Well, this past week was the last week of all the kids being out of school. In one way, it will be nice to be back in our routines again, but I will miss seeing all of Regan's friends. She has had so much fun playing with them these past few weeks. The local kids are in school long hours and they have lots of homework. So during the schoolyear, there is not much time for play. These girls spent many hours in our home and many hours playing outside with Regan. We also got really spoiled this past week because the temperature was around 80 all week. We even turned our AC on one night. This lovely weather did not last long. Yesterday it turned cold again.
Just before school started back, we went to our favorite noodle shop. We were the only customers because many places were still closed for the new year and many people were still away on holiday. The kids loved it. I would blame the messy eater above on the chopsticks, but this is how her area looks when using a spoon or fork, too. She is actually pretty good at the chopsticks.
Todayis also Valentine's Day. It is not celebrated here, so I did not think much about it. THe kids did not forget. They made cards for all their friends and Benjamin dressed up for the occassion. He said it was a "special day" :) Jonathan managed to surprise me once again with a hand made card and some little "gift certificates" inside...one of my favorites was "can be redeemed daily: Good for 1 get out of dirty diaper duty" :) Also, this morning Benjamin said, "Mommy, you look very pretty today." I thought Jonathan put him up to it, but it was all on his own...what a sweet boy!
This was the other exciting event. The tiles just started falling off od the building that we live in. It was crazy. This is our neighbor's door (and Benjamin by the elevator). I guess not everything like the sudden weather change :)
This was the mess after they stopped falling. I did learn how to find out if it was about to fall off...the kids have been trying it out everywhere. If you tap with your finger and it sounds hollow, it will fall off soon. If it sounds like concrete wall should sound, you are good to go. All of the ones by our door sounded good. Then my neighbor told me that it was because they all fell off just before we moved in and they have already been replaced!
I got a kick out of the maintance guy making sure that no more would fall from above the doorway and potentially hurt someone. Who needs a ladder?
And this is the picture that I forgot to post past week. Our door decoration made especially for our family by our neighbor.
