Grandparents Feast 2008 阿公阿嬤特別日

Silly boys. 2 個小儍瓜

I love doing projects with my family.

跟爸媽一起做勞作最好玩了.

I'm going to start, o.k.? 我要開始吃囉.










Yummy...好好吃哦.






Khai's school holds a Grandparents Feast a few days before Thanksgiving. At the feast grandsparents will do 3 craft projects with their grandchild, then have a light lunch. School also holds a bake sale on the side of the lunch room to earn extra money. Parents are encouraged to bring goodies for the bake sale. Since both sets of kids' grandparents live so far away, Sean and I usually are the special guests that day. Sean decided to take Wednesday off for the feast.

This is our 4th year in the row to attend the feast, Sean and I already have a plan. Drop off our goodies and Khai in the morning, head to stores to buy some Christmas presents, come back to school 15 minutes early to look at the goodies.
We finished our lunch very quick (because we ate quickly, not because we were there the first) and decided to help vacume the classroom, after people were done with their lunch then we helped cleaning the lunch room. We had a really nice feast and picked up a bucket of buck eye candy + fudge at the bake sale for our treats.

傑升跟煒勳的學前班學校在感恩節的前幾天都會舉辦一個"阿公阿嬤/外公外婆特別日". 在這天小朋友會跟他/她的阿公阿嬤外公外婆們做3個勞作然後去吃一個簡單的午餐. 學校也會要求家長們捐獻一些小點心來賣, 這樣可以幫學校募款. 由於小朋友兩邊的阿公阿嬤都住的很遠, 所以每年都是肖恩跟我做代表去參加這個特別日. 今年肖恩決定今天(禮拜三)不上班, 要偷懶一天. 明天是感恩節而公司禮拜五不上班, 所以他可以有5天連續假日.

這已經是我們連續第四年參加阿公阿嬤特別日, 所以我們很清楚流程甚至準備好了計劃表: 早上先帶煒勳去上課及交給學校我們做的餅乾, 然後剩空檔時間趕快去幾家店買些聖誕節禮物. 15分鐘提早到達學校才可以看看販賣的點心裡有什麼好吃的東西. 接著趕快去做最少人在那的那個勞作....我們跟煒勳都很快地就把勞作做好了, 其他的阿公阿嬤們因為很珍惜跟小孫子相處的時間都慢慢細心的完成他們的勞作. 他們也比較老所以都慢慢來..結果我們家是第一個去吃午餐的.

吃完了午餐發現大部份的人都還在吃飯, 就先去幫老師吸教室的地然後再回來把椅子放好..挑了幾樣小點心回家吃並準備清理家裡以迎接明天的火雞大餐.

Halloween 08

I'm ready to get more candies. 準備去要糖菓囉.

Hay Ride. 哥哥班上可以坐在稻草堆的車上.

My handsome boys.

Trick-or-Treat. Anybody home? 有人在家嗎? 我們來要糖菓囉.

This year we were planning on dressing Xander as an Indiana Jones, so Pei-I went to second hand stores and tried to find an old brown leather jacket. No luck, changed plan, I hurried and went to the store and found Xander a cowboy outfit. Khai wanted to be a fire fighter, so he got to wear Xander's costume from last year.

Khai was the busiest person on the Halloween at our family this year. He had a trick-or-treat party at his preschool, then we had to hurry and go to Xander's school for Xander's party, later on we had the official trick-or-treating at our neighborhood.

khai's classmates had many cute costumes, such as astronaut with a monster big helmet, handmade scarecrow outfit, hand-draw skelton outfit...They circled around the building and got some goodies from people in the church, had their snacks then headed for the games. Khai's teacher set up many stations with games and prizes next to it. Kids were having fun playing games and collecting goodies.

Khai and Pei-I headed to their car immediately after the party (finished around 12:00 pm), grabbed a sandwitch and drove 30 minutes to Xander's party because the trunk-or-treat started at 1:00pm. It felt like Khai and I were modern Cinderellas, needing to hurry and go somewhere else right after the party. We made it to Xander's school in time, kids were getting changed into their costumes and ready to go out. This year school had lots of cars parked on the parking lot to hand out candies. Kids were doing so good asking for candies and remembering their manners. Their buckets were so full that I had to help them carry. We played more games in the classroom and ready to go home for a nap.

