is it possible to have any more fun than this?

So it's holiday week here in asia-land. Apart from the fact that this means daddy is home all week, it also means that my house helper is gone. For seven days. Sigh. I'll have to actually do all the things I've been getting so spoiled at not doing. But it also means that there's special fun stuff all over the city for kids to do. This morning, we took the girls to this way cool courtyard full of inflatable toys. Emma was super skittish at first, but we paid a nice chunk of asia change for her to have an all-day pass (which we used all of like, one hour of) so she had no choice but to get used to it. And once she did, she really loved it. We all had a super time, just being out with other families and doing stuff together. Here's some of our pictures from today:

Yay, Emma! Slam Dunk!



So then there's these little hand-powered kiddie boats that emma was begging to do. So we acqueised:

This is the general idea, you know...all thekids out in the little pool powering their little boats:And then here's the child who would have died had she not ridden in the boat...totally content to stay on the side by daddy (and no amount of convincing worked!):So while emma was boating about, samantha had no other sibling to take some of the attention:ok, now back to the slide:And climbing...wow, she's a great climber!

This slide was so tall, my tummy had some serious butterflies going down! Can you see us at the top there?

This one was probably emma's favorite; all the things in it were just her size and she could practice going down the little slide any way she could imagine:

Which sometimes worked...

But not always!But it's always more fun to do it with someone else, right?

And even mantha had a really great time, giving us some of her famous little laughs!

And a family shot as the end to this incredibly long and picture-filled post: