Alex's New Bike

Romo's gave us their third wheel bike. This hitches on to the back of the adults bike and then they act in tandem. He loves it! We get a lot of looks everytime we use it. It helps us get around town a lot quicker.

Kirk's 40th Birthday

We had a party for Kirk to celebrate his 40th birthday. We had several friends join us for mexican food at Mi Tierra, pretty good food. After dinner, we headed to see Carol at the Cat Bar and did a little dancing. Can't find the picture now, but I had Romo and Roessler's freshman yearbook pictures as a game - guess who the 40yr old is. It was funny! Happy Birthday Kirk, you only get better with age!

Adventures with Grammy in Shanghai

Grammy made her annual trek to see us in Shanghai. We are always to grateful to have her come even though we know it's a tough trip to make.

This time she was a big help because I had to travel to India for work so she helped Kirk out during my absence.

These are some photos of their weekend without me. Kirk took Grammy to a water town - Qibao Ancient Town. I can't say much about this as I've never been here.

Looks like they also make a trip to the Barbie Store on HuaiHai Lu. Poor Alex, he's been here once and he's not a big fan. Although, I think he found some cars to admire. Elizabeth had fun looking around, but she is not a big barbie fan. In fact, I recall that she called me while I was in Jaipur crying because her Daddy wouldn't buy her the Barbie Skateboard :)

Thankful that Grammy visited us! Hope she makes the trek again, I have some new stops to show her.

Concordia Book Parade

I had to travel to India while Grammy was here so she helped me prepare the costumes for the kids book parade at Concordia. Alex was Squeak the Mouse from the book Scaredy Mouse. Kirk made the mask from a pattern I found online. So cute. Elizabeth was Junie B Jones. Her hair is Kirk's mullet. They trimmed it to make it look like Junie's hair. The mullet is no more.

Elizabeth's 7th Birthday Party

Hard to believe that the little peanut turned 7! Here are some pictures and video of her birthday party. She wanted to have an art party. We decided to make sock puppets and then have the girls decorate their own cakes.

Grammy was here and of course was a huge help. One day, we braved a serious downpour of rain and went to Puxi to the art street and bought lots of art supplies and goody bag items. Then we went to the hotel supply store and found small cake pans. I made a monster load of frosting and then we made tons of different colors for the girls to use to decorate.

She invited all the girls from her class and then her other best buddies. The only ones not here were Lucy and Allie and they were traveling and unable to attend.

It rained cats and dogs on the day of the party. The girls had fun making the socks and then put on the puppet show. They had more fun doing the cakes and used a lot of creativity.

Especially happy to be at the party was Alex!