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Kiddo takes the wheel

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There are always new things in life, especially on our adventure.  All the big things I’ve talked about; Languages, cultures, weather, the cities and flow of life/traffic/people, and all the rest.  There’s also the small things.  We’ve changed deodorants and toothpastes a few times in the last few years, dental floss, shampoo, and (for the ladies) conditioner.  Then there’s hand soaps, dish soaps, laundry soap, and even counter cleaner.  We are constantly trying new rice brands until we find the one we like.  Everyday is a new thing.  Every day is trying something new. Kiddo, with our watching of Top Chef, is expanding her vocabulary of food and tastes, but she’s also opening her mind to food a bit.  We took her out, the other night, to a little place J and I found a while back.  We figured she wouldn’t like it, as it is VERY Chinese in presentation and flavors.  We didn’t get pics of food, we we’re eating, but we got a potato thing in...
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Cooking up a Kiddo

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Every night, for a long time now, we have screen time with Kiddo.  When she was little, like two and a half or so, she loved the Red Hot Chili Peppers and we would find live footage and songs on YouTube and play those for her and bop along with her.  Cheap parent hack, if you need it.  Three songs.  Lots of energy, but not ramping her up to the point of ecstasy where she wouldn’t crash after a cooldown of brushing teeth and some goodnight kisses and questions.  Aside: Kids, at bedtime, seem to suddenly have approximately 4.7 Quartrillion questions to ask on all manner of subjects.  End Aside.  We moved a lost that a bit, with the set up on the living room and space we had, but it was always there; Sometimes laying in bed with her and the iPad, sometimes on the computer screen, sometimes bunched up in the living room around the TV there.   On vacations and traveling, we will do the same, sitting or laying in bed together, Kiddo in the middle of J a...
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Spooky Sports Doctoring

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Not only was yesterday Halloween, but it was also Sports Day at SMIC.  Sports Day is a completion between classes and a big deal.  There is a 50m race, relay race, tug of war and a few other things.  The kids always look forward to it, although J is always run ragged by it.  It’s fun, though, and the kids are off the walls for it.  Last year, Kiddo ran in the relay for her class, but this year, she was the fastest girl in her class during trials and she was the ET3E 50m runner.  She got a bad start and almost falser started and then hesitated and then ran, so she finished last, but it was a good showing, even with the stumble at the start.  Her class dominated the tug of war events, however.  As you can see, it’s all smiles. The kids have a half day and so at 11:45, I picked up Kiddo and we met J for a lunch before she headed back to do teacher stuff and Kiddo and I headed home to do home stuff.  I don’t know who’s day was busier.  J h...
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