Carrrrrific Birthday

Terryn got invited to a birthday that was today. For the last few days I've been telling him about Cooper's birthday. He was really excited about it. The party's theme was race cars.

We entered through their gate and saw this pretty spectacular contraption in their driveway. Along side it was a "road". We got to find out what all this was for about 30 minutes later.

In the meantime, Terryn had fun playing with all his friends from school. He road on bikes, jumped on the trampoline, ate some food and played on their jungle gym. Then the kiddos put on their swim suits.

The fancy contraption was a car wash.

The kids would ride their bikes through the car wash and get wet by the streams of water, the sponges or the fabric. 

 I think the kid car wash was just about THE COOLEST PARTY IDEA EVER!!!!

 The kids kept going around and around and around in it. They had so much fun.

Some of the kids had some problems turning and they'd knock loose one of the pipes. Some of the parents worked "pipe duty" where they kept connecting the pipes as they'd come apart. It kept them on their toes.

At some point Sean took one of the sponges and started scrubbing Terryn with it. Terryn thought this was great and it started a trend with the other kids.

 It was hilarious to watch the kids scrubbing themselves through the car wash.

 The kids played in the water for a long time.

 Then it was snack time and time for cup cakes.

 Everybody sang happy birthday to Cooper who was turning 3.

 Then Cooper, or rather his sisters, blew out the candles.

 Terryn enjoyed licking the icing off his cupcake.

 

We really had a great time at Cooper's party. I was really sad that I didn't get to know Cooper's parents earlier. I really liked meeting Kelly, his mom. She was awesome. I could have seen us being good friends. Sigh... I will miss it here.

Kelly gave all the kids a parting gift. There were a few car toys inside and then an awesome custom T-shirt. Seriously?! How rockin' is that?!!! I think this was probably one of the best kid's parties I have ever been to.... EVER! Don't be mad Kelly if I steal your idea for some future get-together.

Brother in Pajamas

The other day I was buying some clothes for the kids. 

I happened upon some PJs in sizes for both Terryn and Jayce that were the same. It's difficult to find PJs here anyway so I jumped all over that.

When I showed Terryn that both him and Jayce had the same PJs, he giggled and got excited. So last night we had them wear them.

They were being so cute together. Terryn was playing with his GeoTrax and Jayce was watching with such interest. It was adorable. Then Terryn wanted to hold "Baby Base", so I grabbed my camera and had him hold the baby.

Terryn kept doing his cheeser smile and holding Jayce's face all weird, but I managed to get a few decent shots of them.

Jayce has been standing on his own for awhile now. Sean said that last night he actually got up to a standing position from a squat all by himself and without holding on to anything.

I told my mom that he's probably going to start walking while we're staying with her. Then, nothing will be safe. This little guy likes to get into everything! But he sure is cute!

Changed again

Wow. For those of you who've been following the blog... I guess you've been on the roller coaster ride along with us. We keep flip-flopping between places and it hasn't been entirely our fault.

I want to say that THIS place is for sure, but I've already been made a liar twice with that statement. So Hong Kong is OUT. Now... what we think is for sure is New York/ New Jersey. We will have a brief stay in the Seattle area to arrange our affairs and then it's off to find housing in probably the New Jersey area near Newark.

This whole process of moving and trying to find a job has been excruciatingly painful. We've been so stressed out. All this uncertainty has definitely taken it's toll. We're literally leaving the country in 7 days and haven't finished packing. I'm kinda mad now because Sean changed his mind about having movers pack our stuff. I've wasted money and a LOT of time packing up stuff... that in fact I didn't need to pack. I could have spent that time saying goodbye to friends or researching places to live.

Once we're settled into our new place and with Sean working in his new job... I'll finally believe that this madness is over. I feel like the universe has been conspiring against us in someway so it's hard for me to let my guard down now and think we're safe. The saddest part is I'm afraid the horrendous events of the last 5 months will somehow jade the awesome and epic time we've spent here. We've had such a great time living overseas. Unfortunately the bureaucracy totally messed things up for us a couple times and made things SUPER complicated when it didn't have to be.

So I guess I can stop packing and try to relax. And maybe keep Terryn from packing himself up in a box...

We're looking forward to seeing our friends and family again. Sorry for telling you all a million different places we were moving.