A day to hang out.

Since Braden had a bit of a fever, we opted to stay in for most of the day.  He was feverish, and had something wonky going on with his belly.  Maybe the shots? or even possibly all the new foods he has tried.  In any event, we hung out in the room most of the day.  My one thrill is when he repeated after me, "Baby" and pointed to himself when looking in a mirror.  It was so very cute.

After a nice lunch of noodle dishes (he loooooves noodles) and dumplings, we walked around a little in a small park across the street.   Small park, with huge urns of flowers.  and lots of workers napping...which was kind of odd.  The heat index was 105, and it was just stifling.
We were practically melting, so we went into 7-11 to check it out, buy some juice.  We swam for a bit, then had some dinner and called it a night.  I fell asleep getting Shu to sleep tonight,  but happily we were table to Skype with the girls before we all hit the sack.



Today is the first day of school for Eva and Nicole, and I am sorry we are not home to celebrate with them.  1st grade!  Wow -  how did that happen?! 
Daddy and I are so very proud of how they have been these past 2 weeks, with our being gone.  They are such big girls, and are going to be fanstastic big sisters.  Shu recngnizes them on screen and points to them.  When he isn;t paying attention to them when we Skype, if they sing "You are my sunshine", he stops and is very attentive.  ( I sing this to him when going to bed... the original and lots of made up versus).
He will so love playing with them.  I know they are looking forward to it so much.  Hopefully he will keep the head butting to a minimum, as that is a facorite game of his with mommy. 

first day of 1st grade!