Lazy Sunday

What a hot, hot day today…

I missed church this morning because I woke up late, so we went out to a park in the morning to get you guys out of the house and play. It was just unbearably hot…

We treated you guys to some Freezies at a local convenience store afterwards.

Sunday School fun

Today was the first time in a looooong time that I took you to church. I usually just take Aidan with me. It's because daddy doesn't go to church anymore. It's too hard for me to take both of you and plus, when I have you with me, that means I can't go into the sanctuary to listen to the Pastor's sermon. I can drop off Aidan at the older kid's ministry, but with you, I have to stay with you. I guess I can technically drop you off because we do that at daycare, but because church isn't a certified daycare, I just don't feel comfortable leaving you with volunteers.

The reason I took you with me (as well as Aidan) was because daddy had to go into work downtown. I had no choice but to take both of you guys with me. Because people at church hadn't seen you since you were much smaller, I think they were taken aback by how big you've grown. Everyone was saying how you cute you were now :-)

You were shy at first, but eventually you got pretty comfortable and had a blast.

You drive me crazy with your cuteness sometimes.

Fashion show

After church this morning, you and I stopped by our local mall to exchange your broken recycling truck at Toys R Us. While we were at the mall, I decided to get Kendall velcro shoes for daycare as she has been needing one badly for a while. Of course, you wanted your own pair of shoes. I told you that you already had a brand new pair, that we had gotten for you last year to wear this Summer, in your closet, but you were so whiny that I told you I would buy you something else at the mall. Something you actually needed. We stopped by Old Navy and I bought you a t-shirt and sunglasses.

When we went home, I put Kendall in her new shoes to see if it fit her and it became a fashion show. You started pulling clothes from out of your dresser and closet and made me take pictures of you modelling it for me. What a guy!

Kendall's new Dora velcro shoes. It was a steal at $14.99 at Payless! It was on sale from $24.99.

You absolutely loved it. You were walking around the whole house showing it off.

Your new Angry Bird t-shirt and sunglasses. I'm glad I got you those sunglasses. The one I got you last
year was too big for your face. This one fits perfectly! And you're wearing your the shoes that I was talking
about earlier.

Kendall showing off her new kicks.

She's been so cute lately. I just want to bite her everywhere!

Posing for the cameras.

Kendall testing out her new shoes.

You made me put a tie and fedora hat on you to complete your outfit.

Trying to do the rock on hands.

This girl makes me melt with her cuteness.

Here's another one for the camera.

I don't know what you're doing with your eyes, but you look so wacky! Especially with your missing teeth.

Outfit change. Wearing your summer outfit ensemble.

Twins and yummy bread

Guess who were twins at church today? You and Asher! Asher's mom, YJ, bought that shirt for you a while ago, and today you and Asher happened to be wearing it at the same time. I think you found it really cool because you were literally attached at the hip to Asher. You were hugging, holding hands, following each other… it was quite funny.

Goofing off in the church gym.

Around dinner time, you and I went over to Asher's house because YJ was teaching mommy how to bake my own bread. She bought me a bread pan from Korea and I recently bought the same bread maker that she had.

The piece de resistance- my new bread maker.

YJ's infamous bread. I'm salivating looking at this.

Fresh out of the oven. Yum!

Sunday fun-day

What a long day we had. Daddy couldn't go to church today because his right ankle had swollen to the size of a 9-month pregnant woman's foot. And it was also black and blue. He had sprained his ankle at the soccer tournament yesterday. Him and his soccer… Ugh!

Anyways, he had to stay home to rest his foot so I took you to church in the morning while Kendall stayed home with daddy. You wore your new sunnies I bought you this week. Don't you look so handsome? It's a little big for you, but I love how these look on you.

In the evening we went over to your Toronto grandparents' house for dinner. 

When we got to your grandparents' house I took some photos of you playing in their front yard.

What a little rascal you are.

Such a cutie pie.

This is when I love you the most- when you're happy and playful.

Your cousin, Emma, was there too so you guys played while watching TV.

Emma always goes in front of this french door and lurks!

Auntie Sara and Auntie Jessica was there too.

Emma walking in flip flops inside the house. Better take it off before egg woman (grandma) sees you!

Caught in the act.

Egg woman… er… grandma making Sam Gae Tang.

The yummy deliciousness of Sam Gae Tang.

Your Toronto grandpa playing with his Samsung tablet we (Auntie Sara, Auntie Jessica and mommy)
got him for his birthday.

I guess you learned this Korean song during your time at Korean school. I wasn't sure what the
song was called, but your Toronto grandpa was able to find it on YouTube.

You were also watching one of your favourite cartoon shows- The Octonauts. While we were watching
your grandma said how this green character looked like Kendall. 

