FAMILY TRAVELS
(French) Toasting out 2011 with one last yummy breakfast
December 31, 2011I think today’s breakfast place will be a favorite in 2012. We’ve driven by numerous times and I fell in love with the logo: And now I’ve fallen in love with their breakfast. We went to the Cheeky Cafe this morning with Auntie and Uncle J and were thrilled to find that the menu had […]
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Sensoji Temple (Tokyo, Japan)
December 30, 2011The boys recently got hooked on the book I Can Read with My Eyes Shut, by Dr. Seuss and in it the big cat explains to the little cat, “the more that you read, the more you will know and the more that you learn the more places you will go.” I hope if we can […]
Read MorePutting the Finishing touches on Christmas 2011
December 22, 2011We aren’t totally ready for Christmas yet. There are a million presents to wrap in our basement despite the diligent wrapping efforts the hubby and I have been putting in between episodes of Friday Night Lights and vain attempts to exercise at the gym. But it is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. The […]
Read MoreTrip to Storybrooke (Steveston, BC)
December 16, 2011Before my sister moved there, I didn’t really know much about Steveston BC. And now, it’s even all over tv with a new show called Once Upon A Time where it goes by the name Storybrooke. The boys were thrilled this summer when we went to get one of our favorite treats (Screamers, of course! […]
Read MoreGingerbread building, making gummies and the most youthful Santa we’ve ever seen
December 9, 2011We’ve been pretty busy this last little while taking many different holiday classes. A really neat one we tried this week was the kids’ baking class at the PCC grocery store. We learned how to make an egg-free gingerbread recipe which is awesome when you cook with kids and worry about them eating raw-egg. The […]
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Jurong Bird Park (Singapore)
December 8, 2011I was not expecting the Jurong Bird Park to be on my list of places I want to see again when we go back to Singapore. I’ve never really been a fan of birds: they fly around, poo overhead, have very sharp knife-like beaks and pretty much just creep me out. But, this place is […]
Read MoreIf you give a toddler boy an Iphone…
There are no words for this one. I gave my toddler boy an iphone while I was busy doing an errand and needed him to be quiet so I let him do the draw anything screen. Of course my phone comes back like this after a few minutes of silence and then a round of […]
Read MoreHolidays have begun!
November 28, 2011The boys and I were looking through all the flyers that have been arriving with the paper lately. “I don’t want a bird poo Christmas tree” Leelee says. If you want one, you can buy it here. We did not get that one-we cut ours this morning at our favorite Christmas tree farm. The weather […]
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Kid-Friendly malls in Asia
November 18, 2011I’ll have to admit, I was a little scared taking two newly toilet trained boys to Asia. Were we going to have to revert back to diapers? Would it be a giant poo disaster everyday? I was so thankful to find that the places we visited in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo were even more […]
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Airplane Activity Bag
November 12, 2011Nothing terrifies me more than being stuck on an airplane flight without food or toys to entertain the kids. But, I also don’t want to be weighed down with too much stuff. When we packed for our last trip which included a 14-hour flight, I was a little worried that we wouldn’t have enough so […]
Read MoreIn case you were wondering what jet-lagged twin toddlers look like
November 9, 2011This is 2am on Saturday night. We are making pancakes and waiting for the sun to rise. This is after about 14 trips to the bathroom and me waving a white flag. This is what jet-legged twin toddlers look like. Two of us were thrilled-pancakes at midnight? What fun! And one of us is too […]
Read MoreOne day in Hong Kong with kids
November 8, 2011What can you do in one day in Hong Kong? We spent two nights at the Hong Kong Sky City Marriott by the airport(an amazing hotel in Lantau by the way!) to break up a journey to Singapore which could potentially take more than 24 hours of travel from Seattle with stopovers. I’m so glad we […]
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Hallowe’en in Singapore
November 6, 2011We celebrated Hallowe’en on the road this year, but I couldn’t help but bring costumes along. In Singapore, we saw Hallowe’en decorations in the stores, a really gruesome display at Sentosa Island and I was tempted to try exploring when I heard there was some kind of trick or treating around an American school (Thank […]
Read MoreStuffington Bear Factory (phoenix, AZ)
October 14, 2011Our most recent trip to Phoenix was so relaxing and tropical-it was a far cry from our first ever Phoenix trip. We originally went in December and the guys were nearly one and a half and getting into everything. For some reason the week we went it was extremely cold. Like, almost snow cold and […]
Read MoreBest Bagels in America! (Eltana Bagel, Capitol Hill, WA)
October 2, 2011Looks like the Bean was right about this place, it is definitely drool-worthy. The food world thinks Eltana Bagels is pretty amazing too, apparently they are the best bagels in America! My favorite is the salt bagel. The boys love the plain. And we all love the honey-almond cream cheese. We stopped in this morning […]
Read MoreBreakfast with Tortoises at the Phoenix Zoo (Phoenix, AZ)
September 26, 2011A couple months ago we received our first issue of “Zootles,” a magazine for 2/3 year olds by Zoobooks. This issue was all about turtles and we learned some great facts about these reptiles, for instance the sea turtles like the ones we’ve seen in Hawaii have flippers and can’t put their heads in their […]
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Best Souvenir Ever (Polynesian Cultural Center,Oahu, HI)
September 2, 2011On our last trip to Hawaii, we visited the Polynesian Cultural Center for the first time because Leelee loves luaus. We had a blast exploring all the “islands” with our three year olds and while we waited for dinner we spotted a booth that for 5 dollars you could make a beaded bracelet. Little did […]
Read MoreHow to wash toddlers while camping
August 31, 2011After two days camping the toddlers were filthy and the thought of bringing them into the not-so-pristine camping shower with one of us seemed horrific. Thank goodness we bought a two in one camping bin/bathtub. We heated water on the stove while they were roasting marshmallows and they were thrilled with their jacuzzi. Camping would […]
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Great Airplane Books for Toddlers
August 9, 2011Right now, the boys are definitely in love with airplane books, and here are a few we have been reading to prep for some upcoming getaways: Airplane Flight has lift-up flaps and a catchy-rhyme-y story. The boys love the part where the plane flies around a storm. The Bean was awake when we went through […]
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It takes two nights to be a camper…(Fort Flagler, Washington)
August 6, 2011At about 2 am on Sunday night, you might have heard a scream resonating from some forest far away that sounded like a crazed woman yelling “I’ll never camp again. Get me in the car and take me home-now!” But with good reason. The kids were waking up every 20 minutes, they were a little […]
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