Merry Christmas

This past two weeks has been so busy, as most of you are. At work, I went through a week-long condensed training and took a job-related world-wide certificate exam. That consumed almost all of my energy: 8 hours training plus two or three hours homework every day. I'm so glad that it was behind of us! Besides that we shopped and wrapped all the gifts, participated several Christmas parties and attended a friend's graduation ceremony at UTD. Emily did so well in parties that she was bragged by my co-workers and friends all the time. We were sorry that we couldn't attend all the Christmas parties and see all the friends that we'd love to. Wish they could spread out more during the year! David's college friend Terry and his wife Hong and daughter Elizabeth from Houston came to spend the night with us Saturday night. It was an added joy to this time of the year. I know we won't see many of you before Christmas and New Year. Please let us know how you spend the holiday afterwards. We wish you a wonderfully blessed time with your family, friends, or yourself! Peace, hope, joy, love to you!!!

Last Monday night I went to the Apple of Gold Christmas reunion and saw many friends that I don't see very often. It was really a treat for us (relatively) young ladies to be served by the mature and respected Church ladies.

Emily is more and more fun each day. She is still a good eater and great sleeper. The only thing is that she eats so slow. Be careful if she sneezes 20 minutes after she finishes eating. Chances are all the food she stores in her mouth would spray out in front of her. David joked that every time she sneezes, it costs us 99 cents dry clean fee. Ha! Our guests were often amazed what a good girl she was. She was always happy, content and easy. That's our precious girl!


Another new thing about Emily was that she'd rather see us off every time we put her down to sleep. As soon as we put her down, she would rollover and stand up right away. As we waved bye-bye and closed the door, she stood in her crib holding onto the bedrail quietly. She wouldn't cry or make any sound. