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.

Journey of Corduroy…Welcome to my home 

I had the pleasure to bring Corduroy home this week and am trying to make him feel happy and comfortable as a visitor. On Saturday 3/30, my cousin Williams came to visit and I introduced him to Corduroy. Williams said…he’s your new friend? Will he be playing Power Ranger with us? I said…Corduroy is a little shy and he just wanted to hang out and watch. It was a nice Saturday afternoon; I huddled around Corduroy on the couch and took in some warm from the sun. Corduroy was crying a little…maybe he was missing his mom so I tried to cuddle him. We then went to the Park in Quincy to play. First I played a little soccer to warm up, then headed to the playground. It was fun since I had a chance to play outside in a nice day like today. I took a few trips on the slides with Corduroy and he seemed to enjoy it. I took some pictures with Corduroy too. I also introduced a new friend named Toto to Corduroy. They were instantly connected (see the pictures). Toto favorite sport is Soccer as he was proudly wearing a US National team Jersey. Toto also showed off a few ball handling skills (heading the balls in the air for a number of times). Toto asked: Do you like it?” Corduroy said yes…you’re so good at soccer…I wish I could play like you. Toto said, everything needs a passion and practices to achieve this level, so can you. Sunday, I went to Easter celebration at the Church and took Corduroy with me. At the end, the church gave out goodies, snacks and coffee. I took some for my grandpa and daddy. Then I have lunch at home. My mom cooked my favorite dish called “Pho”. It’s a beef noodle soup and is very popular with Vietnamese and also know to some American. Corduroy was a little hesitant to try it first, but after I insisted and he tried and he said “oh wow, delicious Benjamin…can I have more?” In the afternoon, took Corduroy to my Aunt’s nail salon for a pedicure. His feet were a little dirty while playing outside at the Park yesterday and need some foot treatment. At bed time, I took Corduroy and Toto in bed and read them some good stories. It was fun having Corduroy over the weekend. We had a great time together, and Corduroy was so happy with his new friend Toto.

QuocNam & William together

QN is now playing a very good game of Granny Smith on iPad. He showed his cousin Willi to play too. They are good together and didn't even think about Mom & Dad. QN had some hard time writing letters a, e, n in lower case so we trained him. Willi had some good writing and motivated Nam to do the sam

New year celebration 2013

We stayed home for the most part. In the evening, we ordered pizza and cake for QN's grandpa birthday. William (anh Dung's son) is coming over to play and sleepover with QN. We were watching tv and cound down with the kid saying: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and...Happy NEW YEAR !!! Giovanni also came up and had a few beers while we were watching TV for New Year celebration.

QuocNam 5th Birthday !!!

Mom and Dad is having a birthday party for QN at home. Dad was thinking about organizing it alot, about food and who to invite to come over. Mostly chu Bang and his friends (Nha, Nguyen, bac Sau, An and wife, etc.). We had family lunch first with ba Nam and uncle Phu coming at noon. Dad was decorating the deck with Thomas ribbons. Dad also bought baloon from iParty with a Mickey mouse who sings HAPPY BIRTHDAY song when tap on it (Dad thought it was interesting...). There were plenty of foods (lau, be thui, bo kho, com chien, mi xao, etc.). We also wrapped present bags for kid. One mishap was with the BD cake. When Dad picked it up at BJ, they asked for what was on it and Dad didn't know the details except it should have said HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Benjamin. They brought out a half sheet of cake with just that. But when Dad brought the cake home, Mom said it was wrong...it supposed to be a Thomas cake with Happy 5 to Benjamin. What a coincident that messed up the cake. Overall I think QN was happy when everyone got together and sang happy birthay and let QN blows the candles. Dad took some video clips about it.

Join QuocNam at Apple picking today

Today Mom & Dad joined QN for a school field trip to go apple picking at a farm about half an hour from Boston. This is a voluteer activity to gain hours for Quincy Catholic Academy. It's a nice day for this field trip. We took lots of pictures for QN and his friends (Zachary, Ayden, Nathan, etc.) Went for a hay ride then picked some good apples (one bad per kid). The ride on the school bus remind me of some good old time (Dad felt like a kid again)... Last week, we went for a walk to get coffee at Starbucks. When going back toward the bank and dad hoi Nam: nha bank ban hot dogs fa?i khg? QN noi khg fa?i, nha bank ba'n tien (very cute). He was picking his pant (my bad I had it backward, so QN didn't like it) and dad hoi Nam mac i. fa?i khg...Nam lap tu*'c noi khg fa?i, and his diversion tactic was used...Ba hoi nha bank ba'n gi di ba to side track dad's concern

Con giong tia

It's really funny...Hoi QN con giong ai, QN noi con giong tia QN rat thich ba take a bath with him...daddy just walk in the bathroom, thi Nam chay le. vo phong and drop his clothes very fast to go to the shower. QN got an ipad 2 from Dad and he really likes it...Mostly check out youtube for cars toon, tom and jerry, airplane, etc.