We're going to Estes Park, catalog shopping, Amy's humor and Asia Yoga Conference 2008

We're going to Estes Park. We'll be flying into Denver, playing and traveling through Boulder and then hitting the Rocky Mountain National Park for a week of world-class yoga. Mmmmmmm. Wanna know what my incentive was to try the potty training when I did? The YMCA, where this conference is held, has a day program for pre-schoolers, as long as they wear panties. So instead of playing pass the baby, we're going to enjoy morning yoga sessions simultaneously, and then play as a family in the afternoons. We have hiking in the Rocky Mountain National Park, shopping, napping and jacuzzi on the agenda, when we are not doing yoga.

Okay, so I'm a working mommy. No time for physical shopping. Another way of saying this is I am a catalogaholic. So, when the mail comes, Amy says "Mommy, I wanna go shopping", which means, let's sit together and look at the catalogs. So, we pick up my favorites, Bloomingdales, Athleta, Black and White and Nike. We look at the pictures and declare if we like things or not. What cracks Don and I up is her latching on to the phrase, "No, I don't like that, that's frumpy". I'm sure I'll pay for that later.

And lastly, you won't appreciate this probably unless you are on the Shapiro side of things. One day, I noticed one of my curly head hairs on the white tile floor, in perfect tussy shape. I guess I called attention to it or something. Now, Amy finds tussy-shaped hairs, tussy-shaped lines in the tile and so on. This morning, she couldn't find anything tussy-shaped, and she whined, "where's the tussy?", "where's the tussy?". Ooh boy, I knew there was a reason I feared being a mommy for so long!!!!!!

And in my effort to impart interesting or positive aspects of China, see the link for the Asia Yoga Conference that I lust for.

Last night we had a Hampton Roads Families with Children from China waiting families night. Three families who are awaiting referrals came. The wait is so long now, our hearts go out to them. Two families with children from China came to help support and their girls played with Amy in her house.