We arrived really late last night here in Stowe, Vermont. When we were driving up the mountain in the dark to get to our lodge, we couldn’t see two feet ahead of us.

When we woke up, we were pleasantly surprised to see our lodge was situated on a beautiful lush green hill.

beautiful flower arrangements every where…

We had a very healthy Vermont style breakfast to start the day!

It’s been a tough month. Andrew’s traveling back to back, visiting five cities for the past three weeks including weekends. While he’s aways both kiddes got sick. I took turns taking each of them to doctors this week and found out that Chloe has a strep throat. 🙁

It’s not fun being sick. They both climb on to my bed and completely take over. I have a picture to prove it.

Not only they want to sleep with me in my bed, they both want to sleep right next to me. So at one point, we were all sitting in the dark, in the middle of the night, discussing sleeping arrangements. I’ve been waking up average 5 times a night. This is becoming a very bad habit. But how can I kick them out of my bed when they are suffering from colds/strep? They were so congested they kept waking up from discomforts, tossing and turning, pushing and kicking. When I woke up this morning, my arms were so sore from holding on to the edge of the bed, trying not to fall off.

This not fun.

Chloe: (after getting dressed for church) Ta da~ Shane! Do you like what I’m wearing?
Shane: uh, yes?
Chloe: Do you think I’m pretty? Do you want to marry me, Shane?
Shane: (playing with his trains, not paying much attention to Chloe) …
Chloe: Shane, do you want to marry me or someone else?
Shane: Uh, someone else.
Chloe: Fine. I’m going to marry my prince then. Good bye.

shane’s drawing

Chloe’s

I had the honor of accepting The Art of Packaging Award Gala invitation this evening at New York’s University Club, benefiting the Marc Rosen Scholarship for Graduate Packaging Design.

The winners:

We drove all the way to Essex, CT to experience day out with Thomas.

Eating Sandwich while waiting for the Thomas train.

Here it is!

They are such fans of “Thomas and his friends” and couldn’t be any more excited that we are on the Thomas train. Chloe thought we were in “the Island of Sodor”. So cute.

Happy Shane

Shane waving~

they are holding hands. How sweet…

It was a great day.

Andrew came back from his business trip with lots of presents for me and the kids. It’s been a long week for me without him and we’re very happy to have him back. 🙂

Today, we had a special young guests for playdate/dinner/sleepover. For dinner we had:

Organic whole wheat pasta with sun dried tomatoes, basil, lemon zest and freshly grated parmigiano reggiano cheese.

They are happy eaters!

We had some arts and craft time,

movie time,

and lots of dancing and playing.

The kids finally fell asleep around 10 pm. Thank you Driti and Sashu for a fun plydate! We had a  b l a s t ! 🙂

Chloe put the little flowers along with the card on my night stand yesterday, “so you can wake up smelling the flowers!” she said.

Then this morning she said, “Happy Mother’s day, HaeWon!”

Are we on the first name basis now? Lol.

Shane’s card (not written by him though)

We were invited to a BBQ at the Wei’s.

Go for the bubbles!

Shane: “Daddy, can you throw me to the sky?”

Andrew’s workout routine: Spin the kids

Throwing the kids

And he’s down…

Thank you Wei Family for the fun afternoon! 🙂

Kids school had a family walkathon with parents today.

I can spot Chloe’s drawing from miles away. Hers is right above Sarah’s on the bottom.

Shane’s class room

We walked around the block with our “passports” from one country to another, getting stamps.

Shane’s thick chunky hand. I love holding his paws, I mean hands.

Waiting for his sister.

So they didn’t see each other for about 15 min, but they act like they haven’t see each other for months! So cute. 🙂