This is our new apartment.  Isn't it lovely?  Ha.  The landlords are rennovating it right now.  They say it will be done in Jan and then we will move in.  It is in our same complex, just 2 buildings down, but has 4 bedrooms instead of 3.  We are dreaming of a boys and girls rooms!!!  I went to take a look 2 weeks ago.  I'll have to go again and get pics this week.  Here is the hallway.

Dining room

Girls Room

Yup, you guessed it.  I'm hoping thats not the toilet we actually get, but well, I guess it will be.

Other bathroom(that I think they are putting in a real tub in!!)

Boys room

Living Room

Smiley boy.  

Soccer Saturday.

This is reading time on moms bed.  I guess when the girl can't read, let alone Chinese comic books, sleep is a good option.  I really like the box she made to sleep in tho!!

Can you see the curl?

Lovely day for a picnic

I always have too many helpers.

Sunday afternoon backyard jump roping.  The little girl and tiny mama will be our new neighbors.



Sound of Music Friday night movie night dancing


Silent excersizes


Jud loves soccer

Little man getting big

Getting ready to cry

There it is

Jud can't keep his hands off Luke

Sweet boy

Nat Shu Shu visits and brings us some fun!

Look at that 2 month belly!

Sunday best

He loves a good bath

First talking!!

And so we did celebrate, a little bit.

Lawrence finally noticed Luke yesterday.  This is him holding him for the first time.  Only took 7 weeks!  All the other kids were outside with Mark and Lawrence heard him crying and went over and said, "He's cute isn' he."  Then he felt bad for him because I was busy so he started to sing to him and wanted to hold him!  Even later, when he was crying again, Lawrence went over and wanted to hold him again!

So, I was going to avoid the holiday here.  I mean, I'm tired, I didn't plan and well, I thought it would be easy as we are not in America.  Thank you very little kindergarten, they talked about the holiday all week and Lawrence was committed to getting some candy.  At first his plan was to go to the neighbors and ask them to give him candy.  When I wouldn't allow it, he decided it would be fine to shut the door of the kitchen and have the kids knock, say trick or treat and for me to give them all some candy.  I was fine with this, but then I thought about Lisa and her love for holidays.  She agreed to let us come across the courtyard and up to her apartment to "trick or treat".  And as you can see below, she made it extra special for us by buying pumpkins to color and some Halloween treats.  

And, you won't believe this, but after we got home I actually got a trick or treater myself!!  Our new downstairs neighbor(we haven't moved yet, but we will, hopefully, move end of Jan or beginning of Feb) in the same complex but to a bigger apartment, and the downstairs neighbors have 2 kids Car and Law's age.  Anyway, that was a run on sentence if ever there was one, but I am sleep deprived and hoping to get to bed now as my hubs has been out of town for 2 days.  OH my, anyway, she came and had a pumpkin to collect candy and even said "trick or treat".  Then she told us we needed to come to her house to collect our treats, to which the kids all screamed, but to which I said, "I'm sorry we are going to bed".    I'll be more prepared next year and more willing to be flexible, hopefully.

This video is mostly for the grandparents.  I was trying to capture our friend ZP reading to Jud, but the lighting is bad.  Luke steals the show at the end, tho I'm warning you its a long footage of the same babes.