Boxing Day

If I am in Europe or US, I will be busy shopping on Boxing Day, but instead I was busy doing errands. The contractor came to fix the water pump and I took the opportunity to ask him to check some leaks and replaced some hardware. I am now back to shower in my own bathroom. yoo hoo.
I managed to sort out the soft toys. 2 big bags to give away, 1 bag to throw and 1 bag to send for recycling. I am reorganizing the kids' playroom. The room now has to make way for more books and kids' toy. Baby and toddler stuff all need to go.
Also, I surfed Ikea website and now has all the item numbers of the shelves I need to get to the kids' room. Just need to find time to go Ikea to buy them, and ask Ikea to deliver and assemble them. My day off is too precious to be spending on assembling Ikea furniture. The target is to get the kids' room done before I return to work.
Next 4 days will be busy busy. Catching up with friends and a well deserved massage.

Christmas Day

Christmas Day is usually a quiet day for us. We had our usual Christmas brunch at home, which has ham, salmon, croissant, grapefruit, nuts, fruits and home made cookies. We went for biking after brunch and followed by a nap. At night,we went to my aunt's place for a full family gathering from my mother's side. It was very merry. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures to show.

Opening presents from us. Lucas bought the story that the Santa Claus are mom and Dad, and not someone from North Pole.

Christmas Eve

The tradition of Lim's family is have dinner together on the eve. After dinner we get to open the presents. This year, as last year, we have lobster salad and steak, and all home cooked. Sure yummy.

Our yearly pose.

Lucas looking for his gold bar.

Unsure which to open first.

Grandfather and grandson making snow in the tropical weather.

Party Begins

The festive celebration started on Saturday, 22nd Dec. It was my sister's marriage registration and my father's 70th birthday based on lunar calendar. It was sure a busy but happy day. My sister's ceremony was in the morning and the birthday party was in the evening. Here's lots of picture...

Holding the flower bouquet waiting for the bride.

My sister is now officially Mrs Tan.

The best friends playing in the playground. Lucas, Chloe are with my niece, Tung Tung.

Me and my sweetheart. Some people said Chloe looks like me but she is definitely a better version of me.

Making funny faces.

Daddy's sweethearts.

My family.

Santa Claus comes early.

House is Coming Down

The house is falling apart literally. Over the last 2 weeks, I have to call various contractors and begged them to help me fixed my problems. The house WIFI was not working. This spelled disaster as I work from home most of the time. Without WIFI, I am basically helpless. Then the ceiling was leaking in 2 rooms. After that, the water prump decided to stop working. The pressure to the bathrooms was impossible to have a shower. After all the calls, I managed to get most of them resolved to enjoy my holidays. And I am on 2 weeks vacation from work.....woo hooo....

Tree is Up!

Counting down to Christmas.....my angels corner and Christmas tree is up!
In fact, I'm having my first Christmas party today.

This is my angel corner. I'm collecting cute little angels.

My live Christmas tree. We are ready for Christmas.

Fashionable Girl

Chloe is fashionable or vain, depending on how you view it. She is a truly girlie girl. At 3 year old, she loves accessories. Most days, she wear either bracelet or ring. Some days, she wears all - ring, bracelet and necklace. Let's just wait for her to ask for her ears to be pierced.

A few weeks ago, we took them to the indoor aquarium. After the visit, we were at a shopping mall. There is a shop which I wanted to check out, French Sole. So, I took her there, while Dominic took Lucas to the bookshop. After a few minutes in the store, she got up from the stroller and was busy browsing. I was busy trying shoes. When I asked her which pair of shoes is nice and without failed, she will choose the bright colour and with sparkles. Then the sales lady brought out a set of shoes for mother and daughter!! I must admit that design is nice. It is leopard print with red trimming. Really outstanding. Chloe put them on and fortunately they are too big for her. That shoes costs RM600 (US$200) after discount. Nevertheless, Chloe wore  them and walked all over the shop all the time. She walked to the mirror, looked at herself, walked to another mirror and admired herself again. Then Dominic called to ask if I was done. I told him over the phone that his daughter liked a pair of shoes that costs RM600. Dominic and Lucas arrived in the shop in a flash!

In the end, did we buy them?? NO.

Chloe and that pair of shoes.

Still wearing that pair of shoes. Luckily she did not make a fuss when I asked her to take them off before we leave.

