Category: parenting

  • Children Book Review: Grace Lin

    Kate since she was a baby, we’ve come across many books that she loves. I thought I’ll start sharing those. I would love to hear suggestions as well from other parents on what books they love. Anywhere from 0-6 years old reading material. Grace Lin illustrated many books on the Chinese culture.  It’s really fun…

  • First Discovery Book series: Great Designed Books?

    First Discovery Book series: Great Designed Books?

    The “First Discovery Books” are the best designed children’s books I’ve ever seen. These books are very hard to find brand new in the US.  I’m not sure why. Do a search on Amazon and give all the books a try.  These are very detailed illustrations of various topics like The Egg , Penguins, Weather,…

  • Kate’s Back In School

    Kate doesn’t like paparazzi Dad I finally figured out the immunization stuff for Kate, she is back in school and her teachers love her! She is speaking French to her teachers, doodling, playing with the seesaw, eating lunch with her classmates, pretending to nap, and building sand castles.

  • Kate I Let You Down 🙁

    Kate’s teachers tell me that it so nice having Kate at school, she is really happy there. Today Yahoo! let some of us leave work at 2:00pm to get started on the long weekend.  So I decided to pick up Kate from Berkeley and take her to get her shots so she won’t be kicked…

  • Kate’s first day of school

    Happy parents, happy kids, crying kids whose parents left too fast, socializing with teachers, proud parents, excited Kate. The first day school for Kate, I’m so proud of her. She will enjoy learning at the French American school so much. But I think she will love the corn meal sandbox the most

  • my 4 year old is smarter than I am

    4 year old Kate is way smarter than I am She spots every little detail in her story books, facial expressions of all the characters in the page She remembers that there are 6 strings on the guitar without looking at it, I thought there were 7 She learns foreign languages so much better than…

  • my 4 year old is smarter than I am

    4 year old Cate is way smarter than I am She spots every little detail in her story books, facial expressions of all the characters in the page She remembers that there are 6 strings on the guitar without looking at it, I thought there were 7 She learns foreign languages so much better than…

  • A Small Boo Boo

    Small boo boo: “Take a picture of this dad”

  • C and ice cream

    C and ice cream

    This kid is hooked. She doesn’t get ice cream when she is with me. But when my sister, Liana is with us, somehow cate usually works in ice cream after a nice meal with veggies. Here is us enjoying a nice break from the heat at the local Loard’s ice cream parlor

  • Fun Math Game To Play Anywhere

    Neat game to teach addition and subtraction We agree on difference of 2. Kate: (hides a certain number of fingers) Me: It’s less than how many fingers? Kate: 6 Me: you’ve got 4 fingers! Kate: yup Me: ( I hide my fingers ) Kate: It’s more than how many fingers? Me: 7 Kate: You’ve got…