Happy Birthday Luka! He turns 5

Happy Birthday to my middle child♥♥

Luka turns 5! Where did the time go???

Per Luka's request, a tall heart-shaped chocolate cake with strawberries and sprinkles.

I took the boys out to lunch.

My plan was to then surprise Luka with a trip to the movie theater to see LEGO movie 2 but it was still sold out even a month after release.  We're going to try next weekend!

Thank you everyone for the birthday gifts!

Luka was so happy !!!

Curious Milo

Milo is just full of curiosity!

Asking Grandpa all kinds of questions.

Some yummy curry and rice♥

Ninja Warrior!

We discovered that the show 'American Ninja Warrior' is available for streaming so the kids have been watching it.  (It's a great show!)

Every time it's on, the kids put together their own obstacle course.

Dance off!

A dance-off between Kai and Milo!

Narwhal and Jellyfish tattoo♥

Of course it's not real ^_^

When we went to the book signing last week, we got free tattoo stickers!

LEGO people!

We found new LEGO Movie 2 mystery packs!

Milo is following in Luka's footsteps--he loves to play with  Legos!

(Kai, not so much.  He's a bookworm♥)

オセロ！

It's mid-winter break for the kids so we went to visit Grandma and Grandpa♥

Othello is a fun game I grew up playing.

Milo call it "Banana Game" but he loves to play it.

Milo loves to rock in this rocking chair.

We don't see Grandpa too often but Milo really enjoys hanging out with him.

Author Ben Clanton book signing !!

I decided to take the big kiddos to a book signing by one of Kai's favorite author...Ben Clanton who wrote the Narwhal and Jellyfish series.

I wasn't surprised to see a full room by the time we got there but we managed to find a nice spot.

Raffle tickets were given out and Kai won a lanyard!

The boys were so patient waiting in line to meet him.

Meeting the author♥

We each brought one of his books so I also got a book signed.

How cool!!

After the book signing, another local author was at the launch party.

Kazu Kibuishi is the author of the "Amulet" graphic novel series, a book James bought for Kai over the holidays!  We picked up book #2 and got it signed as well.

It was a great day!

For being such good/patient boys, I treated them to a delicious lunch outing.

Super delicious dumplings!

Hiiiii

Just Milo being....Milo...

Valentine's Day♥♥

Happy Valentine's Day♥♥

I made some Mini Heart Pies with nutella spread inside...YUM♥

The kiddos drew some art for me.

The best part was our date♥♥

We rarely get to go out together, just the two of us.

I splurged on a delicious cocktail and some of the yummiest burgers I've ever had!

James was feeling a bit under the weather...but so thankful he still took me out!

Where are his hands?

I dug up some old pictures of us together...before kids!

Yes that's a beaver on James' head...it was Halloween!

"The Bear" by Luka

He worked very hard on this!

He wrote a book about a bear♥

Snow Trio

Went for a walk in the ice and snow.

Milo is rockin' his new snow boots!

A trip to the coffee shop..Milo scored a cookie while Kai and Luka each got to enjoy their own hot chocolate♥

Some melted ice dripping and flowing underneath some ice.

Our snowman!

The powdery snow made it hard to build but we managed.