Fall Party

We enjoyed a Fall Party today with the kids.  They had fun with face painting, decorating cookies, and watching Charlie Brown.

So we had a butterfly, two cats, Dorothy, and a tiger at our party today.  They were adorable!

Decorating cookies or in Urban's case, just eating....  :)

We all had a fun time!

Anything strange about this picture?

Do you notice anything strange or not quite right in this picture?

It might be more obvious to us, since we live in this culture, but if you noticed the radiator blocking the door, you are right.  Reed took this picture at one of his favorite cafes the other day.  This is the FIRE EXIT.  No worries, if there is a fire, everyone just needs to jump over the radiator.  And I can only hope and assume that the door swings out!  

Reed has an uncanny knack for noticing things that would be building code violations in the States.  It could be being a former architect or the fact that 1 year ago he exited our fire escape door from our apartment during an earthquake only to have it padlocked shut at the base of the stairs.  So he notices these things right away.  One of the first things we noticed on our new apartment was that there was a padlock at the base of the fire escape as well.  

Anyways, we got a good chuckle out of this one, but I really hope that door never has to be used!  

More Birthday Fun

We had a birthday party this weekend with some of our local friends for Asher.  

Asher got a basketball hoop for his birthday.  One might wonder who this gift was really for....Asher or his daddy?  :)  Needless to say much fun has been had already by all the boys in our house.   Asher is quite serious about his playing too.  He has to change his clothes so that he is wearing his "basketball shorts and jersey".  

Reed being quite dramatic for the photo:  

 We had a fun weekend, but I am tired and all caked out.

Happy Birthday, Asher!

Asher is 4 years old!!  He had a fun day celebrating and loves everything Cars and Lightning McQueen, so we are having a Cars theme party.  He will have a party with friends next weekend.

School Birthday Party

Asher will turn four on Monday.  We had a party for him on Friday at school, since I will be gone on Monday.  We brought cupcakes and juice boxes for the kids.  It was quite the party with decorations they had put up for Asher, he got a crown (which he wouldn't wear), they sang "happy birthday" in Turkish, and then played really loud music over the speaker system.  :)

Urban had been waiting all day for a cupcake.  He was ready for this party to start.  

We finally let Urban start early before the students came to the lunchroom.  

This was the best smile we could get from Asher.  

Enjoying the treats:  Asher is on the end and Urban is closest on the right.  He is on his second cupcake at this point!

After eating, we went to Asher's room where each student gave Asher a picture they drew for his birthday and then gave him a kiss!  :)  It was quite comical, as Asher kept trying to dodge the kisses at first.  Finally, I think he just tolerated it.  

He had a fun day!