Toy Store

Often our Saturday mornings are filled with guests. This past Saturday, Daddy was holding a meeting so I had to find a way to preoccupy the children. So I decided to take them to the toy store, and shun bian shop for some toys for Hayden's birthday. Lizzy found a little coloring activity and soon became engrossed with it (which I later found out cost $$, I thought it was just a freebie).

It was hard to keep Hayden from ruining Lizzy's artwork, so I put a little stool in front of the Transformer toys section and sat him there. It made him happy.

Hosanna in the Highest

Today is Palm Sunday, celebrating Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. The children celebrated by walking down the aisles of the church waving their palm branches. Here's Lizzy!


Here she is standing on stage, craning her neck to try to find her parents (she did find us)


The children led us in singing "we want to see Jesus lifted up"! It was very much a "proud parents" moment.

Setting up

Lizzy's nightly ritual is to clean up her room before bedtime. Sometimes she gets quite creative when she cleans up. She sets up her toys and books in specific ways and admires them. These are pictures from different nights.

Starbucks

Mommy has fallen in love with the Caramel Macchiato at Starbucks. I bring Hayden along, with his age appropriate drink in a sippy, and we both share a delicious chocolate cupcake! Yum!


Then we went out for Thai food. Also yum.

Reading together

So one day the kids were being too quiet. I opened the door to the room and there they were. Does Hayden look comfy or what?! Lizzy taught Hayden to pronounce about half the alphabet perfectly! She's such a good little older sister/teacher.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Yes, Mom turned 30. (Notice Hayden staring at the cupcakes... :)

4th uncle

My uncle visited us briefly in TJ: the kids were very happy to see him.