Today was one of those "free days," which I think are designed to torture new parents. Luckily slim mcgee #1 and #2 woke up late. Success. We even relaxed in the room for awhile until King Tut decided that he needed to unleash one of his ear surgery temper tantrums, which I think was a result of Ryan or I doing something he deemed to be close to the end of the world.
I took Everest out of the room and the maid looked at me and stuck her fingers in her ears and shook her head. I nodded at her and made a motion like I was drinking as a result. Whatever.
We went back to the Temple of Heaven again today and ran the kids. Ran and ran and ran the kids. And ran them yet some more. We also went to the Pearl Market again - the Pearl Market has pearls I think but we never make it past the second floor where all of the knock-off merchandise is. We promised Everest a spiderman t-shirt and we picked up Mr. Crazy #2 a pair of pants and a couple of "polo" shirts. Kid will be decked out tomorrow. We got Kingston a pair of pants the other day out of desperation because he only fits into one of the pairs we got him. We couldn't find him anything that resembled normal. We finally found one pair of pants that has writing all over it. Jibberish English. One of the phrases is, "eye ohio." Again, whatever.
We were ripped off by a rickshaw driver today. I wanted to punch him in the face but I did not. Everest afterwards said, "Ma, what does putting the smack down mean?"
We had a new family come into Beijing today. They adopted a little guy from a neighboring province. We went to the Chinese restaurant with them tonight and ate way too much yet again.
Things about China that I like:
My children (well at least one of them so far)
Scales in bathrooms - why doesn't the US do this?
Noodles, rice, noodles, rice oh and dumplings
Tsingtao
Cheap Coke and water
Pocky sticks and Pretz
The Great Wall
The kindness of people
Things I can do without:
Squatty potties
Can't find hand sanitizers to buy
Can't drink the water or eat raw veggies (no salads)
Feeling dirty but not necessarily all China's fault. No clean clothes has something to do with it.
No time to put on makeup or workout.
Hard beds (but that is growing on me)
Rickshaw drivers
Pollution
Why do they only give us two towels every morning although they know there are four of us?
Why are they not changing our bed sheets - again feeling really dirty.
Need to wear swim caps in pool even with shaved heads - but good for a laugh
Tomorrow it is off to the zoo with our new travel partners. I am nervous that they will think the beaver is one of the animals. In all honesty, the resemblence between the two kids is striking to me at times and strangers and our travel partners alike have made the call without our prompting that the two look like brothers. There are times when their actions are startling similar. Their laugh is a key indicator - in addition Everest does this fake cry that sounds very, very real. He had not done it in front of Kingston and today Kingston started to do it. It sounded just like Everest complete with a laugh afterwards, very proud of himself. Then Everest started to do it and we had two fake crying and then giggling boys who thought very highly of themselves. Both boys also have a bluish mark between their eyes. Although very similar, Kingston is coming into his own.
No comments:
Post a Comment