1st time to the NHM of LA County

We finally made it to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County this morning! This is the 2nd museum we've visited after getting the NHM annual family member passes. The girls have never been to any Natural History Museum before so it was a wonderful experience for them! It's a big museum, we had only managed to visit several exhibits: North American Mammals, Birds, Dinosaurs, Discovery Center and Gems & Minerals. We will go back to the NHM in a few months to visit the African Mammals, Shells, Insects and other exhibits. We are planning to visit the William S. Hart Museum in Newhall in the next couple of weeks.

After visiting the museum, we went to the Garden Cafe in San Gabriel for a late lunch, then we went to Julia's office in Covina and finished up the 2011 tax preparation, after that, we went to Alhambra grocery shopping before head back home.

Vivian turns 7!

Vivian turned 7 on February 18! She was being very specific of what she wants for her birthday... She wanted a Razor scooter from daddy, a water bottle from mommy, an ice-cream cake from Baskin-Robbins, a dinner at Todai Japanese seafood buffet in Woodland Hills and 21 cupcakes to bring to school on Tuesday. Erica made Vivian a birthday card designed by herself using Microsoft publisher! Happy Birthday my dear little princess!

Ice skating classes

After attending a couple friends' birthday parties at the ice skating rinks, the girls showed interest to learn ice skating. Daddy called the Iceoplex in Simi Valley and enrolled the girls to Saturday morning classes at pre-alpha level. There are total of 9 classes for the girls to learn some basics of ice skating, I think it's way more practical than the Mandarin classes that they attended couple years ago.

Rachel's 9th birthday party

Saturday was Rachel's 9th Birthday party at the East West Ice Palace in Artesia. It's a modern ice skating rink owned by figure skater Michelle Kwan's family. Rachel and Trinity took very good care of Erica and Vivian and taught them how to skate... Looks like the girls started to have some interests in ice skating, we should find time to sign them up for some classes at Simi Valley Iceoplex...

Chinese New Year celebration in Camarillo

Our friend Grace invited us to the Chinese New Year celebration performance this afternoon hosted by the Ventura County Chinese American Association. It was a very sunny buy rather windy day at the Constitution Park in Camarillo, the girls had fun watching all the Chinese traditional dance, dragon dance, lion dance, fan dance & umbrella dance but was not to fond of the traditional Chinese music, they said it's lousy and squeaky!

Happy Lunar New Year 2012!

It's the year of the Dragon! We wish all our family and friends joy, healthy and prosperous! May the year of Dragon bring the world peace, stability and economic growth! Kung Hay Fat Choi! Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Katelyn's birthday party at the Iceoplex

It was Erica's kindergarten buddy Katelyn's birthday yesterday, both girls were invited to go to birthday party at the Iceoplex ice rinks in Simi Valley! They had lots of fun skating with their old buddies! At the birthday party, they have book exchanges, Vivian got two books: "Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days" and Vivian got "What Bluebirds Do" and "Redwoods", they later exchanged among themselves again.