Movie : Soul Surfer

Two weekends ago, the kids and I watched a very interesting movie on the DVD, Soul Surfer. It was a very inspirational true story about this girl, Bethany Hamilton, who has lost an arm while surfing in Hawaii, bitten off by a shark. And how she was so brave and determined to surf again after that incident.
I was surprised to see Emily cried while watching, as she seldom did. The next morning, she tried to use only 1 hand to do things like brushing teeth, wearing clothes, etc. And finally she told me, mummy, it is not easy at all to work with 1 hand only.
Since then we have watched the movie twice, looking forward to watch again this weekend with hubby.

Here's a clip that I found on youtube.

Hubby's 'XX' Birthday

We celebrated hubby's birthday last night with a little home-baked cake. Thanks to my chicken pox infection, we were not able to go out for a nice dinner.
Kids were excited about daddy's birthday the moment they woke up in the morning and greeted daddy with birthday wishes.
Look at Jared with the plate in his hand, as he refused to let go even though we told him he will get to eat the cake after singing the birthday song and taking photos. His reasoning was, his cake will drop on the floor if he doesnt have a plate... what an excuse.... :)

This is the birthday greeting "card" that Emily has given to daddy. In fact it was given to him last week as she was too excited to keep it till yesterday :).

Another Scribbles of Hers....

Found this in Emily's school bag while doing some spot checking :). Wonder how she has time to draw this when she never has time to complete her school work in school. Anyway it is cute..

Pyssla Beads : Angry Birds

Just like any other kids, Emily is a fan of Angry Birds. I guess she has been influenced by her daycare friends. She doesn't play the angry bird games at home but she seems to know the game pretty well. Even taught me how to play when I downloaded the game in my laptop the other day :)
Jared has also contracted the angry bird fever, calling out "Angry Birds!!" very loudly each time he sees any advertisement on the road with angry birds pictures.

Recently, I found a blog post where the blogger has used pyssla beads to make angry birds key chain and coaster. Since exam is over, I thought it would be fun to let Emily work on it. She was very excited to make them when I showed to her. I think it is a good craft as it does take some patience to arrange the beads.

Here's the red and blue angry birds. I do think they look cool and would use them as coasters if she would allow me :)

Just another Saturday..

Today is just another Saturday. Not much have been done except chauffering Emily from morning till late afternoon. While waiting to pick her up, Jared and I went to hang out at the mall today.
When we were back home, Emily got to watch a DVD and enjoyed her tuna sandwiches.
Food & TV == HAPPY KID (^^)

Happy faces with their V Signs.