Walk in the Woods

Decided to add some photos to our lonely blog :)

Since it was such a beautiful and relatively warm Fall day, we took a walk in the woods to enjoy the colors and crisp air. So nice to hear the sound of leaves crunching under our feet and see the grandeur of those old, old trees. Charis just completed a leaf project, which required us to collect leaves and research on their names... so it was so nice to be able to identify some of those trees we came across during our walk.

The kids really enjoyed their time exploring, picking leaves, poking at the trees, and balancing on fallen logs.

We went to a playground after that. Added this picture because Charis finally succeeded in swinging herself without help to push! She has been practicing so hard.

Time Square, NY

Daxiang visited us last week and we made a trip to NYC.

We went to Time Square a few times, and there were people just everywhere.

At almost every corner, someone was taking photo of something somewhere.

Even the billboard was taking photo... here is Kodak's kodak's moment...

Time Square, the land of yellow cabs and bright lights....

Ellis Island, Liberty Island and Central Park

We visited Ellis Island - it was the immigrant inspection centre in the late 1800s to mid 1900s. Now it houses a museum that provides a glimpse of lives and society of that time...

This hall is the first-stop for all immigrants coming into the US many years ago. Contrast this with today's US custom... (not sure which one I prefer though)...

Approaching the Statue of Liberty:

There she stands...

Inside the Statue. We walked up many, many steps to reach the feet of the Statue.

View from and of her feet. This is the closest we got to the Statue.

The weather was nice and sunny when we went to Central Park. We had a very pleasant walk as we enjoyed the green space in the busy city.

Some jazzy entertainment as we rested our tired feet.

One of our main task was to search for a Balto statue in Central Park. Charis loves the Balto stories and animated movies. We found out from one of the movies that there was a statue of it in Central Park. Since then, we promise her that if we ever go to Central Park, we will look for it. Thankfully, after some misses, we managed to locate it during our walk in the park.

This is a nice cafe where we stopped by for lunch. They have very nice (but pricey) subs. We heard that they also have pretty good Cappuccino. We thought of going there for an afternoon break, but we never made it back. Well, a reason for us to visit NYC again....

josiah's many faces...

The cheeky boy...

And here are the kids, enjoying his cheekiness...

dun play play

To show that I'm actually 25 on my 34th birthday...

Something's out of place

In most of our photos, one of us is behind the camera and there are more baby-faces. But last night our kind friends (Linda and Keith) helped to babysit Charis and Josiah while we went out dining. In fact, this is the first time we were out without the kids in the US. Although it was cold and wet, we had a wonderful time at Station Square. And I must say our dinner - steak at Pittsburgh Rare - was lovely.

Thanks, Hunters.

Having fun with the snow...

Josiah is 2!

Josiah turned 2 yesterday. We planned to go out and celebrate his birthday in the evening, but it snowed pretty heavily. So we ended up staying at home. Thankfully we had some bananas and ice-cream, so he had a banana split as his birthday "cake".



Here they are playing with the presents that they received:



We managed to hit out today even though the weather was still cold. Bought an ice-cream cake for him which we all enjoyed. So he got to celebrate his birthday twice....

singapore food fest