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Guess who bundled up in their warmest clothes and toured all around Beijing. That’s right us! It is official, we are all tropical babies and were not prepared for the cold in Beijing. We bundled up though and headed out though since there was loads to see. It was pretty cute watching these two inContinue reading “Bundled up in Beijing”

One of the places I have always wanted to go is to see the Great Wall. Beijing was just where it happened to be. I was pretty surprised when I got to Beijing and loved it.   There are so many things I loved about Beijing. The obvious ones like the Wall and the ForbiddenContinue reading “Best of Beijing”

Every year the boys’ school has UN day. Everyone dresses up and represents a country and brings food in from that country. This year we even danced the Mexican Hat Dance, the Hula and the Samba! Adam represented Greece and Malcolm represented Egypt.  We couldn’t get Malcolm in costume but Adam loved dressing up likeContinue reading “United Nations of Amerikids”

There are many perks of living in the Philippines.  But one thing that we definitely don’t get in Manila are things like this right here-a Trader Joe’s Gingerbread house that is super easy to put together and super cute.  But we are lucky that Grandma Gertch finds things like this and sends them to us!Continue reading “Haunted House”

For Halloween this year I decided that it was finally time to let the boys pick their costumes.  Adam at first decided that he wanted to be Batman, but then a few weeks ago decided he wanted to be a construction worker. I have no idea where he got the idea. We don’t watch BobContinue reading “Which pup are you?”

I used to wonder why people would get so crazy about holidays and decorate their whole yard with huge blow up huge decorative dolls. Now that I have kids I totally get it. These two get so excited about holidays. They have been waiting to get a pumpkin for weeks now so this weekend weContinue reading “Jack O'Lantern”

We all know that I love a list and I especially love a birthday list. I’ve already listed the reason I love Randy, so today in honor of Randy turning 36 last week, I thought I would make of list of 10 things I bet you didn’t know about Randy, or maybe you did alreadyContinue reading “Clam Pizza”

We have been in potty training mode over here.  Grandma got Malcolm some Paw ‘Patrols to motivate him. He is so cute, whenever he has an accident he says – “Oh,I peed in my aw atrols” its pretty adorable. Every time he successfully pees on the potty he jumps up and says ‘Yay!’ Potty trainingContinue reading “Pottys and Soccer”

Adam and Malcolm’s school had a field trip last week. And guess what it wasn’t to the Fun Farm 🙂 It was to our other favorite spot in Manila, the aquarium! I love getting to take time off and go with the boys for these special days.  I really am lucky enough to love myContinue reading “School Days”

I have pretty much given up on getting the boys to wear button down shirts. We have a full on rebellion and don’t like ‘fancy’ shirts. Well we headed off to get dressed before a little party our friend invited us to in the building and Randy out of normal said if you were aContinue reading “Bribes- they'll get you everywhere”