Christmas Eve Party

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday John!!

 

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We went to Peter's with our friends the Rupp's and Todd's and topped off our evening with an awesome coconut cake!

 

 

Up to Mischief!!

 

 

I caught Zeb trying to stuff a whole pack of diapers inside Layla's footie pajamas! She looked quite interesting when he was finished.

 

Decorating Christmas cookies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Decorating the Tree

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turkey Bowl

 

 

 

 

 

Thanksgiving

 

 

 

 

 

 

Making a Give Thanks Banner

 

Christmas Bizarre

 

 

Homeschool + 3

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Trick or Treat and some sickness

Last night all the kids in and around our complex got dressed up and went trick or treating in our neighborhood. Of course in Asia trick or treating isn't a normal custom so one of my friends went around to all the local shops and told them that children would come into their shops dressed up and they would need to give them candy. She gave them the candy to give out of course. When you have to stop and explain trick or treating to someone that has never heard of it before you begin to realize that this custom of ours is rather strange. The plan was for all of my children to go but that was not to be.

A week or so ago Zeb woke up and told me he no longer wanted to eat because his throat hurt so bad. I of course realized this might be a problem and got a flashlight to check out his throat. It looked bad, really bad. So I took him the doctor thinking it was probably strep. Oh no, it was hand, foot, and mouth disease! After freaking out for a moment, the doctor assured me we didn't have to be evacuated again that it was a virus that just had to run it's course. However, he told me the virus is very contagious and that Zeb couldn't be around anyone until he was better. Of course right when Zeb was almost over his virus, Kayleigh got it. Then you guessed it, Layla got it too. So we haven't seen to many people in the past two weeks or so because we have been in hiding to keep anyone else from getting it.

So back to my trick or treating story. I had really high hopes that Kayleigh would be over her virus for last night's trick or treat festivities but she wasn't. She was so very sad. I felt so bad for her. So the mom in charge promised that she would make a bag of candy just for Kayleigh since she didn't get to come. That seemed to ease the pain some! So I was able to take Zeb and he had a blast. Below are a few pictures of the night.

The girls got dressed up despite the fact they didn't get to go.

Can you find batman in the midst of all the princesses?

 

Zeb and his best bud Brave.

The loot!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love this little girl!

 

 

A giant feast!

We went out on a double date tonight with our very good friends Daniel and Kayla. It was Daniel's birthday. John decided to order this....

 

I am pretty sure this is the largest cheeseburger I have ever seen in my life! John had to cut the quarters into halfs to be able to eat it. Of course he didn't finish it and we came home with tons of leftovers!

It was a fun evening full of laughter! We even took a nice walk to a bridge overlooking the river.

 

A few days away

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mountain Fun!

We went to a local friend's family home in the mountains.

We did some climbing.

 

We did some eating.

 

We had a lot of fun!

 

 

 

 

Long Time Customer

Us and our good friends Kayla and Daniel often ate at an Indian restaurant in our old city. Natrually, John and Daniel become friends with the owner. Daniel and Kayla were eating at his restaurant in our new city and he invited us and them to come to the 8th year anniversary of the opening of his restaurant. It was a lot of fun!

He gave us a free dinner!

And even let John and Zeb cut the cake!

It pays to be long time customers!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zeb's Cast Party

Pure Joy seeing my son run around again!

 

 

 

 

 

The Cast Is Off!!!

We finished taking off Zeb's cast this morning. When John did the final cutting Zeb bent his leg and screamed! It hurt him really bad because he hadn't bent his knee in 7 weeks. He is mostly hobbling around but as determined as Zeb is I expect him to be up walking normal in no time!

 

Phase One Is Complete

We couldn't take it anymore. The cast is officially supposed to come off tomorrow but we just can't wait any longer. What is one more night of sleep going to do anyways? Because we have never seen a cast like this made in China ( see Kayleigh's cast as an example) we assumed that there was no place to take Zeb to get his cast removed except back to Hong Kong. Well, we weren't going to do that so we took matters into our own hands. John borrowed a drimal tool from a friend and started cutting away at the cast! Don't worry there was a guard on the drimal tool and we used a piece of board the doctors used to splint Zeb's leg with to slide under the cast for protection. Dust was flying everywhere so below is a picture of Zeb holding up a wipe to try and keep the dust out of his eyes. We eventually put sunglases on him! After cutting away the cast around his body the drimal tool ran out of battery! So......

Below is the result. He went to bed with half a cast on. After a full night's charge we will be back at it in the morning.