Fei went home.

The critters will miss Fei.  She hands out treats.  Fei starts her practicum tomorrow. 

Check out Isabel's snazzy new collar.  Poor girl is going nuts with her hot spot.  We were out for 4 hours to do family photos, grab a quick dinner, antibiotic cream and a new collar for her.  She really made a mess of her wound in that time.  The collar seems to be stopping her and things look better already.  We need to stay with her through this.  Walter did come home while Fei was here but he's too stinky with cigarette smoke for her too.  Maybe if the snow called for actually starts we can follow his kitty footy prints.

Jia's parent teacher talk was today.  It was fine.  She's doing great with the stuff she turns in but we need to get the extra stuff recorded and turned in too. The art, drawing, graphic art, music, dance, home economics, science experiments and random projects. I told him she had perfected the best chocolate chip cookie.  He got a twinkle about how she could present that project.  Haha. Typical of Jia, she came home, spun some circles, did nothing, got overwhelmed and came up to bug me.  I was on the phone so I sushed her and she fell asleep.  I'm such a sit down at my desk and do one thing at a time person that it boggles my mind watching her process.  She really needs it broken down into steps.  Such easy projects.  All on things she has already done, she just needs a way to present the work and it's wide open on how she can do it.  She was pretty happy to have Fei home.  

We met friends at a mall to take each others pictures.  We were behind them and they already had great photos taken by a stranger.  There was a Santa there with a nice set up and a picture was only $15 so we ended up doing that.  Then we lined up at a tree for the original plan.

I don't love it.  The background is blah.  So the xmas card photo will be the one with Santa in it :)  There was some complaining about not looking great in the bright green.  Too funny.  Does anyone alive look good in this color?!  

Then we pushed it too far for Kai by attempting a photo with all the kids.  They were all in black.  We just had ours take the green t-shirts off.  Someone mentioned candy canes so Kai was DONE and the tears were starting.  Jade handed him a candy cane and he settled down but was a no to more pictures.

Kai is home today with a sore throat.  Can the flu shot cause this or is he for real sick again?  3rd time since school started.  The rest of us are fine so it's starting with him, again.  

These two did make it through the Christmas escape room.