Surprising visitor

Our neighborhood has a few hummingbird feeders. But I have never seen a hummingbird yet, actually in my whole life -- only in photos.

When I was get ready for dinner today, I heard a really loud noise in the living room. I saw a black shadow flying around the glass door. I thought it was a beetle which I saw quite often come into the house when I was young. But when I looked at it carefully, it was a little bird! A hummingbird!!! I screamed to ask Paul to come down stairs to help the bird. I was afraid that the little thing would get hurt. But maybe the bird got scared because of my screaming, and he found a way to get out by himself!

I can't believe I wasn't able to take a picture of my first hummingbird sighting --- hahaha
But I'm so happy to have finally seen one!

Playground with Dada

Paul is always spending time with us on Saturday! And today, we decided to go to the playground and walk around the park in the morning. It was a cloudy day, but it was perfect weather in the summer to spend time at the playground (this playground doesn't have any trees or shade around).

Luke is getting really good at climbing. He likes to use the "rock climbing" wall to get up to the big slide now. I always wanted to take picture of that, but I need to watch him carefully -- so as not to fall off the climbing wall. So, I didn't have chance to take photo until TODAY! Thanks to Paul, coming with us.


It is always makes me nervous when he reaches the top. But he has been successful in climbing up there every time (so far...)!
And after he reaches on the top, he love to slide this tube. But he still can't go by himself. So, I slide this tube with him A LOT! It's pretty fun actually. In this picture, you think that Paul went slide with Luke today. No, no. Paul asked Luke to go another slide, but Luke wanted to go in the tube... I climbed up (not the rock wall) the stairs on the other side and slid down with Luke as usual. But something was wrong today... I was wearing something that made extra slippery... I couldn't stop the end, and end up in the mud... Luke and I got really wet. Paul, you made a good decision not to going on the tube slide!

After the play ground, we walked around the park for an hour or so. And we a nice lunch before coming back to home (^v^) What a wonderful day!

Beaker

This morning when Luke woke up, his favorite friend was out side the door. His name is Beaker, our neighbor's cat. Luke made a crazy noise to tell me he want to go outside! So, I let him go play with Beaker.
Luke likes him a lot, but once Beaker come close to him, he will get scared and asked me to come outside, too.
And Luke love to follow Beaker everywhere. We spent a little while following beaker around and playing with him. And while we were doing so, I burnt an English muffin... our fire alarm was ringing... good thing that Paul was inside, and he was dealing with the smoke... Luke was not happy to go inside, but he will see Beaker soon again (^-^)