HKG180: Sunday Fun

q getting his cadillac hair cut on saturday. josh mentioned that this place was more than 3x as expensive as the place we have been taking q. they did a much better job on his hair, and he did get to watch thomas while he was getting his hair cut, but still....that's a lot of cash for a baby boy haircut (around 40 USD compared to the 12 USD we had been spending!).

today, we putzed around the apartment for a good bit of the morning, and then josh got the kiddos out for some fun at playtown and for lunch while i sat around on my tukus, got a few things done at the house, and then went school shoe shopping for olivia. i decided to not mess with the markets and instead went to our local department store, wing on. it was all kinds of crazy in the kids' shoe department, and it took me a bit of time and several tries to get shoes for the kids...many styles were sold out. i think this was probably still more efficient than hunting and pecking through the markets and trying to haggle. i am really bad at haggling.

this evening, josh got the kids down to the pool and playground while i got livie's stuff labeled, her bag set up for school, and packed her first big-girl school lunch. i put a note in her lunch...given her recent reading prowess, i am SUPER excited to know she will be able to read it all on her own/privately when she opens her lunch box. it's no biggie...just telling her that q and i miss her, but i am excited that she will get to tell herself that instead of having a teacher read it to her.

all evening, q's been telling us he wants to go to school. we have not put him on a wait list anywhere. he's supposed to get priority at livie's school, but that only applies if you actually put him on the list. he misses the entrance age cutoff by 5 days for her school...i am reasonably sure they would make an exception, but i still haven't put him on the list.

tomorrow, all four of us will cab it to drop livie off for her first day...i was unable to confirm bus service for monday. it will be fun to kick off the big event with all of us, though i totally anticipate a BUNCH of tears from q...and probably some from me, too.