Archive for the ‘The Son’ Category

If you’ve been following me for years, like waaaayyy back in ’97, you’ve practically watched my son grow into a Teenager. Chances are, I’ve watched your kids grow as well. I suddenly feel all nostalgic. Anyhoooo, part of his growth that you’ve witnessed is his art work. I can’t even count how many times I’m raved what a great artist he is and how many artwork of his that I’ve posted throughout the years. They’re not limited to drawings either. My son can do digital better than anyone. Well, maybe I’m exaggerating but what I mean it, he’s really good. He once drew Popeye in Photoshop just using the draw tool then printed it and when his cousins saw it they all wanted one. These days he’s into creating videos and video games. I won’t even attempt to look into his computer to check out his files coz I know he’s got folders and folders of them. He has a YouTube account where he uploads the videos though. I’ll share some of the videos sometime. Right now, here are some recent and not-so recent drawings all over his room.

As you can see, he’s into Sonic these days. He’s also into Halo and he has drawings of that too which I’ll post sometime. When he was in grade school, except for that one week when he brought home 3 tickets in a span of one week for talking too much, he never really got in trouble for the usual stuff that kids gets in trouble with at school. Yah know like bullying, picking a fight, or being a distraction to other kids. Every time I had a meeting with any of his Teachers, his trouble was mostly because he liked to draw a lot. It sounds strange, doesn’t it? See, he would always rush his work so he could have that extra quite time to do whatever and in his case, to draw. So every time we’d talk to him about focusing on the task at hand, I always had this pain in my stomach. It always bothered me so much telling my son to ease up on something he’s obviously so passionate about so he could concentrate on other things.

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Emma loves to bake. If it was up to her we’d be baking cookies, cakes, and cupcakes, everyday. But of course we can’t do that so we do it on the weekends. She definitely had fun with all the Holiday baking we did last year. Anyhooo, for Christmas, Nan and Pop gave her a Kid’s Cupcake Bake Set from Bed Bath and Beyond. The set came with apron, wooden mixing spoon, icing spreader, 5pc measuring spoons, 12 cup nonstick mini cupcakes pan, 1(24 count) mini cupcake liners, cupcake stand and vinyl carry bag.

We made mini chocolate banana cupcakes.

And regular sized ones too. BTW, I added chocolate chips on the recipe so the cupcakes are more decadent. And another thing, the cupcake bake set is currently on sale for $2.99. NICE!

It was actually unusual that Upstate New York didn’t get much snow while we were there for our Christmas holiday. I told my husband we might have brought the NC effect effect with us. I mean it was definitely cold and reminded me of the 8 years that we’ve spent in New York before moving to the South, but not much snow. On the 23rd, it finally snowed but only 2-3 inches. Nevertheless, it was a beautiful scene so Scott took as much pictures he could take, and here they are.

Yesterday was supposed to be the kids “pictorial” day for our Christmas card this year,. I’ve had everything set up. The Christmas Tree as the background, and they were both all dressed up. However, I was only able to take pictures of Caine. I have a lot of solo pictures of him. Emma Lyn on the hand, NADA.

Today is a different scenario though, well slightly. Emma is wearing her outfit again and I was able to take solo picture a a few hours ago. But I still can’t get the shot I want. Aaahhhh. What is it that I want anyway? I dunno, Haha.

So we’re here, waiting for Caine to get home from school so maybe, my God please help me, I’ll be able to take a picture of them together. I’m pretty sure after taking 100 shots, I’ll have 2-3 good ones that I could possibly use for our Christmas card. No wonder professional photography is expensive, Haha!

Here’s Emma doing the robot dance.. LOL. She’s cute

I can’t believe we actually woke up early so we could watch the town’s Christmas parade this morning. I woke up first which to tell you the truth would never have happened if I didn’t have to go to the bathroom so badly, HAHA! I could have gone back to bed but I figured I might as well stay up and watch the parade with the family. Scott woke up shortly after, we both checked online a bit, he and Caine ate breakfast, Emma Lyn and I didn’t coz were not breakfast people, then got ready and we were off just in the nick of time. It was difficult to find a parking spot but Scott found one eventually then looked for the right spot in the town circle. We moved twice for better viewing before the parade started. Lots of fire trucks which Emma loves, many candies were given away that Emma said it was Halloween, clowns, school bands, Princesses, business floats, mini-nascar. classic cars, Chargers(car), and many more. I took so many pictures of course.

My husband said we should do something this weekend. Besides shopping for Christmas gifts, I really can’t think of anything to do with the kids this early in the month that’s related to Christmas. I thought about checking out Christmas lights but it’s still too early around our area for lights. There’s a parade in the little plaza right where we live on Saturday morning but that would only last for an hour or probably less than that. I could check out caribbean all inclusive packages but we need something to do this weekend and I’m not prepared for a Caribbean trip right now, haha.

I’ll check out local websites and check out what they’ve got going . Hopefully I’ll find something and the kids will have fun. I have a feeling we’ll end up at Chuck E Cheese.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day! How much did you eat?

She started to rake the leaves yesterday and she loved it. She thought she was too cool for words.

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