This month' picture is actually a lot less than I expected considering I was taking a break from the school between the terms. My only excuse is that I was so busy hanging out with them I didn't have time to take pictures myself or remind Lianxin to take a picture anymore. I was out of their life for a week or two because of the finals. When I started hanging out with them, they called me 'mom' a couple of times. Now they started enjoying the joke of calling me mom from time to time.
We went to visit a family friend in Sacramento and visited a farm there for cherry picking. It was still early in the season, though. We didn't really pick a lot of things. Nevertheless, the kids had a good time running through the trees and plants picking fruits. Here is us picking raspberries. Looking at the plants, I finally realized that these are the exactly the same fruits that I used to pick in the wild when I was growing up. They were abundant around the place where I lived.
Unlike his sister, Max is normally natural in front of the camera. Personally, however, Renee is a lot closer to me. She greets me when I get home and she hugs me when she feels like it. AND she feels like it quite frequently. Max, on the other hand, has his boy way of expressing his feeling and hangs around his mom's neck all the time. Did I say that we really need to send him to school? School starts in August for him.
On the way home, we stopped at the outlet. This is the reason that we told them that we were stopping. I stayed with them while Lianxin went to the shops.
Here is a recital that I missed. I am missing a lot of events with my school and I hope I get to catch up once I am done. For my next school session this weekend, I am going to have to miss Renee's graduation, father's day event and her birthday party in school. We will have birthday party at pump-it up on Sunday so that is good.
Max knows how to ride bike now! He even learned to brake quickly after his sister. He is a lot less interested in it somehow. I have been able to run along side of Renee many times. I couldn't do it with Max. He insists that I should hold his handle for that. The whole thing ended up with me sending him back crying so that I could keep going with Renee.
Encouraged by our last hiking around golden gate park, we went to Muir Redwood park and hiked around for about an hour. They whined about it a bit but other than that the whole thing went pretty smoothly. Renee complained about having sandwich for lunch but gave in quickly upon learning that there were no other food. Max held out more. He ate a lot less and survived on water and strawberry.
Playing around in the hollow tree. Renee cried right after because she wanted to take a picture only with her brother and the other boy was having too much fun in there as well to leave. The mother was apologetic. I thought it was fine. Renee has to learn how to deal with these situations. Breaking down and crying is never a good solution.
Renee and Max are really good at climbing. Renee is more interested in exploring things that catch her eye, and Max is simply copying whatever his sister is doing (and be pretty good at it)
We went to visit a family friend in Sacramento and visited a farm there for cherry picking. It was still early in the season, though. We didn't really pick a lot of things. Nevertheless, the kids had a good time running through the trees and plants picking fruits. Here is us picking raspberries. Looking at the plants, I finally realized that these are the exactly the same fruits that I used to pick in the wild when I was growing up. They were abundant around the place where I lived.
Unlike his sister, Max is normally natural in front of the camera. Personally, however, Renee is a lot closer to me. She greets me when I get home and she hugs me when she feels like it. AND she feels like it quite frequently. Max, on the other hand, has his boy way of expressing his feeling and hangs around his mom's neck all the time. Did I say that we really need to send him to school? School starts in August for him.
On the way home, we stopped at the outlet. This is the reason that we told them that we were stopping. I stayed with them while Lianxin went to the shops.
Here is a recital that I missed. I am missing a lot of events with my school and I hope I get to catch up once I am done. For my next school session this weekend, I am going to have to miss Renee's graduation, father's day event and her birthday party in school. We will have birthday party at pump-it up on Sunday so that is good.
Max knows how to ride bike now! He even learned to brake quickly after his sister. He is a lot less interested in it somehow. I have been able to run along side of Renee many times. I couldn't do it with Max. He insists that I should hold his handle for that. The whole thing ended up with me sending him back crying so that I could keep going with Renee.
Encouraged by our last hiking around golden gate park, we went to Muir Redwood park and hiked around for about an hour. They whined about it a bit but other than that the whole thing went pretty smoothly. Renee complained about having sandwich for lunch but gave in quickly upon learning that there were no other food. Max held out more. He ate a lot less and survived on water and strawberry.
Playing around in the hollow tree. Renee cried right after because she wanted to take a picture only with her brother and the other boy was having too much fun in there as well to leave. The mother was apologetic. I thought it was fine. Renee has to learn how to deal with these situations. Breaking down and crying is never a good solution.
Renee and Max are really good at climbing. Renee is more interested in exploring things that catch her eye, and Max is simply copying whatever his sister is doing (and be pretty good at it)
