Christmas Light Up and Parade. Jia watched the parade from Eric and mine's shoulders. Through an undershirt, shirt, heavy coat and my hat, I could feel Jia's heartbeat pounding! She thought that was pretty great and when asked what the best part was she said 'seeing Santa'.
Look what Fei fell in love with at Costco :) Couldn't see where the ear phones plug in but it sure is starting to look appealing to Eric and I too. Both girls are playing several times a day and it just booms from the upright grands!
The annual Christmas party and Kalum and Deanna's. Jia was totally enthralled making a Christmas tree this year.
Fei was great at keeping her hands to herself and letting Jia do her own project but she still stuck around in case Jia needed her. Great job big sister!
The masterpiece is decorating the table at home. We bought a chalet kit to decorate and Jia is already asking to get started.
Lili and Fei have asked for desks for Christmas. It's been an exhaustive hunt. We've been everywhere. Furniture, thrift, antique stores, on-line both new and used. We've been to see so many desks that we were down to looking for one we could re-model, or add a hutch to. Then out of the blue, while in Value Village Lili strolls through the back of the store and I find her standing with her hand on the desk she wants! Too funny. I said 'great, lets go find your Dad' and we walked away but two other shoppers got too close so Lili went back and stood with her hands on the desk, until I could get Eric back to take over. Eric and I are just thrilled to be done shopping for desks! Oh ya', shhh, don't tell Fei, but we found one for her weeks ago and it's perfect for her. So much for surprises.
We have new neighbors and they've only been in their house a week and managed to get Christmas lights up. I can't stand the idea of putting any more holes in the old house so have been asking for no lights for a few years now. Jia is all about lights right now and Eric told me it was time. Sigh. So, I agreed but only if I could have hanging snowflakes because I like them. Lili and I went to Wal-Mart on Dec. 1. What a crazy day to shop. Anyways, we went to the light isle and the shelves are getting bare and people were just walking up and grabbing stuff. We were debating but feeling the pressure by the second. Had to call Eric, measure, discuss and finally made our choice and then realized they only had three of the four boxes of what we wanted. We made one more walk of the isle and found a box down the isle randomly placed. So we brought them home and Eric put them up yesterday. It was exciting to see them when we got home in the dark last night. Jia was just beaming and whispered 'they so pretty, tank you Mommy'. Awww.
