can choose from in different ages, some are way too expensive and there are some that are affordable that kids would love. We don’t want toys that can easily break or toys that is not applicable for their age. I like to have educational toys for my kids so that they can learn more. I am sure many parents prefer to have educational toys for their kids. How about you? What kind of toys your kids love?

Well, talking about toys, cptoy.com has a great selections for toys in all ages. You can find a lot of educational toys for infants and even toddlers. Safety is their top priority, so all their toys are safe to all kids in all ages. That’s what matters most for all parents right? They want to give their kids the best and I know that an educational toy can make them happy and they learn too as well. If you are looking for educational toys for your kids or to give it to someone as a gift, cptoy.com is the right website to visit. Find the perfect gift for your little ones at cptoy.com! They offer free shipping on order over $69.99!

Dustin Lighting Mcqueen Pajama

I bought Dustin a 1 yard of this lightning mcqueen fabric. It's not enough to make a whole pajama, so I end up making him pants since he only like a pants or short jammies. Well, if we can go Hobby Lobby again, I might get another yard of the same fabric to make a top pajama. He likes his new car pajama, he always wear it every night.

Sleep in her crib...

I was having hard time putting Dana to sleep in her crib before since she doesn't like to be in it. So I didn't force her to sleep in the crib. She usually sleep in our bedroom with me and my husband. She sleep in the middle and whenever she fall asleep, I transfer her to her crib but then she woke up and cry. So it takes a while before she started to sleep all night in her crib. This past few days, she decided to sleep in her crib without wining and crying. She just asking for bottle milk and after few minutes she will fall asleep. It's not as hard as what I thought. I think it depends on the kids when they are ready and not scared to sleep alone in their crib.