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Cesario and Sebastian: *exist*

Olivia: Most wonderful!

Me: There's two of them, yay!

10 y.o.: Yay, I have two husbands. I'll make them take turns working, and have one accompany me all the time.

#Twelfth Night #shakespeare #Olivia #River is so sticky that he thinks having someone accompany you 24/7 is great #Things my kid says #River #komochi #lytdybr

5 y.o.: Mama, when can we go to New York City?

Me: ? Why do you want to go there?

9 y.o.: In New York you can be a new man.

#New York #Hamilton the musical #In New York you can be a new man #The greatest city in the world #Things my kid says #5 y.o. also corrected me that he said New York CITY #not New York #hah #specificity #lytdybr #komochi #Brooks #River

Brooks watched Midsummer Night's Dream happily for 30 minutes. It was perfect timing because we caught the last 30 minutes (it was a shortened Backyard Bard play at 45 minutes).

After 30 minutes of watching and eating rice crackers with his brother: "I'm tired; I want to go." (Translation: go to the playground)

They played at the playground, and I was able to watch the first 40 minutes of Hamlet (60-min) half an hour later. It was a comedy/tragedy double feature =D

I was impressed that both River and Brooks stood and watched for that long. (River probably could've watched at least half an hour more).

It'd be great if they do Twelft Night next summer =)

#Midsummer Night's Dream #Shakespeare #Backyard Bard #One of the great things about living in this city #Shortened Shakespeare #is GENIUS for kids #It was a cast of five actors #Queen Gertrude and Ophelia being played by the same actor is funny #Brooks #River #komochi #lytdybr

It's 4 a.m. and I'm agonizing about buying Mandarin Chinese curriculum for my kids. (Don't I already teach them enough stuff?? @___@)

Problem is, once-a-week language lessons is useless. Did that for nine months with River when he was four, and I'm pretty sure he retained 0% of it, even mere days later.

So. I'll have to teach them at least twice a week. It would help if I can teach them both _at the same time_. But if I were a teacher/tutor, I would not want to teach a 4.5 y.o. and a 9 y.o. together. Haha. Ha.

There's SageBooks, but it's for teaching Mandarin-speaking kids how to read (Sort of similar to BOB books). The first phrase it teaches is "tall mountain," which...does not come up in conversations a lot. Also, their base of operations is HongKong >> $$$ Shipping

BetterChinese My First Chinese Words looks like a good choice, but dear lord their website looks so unprofessional. There are "40 Reviews" but they're not visible (???). Also, $15 shipping? You should give me a discount when I purchase more items instead of punishing me with extra shipping. Ughhh