Well, it's been over 2 weeks since school started. Happy to report they are still loving it :) Rilynn has started getting homework already! Monday and Wednesday is English, which includes letter worksheets, reading a book, and spelling. Tuesday and Thursday is Math. She has violin 1 1/2 hours per week and 5 formal hours of Chinese. 2nd semester she will start her Chinese homework. Unfortunately, she'll be on her own with that!!!
Since the kids are in school now, all our fun outtings have to be on the weekend.. I had won a family pack to some sort of Kids Exhibit. They had a huge room of bouncy objects, along with rides/games, and some exhibitor booths. Went with our friends and we were the only Western people there. However, it was nice since it actually wasn't that busy and it was air conditioned!
Rilynn climbed the wall all by herself!
They definitely love their bouncy things here!!
Interesting booth, Disney English. All the other kids hopped in the car and drove around. However, for my kids they had to stop at each line and answer a question with a microphone in English. I think the workers were just excited to use their English! LOL
Chinese cops
Later that night we went with our same friends to a Back to School Buffet at Blue Frog (which is a great burger joint). They had a clown, magician, face painting, and a good buffet. The restaurant was in the World Financial Center (the very tall building we went to the top of before). When we walked out of the restaurant we looked up and this was our view. It was pretty cool!! The building on the left is the WFC and the other is the JinMao Tower.
Pearl Tower
Brady had to go through a settling in week so he had a day off when Rilynn went to school. Since it was our last mommy-Brady day I wanted to do something fun and new. The PIXAR exhibit is in town at the Art Center. It was pretty cool and plus Brady loved seeing all his favorite characters!
After the exhibit we went to check out the Hershey Store. I've heard about it, but had never been there. It was a nice change to walk into a store and see so many familiar choices of candy. However, since we have been really strict about no peanuts a lot of my old favorites were off limits :( Chad had to give up his Nutty Bars and I had to give up my Reeses PB cups (and they even had the world's largest one!!!)
We were invited to a shared birthday party at The Activity Box. A fun little indoor play area for the kids. I even made a rainbow birthday cake for the birthday girl. Getting ready to start a little baking business here!
Soccer and Gymnastics started last week. It's right after school on Wednesday. Since they are both at the same time I have to do my share of running between both activities to watch them!! Both seem to be loving them though :)
Last weekend we rented the basketball court for an hour and then went swimming. We also spent some time playing soccer and Chad tried to help Rilynn work on riding her bikes with no training wheels. It was a nice weekend and didn't even have to leave our compound!!
The kids have a short week next week, being off on Monday for a holiday and Friday for a teacher day. Hopefully it will be nice out so we can spend some time at the wave pool!!
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