kids and trips

Last weekend Audrey spent about 5 hours straight working on shrinky dinks.  She’d color them, I’d bake them… Charles even helped her set the castle up.  She got them in a pkg my parents sent a long time ago, but I put them at the top of the closet for a day just like this one.  so precious! 

Speaking of precious Will fell asleep on the couch during a time out… this is the second time this week he has fallen asleep within minutes of being put on the couch for time out.  He obviously acts up when he is tired! 

He looked like a little frog!  Earlier today he went upstairs and picked out this outfit all by himself.. I don’t generally let him wear the spider man shirt, but he was just so cute and excited about his outfit he chose… sweet boy!

We’ve had a few “do nothing” weekends in a row… (hence the non-interesting blog posts)  I’m trying to enjoy the down time without going too stir crazy.   We have made lots of big plans in the upcoming months before our trip to America and we are sooo looking forward to them!  First we are headed for a long weekend in Fujairah during Audrey’s spring break… it is a city in the Emirates but also mountainous.  I plan on spending the rest of spring break parked at the Hiltonia *weather permitting (it has been so sandy/foggy/dusty here lately). 

Then some of our long time friends, Chuck and Christine Chapman (we met them when we were living in Katy, TX when I was pregnant for Audrey) are also expats but currently living in London – they have made plans to hop on one of Chucks work trips that coincides with their spring break and will be visiting us mid-april!  They have 3 kids and I’ve already got super kid friendly itineraries underway.  We couldn’t be more excited!!

In mid May we plan on taking another quick trip to Istanbul, Turkey… it has been at the top of our travel list here and we quickly realized that since we are going to the US during the summer and also for Christmas our next travel opportunity will be a year from now… with a baby.  It kinda made the decision easy to squeeze in one last hoorah before the summer. 

One month after that we are states bound!