4 month stats

A little late but here they are.

Height...24" (50th %)

Weight...14.66 pounds (70th %)

She takes 4 bottles a day and totally sleeps through the night. I hope this doesn't change when she tries to deal with the time change this summer. She is such a good baby. She is very happy and content except when she is sleepy and then she is MOODY! She absolutely loves her brother and grabs at him every chance she gets. It is amazing how long her hair has gotten over the past month. She still has a bald strip in the back, but it is really long and curly everywhere else.

Les calls her "Dawn" King. Because although her hair is curly it does go straight once she lays on it or messes with it and then it sticks out all over the place. I love this little girl!!!

Water Town

This last weekend we decided to visit one of the nearby water towns (think Venice, but not quite as picturesque). There are few to choose from but Zhouzhuang came recommended. It is one of towns that has kept some of its ancient ways and this town dates back to the Ming Dynasty.

It was a really hot day and this place was about as un-stroller friendly as you can imagine. We weren't quite sure how big this town was so we took both strollers. Brycen probably could have walked it, but I don't know if he would have lasted as long as he did.

As soon as we got there we decided to eat the picnic lunch that we had brought. This was all fine until Brycen dropped his "Cars" sippy cup into the canal and started screaming hysterically. Les was looking at me with a look like 'I AM NOT going in there to get a stupid cup'. Luckily, this was also the route where all the gondolas went and one nicely maneuvered over and fetched his cup for him. On we went.

We had a great time looking in all the little shops and I tried as hard as I could to get a picture inside one of the little houses that lined the alleys, but they kept shooing me away. As always the kids drew a crowd everywhere we went so that slowed us down a bit. We took a gondola ride through the little town and it gave us some great pictures.


Entrance to water town

not quite sure the significance of this creature

Gettting his name (Chinese and English) put on a stamp

Hmmm...interesting selection, I think I'll pass

This lady also sang for us. She stopped her song to remind us to pay her money for singing:)

Like I said, we packed our own lunch

Expectations

I have always struggled with knowing when to lower my expectations. Today was one of those days.

I (and all the other mothers) were invited to Brycen's class today for a special Mothers Day presentation. Brycen and I were given an assisgnment ahead of time to come up with a presentation that the two of us could do together to present to his class. We were given 10 minutes and could do anything that represented what Brycen and I liked to do together. For those of you who know me, you know that I don't have one creative bone in my body. So I called on my "creative" friends from home for some inspiration.

In the end we decided to showcase a "day in the life" of Brycen from back home in America. We made a poster board that included lots of pictures that would show his class some of the things he enjoyes doing (skiing, going to the zoo, hiking, Yo Gabba Gabba). So after a darling song by the entire class for us moms it was time for our presentation. Brycen did such a great job explaining to his classmates what he was doing in each picture. We also like to cook together lately and so we decided to make an American Flag cake. I had the cake baked and frosted ahead of time and the strawberries (that are used to make the stripes) sliced and the blueberries (for the stars) all ready to go. All Brycen and I had to do was assemble the cake...

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Not quite how it had all played out in my mind, but none the less we had a great time.