A couple of recent pics

So I am going to try and do better with posting pictures so here a couple. Below is Will doing his best impressions of Elmo. I think its pretty dead on. :) Also, here is Will with his favorite monthly publication- the Car Movie Magazine! Isn't that cool that they do that here? Each month they feature a different character- this month its Filmore. Only problem is - its all in chinese and I am not so good at reading chinese characters- but we have some local friends to help and of course there's lots of pictures too. So we anxiously await the 23rd of each month. :)

Happy Halloween :)

Happy Halloween! Ok so we're back after a couple month hiatus. Its been a busy couple months to put it lightly but I promise more pics now (sorry grandparents). On Halloween we celebrated with other little friends in the neighborhood- it was wild but fun. Will took advantage of the chaos to eat as much candy as possible (he woke up at 230am that night- I think that would be the exact time the sugar crash happened). As usual when I haven't posted for a while I will suddenly post a ton of pictures- so here goes...

what do you think he is??? (answer to come)

We started off the day with what might be a new tradition for us.. making caramel apples. There aren't traditional pumpkins here to carve so I brought caramels from the US for this halloween activity. It was fun (again Will participated mostly by eating. :))

yum caramel spoon.......
Here we are getting ready- Will getting on his whiskers and nose...

Any idea what we are? (its ok if you don't know- I don't think anyone got it). We are three blind mice. (as Will says "fee bind mice") And we thought we were so clever..... (by the way I am imitating Will's face)

2 mice walking to the party (we got some looks in the elevators)

party fun and chaos!!!

cutey kids
Hope you all had a great halloween too!

What we did this summer #5

This summer....we went to the beach!

It was so so much fun to be at the North Carolina beach- had been awhile since we had been. And Will has never been to the NC beach. He loved it- well not so much the actual ocean/beach part (digging in the sand was fun)- but the salt water he could do without. Instead he preferred to spend his time, in the pools, lazy river, eating, and playing with grandma and grandpa Rowe. But his favorite outdoor activity was surprisingly the hot tub. He didn't want anything to do with the kiddy pool, too cold. Instead after swimming for awhile he would get out and say "hot tubby" and head over. (Don't worry I didn't let him stay in for that long). It was a lot of fun for Den and I too. So relaxing.... here are some pics from that time.

What we did this summer #4

This summer... Will played with his grandparents. Ok was really spoiled by his grandparents :) But hey that is what they are for - who else would let you watch Thomas the Train all day long, give you ice cream at 10am or play with you puzzle after puzzle after puzzle. There are lots of pictures but here are a few.At the beach with Grandma and Grandpa Rowe
Reading a book with Grandpa Rowe
Laughing with Grandma Baker
At the ice cream shop with Grandma and Grandpa Baker and Great Grandma

One more donut picture

I forgot about this one- so add this to the previous post. We should try and get some sponsorship from KK with a kid this cute :) (that's the last thing we need- more donuts!)

What we did this summer #3

This summer... Will discovered a love of Krispy Kreme Donuts. 

(I mean c'mon how can you not love them). He was first introduced at the children's museum where he got to work in a pretend donut shop (how cute!) So then of course we had to drive across town to let him try the real thing.  That was it.. donut is now a new member of his vocabulary.  

What we did this summer #2

This summer: Will celebrated his first ever 4th of July in the USA!!

So I made sure he was wearing his american shirt and got plenty of photos with American flags. We spend a lot of time talking about his Taiwanese/Chinese heritage but its also important to me that he knows that he is also an American- that is part of his heritage too.  So we did up the 4th good- we went to a parade and then to a little 4th of July festival.  It was great- by the end of the day Will was asleep in the car and Den and I were sunburned (how American of us).