Dress Up

My Princess is going through a "dress up" phase. All she wants to wear is dresses and pretties (jewelries) and her shiny black mary jane shoes. This dress is one of the dresses she got as her birthday gift from Auntie Eva from France! (thanks auntie) :) she's so stylish these days :D

First Real Gymnastic Class

Finally we enrolled her to the Cardinal Gymnastic Academy. It's more pricey but it's more worth it than the city & park gymnastic class. The park & rec gymnastic class is way smaller and the "instructor" don't even do one on one with the kids at all.

This time we have 2 instructors, and both of them pay attention to the kids and help the kids out.

Carissa had a blast! she loves it. Here are some pictures from the first class today.

Stretching time

Going through the obstacles

Swing swing

Jump Jump

Carissa's most favorite spot :)

Who's there?

Last day in minnesota

Carissa met blue!!! yayyyy and we bought her big Linny! :) she likes her linny. :) and check out that smile. She's getting better with the "SMILE" instruction now :) so cute.

it was fun to see her smile and excited about lil things, from seeing all the characters and to see her cousin Petra. She always like to say "HI pet pet!!!" or "c'mone pet pet!!!" she loves her cousin.

Kai lan

Minnesota Trip Day 02

We started our day with breakfast in bed, Carissa woke up at 2:30am and refused to go back to bed till 4:30am. I think she's just overly stimulated and asked to go see spongebob and dora when she woke up at 2:30am. Anyway, she went back to bed till 8am, breakfast in bed and then off we went to Mall of America again at 10am. We met linny & ming ming from the wonder pets. After that we met up with Petra & Melissa for lunch and off to the Minnesota Children Museum.

Carissa & Petra had so much fun together. After the museum trip went back to the hotel to take some nap, but Carissa refused to nap, so I let her lay down and watch her movie while Carson took some nap and so did I.

Then Carson took Carissa for swimming, and I went to IKEA for lil bit. They have great selections but I just don't have the money to spend :(. Only bought 2 step stool for icha ($4/each) :D

Afte the refreshing IKEA trip we went out to dinner with my brother and family. Again Carissa had a blast playing with Petra, she even gave Petra hugs.. like lots of hugs :) until Petra couldn't stand her. hahahahah. they're so cute together.

Went back to the hotel, Carissa slept with her daddy with no problem. But she woke up in the middle of the night to move to my bed and slept with me till 8:20-ish.



More pictures from the Day 02

Minnesota Trip - Day 01

We left Ames around 12 today, I thought if we left around noon Carissa will take a nap in the car on our way there. Guess what?!! Nope.. not even a wink!

Anyway, we got to our Hotel (Holidays Inn Express) thought for the worst since we got it only for $47/night. But it's actually pretty nice, it's not as nice as double tree or mariott, but it's acceptable. It has a free shuttle to the Mall of America. So we took that options and headed there at 5pm.

When we got there Patrick already left :(, only spongebob was there. Carissa got so excited as we walked in to the mall since she saw spongebob pictures everywhere.

Then we saw Dora & Kai-Lan.

After dinner, we got a chance to say bye bye to Spongebob again, and went back to the hotel. Not long after that, Petra & family joined us. Petra and Icha went swimming together, it was a fun day.

Now it's 9:45pm and no sign of this baby will go to bed :(. Lights off I guess.

PS: this hotel give you free apples in their living room, Carissa already ate 3 apples today.

Here's the link to the pictures from today.