trace

1) trace has learned that if you pull the cat's tail, it makes a cool noise

2) above are pictures of our family room (you are blessed in that you don't have the corresponding sound byte. imagine: one nascar race, one dora video, one teletubbies dvd in chinese, father reading jade a book- but adlibbing the content to something about shooting cats, one machine gun with lights, one moaning/bleeding 12 year old, one 3 year old talking in english, one 3 year old talking in chinese, one loud keyboard-toy playing random Christmas songs, and you can faintly hear dirtbikes being ridden around outside). i have managed to keep the rest of the house relatively clean, but this room is beyond all help. it is one of those things i refuse to do. i will do laundry and cook all the day long, but i will not touch the family room- it will be ruined in 2.8 seconds anyways.

3) yesterday trace gave trent a bloody nose when they were wrestling. today he gave him a bloody mouth... for some reason trent had a gun in his mouth and trace hit it... hm...

4) trace went to trent's wrestling meet yesterday. father said that there was a circle of middle school boys around him. now, in order to be cool in the 6th grade, you must know all the automan moves.

5) trace went to church last night. again, the crowd gathered. he especially enjoyed the fact that 2 of trevor's friends came with us. actually, he likes all of trevor's friends... and i think they might like him a little bit, too :).

6) as father says, once we get the sleeping schedule and language all worked out we'll be all ready to adopt again... or not :)... only how many years till they start kindergarten?! (right now we are wondering how that family on tv with the 16 kids does it.)

7) he is calling mother & father "mama & baba" as of today.
best wishes.