week 3 - with the turts

with all the activity this week, we still got to spend some time with the turts, aka uncle p, auntie e and baby k.  we were lucky they took us back, what with sister the younger deciding that bedtime needed to be protested for an hour a night.  it started at my grandma's house, when she'd fallen asleep during dinner both nights.  i tried stern, i tried sweet, i tried logic, consequences, loss of privileges.. i finally resigned myself to the super-nanny method of pickup-put-in-bed-walk-out, repeated hundreds of times (at 10 sec a rep, that's 6 per minute times 60 per hour...) **sigh**  on the bright side, it provided some good material for discussing disciplinary philosophies =p  and if you're wondering, sister the older was fast asleep within 10 minutes each time =p

besides the hours of 9-11 pm though, we enjoyed each other's company ;-)

don't mind me, just a little foot-washing ;-)

the girls made themselves at home again:

none shall pass!

we tagged along to lunch with some of their church friends:

always the star of the show =)

on saturday night, p and a few friends played at a coffeehouse in xi men (did i mention i have a multi-talented brother? =) ).  apparently that's the young people, happening part of town, lit up in times square fashion.  the room was packed by the time we got there, so we sat right up front despite considerable decibels.  it was so fun to watch them make music!  having next to no knowledge of popular music, playing covers is something i've never been able to do.  hmm, i suppose playing classical does have some of the same benefits (i.e. built-in shared repertoire), now that i think about it, but i guess i've never been an accomplished enough classicist to enjoy it.  food for thought..

k slept through most of it, actually

after a break for dinner, c surprised me by being the one who wanted to head back up.  given the choice of moving further back, she wanted to stay in the front row.  i think she liked it!

headed home

a long night =)

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we're getting there!  just one more post before daddy arrives =)