Friday, October 21, 2011

HKG235: Fun Friday and a REVEAL

q and a friend at lego class this morning

q playing in waffle's soft-sided carrier. i am still not sure how my gigantic kid fit into this carrier with only his head sticking out!

hilarious video of livie running laps/exercising. i almost fell off my bench laughing at the look on her little face while she was running.

well, my big plans for going to the wetland park were kinda bust today. i forgot about q's lego class. since it's a class we paid a good bit for, it just didn't make sense to blow it off, and it ends late enough that getting out to the wetland park afterward (and avoiding meltdowns/other issues) would be a challenge. instead, we will head to the wetland park sometime this weekend.

while q was having fun in his lego class, livie and i had a bit of a mommy-daughter date. we checked out another pet store...this is probably the fifth pet store we've been to in the last couple weeks. why, you ask? because we're trying to find an approved travel carrier for waffle. why, you ask?
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BECAUSE WE'RE COMING HOME!!!! it's a long story that deserves its own tab, really, but the lowdown is this: we will be back in pville in less than sixty days. and, oh holy hell do i have a lot of stuff to do in the mean time. despite the fact that our apartment is about a third the size of our house in pville, it is turning out to be much more of a big-fat-hairy deal to move from here back to texas than it was to move from texas to here.

so, livie and i did find the correct carrier for waffle and ordered it before we headed over to the spinny park for some playtime before it was time to pick up q from his class. livie had a ball entertaining me at the spinny park. it was really nice to be able to focus on her without any extra drama or competition. so much of the time, she ramps up the silly/obnoxious to try to get attention on her instead of q, and it's exhausting. since she's in school, i don't get the 1-on-1 time with her, so i rarely get to appreciate her silliness without there being some kind of spin on it. it was very nice to just enjoy her today.

q had a great time at lego class. we tried to stop at the flying pan for lunch, but it was packed, so we just headed home for lunch and nap. this afternoon, the kids monkeyed around while i did some move-related stuff, and then we headed out to the shake-shake bridge playground for some late-afternoon play time. it was a great day!

4 comments:

  1. I LOVE the picture of James I mean Quinn in the cat carrier. haha :)

    Livie is so adorable. She is so tall now! The cough-burp-sneeze... hehe too cute.

    OMG YOU'RE COMING HOME! Any chance you're stopping in MD on the way to TX?

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  2. sadly, no...our trip will take us through chicago. cathay pacific just started offering this non-stop flight between hong kong and chicago, and since it's a short 2.5 hour flight from chicago to austin, we chose to fly this route instead of LA or NY...that way, we aren't facing another five-ish hours in a plane after the initial 14ish hours. i am sure we will be in MD this coming summer, and i would love to visit you guys when we are in MD. we miss you!

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  3. yayayayyayayayayayayay....also for the shortened trip. can't wait to see you guys!

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  4. yay the cats out of the bag so you can't take it back you have to come home no matter what now

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