During
2013/06/12
haircut. needed a change.
Before
During
after
after. I know. it's not a good after pic since you can't really see my hair. I'll work on getting a better one up.
During
2013/06/05
weird food pictures
One of the questions we are asked most frequently is about weird/different things we eat here. We generally can't think of things when we're asked, but here a few recent pictures of some things not common to cuisine in America.
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| James and I saw this on the menu at a restaurant we went to a few weeks ago on our date night. We did NOT order it. |
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| leftover popsicle on her face |
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| leftover GREEN PEA popsicle on her face! |
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| dragon fruit. not so weird and pretty tasty. bright pink on the outside, white with black seeds on the inside. |
Oh how I miss time zones
Time zones. They make it very difficult to figure out who is where and if it is an appropriate time to call someone. However, one drawback of NOT having them (as in the case of China, which should have 4-5) is the fact that it is fully daytime bright by 5:30 am in our city. The other day I was up with Ann at 4:something and it was already getting light. This means my children wake up at 5:30 or shortly after. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
In an attempt to remedy the situation, last weekend I spent some time sewing light-blocking material on the back of the curtains in Catherine's room. (What I actually did was disassemble velvet placemats and reconfigure them to sew on the back of the curtains). Day one of curtain use: Catherine slept until 6:45. I don't think she'll sleep past seven until the summer is over, but I'll take the extra hour or so the "re-purposed" placemats bought me.
I'll take new pictures and post them sometime, but the other thing we did last weekend was re-arrange our house. We have 3 bedrooms, but one is pretty small. James and I have the master. We had Catherine's crib, the dresser/changing table, and all toys in one room, and the double size guest bed and my sewing machine in the other smaller room. Ann had been sleeping in a......I'm going to call it a Chinese version of a bassinet in our room. Our plan was that once she was sleeping through the night, we would move her into Catherine's room, maintaining a guest room. We also would need to get another bed for Catherine.
That plan didn't work for a few reasons. I tried twice to order a toddler bed from taobao and it didn't work either time. Both times there were issues with shipping something that large (a TODDLER bed) to our far-reaches area of China (It's a provincial capital, folks! But, the rest of China thinks we still ride horses and live in tents here). Anyway, we searched the city for a toddler-size bed but couldn't find anything other than twin beds or getting another crib. So, Catherine got a twin bed and Ann gets Catherine's crib.
We decided to put Catherine's bed and the dresser/changing table in the small room and move the guest bed and my sewing machine to the larger room and put Ann's crib there. James was gracious to move almost every piece of furniture in our house :) Now if we have guests we can easily roll Ann's crib to our room and it's just across the hall from us if she does wake in the night, whereas Catherine is a bit farther away, but generally sleeps well. (expect for last night and today at nap time where she was quietly taking out every garment of clothing from every drawer and tub and making a pile with them on the floor of her room).
Now here's to all children sleeping all night long in their new arrangements so mommy and daddy can sleep too!
In an attempt to remedy the situation, last weekend I spent some time sewing light-blocking material on the back of the curtains in Catherine's room. (What I actually did was disassemble velvet placemats and reconfigure them to sew on the back of the curtains). Day one of curtain use: Catherine slept until 6:45. I don't think she'll sleep past seven until the summer is over, but I'll take the extra hour or so the "re-purposed" placemats bought me.
I'll take new pictures and post them sometime, but the other thing we did last weekend was re-arrange our house. We have 3 bedrooms, but one is pretty small. James and I have the master. We had Catherine's crib, the dresser/changing table, and all toys in one room, and the double size guest bed and my sewing machine in the other smaller room. Ann had been sleeping in a......I'm going to call it a Chinese version of a bassinet in our room. Our plan was that once she was sleeping through the night, we would move her into Catherine's room, maintaining a guest room. We also would need to get another bed for Catherine.
That plan didn't work for a few reasons. I tried twice to order a toddler bed from taobao and it didn't work either time. Both times there were issues with shipping something that large (a TODDLER bed) to our far-reaches area of China (It's a provincial capital, folks! But, the rest of China thinks we still ride horses and live in tents here). Anyway, we searched the city for a toddler-size bed but couldn't find anything other than twin beds or getting another crib. So, Catherine got a twin bed and Ann gets Catherine's crib.
We decided to put Catherine's bed and the dresser/changing table in the small room and move the guest bed and my sewing machine to the larger room and put Ann's crib there. James was gracious to move almost every piece of furniture in our house :) Now if we have guests we can easily roll Ann's crib to our room and it's just across the hall from us if she does wake in the night, whereas Catherine is a bit farther away, but generally sleeps well. (expect for last night and today at nap time where she was quietly taking out every garment of clothing from every drawer and tub and making a pile with them on the floor of her room).
Now here's to all children sleeping all night long in their new arrangements so mommy and daddy can sleep too!
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