HKG129: Kennedy Town

beautiful s1 playing on the "speakers" with olivia

beautiful s2 playing with a bowling pin feature on part of the play equipment

a whole bunch of adorable and hungry kids gnoshing on some lunch fixin's

cranky bug. i told her to find something besides the monkey bars to do b/c they were too high up and i had to keep leaving q-whose-middle-name-should-be-danger to help her up there only to have her slip and fall off the first rung b/c it was so incredibly hot and her little hands were so sweaty.

beautiful bug listening to her friend, s, on the speaker

leave it to q to find the dirt and start excavating. this kid loves him some dirt. he's going to have a field day when we move back to texas and he realizes he has an acre of space to dig.

q chillin' out at the mahjong table at belcher bay park

q on a springy motorcycle

q was having a game by himself at our building playground tonight...he was pretending the drainage grate is a train track and was helping arthur out of an emergency.

today we headed into kennedy town with our chicago friends to check out the kennedy town swimming pool. the pool area has a really big lap pool and a smaller kids' pool that is AWESOME for small kids. the girls are getting to the age were it might have been a little bit boring for them, but they hung in there and were happy campers. the boys had a ball. after playing at the pool for an hour, we headed in to belcher bay park to have a picnic lunch and play for a bit until it was time to go home. it was super duper hot today. this afternoon, my friend forwarded me some information about the apparent temp...it was 107 today. bleh.

this afternoon, we got out for some quick errands and to visit our favorite shop cats. we got to pet and play with the 25yo kitty that looks just like la fu...she was pretty majorly affectionate with olivia. in fact, when olivia tried to walk out of the office, the kitty wanted to go with her.

tonight, the kids are having a sleepover of their own. i am thinking that livie really enjoys sharing a room. we might have to look into letting them share on a regular basis. quinn seems to like the company, too. q's room is so tiny, though, that livie is shoved into a corner on a couch cushion...if we were to make this a more permanent situation, we'd need to move both of them to olivia's room, which is much bigger.