Discovery Museum play date

Last weekend, we met up with Kai's classmate, Aaron, for a play date at the Children's Discovery Museum. We decided to pony up for an annual membership since both of our kids are now an age where they can really enjoy the museum. We recently moved Kai over to the Butterfly site (4-5 year old group) of his preschool, and Kai really missed seeing Aaron. They had a great time together, and Nik and I enjoyed getting to know a new family. Hope that we'll be able to do this again over the summer! They had a limited engagement Thomas exhibit that all the kids enjoyed, but it was really challenging to find trains to play with at the giant train table.

"This is my cheese face."

Bubbles: what a mess, but what fun!

After an exhausting afternoon (especially since I was still getting over a virus), the kids napped.. though not nearly as long as I had hoped they would. Still, I managed to sneak out to watch a late night showing of Wonder Woman with a few girlfriends from church (thanks, Nik!).

Obligatory dorky photo op

Fancy seats!

We visited my parents the next day, and what can I say? My girl loves selfies.

The kids' current favorite cartoon is Robocar Poli. I found Poli trainer chopsticks for the kids and they love them! The other evening, the kids wanted to send pictures to Baba while he was at work and they decided to show off their chopsticks.

Kai is enjoying the trike that we got him.. he's getting better at peddling, though with even just the slightest hill, he starts crying for help. To be fair, the trike doesn't get much traction with its plastic wheels.

We started potty training Sora last week. We decided to go cold turkey and just get rid of the diapers entirely and use big girl panties. Xiaoyan was skeptical when we brought Sora to daycare sans diapers and with four changes of clothing. For just the first day or two, she fought going to the toilet tooth and nail, but jellybeans are a pretty strong motivator. And after just a few accidents, she seems to have it down. Xiaoyan says that she's been going to the potty on her own at daycare. Sora even woke up last night crying because she peed in her diaper and wanted to use the toilet. We're pretty impressed, especially considering that Kai still occasionally needs prompting to use the toilet. So strange how different siblings can be!

"Look 'ma, no diaper!"