Yes, you saw it correctly. We have had ANOTHER holiday (and we have one next week, too). This one was National Children's Day and it's a day all about kids. We did not know until the day before that we were supposed to come to Katherine's school again for some games and prizes. We did not know until that day that the entire morning was games and then they go home with their parents/ grandparents. So, After the fun, Katherine came to class with me. :) The older two kids had a swim day at school. The local kids also get to go shopping on this day and their parents will by them just about anything they want. Our kids get Christmas presents, so we just tried to make it a fun week.
She had so much fun playing all of the little games. It reminded me of a fall festival in the States. If you won the game, they gave you these little pink tickets. You could then go to the little prize store to pick out your prize...that part was similar to ChuckECheese.
Katherine was really smart. She tried all the games, but then she went back to the ones that she knew she would win/beat the other kids at so that she could win more tickets. She only got to play this game once, was very good at it. She had to throw balls into the trashcan that I was holding. She got 5 in very quickly :)
Here is one of her prizes that she got...this one was the most expensive...it cost her 6 tickets :) She also got a party blower and a monkey mask and these hand clapper things. 
This is Katherine's best friend in her class. Well, there is another little girl that is a foreigner also, so they stay pretty close, but the other foriegn girl was gone for several weeks and it forced Katherine to make new friends. It was really good for her and now she has many friends, but this little girl is her favorite. I think it is funny because they are both so shy...I guess that's why they hit it off so well.
The kids got new swimsuits and got to go swimming again. I guess it has been hot enough for the local people now because the pool has been crowded. Although this week, we were trying to figure out how to shield the little ones a bit. There were SEVERAL boys swimming in the nude or in only underwear. We tried to stay in a different part of the pool, but these boys kept running from one section of the pool to another section of the pool and playing chase and jumping in. Oh well. I really think only one of my kids noticed (or at least only one of them asked about it) Maybe they will come with swimsuits next time :) 
In honor of Children's Day, we thought it would be appropriate to make cupcakes and let the kids decorate them however they wanted to. So they all had lots of sprinkles!
Our neighbor came over after she ate dinner and decorated some to take back to her house. I think she likes the sprinkles the best! She always uses tons of them.
The other adventure this week...Lauren cut her own hair! Let me just say that it is not fun waking up at 6AM to "Mom! Lauren cut her hair!!" It really wasn't as bad as I had imagined and it actually forced me to even up some of those curls in the back. I was going to take her in somewhere to get it done but chikened out...I saw all these cute little gilrs getting their heads shaved because it is hot outside and I could just picture them doing that to my little culey locks. So, instead, I tried my best to cut off as little as possible :)
Also, later in the week, we got a phone call that Katherine was not feeling well at school and we needed to come and pick her up. You can always tell when a kid has a fever around here because they always put these little things on their forheads to cool them down. It was really high (103.5F) We still don't know what caused it, but we gave her some Motrin, she slept, and was 100% herself afterwards.
This week, Kung Fu Panda 2 came out at the theaters. We have never been to a theater here and thought it would be a fun family thing...in English! We had to wait a few minutes to get in....we were doing it American style...you know, go by popcorn and drinks and get there about 30 minutes early to watch the previews. Nope. Not that way here! You can not go in until 10 minutes befor ethe movie and you have assigned seats (and there were no previews) 
We had a lot of fun and yes...it was in 3D. I'm not sur eLauren knew what to think at first, but she laughed with everyone else.
Katherine holding the popcorn...which by the way is also NOT the same as the States. This popcorn was more sweet.
Enjoying the show!Oh, and I forgot to tell everyone last week that Regan and Benjamin has Spirit Week at school. They had a lot of fun with it but I think crazy hair day was my favorite. They also had: When I Grow up day, My country day, PJ day, and school colors day. So enjoy their crazy hair....we postponed Benjamin's haircut by a week just so he could have a mohawk for this day!
