I hope B doesn't get jealous but I have made plans to take the kids into the city tomorrow morning to go to the Hong Kong Zoo and Botanical Gardens. It will be their first time to ride the ferry and their first time to go to the city. It should be fun... I am really interested to see how the kids do!

A new friend of mine mentioned that she wanted to go there sometime and didn't think her husband would ever care to go so I jumped on it and asked if she'd come with me and my kids. She said yes! So I pressed on and said "how about tomorrow?" And she said yes again. Woohoo! So I have spent some time this afternoon researching what bus we need and the schedule of said bus and reading reviews of the park to see what all is there. Admission is free: bonus. The bus we need is going to take us on a really cool drive through the Midlevels and the stops are located so we won't need to walk far and I won't have to bring a stroller: double bonus.

My kids are tired. I am weaning D from his daily nap since he's starting afternoon play school in a week. So he's a crazy person by dinner time. He spilled his drink twice tonight during dinner. Can you say delirious? And G is just still off from the jet lag. Sleep begets sleep is the word on the street. Well lack of sleep begets less sleep and that's where we're at with her. She got off the bus from school today at 4:25 and when we got upstairs into our apartment she asked for her jammies. And to take a rest on the couch. They were in bed by 7:30 tonight.

G has made a new little friend. (And I am working at making friends with her mommy.) We had a play date today and the girls are so cute together. They seem to adore each other. And the funniest thing is that, much like Madonna, G is picking up some of her accent. It cracks me up! She also has the British teacher so that probably has a lot to do with it too. She will say a sentence to me and one of the words will be exaggerated British sounding. And then she'll laugh and say "Did I just say (British sounding word)? HA! I mean (American sounding word)!" and then she'll say the word both ways back and forth a few times. I know you're like "What word???" She does this often with many words but the one I that sticks out from today was "bones". As in her bones are growing...

And tonight we were reading a book with English and Mandarin and the word for biscuit (cookies since this place is British) was in it. And I asked her if she knew that word from snack time at school. I said it in phonetic Mandarin (Pinyin) as it was written in the book with my best Chinese attempt and she then said it back, the right way, like she hears it every day. It's really neat to hear her play around with the language and saying things. I did not expect the whole British thing and her picking up the Queen's English but it's just her little brain at work learning new things. Even if it's slightly annoying, the idea of how her brain must be so hard at work is really cool.