Chloe & Shane both yelled out “happy mother’s day!” to me many many times this morning. Then I got so many surprises from them. Thanks guys!!!

Chloe: Mommy, you are the most beautifulest mom ever! And you are such a great designer and the best artist in the whole wide world! And you wear the most beautifulest dresses and I just love you the most! ! !

Shane: Mommy, mommy, you are so beautiful and you’re a best cooker. I love you mommy.

You guys sure know how to please me! You’re just the sweetest things ever! 🙂

We still had so much food left over from yesterday. So yeah…

We went out to get some exercise in the park.

Then we had  ja jang myun for dinner with my mother-in-law.

We invited some friends over for a bbq in our backyard today. So lucked out with a gorgeous weather!

While I was busy making Aloha cocktails (so yummy!),

Andrew was busy grilling.

I was up until midnight last night making burger patties and marinating chicken.

Hard work paid off. It was pretty good!

Friends brought great desserts!

kids table { before }

and { after }

Kids took out all of the beers from the ice bucket

and put their toys in there.

I made sweet and spicy chicken for the guest who stayed over for dinner.

Thank you for coming over to our party! We had a great time and hope you did too. 🙂

Chloe drew these after the guests left. Haha, I love it!

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.

We went over to the Wei’s for a play date today.

They prepared make-your-own-pizza lunch which was really fun for the kids.

Gotta get more cheese!

Mr. Andrew was in charge of the oven department.

They also did lots of craft projects.

Now the tasting part!

Yum!

Then they went out side and did egg hunting.

hint! hint!

They found tons of eggs.

Love that smile.

Shane’s singing to get more eggs from auntie SJ.

endless counts of candies…

Now decorating more eggs.

My attempt to do ombré effect…

Cute moment: Shane, playing with baby Mikaela.

I wasn’t able to soothe her but Andrew did. He still got that magic touch.

Thank you guys for another fun-packed day!

Chloe drew my mom in her  new “book”.  She thinks my mom is the most beautiful person. So sweet.

Her first book is called ‘The Zoo’ which is inspired by her favorite book ‘Put me in the Zoo’ by Dr. Seuss. She said, we can take turns taking it for business trips.

This is me.

Chloe: Mommy I really want to say the “F” word to you but I’m trying not to say it.

Me: What?!?! What F word? What are you talking about? (freakin out)

Chloe: … (smiles)

Me: Ms. Chloe, tell me what the F word is. Right now.

Chloe: I really want to say Freckles but I’m trying not to say it to you.

In the last month or so Chloe’s been making funny comments regarding the freckles on my face and she thinks it’s funny to count them. I told her not to do that because that makes me feel bad.

Me: (relieved) Oh, you meant freckles… That’s fine.

Chloe: Did you think I was going to say the OTHER F word?

Me: What?? What’s the other F word? (freaking out again)

Chloe: Fart! (and she laughs)

Today was a Crazy Hat day at school so I made Chloe a flower cowboy hat. I was feeling proud…

then I walked in to Shane’s class room and realized that his class was participating to the event too. I felt so awful I didn’t make anything for him… Luckily his teacher had some extra hats for the kids who forgot… I win the bad mother award today. 🙁 I guess I f’ed up…

My first day back from the trip, I found this gorgeous flowers on my desk. I feel special~

HAPPY to be home and see my family! I didn’t have any time to buy them anything so I was so thrilled to find a disney store at the airport.

They love their presents!

Chloe drew this picture and gave it to me as a surprise. She said the little girl is crying because she thought she lost her mama. “But then they found each other and she’s happy now. That’s why there’s a unicorn. Because unicorn means happiness.”

And Shane’s another abstract art: