My little bruiser

Benny's first black eye!

Hannah pushed him off the couch and he hit his face on the corner of the coffee table, then at the playground the next day he walked in front of the swing Kenzie was swinging on at the playground and got another bruise on his eyebrow!

Culture & Craft Fair

 We went to the Culture & Craft Fair last weekend at the girls school.  They got to do crafts from 12 different countries.  It was a lot of fun!

Hannah with her star from America

 Kenzie...American pom-pom

 China...bag

 China...Dragon print

 Italy...mask

 Italy...egg

 Germany, Austria & Switzerland...ladybug

 Germany, Austria & Switzerland...pen holder

 Norway...troll

 Norway...pouch

 Sweden...horse

 Sweden...horse

 We also got to see an old friend, Symphony changed schools this year so we haven't seen her since last year!

 Japan...origami

United Kingdom...umbrella

We also did crafts from India, France, Korea & Australia & New Zealand.

We had a lot of fun and did some cool crafts!

More fun with Linnea

 The flower tree...near where we live

 Nanjing Road...a pedestrian street

 At Ajisen...one of our favorite places to eat

 Easter Brunch at The Hilton Hongqiao 

 They had a lot of the kids to do and plenty of sweets for them too.

 they had a little petting farm with chicks and bunnies

 At Pearl Tower

 They now have a space theme at the top of the Pearl Tower...Kenzie really liked the girls outfits so she wanted her picture with them

 you have to wear booties over your shoes

 at the top!

 They have mirrors in the ceiling every couple feet, as we were walking Hannah kept stopping to make faces so Linnea joined in on the fun!

 on top of the city

 at the bottom of the Pearl Tower

 Lunch at New York Pizza in Tianzifang

 Tianzifang...alleyways that have shops and restaurants 

 At the Shanghai Zoo

 Seeing the Panda

 Hannah showing off JC Penney to the elephant

 baby gorilla

 Kenzie asked "Mom why does the gorilla look so mad?"  So I told her wouldn't you be mad if you had to sit behind glass all day with people knocking on the glass.  

 Linnea and I took an overnight trip to Beijing 

 Linnea learning what it's like to be a foreigner in China, this girl came and asked to have a picture with her.

 Forbidden City

 Imperial Garden inside the Forbidden City

 Tiananmen Square

 We took a long subway ride to see the Bird's Nest and Water Cube...from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.  

 We also took a hike on the Great Wall

 It was so pretty up there

 At this point on the wall there are 102 really steep steps...we made halfway up when we decided to turn around!

 We had a great time in Beijing!

 We went to Suzhou...a small water town about an hour from Shanghai.  The Chinese people call it "Heaven on Earth" it has a lot of gardens and water.

 We went to one of the gardens

 Pretending to eat at this table in one of the buildings in the garden

 We also went to one of the pagodas in town

 Our two Ox's (Hannah and Gary's Chinese zodiac animal)

 Linnea...a Chinese celebrity

 Posing!

 Crossing this stone walkway...luckily there was no water or Hannah would have fallen in.

 The pagoda

 Hannah & Kenzie with a buddha

Posing like the Chinese!

We have been having so much fun with Linnea!