I’ve been cutting his hair all these time and I felt like it really needed some professional touch! After seeing his dad getting his hair cut , he was excited to get his own.

Chloe drew this on Andrew’s iphone while waiting.

Same hair style!!

Can’t say I really like his new hair style. He looks more like a boy than a toddler… 🙁 He’s growing up so fast.

Special report: He’s been diaper free at night for over a month!!

“Perfect love drives out fear.” 1 John 4:18

I had a wonderful time at woman’s retreat this weekend. Even though I was only an hour away from home (and it was only for a day and a half), I felt like I was worlds away.
Great speaker Tara Barthels of Peacekeepers Ministries spoke about Fear.  You can read about her here.

This afternoon, we headed downtown nyc to enjoy Tribeca Festival where we got to see concerts, do craft projects, buy toys, and eat fun foods.

My pretty girl, growing up so fast…

They are pretending to run.

Afterwards, I was craving burgers so we went to Bubby’s for dinner, a place I used to go a lot when I used to work nearby.

chatting, chatting, chatting away…

cupcake lip balms

Her favorite: mac & cheese

A perfect way to end the family fun day.

Update: Check out my cuties in Time Out Kids

Chloe and Shane both love to draw and paint. So we decided to make our own art gallery wall in the toy room to display their wonderful art works.

Our kitchen nook has their arts too. The far left drawing of ‘Chloe and Shane’ by Chloe makes me smile every time I see it.

Kids enjoyed making their own tacos.

With my parents returning to their home after almost 6 months, I’m back to my cooking duty! I do love to cook especially weekends when I have more time and don’t have to rush out the door. I record food network channel shows for inspiration and I’ve been trying new recipes these days.

Tonight, I made penne with butternut squash and goat cheese. Recipe by Giada at home.

Happy 1st birthday! We look forward to celebrating many more with you. What a beautiful family!

We had such a good time, as you can see here:

On Monday night after dinner I was doing dishes and my fingers started to hurt. All of a sudden my joints were all aching and I had a hard time holding the dishes. When Andrew came home with Chloe from Kumon, I told him that I needed to lie down and rest. This was at around 7:30 pm.

Andrew put the kids to bed and I went to bed around 8:30 pm. I was feeling dizzy, my whole body felt like it was bruised and I was also getting chills. The next morning, Andrew went to work thinking I had the flu and thought I should take a sick day. I couldn’t even begin to explain how much I was hurting and I wanted to cry when he was walking out the door. I was. In. So. Much. Pain.
I managed to prepare lunch for the kids, get them dressed and drove them to school. When I came back, I was feeling nauseous, dizzy and I could barely walk. I decided to call in sick and laid in bed for an hour. I also felt pain in my lower stomach but because my whole body was in pain, I didn’t know if I had a stomach bug or if it was the cyst situation again.

My head was spinning and I didn’t know what to do.

Around 11am, I finally thought of calling my doctor’s office and since it’s a walk-in facility, first come first serve, I asked very nicely (and desperately) if I could see the doctor as soon as she came in. The receptionist told me she’ll see what she can do. (Well, turns out, she didn’t do anything.) My mother-in-law came to my rescue and drove me to the doctor’s office. I walked in there with my mother-in-law helping me and I told the receptionists again, that I’m in a lot of pain and I would like to see the doctor first if possible. There were only two other man waiting and I thought that was a good sign.

What do you know, after an hour and an half sitting painfully in the waiting room and then another hour in the patient room, I finally saw my doctor. I had a fever of 103º and I was about to pass out. My doctor tells me I should rush to the nearest hospital right away because I might have appendicitis. FIVE minutes, she sees me. So I’m walking out the door and one of the receptionist says “Ahhh, you’re the one that called before. Your co-pay is $25.”

So here I was again after 3 weeks, my SECOND CAT scan and another misdiagnosed appendicitis later, we find out that it was the same scenario as the last one. It was the same cyst that collapsed again but this time, it turned into a hemorrhagic cyst and it was bleeding to my pelvic. The physician assistance also told me that I have some kind of virus on top of that which gave me a high fever so that’s why my doctor assumed I had appendicitis, therefore it was hard to rule out the cyst. Great…

I came out of ER that evening but the pain lasted for another 3 days. I could barely function as a human being… My stomach was so swollen, I gained and lost 6 lbs. this week

Now I’m much better and I’m really thankful that I feel like my self again. It was so scary to go from one day being totally fine to the next day feeling like you can’t function at all! My kids were so sweet and they really tried to be good kids. Chloe and Shane both told me that they decided to become doctors so they can help me and other sick people. That’s a long way from Chloe wanting to be a Pizza delivery man and a cleaning lady (lately) and Shane saying, “I want to grow up and do nothing!”

Changing your dreams for mommy? You guys are the best! 🙂

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with his dad.

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