Atlanta Day 1 and Day 2

We're here in Atlanta on our Spring Break. Most of Day 1 was spent driving down so nothing really interesting to talk about. Our hotel, is the Hyatt Place in Buckhead. Its pretty spacious and fairly clean, free internet (yay!), and a pretty decent continental breakfast. And free parking is a big plus

Day 2: Aquarium, American Girl
We spent about 5 hours at the Aquarium, which is I think a record for us. Carter really surprised us by wanting to touch all the various aquatic animals in the touching areas. We touched a sting ray, horse shot crab, and a bunch of different anemones. We even got to check out a 4D movie, which I thought was pretty neat Go Carter!

Just think, that there was no possible way to top off a day at the Aquarium, we took the girls to a special treat at the American Girl store in Atlanta. I'm not sure what appeal those dolls hold but Katie and Maddie are such wonderful kids, I think they deserve a little bit of materialistic encouragement from time to time

We got to eat there too:

OCD to the Extreme

Here's Carter cleaning his bath toys...

Good manners start young...

This morning while we were getting ready, I was in the laundry room putting some things in the dryer, Jenny was dressing Katie in Katie's room, when I heard the toilet seat go "thunk". Surprised and curious (because I heard no one walk to the bathroom) I walked over and saw Carter taking himself pee-pee potty. After he was done, he puts the seat back down and runs off, giggling. I was like uh-oh, he probably made a big mess and as I peered into the bathroom I saw nothing...way to go son!

Weekend udpates

Here's the conversation that Carter and I had this morning before breakfast:

Carter:I want to eat over there(pointing to the living room)
Me:No, buddy, we should eat at the green table
Carter:My baby che-che over there. I want to eat over there(pointing again to the living room)
Me:No, buddy, we really should eat at the green table
Carter:OK. Just joking!

I think he's gonna turn out to be a wise guy...he just always says the funniest things, I wish I could write them all down. He's probably the most helpful 2 year old(ahem, excuse me, 2 and half) I've ever met. Every time I yawn, he asks "You tired dada?" or when I'm trying to fix something around the house I hear him come over and he always ask "My help dada fix it?". And when something doesn't work "Oh No. It no working!"

Then there is this thing about water, my goodness, he loves drinking water and at all weird hours of the day(I've heard it from him during the middle of the nap and also in the middle of the night). It haunts me : "I need waltar!"

He makes life exciting, that's for sure



Also Katie and I was able to enjoy some alone time together because Jenny had bought us tickets to the Cinderella ballet at the Progress Energy Center. We both enjoyed it and I have to give props to the pianist who provided all the music, by himself, the entire time. Simply amazing

Carter Has an Opinion

One of my favorite stages of our kids growing up is when they start to communicate verbally. It has been a long time since Katie said "tomoyo" for "tomorrow," or "you talk like a joke" for "you are funny." Carter's vocabulary has exploded recently, thanks to his friends at school. This is a recent conversation we had:


Me: Katie, do you want to go back to Taiwan this summer?

Katie: No, I want to go to Disney instead.

Carter: I want to go to Disney.

**Me thinking: WOW, Carter remembers our Disney trip from almost a year ago.**

Carter: I want to buy BIG che-che.
(che-che is car in Chinese, he likes to say the word "big" very dramatically)

OK, I get it...Carter thinks we are going to the Disney store in the mall.