Lets Go Kiddo

Last blog, I mentioned that Kiddo had Spirit Week at school.  I got pics from PJ Day and Crazy Hair day.  Hope y’all enjoy! There is some bad news as well.  The fish friends didn’t survive.  It was no fault of Kiddo.  She was great with them.  After a tank cleaning though, all the fish went belly up.  I helped her clean.  We didn’t use chemicals.  We rinsed out the rocks and gravel.  We cleaned the filters.  We added water and got the filters and things running.  We let the heater run to get the water to temp, but after transferring back, they didn’t survive.  Kiddo was heartbroken.  In all honesty, so was I in a small way.  Fish are hard though, as Kiddo was hoping for something a bit more interactive.  Since we have an aquarium and are 90% of the way there, we settled on turtles.  Two little box turtles will be coming into our lives.  Easy to care for.  Quite.  They can live in the aq...

We’ve made it through winter and spring is in the air.  Mostly, that means it’s rainy and damp, but we’ve had some nice weather as well.  The weekend before last is was 27ish all weekend (81-83F) and we took some time to take advantage of the weather.  As you can see, Kiddo was in her element and just having a ball.  We also did the library and a few other things as the weather was nice.   Since then we’ve gotten rain and misty weather (think Seattle) and that’s been fine as well since temps have ben 12-19 degrees (55-68ish F) and it’s not exactly shorts and teeshirt weather, but not cold either.  We’ve still gotten out and had some fun, getting to do some drum practice, having soup dumplings, and generally just having a time of it. The real big news is that it is International Week at school.  Yesterday was Career Day, so Kiddo dressed as a vet (sorry, no pics) and today is Jammies Day, so Kiddo got to pick some jammies to rock all day.  She i...

One of the changes we made upon getting to China was to cancel the Netflix subscription.  It’s a weird thing for me to be without that.  After 20 years, I canceled my membership.  It just wasn’t worth it any longer.  Not the price, nor the content.   During our summer, we also upgraded our tech.  With that, we got a few free months of AppleTV+ and gave it a try.  Our good friend, B Schmittah, told us about content we needed to see; Ted Lasso , Shrinking , and some of the nature docs.  We ended up just keeping the service and we’re all loving it.  J and I loved the shows named above and Kiddo and the family watch the docs at night as a family before Kiddo brushes and does bed.   I mention this because of Ted Lasso .  There is a scene in the first season that kind of speaks to us.  To what we are doing and how we think.  Of what we try to teach Kiddo. “Be curious, not judgmental.” — Walt Whitman J and I were both raise...

I’m waiting on pics from J on one our adventures, to the aquarium, but she took a ton, so that will have to wait a bit.  Maybe next post.  Mostly, what we did was play with Kiddo all break.  Had some adventures.  Kind of just hung out as a family. Back in Cali, Kiddo had magnet tiles and loved them.  She was reminiscing one day just before break about those and how she wished with had brought them with so she cold build and make things for her friends…. A school or a restaurant our whatever her little imagination was dreaming up that day.  So, for a CNY gift, we got her some magnet tiles.  They’ve been a big hit and she spent a lot of time during the break just building and playing and imagining.  It was fun to fall into the world with her and just sit on the floor and play. We walked a lot.  Went to a lot of little parks around us.  We found restaurants and little eateries around us or near where we were exploring and just tried foo...