fun with kids

Walking to prayer room and back home is becoming a 'romantic date time' with my boys.

1. Joshua came up with this game which he enjoys so much - see who spy the most squirrels. It is Fall time and squirrels are busy collecting food, I supposed they're collecting acorns, to store in their tree holes for winter.

2. Rainy day game 1: dry socks when we get home. This is a fun game for the boys. Instead of telling them not to step on puddle and explaining to them why they shouldn't step on puddle... I came up with this brilliant idea, which I believed is from the Lord, to encourage them to try keeping their socks dry.

3. Rainy day game 2: catch leave that fall from the trees with our umbrellas. For me, it is so beautiful to see rains pouring, and see colorful leaves falling off the trees when the wind blows, and I told Joshua "Don't you think it look like snow falling off the sky?" For Joshua, catching leaves on his umbrella is fun! He loves it. He actually got 1 stick on his umbrella!

4. making crunchy sounds on dry leaves by stepping on them and jumping on them. Even Cheryl loves this game. On our way to prayer room, there're so many leaves on the ground. It is so beautiful.

5. spy bird nest. Now that leaves are falling, some trees have no more leaves left. And so it is easy to see if there're any bird nest. We saw 3 today.

6. story telling. Samuel loves this one. I enjoy listening to his cute stories. He talks with so much expression and just the way he talks makes me laugh. I wish I could write down all those lovely stories he told me.

One time Samuel said "I'll bring Grandma to hiking."
Me: "Where?"
Samuel: "California."
Me: "Why?"
Samuel: " Because I don't want her to go back to New York."

Another time Samuel said "There is a boy and he loves God and he loves the Bible and he reads the Bible everyday and he obeys God and what God says in the Bible... and he gives many toys to other children... and he gives food to his neighbor... and when his sister fall, he carefully and gently help her up without laughing at her..... and that is me (Samuel)!!!"

I love my Muelmuel! I love my Joshua! And I love my Meimei!

Today Cheryl said "keekee". And I realized she meant "cookie". And I tried to teach her say "cookie". Then I said "oo" a few times and she got it. Then I said "coo" and she said "kee". So I remember she can said "coo coo" in Chinese means cry. So I said "coo coo". Finally she said "coo coo kee kee". SO CUTE!!!!! I love it!

I love how Cheryl kisses me a lot! My girl!

I'm so blessed with my children! Thank you God!