Olympics

Our kids enjoyed the Olympics. We got an Olympics shirt for Spence when we were in Guangzhou and he has been wearing it for a long time. We have been telling him about the Bird's Nest since we saw it in 2006. And since xmas we have a Wii game that features the Beijing Olympics so the kids have become familiar with many of the Olympic sports and arenas. So when the real Beijing games began, everything came together for Spence and he made sense of the sports competitions and the nations competing. The kids enjoyed seeing the Bird's Nest and the Ice Cube lit at night, especially with fireworks; and they liked the opening ceremony. Spence asked to watch events almost daily; i think fencing was his favorite. And Aidyn liked gymnastics. He never has been much of a singer, but he has been running around the house singing the Olympics anthem and the Star Spangled Banner. And for a couple of weeks both Spence and Aidyn were playing imaginary drums in slow-motion, using huge wide arching movements like those 1800 men of the opening ceremony. Was really funny. Aidyn of course loved hearing about "Chi-Chi" on the tv daily. She gets that she was born there, just as Spence came from Atlanta. Jeremy and I of course had very mixed feelings on the whole ordeal. Makes us sick how much money the government spent to show off to the rest of the world, when their welfare system seemingly couldn't take proper care of our daughter and the many kids waiting now for surgeries and families.