Believe it or not, it was slow week at the Turners :o) We enjoyed the building dedication for the new church building in
Winterset on Sunday. Monday Trev drove alone for the first time - following Tom to the car repair place here in
Winterset ( okay, not terribly exciting, but still..) We also prepared Ty for a day in a one room school house. Tuesday, he was able to go to Living History Farms and spend the day in school - 1870's style. It was really neat. He dressed the part and memorized part of Longfellow's poem," Paul Revere's Ride." He had to pack a lunch for the occasion - a fried chicken leg, 2 hard boiled eggs, an apple, water, gingerbread cookies and some buttermilk biscuits). HE went with his friend Kassie who I babysit occasionally. They both looked great! He had a good time and was relieved that he did not have to get hit with the ruler :o) His favorite part was recitation and he commented on having to write, write, write and write some more on his slate.
Wednesday Trev and Ty were able to go bowling with the youth and seemed to have a great time, even though they are quitting school to become pro bowlers!
Thursay,
Tian and Trace enjoyed story time. The librarians I guess have been wondering if they have a hearing and/or vision problems since they always push their way to the front and feel the need to get as
close to the book as possible...I had to explain that they are simply Chinese and personal space rules are much different (
ie there are none :o) We are working on it and
Tian is MUCH better. Trace...well he will never miss anything.
Friday we were home and enjoyed pizza and a movie. Saturday Trev is at SCUBA and we had the fun of cleaning up the yard. The snow is almost all melted and it was amazing what was hidden under it....sleds, shovels, toys, a hammer!!!
Throw in track practice, ballet, school, and a morning walk ( yeah it has been warm enough to walk) and that is pretty much our week :o)
Proof that she is
Medussa :o)
Think there are enough princesses -
jammies, sheets etc
last week we enjoyed the last day of Chinese New Year with the
Pomeroys. I think their 4 boys thought we were CRAZY . I didn't even make them do a craft :o)
Look closely - how cool are the these dragon cookies they brought?!?!
one of the traditional foods for Spring/lantern Festival is a sweet soup with rice balls :
the soup is a sugar syrup with a little almond flavoring and then little rice balls are boiled in it. Here Trev is grinding rice for the flour. ( He didn't want to get in the back of the cabinet to get the electric grinder...funny I think this was a lot more work grinding it by hand!)
Tian and Trace-isms of the week -
Tian's latest insult: "You are a pain the rump roast"
Trace: " I didn't wet my bed, my body did while I was sleeping!" There is some truth to that :o)He was dry for almost a month and then...well tragedy twice in a row - just when I had quit putting the towel under the sheets!
This morning Tian burst into our room and announced," Mom, we should go to Hawaii. When you go there, all you have to do is hold onto daddy and do nothing else." Hmmm...I am checking Priceline as we speak :o)
All right at least the next one Tian mentioned in private while I was putting her down for her nap rather than at the dinner table with company ..."Mom, I really, really want to grow big boobs." Yeah, I was speechless too.
This picture was taken during an adoption camp. The agency we are working with ran a camp for children in China and he was chosen to attend by the Chinese government at the very last minute. To make it even more strange, we received a mis addressed email with this group of children featured for adoption the same week Tom asked if I ever thought about back to China again......I tried to ignore him :o)
