hmmmm

We were in the riding in the car this evening and I heard Karianne and Angie playing in the back with a stuffed monkey and calling it a "stupid" monkey. I've never heard them use that word before and I didn't like the sound of it. So Brent and I tried to explain to them that "stupid" isn't really a nice word and we really should try not to use it. Brent told them to say "silly monkey" or something like that. They started playing again and I heard Karianne, say, "you monkey, s-" and she caught herself and then said, "bibbity bobbity boo monkey". Soon they were all laughing and calling the monkey "bibbity bobbity boo" monkey.

That'll work.

Angie's PJ's

How do you like them Marilyn?

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Baby Cakes pajama sets.

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backyard fun

We are contemplating going camping with the girls soon so Brent set up the tent in the backyard this evening to make sure all the pieced were still there for our tent. The girls instantly moved in and brought all their stuff out to the tent.


We blew bubbles, I loved watching Angie run around trying to pop them.

Too many ducks!

The girls and I discovered a duck pond at a neighborhood park earlier this week. We went back today so we could show Brent. There are at least a hundred ducks there, as soon as you get out of the car, they start coming towards you. We didn't have bread the first time we went and we had a nice time. This time we took some bread and quickly decided that was a bad idea. Ducks and geese, chasing screaming girls with a little piece of bread in their hands pecking it out of their hands. They all spent most of the rest of the visit on top of the picnic table and the bench. It was all much nicer once the two hot dog buns were gone. I'm hoping there won't be any nightmares tonight.

We love Kiki

Amy loves Kiki, the big blue monkey mascot in the Preschool at our church. We have Kiki shirts for the girls and Amy always wants to wear it. She gets so excited when she puts on the shirt and yells "Kiki Kiki!" and points at the shirt. She saw another child at church yesterday wearing a Kiki shirt so she went up to her and pointed at it and said, "what's that?" the little girl said "Kiki". Amy squealed and did a little dance and said, "Kiki, Kiki!" good thing the girl got the answer right!

Amy is doing very well with her english. She has commands down very well and can tell us to do almost anything. She loves singing songs she learned at church. There's a song called He's Alive. She says "He's Alive" over and over again and then for the verse she says, "I can't do it," to the tune of the verse. I guess she thinks those are the words. She'll 'read' any book and say "God can do anything!".

She still peppers a lot of Chinese in her dialog but we can mostly understand her. We were in the car the other day and all the girls we talking at once in the back of the car. I tend to tune them out when that happens. Over the din, I heard one voice yell, "Mom I'm talkin to you!" It was Amy. When I gave her my full attention she jabbered in Chinese so I am not sure what she needed to tell me but she seemed ok with that. She accepts that we are not as smart as her.

I wanna be like American Girls...

It had to happen, here's a christian version of American Girls.

http://www.girlsngrace.com/

Half Big

Karianne was opening doors for me yesterday with all our errands and stops so I could get the double stroller through the door. She was showing me her muscles and then told me she was half big. "Half Big, what do you mean?" I said. She said, "that means I am half as big as you, so I am half big and almost grown up!"

Poor thing, if she is half as big as me that means she is half short and well on her way to being short, not big. :-)

Ladies night out

Yesterday I crammed 5 Dr visits in less than 4 hours. Our van broke down so we have one car. So after the Dr visits We went and got Brent so he could come home for lunch. He took the car back to work. When He got home for the evening some friends from church picked me up and I got to go out with them for a ladies night out. Who Hoo. We went to a fondue resturaunt and I really enjoyed it.

Girls night out

I took the girls to our favorite hangout, Kiddiepark last night. It's an amusement park for little ones. We were getting together with a group of other adoptive families with children from china. I usually surprise them and not tell them where we are going until we get there, just in case my plans change. :-)
we were almost there when Karianne told me Angie was coloring on the seat with her crayon. I got onto Angie and then Angie told me that Karianne colored on her seat too. I got onto both of them and told them they were going to be in time out when we get "there", and just Amy would get to ride for the first few rides. They were fine with that as long as we weren't going home. Karianne said, "oh I love to watch Amy ride, that's my favorite thing to do." I don't think I was being mean enough. I scolded them some more and I think I ended it with something like, "what were you thinking?" Karianne said quietly, "we thought it was a good idea..."


Besides that, we had fun. They were all "brave" and road almost all the rides. I was even brave and road a few rides myself, believe me I was more brave than them, I hate going around and around. :-)