This year we had a really nice warm weather for Halloween and it's Friday night, so we anticapte lots of kids will show up for trick-or-treating. We headed out at 6:00 pm and started with our neighbors first. This 2 old couples who live 2 houses next to us, always gave big candies to the kids that they know and we always make sure that we stopped by their house first. kids were having lots of fun asking for candies. We brought our backpack and emptyed kids' buckets when they got too heavy, this way they can walk farther. Sean and Pei-I were having so much fun trick-or-treating with Xander and Khai every year, they knew that not much longer kids will want to go out with their friends instead of hanging around with their parents.

When we got really close to our house, Pei-I hurried went home and turned on lights waiting for people to come. Sean would check all the candies that kids got tonight and dump the candies that we don't like into our candy tray. We had some leftover candies from the trunk-or-treat at church + the candies that we didn't like from tonight and wasn't sure if we need to open the second big bag of candies. Strangly, not many people showed up. it was only 7:40 pm and it's Friday night + nice weather, we only got about 40 people that night. Didn't even need to open second big bag, I guess I'll return it to the store then.

We had lots of fun at Halloween and can't wait for next time.

今年本來打算在萬聖節讓傑升當印地安娜瓊斯, 所以要去2手店找舊的黃色皮外套..找不到, 那算了, 趕快去店裡買衣服吧...傑升挑了一件牛仔裝, 很可愛還有牛仔帽. 煒勳說他要當消防員, 所以他就接哥哥去年的衣服穿.

今年萬聖節煒勳是最忙的人, 他要連趕2 場派對再加上晚上還要出去要糖菓. 當天在學校裡煒勳的學校有辦派對. 小朋友先一個一個到前面跟大家講他/她是裝扮成什麼, 大家來個大合照再在學校繞一週, 教會裡的人會發給他們小東西. 吃完了點心後再去旁邊玩遊戲. 老師分了10幾個區, 每區都有一個遊戲及禮品. 小朋友們玩的很高興.

我們2個人等到遊戲玩完後就馬上衝出學校準備開到哥哥的學校續第二攤. 哥哥班上1點就到出去要糖菓了, 幸好我們趕上了. 今年學校有很多家長把車子開到草坪上來樂捐糖菓(叫做 trunk-or-treat), 這樣小朋友在很短的距離內就可以要到很多糖菓. 大家很有秩序的排隊要糖菓而天氣也很晴朗. 繞了一圈下來, 兄弟倆的盒子都沈甸甸的, 好有成就感.. 好吧, 下課了趕快回家去補個眠, 晚上好玩的才要登場呢....

傍晚吃完飯, 6 點就準時出門. 我們隔壁有一對老夫婦, 他們會特別準備較大的糖菓給他們認識的小孩, 所以我們每年都會先去他們家要糖. 爸爸跟媽媽也揹了背包及帶水, 如果小朋友的盒子變的太重了就可以將糖菓倒進我們的背包, 這樣他們就可以走比較遠一點而不用提很重的盒子. 小朋友長大了所以今年可以走遠一點, 記得3 年前他們只走了一點點就喊累...

在快接近到我們家時, 我都會先跑回家去開燈, 這樣人家才知道你在家而來要糖菓. 上個禮拜在教會也有給糖菓還剩一些, 就先用這些吧...肖恩到家後都會先檢查糖菓, 看有沒有被打開過或是看起來很可疑的糖菓, 他把不喜歡的糖菓放進給別人的盒子裡....想說今天天氣這麼好又是禮拜五, 應該會有很多人來要糖吧....很奇怪哦, 大約只有40幾個人來要糖, 我連第二包新的糖菓都沒有拆呢...我在想也許是因為我們回到家時已經7點40分了, 所以大部分的人都已經路過我們家了...也好啦, 那就把第二包糖菓拿去退吧....

好玩的萬聖節, 弟弟一直在問什麼時候才又會有萬聖節...

My next door neighbors who are very nice to us. 隔壁的鄰居, 對我們很好.


I can't get it into the loop. 我一直投不進吔.