more Christmas

Here are a few more to complete the day: Harrison and I in front of the same tree, my beautiful son, the Tiffany tree in front of the 101 mall, 101 and the moon (taken by Ryan), all tuckered out from a long and fun Christmas!

Christmas

We started the day with french toast. Then Ryan read the about the birth of Christ from Luke. We showed Harrison how to open the presents and he went to town. Ryan has it all on video. After Harrison's nap we went down to Taipei 101 and bought some stuffing, applesauce and waffle mix from Jason's.

Here are some photos from our day: Harry and I listening to daddy read, our makeshift Christmas tree, Harry's first attempt at bowling, making a silly face at daddy and Harry and daddy in front of a tree downtown.

Cubicle

Harrison and Brigitta playing in their cubicles. The two of them just love playing together. Last night was the first time we have seen him do this, Brigitta plays in them all the time. You can see how much we are doing with our vacation time :) The last picture has them both in the same square.

Sabbath School

Here is a small glimpse of our Sabbath school. This month we are doing the story of Jesus birth, so Harrison is a shepherd. He is in the lap of Janine Show, mine isn't available because I'm the teacher. The boy next to them is Christopher, he speaks pretty good english. The little girl in the next picture is Ann, she is so beautiful and sweet. She just turned two a couple weeks ago, we celebrated in Sabbath school with a felt cake and fake cake with two candles, a birthday song and a felt birthday name tag. She has an older sister, Eline, who blew out the candles for her, took her birthday tag for herself and immediately took the little teddy bear gift. I thought it was soo funny, and Ann didn't even seem to notice any of it, I guess she is just used to it. Eline is in the first picture back by the felt board. Ann and Eline don't speak english but their mother does, and she stays in the class with them.

The last two pictures are in a room by the church where we take Harry when he is getting too loud.

Oh, our school just hired another teacher for next semester and his name is Harry, I think he is moving here from Kenya.

Sudoku master

I'm not the only one in the family who loves sudoku. Thanks Eric and Angela for the great wedding gift, I'm not sure how many years it will take us to do all 1000 puzzles. I bought her a little kitten bed on Sunday, but this is where she napped.
We are anxiously awaiting Christmas break. Finals are next week and Wednesday is the last day. Grades are due by Friday, so I'm sure Ryan will be quite busy all of next week preparing those. This Thursday night is the school's Christmas party, it will be at our church, which is inside the Adventist hospital downtown. We have had secret friends this week and we will find out their identity then.
Tonight we went out and bought a heater, yes, it actually gets cold in Taiwan- thanks China. I also bought Harry a pair of mittens.

Walking to school

This is the usual route we take to school from our apartment. Tapa really stands out, it is a funny looking four story building nestled between highrise apartment buildings accross the street from the Jiantan MRT station. The building on the left, where I work on the fourth floor, is called the Red building- due to the color of one outside wall. The building on the right, where Ryan works on the second floor, is called the green building- although you cannot see it the wall opposite the red one is completely green. The last picture is a view from my desk in the library, beautiful staircase, but oh so scary with a toddler.

One Cool Dude

Today we stopped by the smaller of the two playgrounds by our house. Harrison insisted on wearing his sunglasses the whole time we were there. Sadly, we lost them somewhere on the way to school. He loves these little spring rockers. I'm not too crazy about them because he wants to ride on each one and change between them frequently. The park is always a nice treat for both of us though.