Alice, Please come back. We're not learning anything anymore.

Alice and her family traveled to another city in Korea to visit their grandparents for summer vacation. She's been gone for a week, and will be gone for one and a half more. It's been to nice to catch Joshua and Sunny up, but hard not having my translator around.

We've had a lot of photo shoots:


Gone to the park and gotten ice cream a few times:



And played this silly game involving a plastic "Tower of Pisa" and these mini red tourists.

First, you count out (in English) and divide up all of our tourists.

Then, blow on the dice for good luck.

Then, roll the dice.

See what color you land on.

Then, put a tourist on that color teir of the tower.

If it will tip in it's location, try a different side.


Then, sit back and hope like heck it doesn't tip over.

Make this face, it helps.

If they it tips, it's okay. Just watch out for flying tourists.

Try not to let them shock you too much.

Wait for the tower to finish swaying, and repeat.

It's been a good little game for number and color review. We count how many men are on the tower after each turn and they have to say the color before they put their man on.

It's fun, but we miss Alice!

Plus side: all the extra attention has been good for both Joshua and Sunny. They're both reading! I have successfully taught three babies not only how to read English, but the concept of reading. They didn't know how to read Korean, yet, so the process of link sounds together to form words wasn't clicking.

They can't read everything, in fact they only know short vowel sounds and the basic consonant sounds. We've also memorized a few sight words so we can link whole thoughts together. It is so much fun! For each word the say each sound for each letter, then say it faster, and finally, they say the word all together. It takes a century to get through a sentence, but I don't care. I can leave Korea a happy teacher!