2011: Our Trip to Papanack Zoo

I highly recommend Papanack Zoo for those who stay in Ottawa. It is a private zoo close to home. We simply just don't need a big zoo for toddlers or preschoolers. All small kids need is a few animals that they could learn.

WFH - Working From Home

妈妈每天都是在家上班。

爸爸偶尔在家上班。Opps... 还穿着睡衣...

Happy Birthday

Woke up at 6:45am today to made my lovely wife a Banana Pancake & Sausage breakfast this morning !  He he...

Jacob praying for his mummy

Just want to share little Jacob’s 祷告蒙神垂听的经历。

I was working from home today. As soon as he woke up from his nap, he found out Doreen was having headache and resting on the bed. He told her that he wanted to pray for her tonight (our regular bed time prayers). Then he came to the study room and talked to me:

“爸爸，妈妈头痛，我们今晚可不可以为妈妈祷告？”

I told him that we don’t need to wait until night time to pray for mummy. He can pray for her right the way.

Here is his prayer:  (note: He prays often, but this is the first time I record it.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45As_YMNj04

Doreen was having headache since she woke up this morning. Jacob prayed for her around 2:30pm. Her headache disappeared 2 hours later.  She could cook dinner and even went to her swimming lesson in the evening. To the little Jacob, he believes in God and his faith in Jesus has leaped one more step forward as he is experiencing him.

Cobcob叠衣服

2011: Canada Day Painting

看看Jacob的杰作

可能很多时候，妈妈在厨房准备食物时，Jacob都会帮忙。。当妈妈给小朋友用粘土做手工时，Jacob竟然会做出这些东西，还示范给小朋友们看他怎么弄春卷，葱油饼及汤圆。。

Praying for our sponsored child Saowanee

Our family felt sad today to receive a letter from Saowanee. Saowanee is our sponsored child from Northern Thailand. We have been sponsoring her for many years so that her family could afford her to go to school instead of helping her family to farm. She wrote many letters to us in the past, but this time is the first time she had the child worker to write to us on her behalf. We are really worried about her. We are praying hard for our God to protect and heal her. May God have mercy on our sponsored child.

Compassion Canada

Dear Kian Goh and Doreen Loo

Hello. My name is AreeWa Sittikongtung. I'm a child worker, writing on behalf of Saowanee because she is not doing well. She has to meet the doctor quite often and the doctor doesn't know yet what's wrong with her. She is hurt around her back. I'm trying to follow up with her symptoms closely. I would tell you if there is anything happening. I went to visit her at her house on the the 25th, she asked me to write a letter for her. She was sitting by me. She would like me to pray for her health that she will be healed quickly and she will not have any serious disease.

She would like to know if it's snowing in rainy season in your hometown or if it's snowing only in winter. She has finished her exam already and she is on a school break. She is happy to rest her brain. If she is fine, she will help her mother to work.

When she is at home, she would help her mother to work in the kitchen and clean up house.

I'll have to go now. May God protect you at work always.

Love in Christ
Areewa
Writing on behalf of Saowanee

Cobcob 九月份要上学了

时间过得真快。Cobcob今年九月份要上学了。上周二他学校有Open House，邀请父母带JK的同学们到学校参观，见见老师。
Cobcob的学校离我们家有大约一公里，所以学校校车会到我们家门口来接他。这不是私立学校，所以也不需要买校服。

Jacob 学英文

我们在家只跟Jacob说中文。因为妈妈是开daycare在家里看小孩，再加上Jacob很少看儿童节目，过去4年他只会说中文。去年9月份妈妈收了一个菲律宾的小男孩Troy。Troy只来半天，而且不是每天都来。过去9个月，Jacob从Troy身上学到不少英文。虽然说得不太流利，但至少已经可以跟Troy聊天了。:-)

本来还以为Jacob今年9月上Junior Kindergarten才开始学英文。现在他每天自己一个人玩的时候，很多时候都是用英文的。看样子我们下一次回国时他会跟叔叔、阿姨们Speaking English了。

Mother's Day 2011

这是Cobcob在母亲节给妈妈献唱的一首歌。我们录了好几遍。觉得这个Version最好玩。

这是Heidi婆婆寄给爸爸的Email:

I would like to share with you and Doreen that Jacob presented the mother's day theme song in solo in the class this morning. He did it so naturally and we all said it was wonderful. Praise the Lord. Jacob is a blessed brilliant bright little star. We love him very much.

Jacob learning phonics - 4yrs 1mth

Jacob spent 13 minutes cleaning up - 4yrs 1mth

In yesterday’s class, sister Li Li described preschooler of 3-6 years old has great passion to tidy up. I coincidently shot a video of Jacob spending about 13 minutes cleaning his toys last night by himself. Just to share it with you. Note: The video was cut off at 8th minutes onto 2nd part of video.

“Jacob cleaned up mess after playing. I was relaxing on the sofa after a long day when I started to notice Jacob cleaning up his mess. I silently picked up the iPod and started shooting the video. He later noticed me shooting the video and gave me a funny look. I didn't ask him to clean up the toys, but his mum reminded him about 30 minutes earlier when he was still playing. During our nightly “review of the day” and prayer time, he proudly said “爸爸妈妈没有帮我，都是我自己收的。" ”.

