Blowing kisses

Finally got around to uploading some more video. We've been busy as of late. Kai is learning things faster than I can keep track of them these days. He's working on shapes and colors and loves puzzles.

The cow's "moo" sound is mastered, but for lions/tigers/bears it's a big open mouth with just heaving breathing noises. We heard the first real sentences in both English and Mandarin. In English it was, "I see Mama." In Mandarin it was, "this is my sister."

Another favorite activity of late is "reading" books to Elmo (or trying to get the big Elmo doll to read a book to the baby Elmo doll).

The paparazzi...

 While in China, we experienced a different kind of paparazzi. But this is Kai trying to deal with the local paparazzi...aka Mom.

On the topic of pictures, we're on our fourth camera in two months. Can't seem to find one that consistently takes good pictures. We started out with Canon, but eventually Hong's Sony bias took over. We're on the second Sony, and it too may be on it's way back to the store.

We're not selling anything...

 Kai loves appoaching neighbor's houses. This friendly neighbor even has a "No Soliciting" sign, but that was no deterrent to Kai. If you see us coming, no worries...we're just out to say "Hello!" And if you're not home, we might just use your front step to take a rest.

Another snow day

Not quite as much tubing as we'd have liked, but we got our feet wet.

A few more pics are posted as well.

Roll call

Found (humor) in translation

Yes, this is a roll of TP...





This ad was on the side of a number of ice cream stands around the city...


An item slightly out of place in the young children's DVD isle...


My personal favorite...Mickey cheering you on in a game of Whac-A-Mole. I'm told there's actually an advertisement for a brokerage on the game and it roughly translates to "risk free investment, join today."

Please, no chicken feet

Our friend Nic was asking about the food in China, so I promised to take a few photos for him. Here is a food mall we ate at--a stretch of maybe 40 restaurants or so. Each has one or two folks out front to try to sell you on the idea of eating at their joint. It looks a little sketchy, but the food is good. Of course I'd recommend not drinking the tap water. And taking Hong's mom along to sterilize your eating utensils probably helps too.

It's true that food in China is much better than Chinese food in the U.S. The opposite is true as well--American food is much better here than in China. I admit that we ate at Pizza Hut--it was terrible. Hong's dad also

got us McD's for breakfast one day and I couldn't bring myself to eat it.