Philippine Day

Today we went to Philippine Day and we had a great time. There was a lot of food to try, booths to look at and entertainment. The entertainment felt more like watching a talent show. There were a lot of different acts, only a quarter were traditional songs or dances. One of the best parts of the day was that we got to meet other families that are adopting from the Philippines. I am a member of an online group and we all met each other in person. In fact one of my good "on-line friends" became our "real friends" today. We carpooled together and then they stayed a little after at our house and we chatted. (Nice to meet you Rachel and Dave).

The day was fun and Liam got to go up on stage and sing. He was nervous at first, but he did fine and he is happy with his performance.

We borrowed this shirt (Barong) from someone in the group. Liam liked it a lot and wants us to buy him one when we go to the Philippines.

Going Broke

I should change the blog name to the our losing family because Liam has lost another tooth. The tooth fairy gives the boys $2 under their pillow for every tooth and I think that she is going to stop coming to our house soon because she is going broke around here. However, I do have to share the new cute photo.

Missing Tooth Update

Yesterday Lance lost a tooth on the way to school. No picture is included because the missing tooth is in the back part of his mouth and the new tooth has already grown in beside it. I just thought I should give fair mention to the big kid, even though the missing tooth isn't as cute as those front ones of Liam's. (Let me tell you the tooth fairy is going broke from these kids!)

Wordless Wednesday- Another tooth has gone missing

Wordless Wednesday- I'm dreaming of summer vacations!

A good answer to "WHY"

Today Liam was helping with breakfast before I got down stairs (you already know where this is going, don't you?) He had crawled up on the counter and was getting down two plastic bowls for cereal, he even asked if I was having cereal also. As I came downstairs, Lance said he wanted instant oatmeal. I said that is fine, but we have to use glass bowls. Liam went right back up on the counter and put the plastic bowls back in the cupboard. He was looking for the "glass" bowls because he could not find any clear bowls. (Don't you know all glass has to be see through?) Anyway I told him which bowls they were and started explaining what glass is...that it doesn't have to be clear to be glass.
THEN IT HAPPENED...he dropped one of the bowls and it broke all over the floor. It made my explanation easier...that's glass, it breaks easily. I think we now know what glass is in our house.

Disclaimer: No good dishes were broken or destroyed in this demonstration of glass. The bowl in question was 12 years old and will now go to a good home at the garbage dump.

Philippine Day

We are going to go to a local Philippine Day in a few weeks to eat some good food and meet more people etc. I don't know if you remember last time we went to a Philippine activity Liam got up on stage. This time he was invited to sing with the children's choir, so he has to go to practice tomorrow to learn the two songs. You can listen to the two songs they are going to sing. One is all is Tagalog and it is called Bahay Kubo the other one is called One Small Voice. Wish him luck on his performance in a few weeks, this kid has guts. Not only is he getting up on stage in front of strangers, he is going to sing songs he doesn't know in another language. He'll be fine because there are 20 other kids up there also, so he won't be alone. However, Lance said he wouldn't touch the children's choir! I'll have pictures later.