2011: Museum of Nature Trip

Sugar Bush 2011

这是收集Maple Sap 的桶

Maple Sap是从这小管流出来。只有45年以上的枫树才可以钻洞。

Cobcob和爸爸在收集Maple Sap
带着收成回去
倒进去大桶里

Maple sap 像水一样没有颜色。我们尝了一点，像一般的糖水。

40公升的Maple Sap要煮到变成一公升的Maple Syrup.

这就是我们吃的Maple Taffy

之后，我们烤Marshmallow吃

看小牛

碰小猪

每年三月份是收集Maple Sap做枫糖浆(Maple Syrup)的季节。上帝实在奇妙，只在晚上温度较冷（零下），早上温度在5度左右，并有阳光，Maple Sap才会出来。下午之后，一没有阳光，Maple Sap的源头就会像水龙头关掉一样止住了。

2011: Spring Hiking in Stony Swamp

Jacob on the sled.

Feeding the birds...

Playing "hockey"
Following deers' footprints ....
Found deer's feces...
And finally.... we managed to spot 3 deers ran across the trail.

We originally planned for a sugar bush trip for our Saturday outing, but the farm was closed due to the broken beaver dam on the trail. Therefore, we changed our plan to hike in trails inside Stony Swamp (5 minutes away from our home). We spent 2 hours on the trails feeding birds, tracking animal's foot prints on snow, playing pretend hockey game, laughing, etc. Guess what.... we spotted 3 deers ran across in front of us. What a lucky day we had. :)

2011： 寒冷的春天

已经春天快两周了，渥太华还是那么冷。这张图是前几天抓的，零下19度。今天只进步一点点，零下16度。

Cold War Museum

我们前几周去了冷战时期时加拿大政府建的秘密军事地堡。这Bunker已经“退休”了，政府把它转变为冷战博物馆。从外面看，只能看到小房子。走到地下，里面什么都有：小型医院，防辐射设备，政府官员会议室，军事设备及国家银行黄金储备的Vault。

Spring Hiking in Stony Swamp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzlqvDwG_r4&feature=player_embedded

爱pose的小孩。。

也许Cobcob从小就一直的当爸爸妈妈的model拍照，所以现在只要妈妈一拿出相机，他就pose了， 哈哈。。拍了还要看，觉得不好看还要妈妈重拍^_^

Cobcob exploring the Canal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMejB2pbh7c


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kozn3cOK12c

今天是Mommy's day

爸爸和Cobcob把今天定为Mommy's Day. 今天除了Cobcob 9am要上半个小时的溜冰课之外，我们全天都陪妈妈Shopping。妈妈今天休假，不必下厨。中餐我们在外面吃，晚餐爸爸下厨。

1987年的旧照片

1987年的旧照片。那天班主任吴国庆老师退休。

这是从一位小学同学Facebook那里Copy过来的。This photo means a lot to me.

Note:(kk在前排右第四位；老师旁边)

2011: Winterlude in Ottawa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vXbR4bdm-0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZCzG9fiKjM

Skating on Canal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM8EkMEw-Qc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O66ZRX7pRY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDf4YrFVnqk

今天教会崇拜之后我们又到渥太华的Rideau Canal Skateway (8km) 河上溜冰。 Cobcob在1.5小时内滑了3km的路程。当然，这对3岁半的小朋友算是相当不错的“成绩”。一路上至少三次有其他溜冰的人滑过来问Cobcob几岁，他们觉得Cobcob滑得不错。

不知不觉Cobcob已经学了4个月的溜冰课。Cobcob每周六早上有半个小时的溜冰课。之外，我们每周都有1－3次的Practice。平时周日我们是去离我们家5分钟的室外溜冰场，周末我们是去公共的室内溜冰场。因为每个Arena都有自己的Public Skating schedule, 为了符合我们的时间，我们就要去不同社区的公共溜冰场（Kanata, Goulboune, Barhaven, Sandy Hill, Bells Corner, McArthur）。

学溜冰是Cobcob自己想要学的。我们也不需要“Push”他。我们只是帮他实现他的Hockey Fun。妈妈早就追不上Cobcob了。爸爸为了要追得上Cobcob，最近每周四都上Intermediate的溜冰课。

我们的情人节早餐（2011）

在情人节的早上，Cobcob爸爸为了要给妈妈一个惊喜，早晨六点就起身，准备早餐给妈妈。。虽然简单，但可以看得出来爸爸很有心思哦。。特地还买了一个心形的鸡蛋模来煎蛋，而且还把盘子装饰了一下（哈哈，我们家当时已经没有什么绿叶的菜，爸爸只能用芹菜）。。

其实当天妈妈也有计划要给爸爸准备早餐的。。后来妈妈准备的早餐就出现在隔天的饭桌了。。看来我们还是有点心灵相通嘛：）

SHMILY

Jacob play hockey on "Hockey Day in Canada"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_h1MrCDzE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-AZzBJ4hXM

周六早上，8:30am-2:30pm:

• Cobcob溜冰课
• Cobcob的Home Depot Project
• Costco买菜
• 妈妈看医生
• KFC吃午餐
• 参加Hockey Day in Canada活动

Cobcob left voice message at Daddy's office

http://kkdd.ca/Audio/voice_msg_3yrs_10mths.wav