What a character!

This past weekend, we took the kids into the city of San Francisco to visit Chinatown. I had told Douglas to be listening for the Chinese language being spoken and told him how it was different from English. We get to Grant street and he hears lots of Chinese. We cross the street and overhear a conversation in English and Douglas announces, "Are we in England now?"

After our trip to Disneyland, he has been obsessing about Star Wars, having gone to the Jedi Academy. He told us the other morning that he had a dream that "Darth Vader, but the good Darth Vader, came and you could take rides on his space ship. I raised my hand really loudly and he picked me." For some reason, the idea of raising your hand "really loudly" was funny to me and I am sure we all can picture what that would look like.

Tonight, he is drawing a picture of our family and he wants to write our ages above our heads. This is our conversation.

"How old are you, Dad?"
"36," Tony replies.
"Mom, are you 43?" Douglas inquires.
Eek! No sure where he got that, but apparently I need to break out the Oil of Olay!

Douglas has decided to be Spiderman for Halloween. He likes to try on his costume and "practice Halloween." He crouches down and leaps from chair to wall pretending his hands and feet stick. He gets this excited even without the candy. I can only imagine what we are in for on the 31st.

Still don't know what we will do for the girl's costume. You can see the picture of her dressed up like a pirate in the Family Photo Album.