Thursday is yoga day...

This is my third class and I am loving it...Never thought I would like yoga as much but I do. I find it very difficult and am disgusted by the state of my body...I need serious unwinding therapy...there are parts of my body that I am sure I have not stretched since I was a baby and in Yoga class I have rediscovered what they are...I feel sorry for the poor Chinese girl next to me today since I was pouring with sweat after 5 mins. I'm afraid that she might have gotten sprinkled from time to time (I'm so embarrassed...) BUT I am so very serious about this and determined to become proficient with Yoga. I am learning Hatha Yoga...which apparently is the basis for all Yoga and supposed to be easy and unforced...now I know why my teacher looks at me strangely when I'm grunting and straining to achieve a pose....other than the spectator value of a grunting and straining foreigner of course....

Typically we go from the mountain pose to the chair pose down to the forward bending pose or something like that...we end up with our palms flat in a pose similar to the forward bending pose....from their we descend into a squat and kick out into a kind of push up pose and then the upward facing dog and then the downward facing dog...We have done some amazingly strange poses... Oh the there are a bunch of warrior poses as well...Still trying to get a hang of things heehee.

Learnt this one today....not as easy as it looks...but fun, fun, fun....

Wednesday and I'm alright...

Feeling kinda lonely tonight...briefly considered downloading 'teach yourself Icelandic'...briefly considered. Had a long chat with Dylan...he doesn't talk yet but gave me tons of hugs as we sat and watched telly. We ate some cookies...gym was good today, I feel good. Read my horoscope....it has been a slow evening so far...but come 7 :30 I guess things will take a turn for the better...

Never too old for youth...

How has your mind been changed
by the slow decay time
has brought to you?
You used to think in invincible terms.
Your dreams hold no limits.
In terms of your abilities,
without
a doubt,
or a hesitating moment.
Now you doubt
all you once thought
to be real.
Everything you knew
as true.
All the hope you once had,
how sad
to find everything you thought
in the end to be
only the chemical snap, crackle and pop
inside your head.
All we have to defend our hearts
are the dreams we wrap around ourselves
to protect ourselves from the cruelty
that time and growing old brings.
Remember the boy
standing in the wind,
raised arms to the sky,
he thought that he could fly.

Dylans 2 evils...

Dylans two evils....teletubbies and 'the bottle'...

Fields white as snow...

Walking up to Donghai again...this time there was some kind of pod explosion...the grass was covered in what looked like dandelions gone wild...either that or a few hundred sheep were shedding their wool....we discovered this kind of pod...never seen it before but it looked pretty cool...here are some photos for you to share the moment with us...

Sitting at the waters edge with D and H...

Some moments only come around once in a lifetime...sitting at the waters edge throwing stones into a pond with my beautiful toddler and my darling wife is definitely one of those moments I'll treasure forever. I love you guys...I sometimes think how can it get any better than it already is...yet it does...it does.....thank you.

Above: Moments like these only come once in a lifetime...(P.S. I haven't put on weight...the shirt makes me look poofy...hehe..that ones from ice age 2)

We will dine tonight..but only for a short time cause...

Tuesday night and I'm cooking up a storm in the kitchen. I'm making supper as I normally do for my beautiful little family- I love them so much...they rock my world! Tonight I made a pasta dish...I layered pasta, then cheese, then onion and bacon fried in fish sauce and olive oil, then cheese once again, then pasta, then Swiss sausage and olives (those Swiss know how to make good sausage), then cheese again (we like cheese Gromit!). Here are some photos of the meal of the evening....hope they like it ;). We 'll have to eat quickly because I'll have to zoom off somewhere for a while...NOT my idea...

Above: Last layers...Swiss sausage and olives with cheese the into the oven and dadaaaa!

A walk up to Donghai...

The delights of black cherry and dark chocolate ice cream...

Dylan as the amazing spiderman....

Here Dylan shows off his spider senses by brushing his teeth...way to go Spiderman! Dylan looks so cute in his Spiderman pyjamas. What a cool superhero to be, much better than superman (No offense to Ivo, Dylan's buddy...it takes all kinds of superheros to make this world turn... ;)) D was in a lounge in front of the telly, brushing his teeth and eating apple kind of mood...both of the latter, incidentally, should keep the doctor away. Let's hope.

Above: 'Hey! This is serious work quit pointing that camera at me.'

Above: The amazing Spiderman lounges out in front of the telly after a hard days superhero work.