Gingerbread Men

One of the plan in keeping the kids busy is to do baking. So, today, for the first time, we baked gingerbread men. I was pleased with the result. I goggled the recipe last week, and only had the chance to buy all the ingredients today. I had to buy the ginger men mould too. I prepared the dough while the kids were in school. When they got home, we finished the baking together. The kids enjoyed printing the cookie cutter, use the roller pin and of course the decoration.
The taste was good. The cookies were moist and soft and not too sweet. The only complain I have is the colour is not brown enough. Maybe because I use molasses sugar instead of dark brown sugar. Next improvement I have to make is in decorating the men.
Lucas was so pleased that we wanted to bring some for his teachers. I suggested maybe next week when we try the second time. He said no, he wants to bring them tomorrow.

See what Lucas wrote on the container cover.- 'love'

His other teacher. I'm happy that he has his teachers in his mind.

Chloe drew the smiley face with edible marker. Thought this marker is less messy than having icing sugar, but icing sugar is a lot more attractive.

Chloe happily drawing smiley faces on all the cookies.

Christmas Is Around the Corner

Yup, it is the festive season again. Less than one month to Christmas. So looking forward to the holidays. Between now and Christmas, I am planning to meet up with 3 groups of friends i.e. secondary classmates, colleagues from previous companies. Also having a party at home with the kids' playdates aka my mommies group. Will also be celebrating my Dad's 70th birthday and my sister registration of marriage. Really very happening!
I'm on vacation from work from 24th Dec 2012 to 6th Jan 2013. Planning to take the kids to Legoland and Hello Kitty World on first week of January. And lots of shopping to do! I'm updating my Christmas deco this year. The color theme is royal blue and silver. Bought some china and Christmas baubles, and now I need the similar color for my table runner, table cloth, napkins. Need to stock up my cellar too. Oh...the kids are very keen to bake gingerbread man and cookies. Need to get the ingredients soon to practice baking. I'll have to start writing down when I should do what or else I will never get around to do all.
In another 2 weeks, the kids are having their term break. One month holiday for them. Lucas's Mandarin teacher is away for a month, and Lucas has a lot of free time in his hand. He agreed to take up swimming lessons during his school holiday. The deal is once he can swim, we will go to Hard Rock Hotel again. That is his motivation. Now I need to find a swimming instructor for him. As for Chloe, I just found an Arts & Craft teacher for her. Chloe is the arty one. She can draw and color for hours! Thought this might make her happy.

More Money

Lucas is into his money mood again. He needed another 50 dollars to round up his collection. So, today he came to me and asked:

Lucas: Can you give me 50 dollars?
Me: NO!
Lucas: Why?
Me: You have to work to earn it.
Lucas: What can I do?
Me: If you wash my car, I give you 5 dollars. If you sweep the dried leaves from the garden, I'll give you 5 dollars.
Lucas: What can I do that is not a job?
Me: If you sleep in your own room for a week, I'll give you 5 dollars.
Lucas: If I clean the whole house, how much will you give me?
Me: 10 dollars.
Lucas: That's not fair. I have to work 16 hours to get 10 dollars!


Another conversation while I was drying his hair,

Me: Lucas, let's put the money from your wallet in the bank.
Lucas: No.
Me: Why? You can get interest if you put the money in the bank.
Lucas: What is interest?
Me: The bank will give you extra money for keeping the money in the bank.
Lucas: I know, if I put 1000, the bank will give me 5 dollars a year.
Me: That's right. If you put for 10 years, you will get 50 dollars.
Lucas: No, that would be so boring. I can't see my money for a long time.

What can I make up of him and money??

Lil' Rockers in Hard Rock

This week is the kids' mid term break. They have one week off and we set to Penang to visit relatives and go to the beach. It was a great trip for the kids. Lucas said 'I love it!', and Chloe said 'I had so much fun!'. Hard Rock Hotel Penang has been greatly review. Friends with young children who had been they said the kids love the pool and slides. So, we book ourselves a lagoon room .i.e the room patio is by the pool. We can just jump to the pool from the room.
 We were at the pool most of the daytime. Chloe is so tan and I have headache from the heat. We had dinner at Hard Rock Cafe twice. Burger was good but grilled food was not so great.
 Kids asked to go back during Easter holiday. Let's see. I think I have enough heat and we don't have to sit 5 hours in a car to go to a nice pool.