However, you had assigned Kendall to this character- Peso (the penguin). You declared yourself
as the captain- Barnacles (the polar bear), mommy as Kwasii (the cat) and I don't know if you
assigned daddy as anything…

The Octonauts crew.

Look at the finished Sam Gae Tang. Doesn't it look yummy?? It was just as tasty as it looked.
You, even as a picky eater, gulped this down.

I took this super cute picture of you and Emma when she came back to our house to play.
You really love Emma and so does she. This makes me sooooo happy.

Candyland fiasco

What a tough tough day…

What started off as a promising day turned out into a disaster.

My friend YJ and I decided that we would take our kids to Candyland- an indoor playground that she's been raving about. It was perfect since it was supposed to rain all day. We also decided to invite our other friend, Jenn and her 3 kids. 

We went at 10:30am and right away, I was loving the set-up and how kid-friendly it was. It was also so CLEAN. I thought you would be excited right away because there were so many things to see and to play with, but you were so shy and clung to me. Asher and Austin were running around trying to play with everything, but you were looking so disinterested. I tried to warm you up by introducing you to all the fun things that they had. Eventually you started opening up and getting excited. Then you found the arcade games… There was one video game in particular that you were really attached to- a shooting game. It's weird, but you seem to love shooting games. Even at Canada's Wonderland your favourite ride is Boo Blaster- a ride where you shoot ghosts and haunted things with a gun. I thought you would get tired of playing the shooting game after a while, but once you get in your zone it's hard to get you do anything else. I asked you several times that your friends were playing in the basketball/soccer zone and that you should join them, but you yelled at me that you weren't interested. I was not impressed. I had to go back to the sitting area because I had to feed Kendall. I was hoping you would tire of the game and move onto something else. 

While I was feeding Kendall, YJ told me that it wasn't good that you were only playing that one shooting game. She's also anti-gun. I agreed with her and she told me she would try to get you to play something else (even if it meant she had to be firm with you). Next thing I know, I hear you screaming and crying. I think YJ tried to get you to do something else and you lost it on her. She tried to remove you from the video game and you were screaming/crying while trying to slap her at the same time. You kept crying out, "She a BAD girl!" I was shocked. I know how bad your tantrums are, but this was BAD. I made YJ switch with me while I took you off to a corner to discipline you. You were trying to run back to the video game so I just grabbed you and took you to the sitting area. You were so mad that you screamed out loud in frustration. You actually made several moms (my friend, Jenn included) jump. I was mortified, but I eventually calmed you down. I'm always very firm with you when I talk to you, but I try to eventually sway my tone to a nicer tone because I notice that if I yell at you you yell at me back. Once I start talking to you in a nicer way you come around. 

I thought that was going to be the end of the tantrum fiasco, but it was not meant to be. You had another blowout near the end of the day. You were playing in a play house and an older girl tried to get in and I think you didn't want her coming into the house. I was sitting in the sitting area and all I saw was you hitting the older girl while crying hysterically. The girl wasn't doing anything. She wasn't even hitting you back. I think she was more shocked than anything at your crazy outbursts. I ran over and asked the girl if she was just trying to get in the house and she nodded yes. You were just screaming/crying saying, "She a bad girl!" That's when I lost it. I took you to a corner and started yelling at you. I was so angry that you were trying to blame everyone for your bad behaviour. I think you cried for a good 20 minutes. I think all the parents there were thinking how bad you were. Some of them even gave me a sympathetic look. It was so stressful that I cried in front of YJ. She was trying to tell me that it was ok. She said all I could do was to pray extra hard for you. She also went through (and still is going through) a hard time with her son Asher. I was so appreciative that she didn't judge me because I know how some parents judge the parents if the kid is acting up. I think you felt bad when I started crying because you calmed down a lot. 

Let's just say I didn't stay much longer after that. By the time we got home I was so exhausted from all the yelling. I told daddy all about what happened and he was quite shocked. Well, I thought that was the end of that, but again, you did something bad. You called Kendall S-T-U-P-I-D when daddy was changing her diaper. I don't even know where you learned that word, but you are starting to curse now. Daddy was so angry that you said that word to her so he started yelling at you. You had another tantrum bout. Daddy was so angry that he decided to put you to bed- at 6:30pm. You fell asleep crying. I seriously don't know what to do with you. I'm so sad because you are so bad when you are bad. Is it something we are doing that is causing you to not listen to us? Are we bad parents???

Candyland. The owner is actually Korean and goes to our church.

You were so happy when we first entered, but it was all downhill from there…

Kendall- she was soooooo good.

The sitting area where the moms hung out.

The Choi boys were going wild trying to play with everything.

Anti-social Aidan at the beginning :-/

Kendall was happy riding all the cars that they had.

They had tons and tons of stuff to play with.

You playing.

Kendall in her princess car.

I took this video below of you in the morning when you were in a better mood.