Journey of a Kumquat: Week 222 and Week 134.5 - Ketchup Song and Abby's birthday

So we have been driving our car (a twelve year old BMW which is in immaculate exterior condition - I wish I could say that it runs better) for a year. And because it is an older car it has an older sound system, inclusive of a Dolby tape deck and a CD changer in the back. We have had the same CD's in the changer for as long as we own the car. One of the CD's is by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (as I mentioned before the kids love Californication, or as they call it sometimes, Calicornication). They have recently become fond of the song By The Way, which has Anthony Kiedis kind of rapping in the middle while shouting out words like "Steak Knife," "Card Shark," "Con Job," "Boot Cut." My kids can discern a surprising amount of lyrics but this is just to staccato/fast for them. So they just sing along "Ketchup", "Ketchup", etc. It is very funny how much my girls love the Peppers!

I got back into the swing of work and things have been busy - and I have not had a ton of time to update le blog - so I am here up early on Monday trying to get it done!

Abby had a birthday party this weekend - and it was super fun! You can't go wrong with Filipino party games for a good time and a laugh! At the end of the party Abby came in to the toilet with Charlotte, Sophia and I (everyone brought in a cake or a piece of candy). Char said to Abby, "You must really like Sophia and I " and Abby gushed "I do!" It was a very cute moment inside the toilet cubicle.

We also met up with Lauren and Sean, some folks who just moved from Vegas with boys who are 6, 4, and 2. We had lunch at Din Tai Fung (here in Macau finally) and spent the afternoon at Qube2. We took the girls swimming early on Sunday (with a second lesson for Sophia - and she was epic naughty again! I think she is taking 'not listening' to a whole new level) - so they were tuckered out and napped forever yesterday. Charlotte was interested in Wii's Mario Kart at Qube, so we pulled it out last night after their naps. Char knocked Matt out at boxing and Sophia really liked to play golf. A good use of our Wii which we have not turned on in probably 2 years!

After our break last week Yaya joined us for lunch:

I generally love taking pictures at Paradise Gardens at Sands Cotai Central - but we took these Shrek photos at a goofy sun time (hence the weird shadows here):