Random photos

We finally started Graham and Charlie in Chinese classes!  It started about 3 weeks ago and all was well until last week, when Charlie started to cry when we walked into the building.  He was literally clinging onto me, saying he wanted to go home.  I told him there would be no tablet time if he didn't go.  That seemed to work!  We will see what happens this week. I did convince them to learn to write their Chinese name :-)

Graham's Chinese name is Lee-Wen - "Wen" meaning language and culture.  Charlie's Chinese name is Lee-An - "An" meaning peace.  I'm not sure how "peaceful" Charlie is??!!

We drove out to San Pedro to try out this place that serves shaved ice and floats.  When I wanted to order a specialty float, the girl at the counter said it would take 45 minutes. Wait,... excuse me??? 45 minutes??!  Are you kidding??! Well, the shaved ice probably took almost 30 minutes to show up. And it really wasn't anything fancy either!  I suppose as long as the boys are happy!

At least Charlie was happy.  But after a few scoops, I was like... "Where's our ice-cream???".  Not like the boys cared:

Well, a few minutes later - pretty much when the boys were almost done, the ice cream finally shows up.  Charlie actually ends up dropping this one on the floor after a couple of bites.  Thankfully the girl at the counter was nice enough to give us another (even bigger) scoop of ice cream!

I guess that was our first and last time at that place!

Charlie has been really busy with some art pieces again.  It's funny how he places them on the floor to dry, sort of what we did when we lived in Abu Dhabi.  We would just line his art work along the wall on the floor :-)

Charlie recently used this one for his presentation at school.  He has a presentation every week! Well, his teacher calls it "sharing", not "presentation".

This piece of artwork was inspired by a computer game, according to Charlie.  It's called Slither io. Here's a still image that I found off the internet.  I guess there is some resemblance???

Speaking of computer games, the boys are down to just playing their tablet over the weekend.  Here's the normal scene by the time I wake up:

More fancy car sightings... and this one is especially fancy!

It's an old Bentley.  WOAHHHH!!!

Last but not least, more fog!!!  Which is sort of nice because it keeps the weather pretty cool around here.  So spoiled now for sure!

It is suppose to rain tomorrow and/or Thursday.  I can't remember the last time it rained.  It is almost like Abu Dhabi here weirdly enough when it comes to amount of rain throughout the year!