Family gathering in Pittsburgh May 2013

It was that time again for a family gathering for the Le family (grandparents, sons & daughters, grand kids) in Pittsburgh. This time we have visitors from co tam and chu Ut from VietNam, and Phuc Lien their kids and duong Ba. They all made this special trips to visit ong noi QN in the nursing home. We had good time with Dustin Bao An. He's a fun guy who's talking alot and aloud. Few high light of Dustin: Said things like: di choi thay banh vo^ lo^~ (after the trip to Wildwood with rides, arcades and mini golf courses). Like to go to Chub cheese (that what he said for Chucke Cheese) I nove u, nai xe ky` zay, duong na`y wa' nho? nuo^n, tam mua no so*. In the wildwood trip, QuocNam likes to play golf and carried his old stick from site to site. Dad and Quocnam also had a good time driving Go Kart and bump boat and soaked wet. QuocNam also bonded with chu Bang and hung out with uncle at many event and arcade games. We visited ong Noi Nam almost daily while in Pittsburgh. QuocNam massaged ong noi and made him feel good. Went to Tanger outlet and bought QN a new pair of Crocs shoe. It's a little bit on the large size but QN loves it and he wore it all the time. Went to Wave Pool. QN was a little bold. Walked like a robot into the deep side and lost his control in the deep water and was a little bit shaken, but luckily dad was around to pull him back up. He likes to sit on the draft and caught the waves. QN gained a few pounds with good food provided by ba Noi. On the way back to Connecticut, we stopped at Imperial Buffet for dinner. QN fist asked for BK, but when seeing he food inside the restaurant he gave the thumb up here. He had some big plates and went around sampled others people drinks. He copied Vi for the deserts and ice cream and finally dropped a big one at the restaurant. Overall acting very funny. Every time, when we were ready to leave Pittsburgh or NJ, QN always said "muon o la.i day"

Graduating from K1 ...Hooray

Today QN is graduating from K1 at QCA. We came to his school at 9:30 to celebrate his first achievement. QN dressed up in gray suit orange polo shirt. He looks formal compared to the group, I guess it's good for pics and memory. They sat in front of the auditorium and sang songs, then watch slide shows of all activities thru out the year. Finally, each came up and was awarded with a bucket of toys and a certificate. I'm proud of you son :)

Father and Son time

QuocNam played for 3 hrs with ipad, but when daddy asked him to do homework, he tried a few and felt asleep after about 10min. On Sunday pm, I took QN to Sears to return some tools and QN wanted to come to Apple store to play minecraft. Then we went for some pretzels at Autie Aunt at closing for some discounts. QN then wanted to have some ice cream next door. They were kind of expensive for an ice cream cone with sprinkles ($4.25) yike...I rather have yogurt at Pinkberry. Monday night when I started to leave Quincy home (almost 2am), QN walked out with sleepy eyes and gave daddy a big hug. I then asked QN to be good and go back to bed. Even when I went down to the car, QN still looked out from bed and wave. I was in the car for a while and when pulling out of the parking lot, I saw QN at the windows and waved again. I felt like loving my son an missed him a little bit.