Winter Break - Part 2

I dropped baby M off at school and brought big sister K into the office with me on Tuesday and Wednesday since many people were off and I figured she wouldn't be too much of a nuisance.  She spent most of the morning on Tuesday drawing and coloring before I made her practice writing her Chinese words.  For lunch, our choices at the cafeteria were limited, so we took a short drive to the mall for some shopping and pizza.  When we got back, she practiced her Chinese for the rest of the afternoon, and before we knew it, it was time to go home.

On Wednesday, big sister K spent the morning drawing and playing with my calculator (it's amazing how much time she spends amusing herself with that gadget).  I packed us some peanut butter sandwiches for lunch, so we ate those in the cafeteria before heading off to Barnes and Noble (needed to break up the monotony so that she wouldn't be stuck in the office all day).  The rest of the afternoon flew by that I don't even remember what we did.  When we got home, I gave them a rare treat and let them watch Planes: Fire and Rescue.  The kids went to sleep at their usual time that night (M and I didn't bother trying to keep them up).  I however, had good intentions of staying up until midnight myself, but exhaustion took over and I fell asleep after putting the kids to bed... when I woke up, it was 12:48am already.  Missed the ball drop, so I went back to sleep.

Thursday was New Year's Day.  We kept it low-key and just went shopping at Target to take advantage of some after-Christmas sales.  We had to buy some Christmas lights to replace the ones that were chewed through by some annoying outdoor pests (we suspect squirrels).  Hopefully these will fare better than the last ones did.

The G family made the trek into the burbs on Friday to visit us.  We had lunch at Olive Garden, followed by two hours of fun at a bounce house, and then spent the rest of the afternoon/evening at our place.  As always, it was nice catching up with my "ah jah."

What a great shot of the kids here... too bad we're missing baby M.  Ironically, he was the one who spent all his time throwing footballs/basketballs (too chicken to bounce) while the other kids enjoyed all the other apparatuses there.

 Posing in front of baby M's huge gift.  He couldn't wait to tear it open.

Kids all smiles!  Again, missing baby M here!