Goof Off Day

Sydney and I went to breakfast at Moon River this morning. We always order the same thing -- a yogurt and mixed berries smoothie and the Santa Anna (a breakfast burrito with eggs, green peppers, cheese, tomatoes and hash browns INSIDE the flour tortilla --- brilliant!! --- and topped with guacamole and sour cream, and fruit on the side).

I cancelled my Chinese lesson today to go shopping. Sydney is going through another growth spurt, which means she hasn't been sleeping well, which means that I haven't been sleeping well. I didn't have the energy to distinguish between 2nd tones and 3rd tones, and quite frankly I couldn't care less that "uan" changes to "yuan" after certain consonants. Plus, I needed to return Sydney's new shoes because they were too small. So in addition to exchanging it for a bigger size, I bought Sydney 2 more pairs. The kids' shoes at the Isetan department store are so cute. Sydney starts school on Wednesday and she needed a pair of "indoor" shoes, as required by the school. She only has 2 pairs of shoes now --- tennis shoes and sandals --- and she's been wearing them outside so they don't count as "indoor" shoes. (Michelle, Sydney has been wearing the tennis shoes that you got for her and she's been out running the boys on the playground in them).

Then Sydney and I went to a Book Fair today at the convention center. I thought it would be a good place for Sydney to run around and for me to buy more English books. There were THOUSANDS of people there. I had to hold Sydney the whole time so that she wouldn't be trampled. To compound the disappointment, I didn't find any books that I wanted to read.

We came home and I worked on my scrapbook while Sydney had a heated discussion with her Winnie the Pooh bear.