The year of Rabbit

For some reasons, we felt extra lonely this CNY and we miss Taipei more. I supposed this celebration is mainly to gather family and loved ones together and we felt sad that we are far away from my parents in TW and they were by themselves this year since my brother is in Vancouver now. On the same note, we don't even have my brother in Calgary anymore. I love holidays like this that all of us will make more effort to get together and show love to each other. Again, we took in some festival activities in Calgary. We visited Chinese cultural centre, watched the Lion dance and had Hot Pot dinner. I even prepared Taiwan New Dollars for the kids`red envelops this year. They were only interested in the candies though. We hope we can celebrate this holiday in Taiwan next year! 

its the year of Rabbit but Mason wanted to be a tiger

my darling Pre-schooler

I truly meant to update this as soon as Mason started his first day at Preschool. Then Thanksgiving came and  followed by Christmas, New Year, Chinese New Year, Valentine... Allright, I'm far behind on my family update and I promise more will be following up. Now back to the topic, my baby boy is a preschooler now. We had been debating on whether to send Mason to preschool for a while because I have been homeschooling him but then I trust every child is different and if you know Mason, you'd know that he is the kind of boy who needs and desires to be in a group and learns a lot in a group. His very first day at a prechool program, he was actually fine with us leaving him there. He loved the teacher and meeting new friends. When I picked him up after the first class, he said, "Auntie JianShin is in the class." He meant the teacher looks like my favorite little Auntie in Taipei. He no longer goes to her classes but he always asks for her and I think he just misses her auntie a lot. Winter term has began for over 2 months now, Mason really enjoys this French Immerision school; the teachers are great and small school environment. Ever since the first day, one of his teacher always comments that "Mason is exuberant." It sure sums him up well. Though it takes about 40+ minutes to drive him to the school in the morning, it is worthwhile because he is happy and learning!

 first day of parent & tot prechool

 first day of independ class

after the first day, he requested for a backpack and he chose a big one that is about half of him

favorite teacher from Fall term