Short Weekend

While our friends in the US enjoy a long Memorial day weekend, we had a normal weekend. We had planned to go to a Memorial day bbq at one of the American bases, but changed our minds because it was too far to travel. We ended up having a great weekend of the usual family stuff.

By the way, update on our sleeping debacle... Kara's outbursts seem to have gotten less frequent and separating Jack and Kara has turned out to be the golden ticket. Also, we bought some fans and put in the kid's rooms and leave them running all night to make just enough noise to mask whatever is going on outside the room. We are still waking up early, but the clock doesn't have a 4 at the front of it when we open our eyes, so that is a huge improvement from a week ago :-)

The highlight of Ainsley's weekend was her friend Ben's birthday party. She talked about going all day Saturday and was so excited when we finally went. You can see below she is not about to let the birthday cake out of sight as that was the second most important part of her weekend.


Displaying her artistic side during the party...

Ainsley on the subway ("choo choo train" as she calls it) on our way to Carrefour (basically Wal-Mart) where we end up buying the shoes displayed in the video below.


We picked out the shoes because they were pink and had Mickey Mouse (and I personally liked how cheap they were since she will grow out of them before Carrefour even gets around to recognizing the revenue from the purchase). After I put them on her feet to make sure we had the right size (size 27 in Singapore) the magic happened and there was no way she was walking out of the store without the shoes.