It's hard to believe that 100 posts ago and 2 years ago we started this blog to help document all of our adventures as we headed to Asia. I looked back at the first few posts and realized how much the kids have grown up. It has truly been quite an adventure, and we have loved every minute of it (with the exception of the good-byes). This week the kids were still off from school, but we had classes a few days. We continued to enjoyed a few days of not traveling and just staying at home enjoying the warm weather instead of hot...but Katherine got a little excited about it. She wore so many layers. And even for her, it got to be a little too warm, so she took a few layers off later in the day. They are getting excited about the possibility of some cooler weather headed our way.
Katherine has always had her own sense of fashion and style. She loves to play in her bedroom because there is a big mirror in there. She is constantly changing clothes, fixing her hair, and of coarse DANCING in the mirror. 
We spent many mornings outside. The kids played and Regan bought a banana icecream. I would say banana popscicle, but it's really not that either. It's kindof in between an icecream and a popscicle...more like gelatin in my opinion. Anyways, it tasted good and she let everyone have a taste.
Since there was no homework, the kids also got to enjoy some extra computer time playing some games. Regan also got to have some more time to scrapbook. She is definately addicted.
Lauren enjoyed watching a little extra tv. She actually watched the same one over and over and over again. (which oddly enough is one of the little slogans of the video...."your kids will watch it over and over and over and the parents will love the price") She calls the video "alive" because that is her favorite song on there, but it is a music video by Cedarmont Kids. I even snuck a couple little videos of her singing along.
Jonathan and Benjamin played a little basketball game with some other kids.
Then, our familt went out for a family game of boys vs girls. It was a lot of fun, but we decided to call it quits after everbody got hurt at least once (nothing major....just the normal fouls)
Benjamin has been saving his money up and bought a small lego pirate ship. He did a great job putting it together. I helped with the instructions, but he did the building. Oh, and sorry to all my fellow UT fans for the yellow shorts with the jersey. He loves that shirt and I never know what shorts he will put on with it...it doesn't seem to matter to him. So, he picked the comfy ones :)
The finished product
Our most eventful thing we did was get Lauren her very first REAL haircut. If you remember, she cut her own hair at one point and I was force to trim a curl or two. Well, I decided it was time to make those pigtails the same length, so we went in to have it evened out. Well, as you can see by the look on her face, she panicked!
She cried and screamed and had a death grip on my neck. She realized that I was not going to let her down and she started yelling for Daddy and saying "no, no, haircut!" She was so pitiful.
I thought they did a pretty good job. I was pleased with the result, especially since they are not accustomed to curly hair over here or the texture of blonde hair...plus you add in a screaming, wiggling two year old. Kudos to the haircut guy :)
They were finished and she didn't even know they had started yet. I told her that they were already finshed and she stopped crying immediately. She turned around and saw the result. Hopefully, next time she will no mind so much. Oh, and this is what her hair looks like with all the curls brushed out...but it only takes a little bit for all the tight curls to reform on her little head! :) 
