Sunday, June 20, 2010

Skunk!

No, this is not a skunk. One of our neighbors brought over this very tame bunny over to show the kids. Katherine was fascinated with it. I have to agree that it was one of the softest rabbits ever and I'm not sure I have seen one so tame. It just sat there, let people hold it, and when they put it down in our backyard, it just hopped around a little and then waited to "go home". Oh, and the kids were already in their pj's when he came over, so don't think that I dressed my child in that as a normal thing :) She picked out her own pj's and got herself dressed (we are in the independent TWO stage)
So, I do have a story about a skunk though. Jonathan and I were up one night and had the windows open for some fresh air. I asked Jonathan if he would go ahead and close the front window. Well, apparently, Jonathan frightened the skunk that happened to be just outside our window. It sprayed it's lovely scent right into our window. We quickly closed all the windows (and our bedroom door so that we could TRY to sleep) We could still smell the skunk a little the next morning, but the smell ooutside was better, so we opened the windows again and are now back to normal.

We made a trip to the Richmond (Chinese) Night Market. It was a late night for the kids, but we all had a good time. It was very crowded by the food stalls (above pic). We learned that if we let Regan lead, we could get through the crowd a little quicker. They had many things that we wanted to try, but with the strollers, did not attempt to get in too many lines. We will have to go back one night without the kids (it's only open on the weekends from 7pm-1am)

The one thing we did get was called hurricane potato fries. It was really good. Basically just a french fry on a stick, but they look neat and it was fun to watch them make these so quickly. You could have them seasoned with salt and ketchup, cheese, BBQ, onion, or chili.

Regan and Benjamin both rode this orbitor ride. Benjmain laughed the entire time. They got Mommy to ride it, too. I thought it would be fun (and it was), but the guy spinning it got such a kick out of the kids laughing at me in the ride that he just kept spinning and spinning and going faster and faster. I finally had to say "OK I'm done." I can tell I'm not a kid anymore. I am STILL sore from riding that crazy thing :)

The kids each got a little beanie baby this week. They have loved them! Regan got a panda. Katherine a pink/purple bear, and Lauren a duck. Benjamin got a dog and he has made it a place to sleep in his room and he takes it on bike rides, etc.

This week was also the Dragon Boat Festival, so we went downtown to watch the races. One of our friends met us down there. It was fun, but not an all day event.

Here is one of the races.

Here is a close up so you can actually see the dragons on the boats. It was neat to see. Each boat had it's own drummer so that the team new when to paddle.

Here is my son singing in Mandarin for Father's Day. He looks like he is the only one not wearing a shirt and tie, but in reality, he already had on a dress shirt and tie and did not want to "borrow" one of the daddy's. The signs that they are holding say, "Jesus loves you. Happy Father's Day"

Lauren was also invited to a birthday party. This was her little buddy. I have tried for weeks to get a picture of them together. Hooray. Success.
After the party we went to McDonald's for some dinner. We saw two very interesting things. One: you have to ring a doorbell to be "buzzed in" to the bathroom. They have cameras in the kitchen so that they can see who wants in to the bathroom. A little different to say the least. Two: they had permanat signs at each table stating that there was a 30 minute time limit to eat your food. Also...strange...to me anyways.

The party was at the park, so naturally, a game of football happened (some with guys we knew, some with others we just met) I love this picture because after watching for a few minutes, Benjmain decided that he's a guy too and he could play football. So, he got out there and just tried to do everything his daddy was doing.

The picture is a little small. But you could see how much fun he was having. Oh. And notice the orange Tennessee shirt. You can take the boy out of Tennessee, but you cannot take Tennessee out of the boy. I bought him a cute Canada shirt this week (on sale because Canada Day is fast approaching...like our 4th of July) I showed it to him and he said, "Hmm. I don't like it." "You don't?" "No, maybe if it had been orange."
Also, Katherine was shouting a cheer. "God is great! He knows best! Goooooo TENNESSEE!" Granddad can be proud. :)