Running fun

Trev accepting his medal for 2nd place!
Trace singing away on Tom's shouders ( note the old man glasses!!! Last year he discovered that his arms were shrinking - he couldn't hold things far enough away to read them :o) He had 1 pair of glasses he could rarely find ( guess he couldn't see them) so thanks to Sarah we bought another pair for $8 on zennioptical.com. Maybe we will spurge and buy him a neck chain next!

Mid race - Trev in the middle

Trace having fun at the meet

Ty thought it was good and surprised himself with how much he remebered from Chinese class

Trace had fun too, but mainly stirring and making the ink. We bought a smll kit in China. You have a dry stick of ink you add a little water and rub on a stone. It was his favorite part

Tian LOVED writing in Chinese...still thinks it is "funny talk" but loved writing her name ( it is the character a little up and to the right of her shoulder) - most of the others she made up ( then again for all I know she wrote something profound:o)

Fun at school

Ty is mowing!!!!!

Trev was fantastic at his first meet this season - he beat his time on the same course last year by 1 minute 1 second - and it is the same time he finshed the season with for the 5k last year. It is going to be a great year! He came in 3rd for Winterset and 2nd for all Sophmore competeing at the DCG meet - there were over 200+ boys participating. He was in the top 25 - wahoo.!!

We played a little school this past week and will hit hard after Labor day. Tian is looking forward to learning how to read. I thnk she will find it easy. Trace acts like he isn't paying attention, but e is smarter than he lets on...typical boy :o) and I wouldn't be surprised if he picks up a lot too.

It is an exciting week for us...Tom turning 40!!! and we will be celebrating our 3rd anniversary of Tian joining our family. I will do a post just about her shortly... I will leave it with her latest Tianism. Her favorite book/movie is now "Snow White and the Seven doiks".....maybe we will add a speech class to school...then again it would spoil A LOT of fun

Trace's moment of the week...actually his moment was every waking monet he is in LOVE with Zola aka squirt aka itty bitty kitty - he can't leave her alone. HE absolutely loves our new littlekitty. Remeer in China his foster mother ( also known as China Grandma) used to sing him a song about how the cats would eat him and she told us he was afraid of cats ( no wonder.) Anyway, Trace is the biggest cat lover of the house

We also participated in Meals fromthe heartland and in 2 days ( 4 hours) we packaged over 1000+ food packages - enough for 6000+ meals! Tian and Trace helped too. Luckily we weren't going for efficiency :o) It was fun and the Germaines were VERY good sports and joined us Sunday afternoon for the fun.