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I have 2 weeks off from school... I actually miss it.
Don't tell Mommy or Daddy, but I think I might actually like being in school and learning.

Mommy has taken some days off from work too, so that we can spend more time while I'm on vacation... but most of the days it's just me and my Daddy.

I haven't been a very good boy - not tired enough to take my nap. Daddy can't take me bicycling anymore because I think it is just too bumpy and refuse to go... plus the last time I was outside riding less than a block it was way too hot to do anything outside. Daddy did try to bribe me today with bowling... I'll tell you about that later.

Yesterday, Daddy said it was naptime. So he left me in my room to sleep. Since I go to my bathroom myself now... when I need to go I go. Sometimes my clothes get wet, but usually Mommy or Daddy are there to help. Anyway, since I was supposed to be sleeping by myself, I didn't bother Daddy about the bathroom. Of course, this time I did get my clothes wet... so now then I had to change my clothes.

Daddy heard me in my bedroom and a creaking sound from the dresser drawer - so he knew I wasn't in bed. When he came in... he found that I had turned on my bed light, had my new books laying across my bed and I was standing in my skivvies. My clothes were wet so I was putting on new clean dry clothes, when Daddy found me. Of course - he couldn't be mad because I was doing everything on my own... including reading quietly and changing my wet clothes.

Today, to get me to nap - Daddy said if I was a good boy and took my nap he would take me bowling in the arcade at the Mall. It's not real bowling like Gong Gong does, but it works for me. Anyway, I took about an hour and a half before I decided to take my nap. Since I haven't taken a nap in so long... Daddy just let me sleep. So I slept right to dinner time.
I wake up... ok bowling time now.
Daddy wants to tell me I can't go now... so we both call Mommy at work. (Because we do what Mommy says.) I explain to Mommy that I have taken my nap and have done a "super job" so I get to go bowling. Mommy starts telling me it's mum mum time and too late. No fair... I took my nap and now no bowling?!
I don't think so...
Mommy and Daddy do some deliberating... it's not rocket science. Daddy said he would take me bowling if I napped. I napped, so it's bowling time... basically Daddy's bribe backfired.
In the end, I took my nap so Daddy took me bowling.

When we used to get in the taxi after being here only almost 2 weeks, I used to say Times Square to Mr Taxi Man - just like Daddy. Now, after 2 months I say Taikoo Shing.

When I go to sleep I usually like to talk to my Mommy and tell how my day went. When we lived in New York, because she would work late missing dinner and bath time with me - she always made sure to try and be home for bedtime. Mommy would always ask me what I did that day and what happened at school. And now... she can't get me to go to sleep quietly without me talking to her. But I know she really doesn't mind at all, because most of the time I'm either singing myself to sleep or just telling her that I love her and like Daddy... then she tells me she loves me very much, reminds me that I love Daddy too and gives me a hug and a kiss.

Then this one time I said... "Taikoo Shing... Hong Kong." Mommy asked me if I liked it here... and I told her that I did. I miss everyone in New York... but it's not so bad here anymore.
I think Mommy finally sleeps better now too.

Mommy is so proud - we made it through a weekend without toys and pretty much no TV.
This was a very good weekend. I rode my bicycle Saturday morning and showed Daddy how fast I can go. Mommy kept racing after me... her heart was racing that I might fall. Poor Mommy, she just loves me so and doesn't want me to get any boo boos. Then Mommy and I bought groceries, and I was a very good boy! Mommy was so impressed that I didn't grab everything off the shelves... I don't think I cried at all that Saturday... what a good day.

Then on Sunday Mommy played cars with me all morning... while Daddy slept.

Right before naptime - Mommy decided have me make dumplings with her. Daddy didn't even know that Mommy could make them. I had lots of fun making them. First Mommy showed me one, then I followed. Take the wonton skin, put a scoop of meat in the center, put egg around the edges and fold. Mine folded like a square crepe... and the meat was falling out - but I did it myself! I think I made about 8 or 10. Mommy's going to have to try another filling though... if you know what I mean... but I guess it's her first time making them too.

At dinner time, I ate my whole meal with chopsticks! (Well except the rice that was on my shirt, my shorts, the chair and the floor.) It didn't even take me that long - Mommy and Daddy were so impressed. I guess I must have been hungry... because I even at the mapo tofu that Mommy made... it doesn't taste bad, I just don't like the texture of tofu. Mommy and Daddy are bewildered at the fact that I don't like tofu and think it must be the texture, because it hardly has any taste. I know Mommy tries to mix it all up in my rice - but I see it, even if it is the size of a baby pea. I try to scoop my rice around it.

All in all - I think it was a very good day... and without one toy (the balloon I asked Mommy to but doesn't really count, because I've forgotten all about it anyway.)

Ahhh... April Fool's day!

Actually, it's kind of true. Daddy says we've adopted a surrogate family...
There's this little girl and Mom who just came from Taiwan. They don't speak Cantonese and have been looking to make friends with me.

The little girl goes to my school too... so I think she sees us at the bus stop. Since Daddy talks to me in Manderin, they probably knew that they could talk to us...

One day after school, Daddy had brought me my bicycle to play. We were at the park and about to leave... when Daddy saw the girl and her Mom watching us. Finally, Daddy started talking to them and they were so relieved! So now I have a new friend, her name is Cherry. Her Mom's name is Katherine and Dad's is Tim.

They live in the same building 2 floors down too! They are here because Cherry's Dad has a job in Hong Kong (just like my Mommy has one here too.) Cherry speaks only Manderin really, so I will have to practice more too.

That week we met them, we had dinner with Cherry and Katherine almost everyday... It will be very nice to have playmates other than my Mommy and Daddy.