We can walk or jump to the pool from the room. Very interesting concept. The water slides are in the background.

We were at the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner and the cafe is celebrating Oktoberfest. In one of the game, the emcee asked for the smallest ladies' shoes, and yours truly won! Lucas is representing me and he won an Oktoberfest beer mug. Look at all the 'Bavarian' girls looking at Lucas.

The Batu Ferringi beach. The kids are not crazy about beach and sea.

Checking out the pool before they dive in. This pool is interesting - it has sands at the bottom, just like under the sea. Lucas loves this pool.

Waiting for the pizza to come.

The contended girl after her lunch and ice-cream.

Meeting with the teachers

Today, I had progress meeting with the kids' teacher. It was very fruitful and I was pleased.

Chloe is settling well. She has good attention span and fully aware of what's going on. She is not shy, she asked if she needs something. She understand and comply with the teacher's instruction. She plays alongside with her friends, but not with her friends. The teacher is working on getting her interacting with her friends.

Lucas is doing well too. His teacher insisted that he is not shy but just quiet. He asked if he is not sure, he puts up his hand to volunteer to answer the questions, he talks in front of the class when he has to, he works well when he is partner with a classmate or in group. I was telling the teacher that he is bored at times in class. He finds the Math is too easy and the reading book is too easy. His teacher will do something about it. The only complain the teacher has is he goes to toilet a bit too often. She was wondering if he is trying to walk out from his boredom in the classroom....lol.

Lucas is 6!

Lucas just turned 6! His grandfather said he has very interesting character, and I will tell you why shortly.
He usually had 3 celebrations and Chloe is already questioning why his brother has 3 birthday cakes and she only had one!

Lucas was born on Mid Autumn Day i.e. the 15th day on the 8th month in lunar calendar. We usually celebrate that festival at my parents' place and naturally we celebrate his birthday as well. That's the first cake. Lucas also brings birthday cake to his classmates in school. That's the second cake. And finally we celebrate his birthday on his actual day with my in-laws. That's the third cake.

He chose all his birthday cakes. He wanted angry bird jelly cake, cup cakes for his classmates, and a chocolate cake.
What did he asked for his presents? What else other than something on the iPad, and a 100 Euro note.Later he changed his mind to US$100 note. The note cannot be framed or laminated. He has to be able to put it in his wallet. Any other presents are not so interesting. He hardly touched the books I got for him and all the toys he received.

At the end of the day, he said to me, 'Mom, thanks for all the present. I had fun' and gave me a hug. That was the priceless gift I received from him!

Celebrating at my parents' place with his cousins.

The cupcakes he chose to bring to school. After school, he said the cupcakes were not so nice. It was a bit too sugary, he said.

The 6 candles!

The answer to 'To work or not to work?'

Lucas read this blog. He is well aware of what I wrote on the blog. Just now, he read and came to me and said,
Lucas: Mom, I know the answer to to work or not to work.
Me: What's the answer?
Lucas: You work, earn lots money and then you don't work and take care of us.

How cute.

And he went on to comment that Chloe has more than 6 waking hours cause she starts school at 8.30am and finishes at 1.15pm, and she goes to bed at 9.30pm.

And he went on again saying that I will write in the blog when he turns 6 in 2 days saying 'Lucas is 6. Happy Birthday', just like what I wrote for Chloe.

Well, he is already dictating what I should write.

Lucas, I know you are reading this!!

Money

Lucas received a Ben10 wallet as gift last Christmas. This Chinese New Year, with the angpows money, he started keeping money in his wallet i.e. his winnings from playing Black Jack. Recently, he has upgraded himself to money changer. For the past two weeks, he has been into money. First was asking for the new Malaysia currency notes. I had to go to real money changer to exchange some new notes for him. And now he is collecting foreign currencies! He knew we had some foreign currency in the drawer. Everyday he will come to me and said something like:

Lucas: Mom, I give you 2 10 ringgit notes and 1 20 ringgit note and you give me 1 10 euro note and 1 1 ringgit. (He even know the exchange rate).

Lucas: Mom, I gave you 1 50 ringgit note and you give me 1 10 pound note.

He has exchange everyday and honestly, I wasn't listening after a while. He will put his money into my wallet and I will just asked, "How much do I have to give you?". I trusted him being honest and had the exchange rate right.

