Luckily Jess returns today (Thursday).

I'm so thankful to have four days to hang out with the kids but, it's ... thoroughly ... exhausting ... to do both "kid stuff" and "work stuff". I'm in no way a Hilary fan but as she says "It takes a village to raise a child". Earlier this week I told Jess that I was "Friday tired" and it was only Tuesday!

I've prioritized sleep over blogging so I've missed a few days of exciting, action-packed updates.

Truman still having internal moral dilemma about whether to wear his uniform (and please his teacher) or to do what he thinks is right which is to wear his own clothes. Poor kid. You can see the struggle on his face when he's trying to decide. The debate inevitably devolves into him saying "I hate this school." and "I'm staying home today". He's been a real trooper this week. Very little freaking out and in general, we've left every day for school on time.
Yesterday was (paleo) pancake morning. Pancakes on a school day morning. Insane!
Fang made dumplings with the kids after school on Tuesday. They always love that. I had one (GASP!) and they were pretty freaking awesome.
As a side-note, whenever I talk to siri and I need to leave myself a reminder for 'Fang', I have to call her "FAYNG" (like the wolf) or siri doesn't understand. Her name is actually 'Fang' like "FONG". In Mandarin it's 芳 which means fragrant, virtuous and beautiful. It's a pretty good name I think! :)
On Wednesday at drop-off, we discovered that during the kids' school didn't have electricity during the morning. It was chaos inside the school since the kids were all going crazy with excitement. Eventually the power came back on but the kids got to have a modified morning lesson. I overheard a teacher saying that her entire lesson was on the Smart Board and she wasn't sure what she was going to do without electricity. First world problems.

Wednesday Morning Selfies:

Making dumplings:

Chilling outside his classroom door, waiting for school to start. #toocoolforschool

Tuesday Morning Selfies:

Good morning!