Papa's Birthday

A surprise on papa's birthday was a trip to a Chinese restaurant with Szechuan cuisine in our neighborhood.

After that we stopped at the playground of Mia's school for some playtime on a mild evening with a full moon. Then we had some homemade apple pie with vanilla ice cream and unwrapped the presents

Sleepover at Yilei's

We were invited to stay over at Yilei's place Saturday night and Mia was pretty excited about a sleepover.
Ella and Ben were excited as well and first Ella wanted to try out Ma's old shoes

Then after a nap they played in the playroom. Most of the toys were Ben's so the girls had to play with some big runs

After some lemon spaghetti Ella and Mia watched a Dora movie on an iPad

It got really wild later when everyone was in pajamas

The next morning after breakfast Mia wanted to ride on an old bike of Ben where Rex had taken of the training wheels for her the day before.

Chinese New Year

The teacher of Mia's preschool class had asked to help organize a little Chinese new year celebration in her class. So Ji and Mia got some rice cookies and filled some red envelopes for her classmates.

Ha offered to borrow a Chinese dress and Mia tried it out the evening before

She also tested if it was comfortable for dancing

Mia also wore it at school the next day

Bye, bye. Barbara

After many years in Washington DC cousin Barbara is moving to the Kinshasa, the capitol of Congo. We will certainly miss her.
We helped her doing the last minute clean up at her apartment

and dropped her at the airport.