February saw the coming of the Chinese New Year here and we had our 2nd Chinese New Year party at the Meyer Road playground. Lots of families came and God gave us great cool breezy but dry weather, despite rain just 2 minutes away. Everyone wore something red or gold, it looked like a 'red' party. We had good food and the men got to throw an American football around while the women mostly ate, chatted and kept an eye on the kids.

Then not long after we had an Easter celebration and an Easter egg hunt for the kids at the same park. The kids managed to do the easter egg hunt in the park, but the heavy rain arrived very soon after. So we had over 60 people including kids in our house. There were people everywhere - on the stairs, the floor, upstairs and the kitchen. But it was fun and it was great to see that God had blessed us with this house big enough to squash us all in to keep dry and still eat, drink and be merry!

Meanwhile, as Mia is growing older, she is proving to me more persistent and strong willed. I have little idea of how to handle her, she is quite different to her brother. Matthew is doing great, though we are realising that he does not cope so well in the local school system here, even at the preschool level. So we will change him to a Montessori preschool next month and hopefully he'll discover the joy of learning again. We have also found that Matthew is more confident in social settings when Mia is around. Mia of course is oblivious to whether Matthew is there or not, she just does her own thing.