audio book for the win

This morning I needed to go to the traffic bureau to pay some tickets.  Laugh all you want.... in two years our car got three tickets for driving on our no drive day, one for driving through a hatched line area on a limited access road, and one parking ticket (someone borrowing our car managed to snag that for us).  [In China it's the vehicle that snags tickets, not the driver... most of the ticketing is done by camera.  We can't renew our registration without clearing the tickets.]

Anyways, I left the big kids (knowing Ayi was on her way and would be around most of the morning).  They had some school assignments to complete on their own, and they were really mostly looking forward to listening to more Johnny Tremain.  Although we are technically past the Revolutionary Way (moved on to Sacagawea) we are still enjoying a few more books and this one has been a bit hit!

So I returned home to this scene... knitting and drawing and now I know I can't pull them away for another chapter or two.

(please note: no legos in sight)