His goal now is to have 1 100 euro note and he is short of 30 ringgit. He asked if he could have 30 ringgit and I said no. I told him he has to work and earn it. Yesterday, he asked,
Lucas: If I clean the playroom properly, how much will you give me?
or
Lucas: If I clean the whole house and mop the floor, how much will you give me?

My mother in law said Dominic was the same when he was young, Like father like son!!

To work or not to work??

My maid's contract is ending April 2013 and she is not extending. Her reason was her husband has found a job and she need to take care of her daughter while the husband is working. She helps me take care of my kids when I am not at home or while I work from home. With her, I can have a job. Now that she is going to be gone, I'm not sure what should I do. My dilemma - should I get another maid and continue working fulltime or just quit working and take care of the kids myself?

My kids only have 6 waking hours at home on weekdays. Lucas gets home at 2.30pm and sleeps at 8.30pm. I don't really want to waste their growing up years busy myself with work. I want to be able to spend some time with them. They grow fast.

On the other hand, I want to have some adult intellectual talk and use my brain a bit differently. And having 2 incomes does help - hopefully Dominic and I don't have to slave until we are in our 60s.

What should I do? Not get a maid replacement and see what kind of part time job I can find?

First Three Weeks

Lucas and Chloe are now in the same school, five minutes drive from the house. Lucas starts at 7.40am and Chloe starts at 8.30am. Lucas finishes at 2pm and Chloe finishes at 1.15pm. Sometimes I send them on separate trips and sometimes together. I have prepared them and it seems to be working out well. During school holiday, I kept reminding Lucas he has to sleep an hour earlier as he has to wake up an hour earlier. It worked thus far. The kids are ready in bed by 7.30pm and asleep by 8.30pm. I have to move their schedule forward, playground time is earlier and dinner time is earlier.

The first 3 weeks for Lucas was a mixture of feeling bored, anxious and excitement. He is bored as he said the school work,especially Math is too easy. Today, he told his teacher to give him something difficult and the teacher gave him Year 3 Math. Lucas is in Year 1. Lucas then get a bit excited saying it is very difficult and his face was grinning when he said that. Guess he needs to do something he doesn't know to excite him. His classroom is in a new building and that building is huge compared to previous year. He is anxious and sometimes not too sure where to go for assembly and canteen. Every morning, he insists that I walk with him to his class, and then walk with him to the assembly. His teacher will then walk them to the classroom. I decided to let him take his time until he is comfortable to walk on his own.

Chloe meanwhile was sick for half of the 3 weeks. She caught a very bad bug on the second week and had been missing school for a few days. She is sick again this week. She did not cry on the first week. On the second week, after she returned from her sick days, she wailed when I left her classroom. She clamped to me like a crab. Third week was good. She was actually very happy and asked me not to go inside her classroom. She is always excited after school telling me what she had for breakfast and lunch in school, and what did she do.

For me, I have to wake up and hour earlier. Get myself ready and then wake the kids up. At days when I had to work late, it is hard to get up. Well, I better get used to it. It will be like this for the next 12 years!

London

This post is very late, but better than never.
We managed to snugged out for a few days in London without Lucas & Chloe. The grandparents were busy entertaining them while we were away.
In London, everything was good except for the weather.We managed to do all the things we planned to do and even did some shopping and eating out.
We were at Harrods and Selfridges. We were at Mark & Spencer. We were at Russell & Broomley. In another word, we had our shopping list.
We ate at Harrods Food Hall, a nice Indian restaurant, English pubs and grabbed sandwiches from Mark & Spencer and cafes. We ate all the food we wanted to eat without thinking too much about the money. After all, it is rare to get a chance to eat the food of our choices.
We watched a play and visited a friend and collected our wedding gift.
New places I've visited this time - Oxford, Portobello Market, Regent Canal and Paddington area.
We flew First Class to London on Airbus 380 and we flew Business Class back to KL on Airbus A380. Sheer luxury and pampering and now, let's get back to reality - work and kids. Holiday's over!

First class - Dom Perignon and lobster.

Dominic's suite in A380.

Yes, oyster, caviar and salmon.

That's my oyster. It was delicious.

One of our nice shoot.

We visited Dominic's college. In the background was used to be his dormitory.

Dominic's college Dining Hall a.k.a. Harry Porter's Dining Hall.

Simple ribeye and tomatoes from Harrod - sooo good.

