Lili graciously went on the ride with Jia.
The museum was a huge hit. I was pleasantly surprised to see how low it all was, Jia could see most of it without us having to carry her. She was delighted with the trains and was following them and talking them 'where going train, bye train, you coming back? Oh, there you are train, where did you go? where are you going? bye train'. Honestly I think she could have stayed in that section for hours.
Yup, a preteen and it starts immediatly, she found naked miniatures, seriously.
We took a moment to study them and admire the paint job someone did on them :)
Turns out planes are almost as exciting as trains!
There were tiny koi under the fake water. Jia was fascinated with all the fake water and wanted to touch it so badly.
We finally left Jia at this carousel and went to look at all the other stuff nearby.
Lili had three parties, this is #2.
Make up, or as Jia calls it 'makeups'. Lili wasn't delighted but I like to think that she was secretly happy with the girly stuff.
At Lili's request for her Birthday she wanted to play Monopoly. Eric won. It took forever.
Killing time at the pet store. I'm not excited about how much time they all wanted to study lizards and snakes. Too much interest. They barely looked at any of the cats, birds, rats, or rabbits.
Jia so wants to dance with the big girls. I told her she could dance with Shelley when she was bigger, we then had to go over that statement again and again and again.
The teachers were on strike last week for three days. I really wished it was for the whole week leading into our two week spring break. We took full advantage of the three days to play. On Friday we dropped Fei for a sleepover with Hanna and took Lili and Jia to the mall. They had a nice time together. It's sure relaxing with just two kids now :) Funny how that works out.
Saturday we met up with friends and had a play and dinner out. That was nice.
Monday we went to get Lili's passport renewed and then played in the city to kill time until we met some friends for dinner. Congratulations to Shannon and Ken on the adoption order for their son Kalum!! Wahoo. Dinner turned out to be a celebration.
Tues was Lili's B-day. Eric took her to Wal-Mart to pick out a new Wii game. She picked epic Mickey. Apparently it's really cool but scary. Too funny. We got Lili some girly stuff, she was polite enough to say thank you.
We joked about all the lessons we were learning outside of school. Commerce and life skills while shopping. History at the Miniature World. Communication skills with friends and out to dinner. Health while picking out food. PE at dance class. Math while shopping and cooking. Science and nature at the pet store. As much fun as all of that was, I still can't talk them into homeschooling.
No giant plans for the spring break. Staying home. Our weeks aren't full yet, anyone looking for a playdate?
