Christmas

Harrison bundled up because it is always cold in our apartment. He is giving the peace sign, because that is just what you do for photos in Taiwan.
Wearing my scarf and posing, Taiwanese style, for the camera.
Our tree with all our presents underneath.
Now- with our presents plus all the presents Kenny brought from our family back in the US.
Christmas eve, he arranged his trains at the top of his pillow and went to sleep.

We have had such a fun and eventful Christmas break, and it isn't even new years yet. As soon as exams were over we took Tiffany to the Adventist hospital to have her teeth cleaned. That weekend we sent her to Japan for a day to renew her visa.

On Tuesday Kenny delivered the presents he had brought from our family back in TN, and took us to the glass museum. Wednesday's excitement was a doctors appointment for me where we found out we are expecting another BOY! - Marshall.

Of course Thursday was Christmas eve. We went downtown, bought a few more presents, had dinner at a Japanese place where they cook in front of you, saw lots of pretty lights and some very large Christmas trees. Then headed home to unwrap presents with a very excited toddler. Harrison barely got his shoes off before running to the tree and yelling "otent prepents" translation: open presents. Harrison handed out all the presents before he sat down to unwrap his. When we finished opening presents, I told Harrison it was time to get ready for bed. He immediately jumped up, grabbed all his trains, went to his room and called us in to have prayer with him.

Christmas morning Harrison actually didn't wake us up like usual (standing beside our bed loudly saying EAT), instead he quietly came to the living room to play with his new train set. Then when the rest of us joined him we opened our stockings and then headed to Alice and Harry Bennett's for Christmas dinner with them and Tamara Karr, all TAPA coworkers. Saturday was pretty uneventful, but we did rent Polar Express for Harrison, boy did he love it.

Yesterday Tiffany and I went to a fabric market with Alice and Tamara, I had no idea of it's existence before. I bought some fabric to make a few things for the baby. Ryan got me the book Simple Sewing for Baby for Christmas. It was a book I saw at Barnes and Noble this summer and told Ryan I wanted it if we ever had another baby. I was very surprised that he remembered.

And now we are at today. We planned to go to the Martyr's Shrine but after waiting at the bus stop for more than 45 minutes in the cold and when it started to rain, we gave up and headed home. We will try again sometime this week, hopefully on a day that rain isn't in the forecast.