Mid-autumn festival

I brought back from Malaysia some lanterns and moon cakes

We ended up celebrating an early mid-Autumn festival as the kids paraded around the yard with their candle-lit lanterns. Fun. One of the moon cakes had a solid duck egg yolk. The kids didn't notice until it was almost done. They were filled with lotus seed paste.

Calling all three year olds

Curious how your height stacks up to historical Joneses? Check this out, any 3-year olds in the audience! Here is how it stacks up in inches for all these people at age three:

Janet 35 inches
Courtney 36.25 inches
Dick 36.75 inches
Tyler 37.25 inches
Allison 38 inches
Bump 38.25 inches
Hal 39 inches
Dan 39.25 inches
Pat 39.75 inches

Interesting. We also have "close to three" measurements:

Sydney at 2 years, 10 months was 37.75 inches
Nathan at 2 years, 4 months was 35 inches

Compiled this from the 9th Street wall in Rochester, plus our family's official measuring stick.

Circus World Museum

Some pictures from Circus World Museum, near the Wisconsin Dells.

Hong Kong pictures

Here are some shots from Hong Kong - etaing lunch with our Hong Kong Abbott team, and a picture of the mascots at Olympic park. Got to attend church at an English-speaking branch in Hong Kong, which was an uplifting time.