Another of our nice shoot. We arrived on Paralympic Opening day.

Holiday Comes and Goes

In the last blog, I was worried what to do with the kids during their school holidays. In a blink of an eye, the school holiday is almost over. Of all the things Lucas wrote, we did almost all except for the part 'Go on holiday to Japan'. Lucas has a few play dates with his friends and cousins, visiting the grandparents a lot more often, and has his Mandarin classes. He even started on his guitar lessons. One day, the wind swept him and he asked to go for guitar lesson. He had 2 lessons so far and said he would like to continue after his trial lessons finish (4 trial lessons in total). Let's see...
At home, the kids play and fight till their hearts contend. There is the sandbox, play dough, water colours for painting, bubbles, bicycles, balls and of course iPad and TV. I bought a new board game recently, called Rummikub. It is a good board game to play as a family and the game finishes a lot faster than Monopoly. Lucas is also into Tin Tin. He has been reading Tin Tin books and watching Tin Tin movies. Chloe is reading her brother hand-me down books. She has shown more interest in reading lately. Painting is still her favourite pastime. Now, after she finishes her painting or drawing, she will take a tape and tape her masterpiece on the wall!
Dominic and I will be going to London next week. No kids. The kids will have some bonding time with the grandparents. We will land at home on the first day of school for Lucas. In fact, we will not be able to send him to school. I felt bad for my bad planning. Miscalculated his term start date. The consolation is he is going with my neighbour cum his best friend. Luckily, Chloe starts on Tuesday. And my chauffeuring duty is commencing soon after 5 weeks break.
But I'm happy that the kids will be back to school. It is not because I will have some peace and quiet at home, but they will have friends to play with in school.

Must Win Something

Yesterday was quite a drama day for Chloe. It is quite a typical day but somehow yesterday I told myself she needs to tow the line. It all started right before dinner. We were playing Rummikub game and there was a plastic bag to keep all the tiles. She insisted on bringing the plastic bag to the dining table. I told her no, she plastic bag stays with the game and explained to her why. She refused to listen and still insist that she wanted to bring the plastic bag to the dining table. I had enough and just took the plastic bag from her hand. She wailed and refused to eat her dinner. I left her alone. Then she came to my chair and said she wanted to sit on my chair instead of her own chair. I said no. She made a big fuss. It was then I decided she will not win today's battle. I then asked Lucas to sit on her chair since she doesn't want it. Chloe quickly ran and sit on her chair. OK, next. She insisted that I feed her. I said ok but only one spoon. She said no, I must feed her all the food. I said no, and don't eat your dinner. She then said she wanted to go to sleep. I said fine, go take your shower and go to bed. Since she has no dinner, she is not getting her milk. Wah...started wailing again. She wanted milk and I said no dinner no milk. Then she asked for her handkerchief (her comfort toy to sleep). I said no handkerchief on dinning table. Handkerchief is only for the bed. Wah...more wailing. I left her alone to wail. After a while, she gave in. She said, I will only drink the soup and will not eat the rice. I said do whatever you want. Then she quietly drink her soup and ate her rice!

This girl, she will just keep trying until she wins something. She will not take a no for answer. What a tough girl and pity the parents and the neighbours who have to listen to all the wailing and shouting.

Year End and Holiday

This week is Lucas last week of school. He had his final year progress report, and I had met his teacher. His teacher was so generous in her phrases for Lucas. I was a bit too embarrass to read to him what his teacher wrote, just in case the comments make him arrogant. He had English and Math assessment that are part of UK standardised assessment. Boy, he had perfect score for his English and made 1 mistake in his Math. Dominic told him that his English is better than an English. The teacher showed me the test paper. The English was very simple at the beginning but the last few pages required more reading - a few sentences on a story and then a question that relate to the sentences. In another word, to do well, the kids have to be able to read decently well. I was surprised with the high standard expected from the kindergarten children. Math assessment was not so much about crunching numbers but understanding the questions and problem solving. The reason Lucas did well in Math was he listened to the whole question before answering. The teacher relate some incidents to me - she was asking the class what number minus with another number will gives the answer 11. Lucas was answering '200 - 189', '1611-1600'. The teacher was shocked and burst into laughter. She was expecting 2 digits number and she asked Lucas, 'Are you real, Lucas??' Last week, they were learning to read time. The teacher said it's 1.45 and my smart aleck son answered, 'You mean it is a quarter to 2?'. Story cut short, I'm very proud of my boy.

