Sunday morning: Ming Ming, Papa and Mamie went to Marya's birthday party (a school friend) at the Adler Planetarium, Papou took his bike and went up all the way to Belmont, while I stayed home to administer the Chinese class which is held at our living room.
Ming Ming landing in Mars!
here comes the b-day cake!
yum! can't wait!
when everyone got home, I prepared a picnic at our courtyard.
the Sun came out in the afternoon, so did our neighbors.
the afternoon chat at the courtyard (around coffee) evolved into a dinner at our place, with Mamie working long hours in the kitchen preparing a lemon tart. Here are some happy kids eating dinner.
Aiming for some uninterrupted time for us (adults) to chew our food and have a
decent conversation, I announced to the kids that if they finished
everything in their plates, they could watch "Kirikou and the sorceress" again - we just watched it this past Friday for movie night, but the film would not start until everyone has emptied their plates. Uproars of excitement, only to be followed by: Lucas was the
first to protest, "But I don't like the food in my plate;" Lily, the
youngest (only 2 and a half), was the only one to challenge my
authority, "My mommy said that I am done (eating);" Ming Ming, usually a
good eater, was not better in this case, "I don't want to watch Kirikou
(true, she was scared by the film), is there another film? What is for
dessert? I would rather have dessert." She knew that Mamiecath has spent
the whole afternoon in the kitchen cooking some yummy dessert, and
would thus prefer dessert over movie; Oscar, catching his mom alone in
the kitchen, begged her to finish his plate for him; The Lacroix girls
were nowhere to be heard: Avi was finishing up her plate, and Nourit,
having emptied hers, started eating from the others' plates - so that we
could have the movie earlier!
precious adult time!
Mamie's fabulous lemon tart!
