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[2012-7-31] Last Day at Iruka Yochien

shirleychen — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 01:30:20 +0000

Time really flies. Curtis has been at Iruka for 3 1/2 years already. The teachers let me stay with them on his last day at Iruka. I brought some ice cream for the kids and spend the whole day with Curtis at school. It is my frist time staying with Curtis at Iruak for the whole day. Curtis was so excited to he gets to share with me what he does at school. All I can say is that he is lucky to have such a wonderful experience with his first school, teachers and friends! He made sure that I will take him back for more Japanese school in September when his Japanese teacher returns from Japan.

Iruka Classroom

Pool day today!

Rakko Classroom

Snack Time with the Ice Cream I brought!!!

Sensei told me the 3 of them play together a lot! (maybe because they can talk to each other secretly in Chinese?!)

Now Getting Ready for the Pool Time!

Yeah!!!! Time to Jump in!

Kids changed back to their regular clothes all by themselves, and put the wet towel and swim suits away! So proud of them

Senseis prepared the lunch for the children before they come in for lunch

Lining up to go to the toilet & wash hands before lunch time

Chisato Sensei is reminding the kids on the eating manner before going inside for lunch.

Lunch Time!

After lunch, Curtis is reading a book on Airplane

The three of them are trying to locate the states of the USA

My Best Friend, Ryan

My Best Girl Friend, Maya

Chisato Sensei

Yuko Sensei with her baby boy!

Katzumi Sensei

Chishio Sensei

Yuriko Sensei

[2012 Taiwan] 3/22 Arriving Taiwan

shirleychen — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:27:36 +0000

[2012-3-18] Curtis’ First Hong Kong Trip

shirleychen — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:52:34 +0000

This is the first time we take Curtis to his dad’s birth place, Hong Kong to visit. We were really lucky. The wehater report said that it would have rained during our stay in Hong Kong, but we have enjoyed a dry stay at Hong Kong, and nice cool weahter.

[2010 San Jose] Happy Birthday, Peter!

shirleychen — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:13:57 +0000

Today is not just thanksgiving, it is also Peter’s birthday (in lunar calendar). We had a small cake after our big thanksgiving meal to celebrate with Peter.

[2010 San Jose] Thanksgiving Dinner!

shirleychen — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:48:21 +0000

Let’s start with a series of funny group shots

Curtis says, ‘ichiban —‘

This year’s menu item isn’t too different from the last couple of years.

Turkey

Sausage, Cranberry, and bread stuffing

Spicy Mussels and Chorizos

Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms

Baked Mashed Potatoes with Broccoli (Peter’s creation)

Brocollini with Pecan Brown Butter

and of course, gravy and cranberry sauce

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

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a few pictures of Curtis trying to help make the Turkey

[2010 San Jose] Tangled, the Movie

shirleychen — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:33:00 +0000

We took Curtis to watch a movie on thanksgiving day. “Tangled” — it was quite nice.

Curtis put on some fashionable 3-d glasses…..

After the movie, we went to a nearby 99 Ranch market for lunch

[2010-6-21] 河/ 張雨生

shirleychen — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:53:40 +0000

詞/曲：張雨生

當你平躺下來我便成了河
迴繞你的頸間在你唇邊乾涸
竊想你的眼神我戀戀不捨
聚為一泓泉水深邃清澈

當愛燎原成災你徐徐側身
堆積肥沃河床我是朝聖的人
我是客途的雁卻一往情深
從此無意追逐新綠的春

任我流吧層層冰川
億年換幾吋我也寧願這麼盼
等到昏黃等到癡傻
等著公主吻青蛙

魔咒緩緩褪盡你笑的厲害
天曾缺掉的角無非此等神采
我將殘翼放下從河中走來
你正頷首告知這裡有愛

[2010-9-25] Knott’s Berry Farm

shirleychen — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 03:42:05 +0000

三叔的公司到這個Knott’s 莓園辦公司聯誼野餐，因為附贈了莓園遊樂場的票，還有多了兩張同事的票，所以我們一家三口就頂著將近100度的大太陽，一起去玩了!

Nice outting with QQ to Knott’s Berry Farm

rides and games

with Aunt Kimmy

旋轉木馬Merru-Go-Round Ride

video for the ride:

璿璿夠大了，很多以前要爸爸陪玩的設施，現在都能自己玩了!

More Rides

Picture with Snoopy

[2010-7-2] Dinner at Maggie’s

shirleychen — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:54:47 +0000

After shopping and walking around South Coast, we went to Maggie’s house for dinner. We didn’t realy take any photo excep these few from Rita’s iPhone when they are enjoying their ice-cream bars

[2010-7-2] South Coast Plaza

shirleychen — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:54:11 +0000

South Coast Plaza 百貨商圈有我們覺得這所有附近商圈中最物超所值的旋轉木馬! 一次只要$1/次(可是轉不少圈唷), 不像其它的商圈要價$3/次, 也沒有這個旋轉木馬乾淨漂亮. 所以每次我們到這個Mall, 一定會讓璿璿來享樂一下!

South Coast Plaza Carousal is one of the places we always let Curtis go when we visit south coast.

哇!!! 這裡的狄斯奈商店前有一個跟剛剛在天使球場看到一樣的米老鼠-只不過這是聖地牙哥隊的教父隊!!!

We also saw the mickey for San Diego Padres — it was interesting because we just took a similar picture with Mickey for Los Angeles Angels…