Chloe’s been into writing her own books. She put together book 1 & 2 for Andrew when he was away on business this month.

She wants to be an author/fashion designer when she grows up. 🙂

We are carving and painting pumpkins this morning.

Chloe’s pumpkin. So glam!

Now making caramel apples.

She loves it!

I got her a new chandelier for Chloe’s room last week and sewed curtains to match the lavender wall.

Chloe started taking piano lessons.

Picture of me  next to her animal collections.

Shane’s school was closed today for Columbus day but Chloe had school. So I took Shane to the city for a date.

We went to Children’s Museum of Art in Soho.

My cartoon drawing.

Our date didn’t turn out as great as I hoped. When we got to Soho, I thought we can have a nice brunch here but Shane didn’t want to eat. He literally dragged me out of the restaurant and then he decided he didn’t want to walk any more. I tried to bribe him with some toys and cookies to walk but he refused and I ended up carrying him about a mile to the museum. He played and did activities there but wasn’t very thrilled about all the arts and crafts as usual. When it was time to eat lunch we hopped in a cab to go eat at the Republic since he loves noodles but he started falling asleep in the car. That’s when I knew he wasn’t feeling well. We barely ate and left the restaurant to get back to the port authority. He felt asleep in my arms as we were in line to get on the bus home and slept all the way home. Poor thing, he started get feverish…

I have to say, I was so so excited to spend the whole day with my boy in the city I love, but with every thing that’s happened, I wanted to get out there as fast as I could. It didn’t help when everyone we ran into and talked to { the restaurant servers, cab driver, cafe owner } were so impatient with me and were just so painfully rude. I was terribly disappointed and it will be a long time until I can do this again…

Shane was still feeling tired and kind of cranky when we got home but when we went to pick up Chloe together, he became alive again. At home, they were playing together so well and that reminded me how thankful I am that they have each other. I see that Chloe makes him very happy and vice versa.

I had a few minutes to rest before dinner time because my back was killing me from carrying 40 lbs pound kid all day! Glad today is over…

Chloe drew her outfit from yesterday.

And Shane’s learning Korean in school.

Birthday boy has arrived!

A big thank you to everyone who came to celebrate Shane’s birthday! Thank you for making his day special and memorable. It was a blast!

{ Special thanks to Uncle Austin for coming early to set up the race track! }

I’ve been preparing for this party every night for a couple of months. I can’t wait to see Shane’s smile when he see this!

Shane’s turning FOUR this Friday!