Fei had her first tour of high school. It's all happening too fast.
Lili is in leadership so she gave the tour for our group. She was so funny. Very expressive. Her and her friend Maiya were so sweet together. Fei was very quiet. She is so ready to move on.
I had fun asking Lili and Maiya tons of questions. Fei was hanging with her friend. Another Mom said I wouldn't be her favorite and I laughed and said it's ok, she's my kid and she gave me quite the shocked look.
Our first brand new car. It is hard to get too excited about a people mover. This one is pretty nice. All the features we were looking for. It's a 2015 and our neighbor is the manager at the lot so it was fun to buy from him and we're pretty pleased with the deal over all. I do like that new car smell. Bets on which kid puts the first damage on it?
It's pretty tricky to find time off for all of us together. Eric took time off for a play date. I got the littles bathed and dressed. When our plans changed we found ourselves with a Sunday afternoon free of agendas, chores and obligations.
We started with lunch at Dog House, then we took back roads to Nanaimo and played at a park until dinner time. We ended our day with Noodle Box.
Big day!
Boys were shocked and pretty happy about picking out new bikes. I was headed for a BB8 and R2D2 bike but the boys liked different ones. Once Luk picked his Kai was all over having the same one. So cute. I still think the Star War ones were cuter but we gave them choice. Now I have to head to the dollar store for bells and whistles so we can make them look different. They did agree to the cute helmets though. You wouldn't have believed the fuss from cutomers and staff when we were lugging the bikes through the store. The boys were too cute getting their first bikes!
We started the day with some errands. Went to look at a van I like and found out the rock bottom price we settled on is now the marked sale price. So they dropped it another thousand for us. Slimy salesmen. I think we might be getting closer. Then we stopped to check on Scott and play at a park.
Good day so far. Picking up the girls now.
Kids got to ride for a bit after a snack and before getting the littles to dance. Surprisingly Luk just took off!! Didn't see that happening. He is completely over joyed. Jia is so excited that he can ride with her now. Not going so great for Kai yet. We tried putting Kai on a bigger bike but he was so inept at even getting on them that after some prodding from me and after he fell over a couple times from standing by the bike. Seriously. Eric finally agreed to the 12" for him too. So he can almost peddle or almost steer. But not together and he can only peddle one rotation then he stops and can't get started again. Everyone...Eric is my hero in some circumstances. He just kept walking with Kai and repeating push down, look forward, look where you're going. I would have found a reason to head in and kept him away from the bike for another month. Then since Luk was doing so great we stopped hovering and he fell and dislocated his thumb!! Eric snapped it back in. It's bruised but he can move it and he stopped crying as soon as Eric put it back in the right position. Again, he's a hero! I missed it all while I was with Kai. Eric wasn't going to tell me the details but Jia explained in great detail. I would have bundled him back to emergency. He is so delicate.
Ok. At dance. Time to watch the cuteness here. Penny and girls are over for dinner. Lili has theater and Fei has dance. Mondays are busy.
I'm not keen on her going outside but I'm also not keen on litter boxes. If it was just her it would be manageable but our three indoor/outdoor cats are pretty happy with the indoor plumbing provided for them.
So with it so nice out and the kids in and out the front door I thought we might let her try exploring. She made it to the porch. When Fei told me she was outside I came to see her and she ran to me when she saw me. So that was the end of that.
Eric is now declaring she should stay indoor. I'd like to think it's because he thinks she is as sweet as I do but really he's likely protecting us from loosing Eugene's sister. Because that level of crazy would be too much for me and he knows it.
Littles and I were at the bird santuary today looking for baby birds. We saw some tree swallow couples hovering at their boxes but didn't see any babies. We listened carefully. So cute. Jia is keen to go back next week and check again but could we do the trail backwards and three times.
Big girls declined. They walked 10k around town with a friend yesterday so they were happy to lounge at home.
I did a big grocery order with the littles. They did pretty good. Only had to ask Jia 47 times to get off the cart. Asked Luk 20 times to stop dragging his hands along the shelves. Kai was a doll. Hung onto the cart and held his position the whole time. It's rare for us to take kids shopping. We try to split that up and leave some or all of them at home. Helps to have built in baby sitters.
Kids are playing outside. I just put groceries away and passed out snacks. Eric has been in the garage all day building props for the play.
I'm hoping for some free time to go for a drive in the convertible while it's so sunny out!
