Oh Emma!

Emma had a sore tummy after dinner, so we told her to try potty and then daddy said to lay down on the couch for a bit, giving her some books to read.
So Emma's lying on the couch, and Addi climbs up too.  We instruct Addi not to jump on Emma and to give Karch space.  Which surprisingly she did.

Emma really took to the sick patient thing and started asking Addi to pass her a book.  And being the sweet little girl Addi can be, she listens and passes karch a book.  This goes on, Addi obliging each time and finding herself a comfy spot to read.
Emma starts being her silly self again and I then ask Emma if she's still hungry, to which she replies, "come and feed me on the couch".   I refused and said she has to come to the kitchen, to which she replies, "Addi carry me to the kitchen".

Seriously??  Such a stinker - no idea where she gets this from.....

I managed to capture a bit of the girls going about this, Emma requesting books from Addi, and Addi relaxing on the couch just like her karch...cute, sweet, funny moments!

Happy Fathers Day

Happy Fathers Day to all the Dad’s out there, but a very special Happy Fathers Day to the 4 great dad’s in my life!  My dad of course, no one beats my dad, Rod the best father to our girls, my father in law, such a loving, generous, kind and wonderful Ye Ye to our girls, and my  Kungs – the heart and soul of our family!

Thank You for everything you’ve all ever done for us, for always being there and for all the love!

 

 

 

Today wasn’t a very exciting Father’s Day for Rod, we returned from our week long trip to Virginia.  So a long drive home for Rod but before the long drive we went to explore Luray Caverns with the girls, a fun little adventure, until Addi started getting hungry, bored and impossible.  The most important thing is that we were all together and even better, all within arm’s reach of each other.

Thank You Daddy for always getting us home safely and Thank You for being the best dad to our girls!  They adore you and so do I, we appreciate all you do for us, all the sacrifices you make for us and all the love you show!  We are so blessed to have you fill this VERY important role in our family!

 

On our drive back today to it got me thinking of my dad, how I would love to show him this part of the States, do a road trip with him, drive for miles and enjoy the views and take tons of photos!  Reminded me of the wonderful trip we had back in 2008, such a great opportunity to have dad visit us in Phoenix and we got to explore Monument Valley, Grand Canyon, California, North Carolina and New York together – you don’t get many of those opportunities.  How I look forward to another opportunity like that to travel with you dad (with or without the kids) and share this common interest of travelling around the States.  How I appreciate that I inherited your passion for photography – altho I have so much to learn and my photo taking can do with some improvement, how I should have listened to you so many years ago. Even so if it weren’t for you dad, I don’t think I would enjoy it as much as I do now!

Grand Canyon

Wall Street - New York

I Love You DAD!  You're best dad in the world!

So many great memories with our fathers, and so many of those things we want to share or re-create with our girls some day!

HAPPY FATHERS DAYS! 

Spring/Summer, End of Preschool and Washington

I started this post a few days ago....since then, we took our first dip in the pool today!
Emma was begging to go, so I agreed and expected it to be freezing, but surpringsly refreshing!  The girls loved the water.  Addi was a little dangerous around the water, she just wants to jump in all the time and swim even though she can't....hoping it's a good sign she'll catch onto swimming quickly??  I might have to start lessons with her soon too!

So here's my post....

Temperatures are up in the 80's, thats 30's for you metric folk, and while it's technically not yet summer, it sure feels like it, just 21 more days!  It's going to be VERY hot!

The Spring weather has been really great and we've been trying to make the most of it, going out on picnic's every Friday night, we would usually have movie night, but thought being outdoors, running around and enjoying a picnic meal is much more fun!  There are quite a few summer night events happening around Durham throughout summer, so we'll hopefully be checking some of them out too.
The pool has opened and we're waiting for the water to warm up a little more before taking a dip. 

Enjoying the outdoors with dad

Some Soccer fun

Sisterly Love!

its more fun to water the deck than the flowers

We have swimming lessons to look forward to beginning the at end of this month.  Finally Emma will learn to swim.   I joined at our one local rec center and Emma had a bad experience, she hated going, could have been the instructors, the cold water, just overwhelming esp with me not being in the pool with her.  This time I have organized with our neighbor friends that we get a private instructor that will come to our pool and teach the girls to swim, there will only be 4 of them so it'll be a nice and small group, hopefully the girls will get the attention they need, and the girls all know each other too. 

Emma has completed one year of preschool already!  I still can't believe how quick the school year went by, and it was only a 2 day week!  For the last day of school their class had a Mermaid and Pirate Party - they kids were instructed to dress up as either and/or to wear their tie dye tshirts they made at school a few weeks back.  They had a little treasure hunt then at the end of the day got to have a little snack party.  With 2 weeks notice I took up the challenge to try sew a mermaid skirt for Emma, I looked online for ideas and tutorials, and I managed to make one!   Emma loved it, so that made me happy, a little tight, but I guess thats how a mermaid skirt should fit right?  With it being tight Emma would shuffle her feet, worried she might trip and fall over, she hitched up the skirt so she could walk around and then dropped it down when she needed to!  The teachers had a good laugh at that....I made sure she wore some shorts underneath.  My neighbor laughed too, saying, thats the very reason why The Little Mermaid wanted legs, cos it sucked being a mermaid unable to get around!
So the last day of school was unexpectedly emotional, the teachers were really sad to say bye to the kids, we really had a special group of kids, no issues, kids all got on well, shared well, listened well, truely amazing and the teachers we're amazing too, we couldn't have asked for better, so much love from the teachers, and Emma really learnt so much! The good thing tho we'll get to see the teachers again next year, apparently their new class will be opposite their current class, so we should get to see the teachers often, it's also worked out well that almost half of the kids from Emma's class will be with Emma next year - we'll be going 4 days a week, quite a change, but an exciting transition to get Emma ready for BIG school the following year!  I cannot believe one more year of preschool and our baby begins Kindergarten! 

Little Mermaid

Emma holding the class mascot Lucky Ladybug

Hugs for Miss Jarin

Emma and Jarin

Emma and Cammie

2 weekends ago we made a road trip to Washington.  We were excited to do this, finally some good family time with so distractions!  I've  been wanting too see Washington for a while now, and with long weekends being so few and far between, we thought why not got a road trip.  A 4 hour drive, which took us 6 hours going due to lunch stop, potty stop and trying to find a coffee shop stop (don't you hate it when the GPS takes you nowhere!) 
Emma loves to travel and she couldn't wait for this trip to begin, she was most excited about staying in a hotel, as soon as we got to our room she took her shoes off, got under the covers, jumped from bed to bed - remember doing that as kids??  Our hotel was close to the airport, so every few minutes an airplane would fly past and every time Emma would tell us, "look an airplane!" and Addi would follow saying, "There Airplane" in true Addi fashion  - so excited, high pitched, whiney, loud (all in a cute way!)
So funny that everytime they saw the airplane was as if it was the first plane they'd ever seen, and it went on for the entire LONG weekend!
Overall a great weekend!  We managed to fit in so much, we got to see what we wanted to see and Emma got to see what she wanted to see.  So much history, so much that we need to learn about because soon soon I'll be getting questions from Emma about these things.

I'll let the photos tell you more about our trip....