Oh My Gosh, We're Really Going!

It has been a really crazy week around here trying to get everything ready to leave, but I'm pretty sure we're going whether we're ready or not!
Poor Kai is getting Very, Very Excited, and we are too busy to really give him the attention he needs. Tomorrow everything changes and the adventure really begins. I am looking forward to getting in the car and driving away. I'm tired of planning and getting ready. I want to be going and doing.

We had our weekly Sunday dinner with Cam and his girlfriend Brittni. We have had no time to cook this week so we were going to take them out, but then we didn't have time for that either, so we ordered Chinese take-out and sent all four of the kids (Cam, Brittni, Ben and Kai) to go pick it up. It gave us a few minutes to clean and pack without Kai. It's weird leaving the two big boys behind this time. We worry about them, but know they'll be fine.

Tonight for bedtime I read a Monkey King story to Kai. It's a big artsy book his Aunt Erin gave to him. It skims through the basics of the plot, including Monkey's defiance of Buddha. Kai always listens very intensely to it. In the end, Guan Yin helps Monkey solve a problem, and the moral is about learning to accept help from others. After I read the story to him I told him that maybe we would see the Monkey King when we were in China. Then he told me he didn't want to see the Monkey King. I reminded him of how Big Bird saw the Monkey King in China, and he told me he wanted to see Big Bird. I told him we could watch the DVD on the trip. After I tucked him in and turned off the light, I was sitting on the floor by his bed singing our standard lullabies, and he said to me, "Baba?"
"Yes Kai," I answered.
"I want to see Buddha."
"We'll see Buddha in China." I assured him.

I finished our lullabies.
And now I have to finish packing.
Next update will be from China!

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