Joshua has joined the throngs of bicyclists in our country, on a two wheeler! He learned in a day, in a few hours, having practiced with training wheels since he was two and a half. Here he is with Hannah, she is riding as passengers often do on bicycles.

Equipped with orange Home Depot aprons, the kids are creating Easter Eggs on our new furniture. Joshua's tongue helps him concentrate. Hannah offers to paint the camera.

We are so thrilled to get mail! The kids' faces say it all, I think.

Last week, after completing my post office vocabulary lesson with my spoken language teacher, I ventured to mail some letters to America. The first step was to find the post office "right across the street from school" I was told. But, not surprisingly, I got lost for a half hour. I found a television station that was not a post office, I saw some beautiful decorative shoes along the way that I crouched down to say "how beautiful". and dashed the lady's hopes up when I straightened back up. Finally, I saw it, and spent the next half hour waiting in the wrong line, applying stamps to my letters with rubber cement, and using the only wors from my lesson that I remembered, "air mail". The next day I proudly told my language teacher about my completed mission. "You mailed your letters to Hong Kong!" she said of my pronunciation. Hopefully, the "USA" I printed on the front of the letters will help them steer toward the states!

Rat Tail... in the year of the rat.
Joshua has wanted a haircut like this for quite some time. I just had to get over my visions of the 1980's and recognize that he wanted to be like his friends at school! He says when it grows longer he will knot it and look like the guy in Fearless (the movie). You must see this. I must take a photo...