West Coast Park

We had a great weekend of playing and having fun.  We tried a new park Saturday, West Coast Park.  Jack and Ainsley enjoyed playing in the sand but Kara is not a fan of sand these days so she opted for playing away from the sand.  Overall a great weekend with moments of love spread around lots of sibling arguments :-)

Sneak Attack - (by Matt)

I was thinking about some funny times and decided to post some pictures i think are super funny of Kara, one is not Kara, rather Ainsley, which one is it.... :)

Kara being shy.... 

 Barb (er, i mean kara) with an attitude...

Well she wasn't the best picture taker as a baby....

And she LOVED her passie...

Bye Bye Grandma D

 Grandma D is back in Ohio.  We had a great visit with her and miss her already!

Grandma D is Here!

Grandma D made it safely to Singapore early Friday morning and we are enjoying having her here.  We have kept her busy with a trip to the zoo, swimming, shopping at IKEA and lots of playing, but we have been bad at getting pictures.  We did manage to get a photo at the zoo entrance, the girls were excited to ride the cow outside of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

This week will be a short week as we will leave Friday morning for a vacation to Langkawi, Malaysia.

New Apartment

Our move is finally complete! We moved from our unit in Summer block to a unit in Spring block. The move took a total of three days and we are now approximately 50 yards closer to Orchard Boulevard. The move was fairly painless, just a few minor issues along the way. The kids are pretty excited about the new place because the layout gives them more room to run around!  Ainsley likes to say "we live in seven instead of eight" since we are on the seventh floor now, rather than the eighth floor.

The old place during packing day:

A virtual tour of our new apartment during the move and after...

The living room before anything was moved in:

Our new view is looking at the pool and common areas (it was raining when I took this so it looks dreary!):

The family room with Kara throwing a fit (you can't see her face but she is screaming):

The dining room (the kitchen is the first door on the left and the guest room is the second door on the left):

The girls room:

Jack's room:

Master room:

The kid's playroom:

The living room with everything finally set up (complete with Matt's new toy, an Apple TV.  I think we could write an entire blog post on how much we love the Apple TV):

Living room with our view:

We are happy in our new place and appreciate the new layout with extra space.  We love our new view of the other side than what we had before and we are glad we got to stay in the Four Seasons.  Matt says he absolutely loves the new place.  I like it, but I am a little sad about leaving our old place.  Lots of memories there, and a place we called home for two years.  For Jack and Kara it was the only home they knew!  But the new place is starting to grow on me and we will enjoy it for the remainder of our time in Singapore.  The next time we pack up to move it will be a much bigger endeavor than just moving across the complex :-)

On Sunday we went to a birthday party for one of Jack & Kara's friends.  All three had a ton of fun.  Jack especially LOVED the ball pit.  He stayed in there for about an hour.

Jack and Kara dancing:

Ainsley's new thing is climbing.  She climbs everything.  At home she climbs on top of the cabinets. the washing machine, furniture, toys, etc.  On the playground she somehow climbs to the top of the entire structure (and gives me a heart attack) and tries to climb trees and lamp posts.  At this play gym instead of climbing the normal stuff, she was trying to scale the walls of the entire structure that is surrounded by this netting.  Again giving me a heart attack.

Slight Correction

While Jack's video is exactly as the title says (not very exciting) it isn't the one I intended to upload. The one that was uploaded isn't un-exciting, it is downright boring! The video posted is one of Jack helping me cook and he is eating oregano and "chopping" it with his plastic knife. The one we intended to upload was him playing in his room but apparently the file was too big. Instead of changing the title of the previous post to "Dreadfully Boring" I decided to point out a slight correction :-)

Not very exciting video

Since Jack hasn't had a video post this week we shot a short bit of him after bath tonight. It is not exciting, but we wanted to give him the same blog fame the girls got this week :-)


We have also decided that March 7th will be our annual holiday celebrating the day that all three kids started get along and not cry in significant amounts. We feel like now we may of been somewhat smart in having them all so close in age and not the idiots we were beginning to thing we were!

Oh, and one cute picture from today, taken with my iPhone at the grocery store. Believe it or not, we did all of our grocery shopping like this with not one protest. The only request is that all three wanted their own can of Pringles. Seemed like a small request that made a quiet shopping trip worth it.