Defecation Information

this is where the magic happens:

Houston, We Have Had a PeePee

Emmett just sat on his new training toilet and peed.

HAAAAAAALELUJAH!

HAAAAAAALELUJAH!

HAAAAAAALELUJAH!
HAAAAAAALELUJAH!

HA LE LU JAH

more to come.

(we hope)

Philosophy Talk

At lunch last Saturday, the following conversation was heard at my house. E is Emmett, D is Desi, and G is Gary.

Note: Emmy's first line was apropos of nothing.

E: This is for God's sake.

D: That's rude words. It hurts God's feelings.

a minute later...

E: I'm sorry I hurt God's feelings

G: It's OK. He's forgiving [at least the New Testament one is]

E: I like God. He's a sweet kid.

D: He's not a kid. He's a grown-up.

E: I like to hug grown-ups.

D: God, are you a grown-up? He can send messages to my brain and my body.
Yes, he's a grown-up. I know.

Madagascar 2 is really funny

So, as it is February, we have been watchin' some movies. And I just want to put it out there, for all you parents but especially for you non-parents: Madagascar 2 is really funny. I know it fails to specify which country in Africa they're in, and there's more kidnapping than I'd prefer. But it's ridiculously funny. The voices are stellar, and I say that despite the fact that the audio track our copy of the DVD is off by about 2 seconds. (Also, it lapses into Russian for a bit). Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Ali G, Borat) is a lemur who has an Indian accent. Chris Rock is a zebra. What more could you want?

And today, I really needed some movie-time. I had escorted Desi to a birthday party at Pizza Hut in our local mega-mall. (I do live in China, I swear.) In a word? Loco. 35 kids--you do the math.

Random thoughts--
We're psyched that Larry and Linda are coming soon.
We're looking forward to spring break starting in less than a month.
We're wondering if anyone could email us that "Boots with the fur" song.

And it's time for bed. Here's 2 pics that capture how we play at our house.



note: the hotel slippers on his arms make him Batman.

Haircuts and mini-golf

Sorry to be so delinquent w/the blogging. We've been busy, as you can see. Chinese New Year officially ended 2 days ago. Celebrants use up their fireworks and kids walk around with red lanterns. (And apparently, CCTV employees in Beijing burn down half-built hotels.)

As for NY's, we're not terribly sad it's over. It was fun, but also a bit annoying to hear fireworks going off at all hours. Plus, the boys and Sarah were a little sick during break. So we sat around a lot, watched some movies. Aristocats, anyone? We ended break with a trip to mini-golf. No windmills or giant Abraham Lincoln spreading his legs for you to shoot through, but fun nonetheless. Emmett decided that golf was just OK, and the real fun was to pick up pebbles from the 17th hole and go throw them in the water hazard next to 13 (see below):


I gotta go to work now, but here's some haircut photos from our trip to the salon:

2000 words' worth

...of photos. No particular theme, beyond simple cuteness.

Turns out, the 4th Dimension is bird poo

So last weekend we met our friends Leo, Sue Ann and Keller at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. It's aimed at older kids, really, but there were some things for the lil guys: robots, some places to crawl around on stuff, and several different "4-D" movies. We had to check out one of them. The woman in the ticket booth tried to discourage us, but we figured, it's got pirates, it's only 15 minutes long, so how inappropriate-for-lil-kids can it get?



Well, let's just say that kids don't appreciate 3-D cannons blasting them right in the face, hordes of 3-D bats flying directly at them, or 4-D sprinkles of real, live water (please God tell me that was water) timed to coincide with the on-screen pooping of seagulls. They sat there OK, nobody freaked, and I even got Desi to put his glasses back on once or twice after the cannon "blew" them off. But we won't be back for a few years.

We ate good dim sum after that, which was yum. But since then (and unrelated to the food), this place has been a M*A*S*H unit. Sarah missed 2.5 days, Desi missed 2 (including his class performance--see next post), and Emmett missed 4. Gary was the only one left standing (maybe flu shots work?). Knock on wood.

But we're mostly on the mend and tonight marks the beginning of New Year's break. Woo hoo! A whole week off to watch fireworks and hang out with the fam. It's the Year of the Golden Ox (Gary is an ox, so he has to watch out)

And I'll be blogging more, I promise.

Xin Nian Kuai Le! (Happy New Year)