Drop Painting

We had a couple of hours' fun with this activity. We just grabbed a few things from the kitchen and started it. E loved to mix different colors together to explore. We put two pieces of paper towel together, colored it and then unfolded.

E called this one "The Joker".

Materials needed:

Food coloring

Baby food jars or any small containers(one for each color desired)

Droppers(one for each color desired)

Thick paper towels

1. Fill containers with water. Add a few drops of different color of food coloring into each container.

2. Cover the table with vinyl table cloth or some newspaper for easy cleanup.

3. Using droppers(I only had one and it still worked out great), have the children drop the "paint" onto the paper towels, one drop at a time. The drops will fan out and bleed into each other, creating a very pretty picture!!!

What Happened in Taiwan

I finally have time to share about our trip to Taiwan. It was wonderful as long as I don't tell you the details. :) It was three years ago when we went back last. The kids are not babies and toddlers anymore. They all talk very well of course in their languages. E understood Chinese but spoke mainly English so his cousins didn't quite understand him. They had their ways of communicating that we as adults could sometimes learn from. This is a picture of E and his cousin and I love the chemistry in this one. His cousin was really tough and strong-minded. E always tried to play rough with him and he thought it's for real. Oh, they fought and fought leaving bruises and scratches until the last day! I'm glad they got to know each other well. I just wish they didn't choose such an uncivilized way.

McDonald's was such a comfortable place for E. He was really overwhelmed with the different food and place. He liked to go to "Old McDonald" (that's how he called it) to eat and play and it gave him such comfort especially with the happy meal toys.

He learned how to ride a bike and yes on a girl's hello-kitty bike. He had so much fun!

The Chinese New Year celebration is about family gathering and food.

Lots of yummy dumplings, hot pot and more.

E was curious about eating the whole fish and then he gobbled down more than 10 of them, unbelievable, using chopsticks too.

E played his first sparkler and he absolutely loved it.

This place is called "Flower Sea", a very large beautiful flower field.

They don't use car seats there so E insisted that he should wear seat belt also with the helmet. He's surely a safety kid!

There are a lot of motor scooters there. E's grandpa loved to take him for a short ride.

Below is the movie showing a very old Chinese candy making technique. It's called "Blowing Candy". The master made a dinosaur for E.

Hugging each other at the airport, as you can see, they finally made up. E learned to know his family in Taiwan in three weeks and it's not easy for him at all. When family live so far away, we do have to build the relationships in a different way. The most important thing is that we try.