We took the kids to the Ft. Worth Stock Show on Monday. The weather was great and the kids loved the animals – especially Anna, our animal lover.
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We didn’t plan on spending Christmas in Texas… Making the most of this unexpected turn of events!
Anyone who is still subscribed to this blog’s RSS feed or who come by here occasionally to see if I’ve posted anything, knows very well that there just has not been much action here on my blog. Well, that’s not because I have not been doing anything!
Our family had the opportunity to go to the USA this summer for 3 weeks to visit our families, it was a WONDERFUL trip. If you’d like to see some photos from that trip, you can go over to my (slightly more active) Flickr site ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/webel ). If you are not logged into Flickr, you’ll just see a small handful of photos, however, if you are logged in and I have you marked as ‘friend’ or ‘family’, you’ll get to see several dozen of my favorite photos from our trip to the US.
It’s been awhile since I posted here. Partly because of Twitter and Facebook, but also partly because I’ve just been so busy with other things!
This is a photo of the family on Easter! It is next to impossible to get everyone looking at the camera at the same time… especially when you have spectators!
I’ll probably try and post on here a few times this up-coming week as Erica and Elizabeth will be traveling to HK and I’ll be at home with Anna and Nate!
Yesterday the girl’s pre-school (which is also a music school) had their big “Chinese New Year” performance. They rented out a theater in one of the fancy buildings downtown, and when we showed up, we knew it was going to be a ‘big deal’. (You see, they never really tell us – sometimes we show up to these things and it’s one song and at parent teacher’s meeting, other times it’s like yesterday… a full-blown production.) The theater was huge and when we first arrived, Erica had doubts that they would fill it up. Well, they did fill it up, and there were even people standing!
Everyone performed, I mean everyone! Even the school’s staff did the opening act with some kind of swan dance or something. And then the piano performances started. Don’t get me wrong, these kids were amazing, some of them only 3 or 4 years old, playing really difficult songs. The thing was, there were over 75 of them! That is why the event took almost 4 hours! (Sorry to our house helper who was babysitting Nate and had to stay late!)
The girls did have their part too. We had to sit through 4 hours of other stuff to get this, you get to go right to the good stuff! Enjoy!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Erica and Nate left this morning for Hong Kong. That leaves me with Elizabeth and Anna until Wednesday!
I wanted to take the girls somewhere fun that would be special for them since they love HK so much and were sad that Mom and Nate got to go and they didn’t, so we headed out to the Golden Osprey Tower. The weather wasn’t the best, but that didn’t slow the girls down one bit!
They found a ‘stage’ so they had to do a dance show…
After we were done at the tower, we headed to McDonald’s for lunch… I know, McDonalds’s in China on the weekend!! It was crazy busy and we ate our lunch with no less than a dozen spectators / commentators at any given moment. Thankfully the girls are China savvy and they just roll with that sort of invasion of privacy with very little annoyance.
After lunch, was the ‘real’ reason we went to McDonald’s – the playground!
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