I asked Lucas to write down what he wants to do during his school holiday. Here is his list (unedited):
(1) Celabrat dad's birthday
(2) Play blind fold with Jaedon.
(3) Go sand clmbing when dad is at home.
(4) If you are at home, we will play until 7 o'clock.
(5) If dad is at home we will play hide and seek and if you are not at home, we will eat ealy.
(6) One day maybe we shold try eating breakfast at 12 o'clock.
(7) Go on holiday to Japan
(8) Shall we try cohekting two ballons on a string?

Let's see how much we achieve.

Good Guy, Bad Guy

Let me try to narrate a story Lucas has made up. I was working and asked him to sit beside me to do his spelling and sentences. He said wait and busy himself with some writing and drawing. I left him to finish whatever he was doing. Then he showed me his work.

Me: What's this? A trap? 

Lucas: Yes, it is a trap to find treasures. It says (as written) 'Treasure map to find out Mick's plan's and secret's and treasure's. And Bianca's to. And all the bad guy's plan's. ha ha ha ha ha'

Me: What's this ice lemon tea and ice water?

Lucas: It says (as written) 'The bad guy is thirsty. The bad guy is drinking the ice lemon tea'. 'The good guy is drinking giant ice water'.

Me: What's the door here?

Lucas: It is the door to the bad guy Mick.

Me: What's this with the circles and stripes?

Lucas: It is the jail.

Me: What's the circles?

Lucas: It is the bad guys heads.

Me: You killed them?

Lucas: Yes.

Me: So violent!

Lucas: Mom, only pretend ok.

And besides the jail, it was written, 'The good guy's have to attack the bad guy's when they are drinking'.



In summary, he is writing about good guys and bad guys were looking for treasures and the good guys attacked the bad guys while the bad guys were drinking ice lemon tea (off guard). He is of course the good guy. He is into Tin Tin adventure books and this is how we imagine his own adventure. Very cute.

His English - he gets the singular/plural right but he still need some work on the 's. His spelling is quite good too. I'm trying to work on his handwriting, inconsistent.

Chloe is 3 !

Chloe turned 3 yesterday. We usually don't hold party for the kids, we are the lazy parents. Chloe wanted a strawberry cake, and shirt with flowers and chicken for dinner. And she had all of those.

Busy opening her presents.

She insisted on putting the candles herself.

The adults aka me, Dominic and my in-laws find the excuse to have champagne. We had roast chicken with potatoes and asparagus, capcisum and pumpkin. Healthy dinner.

Hair Cut with Style

In today's world, businesses really have to innovate to catch up with the market demand. The last time Lucas had his hair cut in a barber or saloon was years ago. One barber had to hold his head still and another barber cut his hair and he was wailing all the way. Since then, my in-laws's maid had been cutting his hair. The maid had to coax him. Things changed for good a few days ago. By accident, we found a hair saloon that provide iPad while the customers had their hair cut!!! He sat still and never made a complaint!! When I talked to the hair stylist, she was saying 'These days, the kids are so advance. They won't even want PSP. Only iPad'.



See what I mean.....

Lucas in International Day

I managed to get other mothers to send me picture of Lucas taken for his school International Day.

This is where he pretended to run as fast as possible. I love his smile in this picture.

This is where all his classmates have to look like they are living in the 50s era. The girls had the hair curled and the guys had the hair gel.

International Day

Last Friday, Lucas's school had International Day with Olympic theme. His class was Melbourne Summer Olympic 1956. The kids are all dressed up according to the class theme and they have to parade from the auditorium to the assembly point carrying flags and some with mascots. Very interesting but also loads of work for the teachers and parents.
In another four weeks, Lucas will have his academic year end break. I have to think how to occupy the kids' time during the 5 weeks break!

The Canadians...Year 1 students, 7 year old.

The Mexicans....Nursery students, 5 year old.

The Greeks....Reception students, 6 year old.

Lucas's class, the Australian....Reception, 6 year old.

Lucas classmate's mom had the great idea of taking the kids in the 50s era....all the boys' hair were gel, and girls had their hair curled to take this picture.

The kids pretended to be the winners.Lucas said, 'M's Mom asked me to pretend to run as fast as I can' when his picture was taken. He is on the top left.

Chloe was hovering around the food area, which I helped to prepare.