A sleepy Clara watching a movie with 'Poley' her Polar Bear...
Along with all of her Barbie Dolls.
We have been reading the Doctrine and Covenants children's reader as a family. In the online version in the LDS Library app we happened across this interesting picture. It's paired up with an unfortunate description. Not sure if it is still there. David sent a note to let them know of the error. We have also come across two sections where the audio begins with someone coughing.
Playing basketball. Erica is on the basketball team (and a netball team!).
Riding around our area.
Some of the streets in our area during Chinese New Year.
Clara getting packed to go on holidays. All toys.
Clara playing Batman. She has Erica lift the cape to give the right effect.
I snapped pictures of Ethan and Erica's stories after they had had Mandarin tutoring. They now both know enough Mandarin to insult each other. Unfortunately for them I know enough Mandarin to know when they are insulting each other.
Cutie pies!
Clara asleep in the car after a big day. Our car is the same size as Ethan and Erica's school bus. Seriously. It seats 9 people. We can't 'do' a normal-sized car because we have to factor in our entire family plus a driver and we want enough extra space to fit in a couple of friends or visitors (come visit us - you can fit in our bus!).
Clara practising writing her name :)
Overly-packaged fruit. This is strawberries, mangoes, mandarins, paw paw and bananas. I ordered these using an app. They were delivered to my door about half an hour later. The entire cost was approximately $5.50 Australian. If I don't feel like cooking dinner, I can order a meal using the same app that will get delivered to my door in about 30 to 40 minutes and will cost under $15 (sometimes under $10) for the entire family. The quality of the food varies though. We're finding the good restaurants over time. I don't do it very often because the Chinese meals tend to have a lot of salt and oil (not to mention MSG). David has a place near his work that brings him a big chicken salad for lunch (also ordered via an app) for about $5.
Before you think we have it really good though, some things are super expensive. Dairy in particular is very expensive. Cheese is about 3x the price of Australian cheese. A container of butter costs about $7/$8 Australian. I bought a small container of greek yoghurt (usually I make it myself, but I had forgotten and needed it that day) - it cost me $10. If we could switch to eating only Chinese foods we would save a lot of money, but I don't see that happening. It can also be difficult tracking down ingredients. I often visit multiple grocery stores and order from multiple websites - which is the norm for expats here.
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