Mike & Erin Featherstone

Sunday, June 09, 2013

More pics from Andrew at school

These are taken from his teacher's weekly blog.

1. The seventh graders came in and read a story they authored themselves.

2. Another picture from the student led conference last week. Andrew is showing me and elizabeth his compilation of work from throughout the year.

3. Andrew and his class during earth week. They visited a turtle pond and also raised money for WWF which I thought was so cool. His "crown" has a turtle on it. How awesome is that.

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Saturday, June 08, 2013

Fun with friends

Little Elizabeth in her first swimsuit. We went over to our friend April's house to go swimming, and before we took the kids out, we took a pic of this little girl. She just hung out by the side of the pool in the shade and slept, but still it was fun!

Joseph found little weights at April's house and told me he was going to "work out" (as that is always what I tell him before I go exercise). I should mention that I was about to put his clothes on after swimming when he did this -- I promise he doesn''t always hang out naked at friend's houses.

Baby E on her way home

Next up -- Time out chair story

Here are the boys in their time out chairs. Really, it was Joseph who was the one to have to be in time out (get this--he CRACKED AN EGG INTO THE BATHTUB--sigh), but then Andrew told me he was in time out too, so I let him sit by Joseph since he thought it would be fun. Then they got carried away and invented a game where they fall off the floor and slide along the ground like a water slide. It was so funny I had to get a picture before I enforced the real time out. I can't believe I didn't get a picture of the egg all over the bottom of the bathtub (and the shell laying nicely on the edge wall of the tub).

Next up -- play date with Kokoro! Andrew's friend from school came over (with her mom Megumi and brother Uta) and they did cooking.

Here they are making almond bread together

Then we got out the juicer and a ton of fruits and veggies and all the kids got to site sit eon the counter and pick what they wanted in "their" juice -- Uta picked tomato, Kokoro picked orange and apple, Andrew picked carrot, and I picked cucumber, cabbage and green apple! It was so much fun

Visit to Tung Shin hospital for a checkup

Mike, Elizabeth and I had to go to Tung Shin hospital on Jalan Pudu for a medical checkup in order to be granted a Chinese VISA. It was three hours of X-rays, ECGs, and blood draws. So fun. The Chinese government better grant us those VISAs after all we went through.

After we did all the tests, we had to wait to get the results and finish the paperwork.

Asking the nurses, how much longer will this take? They didn't seem as worried about the time as we were--they just loved looking at the baby in Mike's arms

One nurse really wanted to hold her (they took lots of photos with their camera phones so I'm sure she's all over facebook now)

The last of the paperwork. Hurray! Notice the background

Parent Conference at MKIS

Andrew's school had Parent Conference this week as it is the end of school. A famous author did a book reading for his class, so as the kids' activity they got to write a story. Here is his story and picture (above his head).

The story reads: "Billy is putting the banana in the toilet then flushing the toilet. The banana did not go away, so he put it into Mommy's makeup. Mommy chased him all around when he played football. He had to have time-out and there was a time-out banana.

The conferences were student-led, which I thought was such a cool and new concept, meaning the teacher did not say a word. Instead, Andrew led the conference by showing me his work, and chosing three stations to work at with me.

First choice of station was blocks to build a "small city" as Andrew called it.


Second station is drawing a picture, where Andrew chose to draw the "small city" that he built earlier. There were lots of bridges and flashing lights. Notice Mrs. McDowall and Elizabeth in the background	t