Hannah using Chopsticks

 When we went to the store yesterday we got some kid chopsticks so they could start to learn how to use them since a lot of the restaurants here do not have silverware.  So we are all learning how to eat with them Hannah and I practiced today at lunch! 

 She just held them at first and used her hand.

 Then she got the hang of it

She actually was able to pick up the noodles with them.

Shanghai World Financial Center

 With Woody outside of the Toys R Us at the Super Brand Mall.  We went there to walk around before we met Gary & Manish for dinner on Saturday (they had to work so we met them downtown).

 We went to the Shanghai World Financial Center.  You can't see it in the picture but it looks like a bottle opener on the top.  We went to the observatory on the the 100th floor to check out the city from above.  We didn't get great pictures because it was dark so we will be going back one day when it is light out so you will see similar pictures in the future only they will be better.

 The Pearl Tower

 The girls!

 We then went out to dinner afterward with the Mehta's to get some Chinese dumplings.  Here is Kenzie giving her Chinese pose (this is how most of the Chinese kids pose)

 Hannah enjoying her rice.

Ben ready to eat some rice too!!  Sorry buddy you aren't quite ready yet!!

Shanghai Ocean Aquarium

 We went to the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium on Thursday January 26, 2012.  We took a metro train to the aquarium.  The aqaurium is right next to the pearl tower in the heart of Shanghai.

 A lot of the Chinese families wanted their picture taken with the girls (Hannah was less than thrilled about this)

 Checking out the fish with daddy!

 See what I mean!  Here is another family.  We had a bunch more too!

 It was feeding time for some of the fish

 Freshwater sawfish

 They actually liked each other today!

 Burrr...it is cold!

 Cheese!

 In the shark tunnel

The pearl tower at night.  After we came out of the aquarium it was dinner time so we walked over to the Super Brand Mall to have dinner before taking the subway back home.  We had lots of fun seeing all the cool fish!

Yuyuan Gardens

 Today we took a taxi to Yuyuan Gardens.  They had little shops and a garden.  It is they only old Chinese buildings in Shanghai.  It was so busy.  We had to push our way through the crowd in order to get to the gardens.  We were like a moving tourist attraction, all the Chinese people would stop and check out the kids and take pictures of them.  I'm sure we would have gotten a lot more people checking them out if they didn't have hats on.  It was pretty crazy!

 2 grumpy kids!  Kenzie didn't want her picture taken!

This week they are celebrating the New Year so everything was decorated.

Kerry Parkside Mall

 Yesterday we took the Metro Subway to go to Kerry Parkside Mall.  It was our first time riding the subway.  The girls thought it was pretty cool.

 Hannah shrunk!

 So did Kenzie!

 Kenzie & Hannah posing for me!

 Kenzie, Hannah & Ben

Hannah wanted her picture taken with this panda bear!

5 Months old!

 Ben turned 5 months old yesterday.  He is growing so fast.  He started eating cereal and really likes it.  He is also really close to rolling over he gets his bottom half flipped over but has not figured out how to move his arm out of the way!  I'm sure it won't be long before he gets it.  He loves his toys and loves to watch his big sisters, he thinks they are pretty funny!

Xin nian kuai le! (Happy New Year)

Happy Year of the Dragon!!  Today is the Chinese New Year!  They really celebrate in style we have been seeing fireworks go off around the city for the past couple days, but nothing compared to last night at midnight!  It sounded like we were in a war zone, and the kids slept right through it!  People were lighting off fireworks in the street right by our apartment so they would go off right in our window (we've never been eye level to fireworks)!  The video was taken from our bedroom window!  You can kind of see in the distance all of the other fireworks going off, no matter what window you looked out last night you could see fireworks going off! (We have been told that the fireworks last for about 10 days)  It was crazy!  It was definitely something to see, but I think next year we will go somewhere for the New Year!
(I couldn't get my video to post I will try again tomorrow)