This was a fun (and beautiful) day. They had about 7 games the kids played and learned a school fight song.
Ian has a good take off, but we think he will be a distance runner. He can run for 1/2 km without slowing down.
Ian watching Lia's race
This has to be genetic! Why does the tongue have to come out when they are concentrating?
Henry and Ian between heats
Aaron wasn't too interested in the races
Ian and Ariana
Ian, Ariana, and Karsyn
Being silly
Another game
This is out of chronological order because I thought I had already posted it...
Eric asked if we were going to see his school friends when we got in the taxi. I told him we were and then he proceeded to only speak to me in Mandarin all the way to the party. Most of it I didn't understand and the taxi driver had a good chuckle the whole way there.
The party was at an Irish Pub. They had games and a kid friendly buffet.
He was excited even after he had been eliminated from the game. Can you see how much bigger he is than the other kids in his class?
Getting prizes
BenBen's mom (Katharina) with Aaron.
"You can't see me!" "Oh yes I can!"
They asked him if he wanted to play "Go Fish", which he loves to play at home (with cards). We were both surprised to find a bowl with REAL fish! Then I was even more shocked that they took the fish home! In our case, it got to go to church in it's bag and then home. We had to borrow some fish food from Amanda and her family (they have a huge tank), but Jason (what Eric named the fish) died after about 24 hours. (I asked why he named it Jason and he said, "because I know how to spell Jason - J A S O N, and I need to know how to spell my pet's name!")
Catherine is the birthday girl (in grey and pink coat)
Ian now has Kung Fu after school every Monday. He has really enjoyed it and is doing well.
I have been really impressed with his teachers. There are 3 of them and 1 is some sort of Kung Fu Master. They all could be in a Jackie Chan movie!
The 4 boys got 1 big basket this year.
Eric have started wearing his PJs backwards now, we don't know why
Group effort - Johna made the cake, I decorated it, and Shane made the wire handle
We went to our friends, Josh and Cleo's house (just down the road). There were over 40 people and 320 eggs hidden!
They have a big yard and lots of places for eggs to hide.
Some were really hidden in tricky places! The little kids got to go out and get all the easy ones first, then the big kids had their turn.
Forecasters said it would rain, but it ended up the nicest day we've had in Shanghai so far
Aaron's first experience with grass and leaves
A little too much excitement and Eric couldn't stop to even take a picture. He wanted to keep looking and so got really grumpy when asked to smile for the camera
We told him to smile or we would post this grumpy picture for everyone to see, but it didn't help
We got this cool chair with little Chinese kids on it from a lady who is donating milk for Baby Jessica - Samuel loves it
Eric's class and teachers getting ready to look for Easter eggs.
XiaoMi and Eric - He always takes care of her like a little sister (mei mei)
He was so proud of all the eggs he found
Each class colored a bunch. He ended up with about 6 and Ian got 8 or 9
I think this is a German tradition (his school is run by Germans) - to find bread shaped like animals on Easter
I tried to keep taking pictures of them to slow them down - they were finding many more eggs than the other kids.
They sang lots of songs for us in Chinese and did some dances, too.
It is hard to get pictures of Eric because he is always moving (unlike Zachary and Ben)
These are the 3 amigos - Eric, Ben, and Jason
This was so funny - these are all from a yogurt drink that Eric loves. He started drinking them in Korea and Johna still sends them in his lunch here. They saved all the containers and did an art project out of them 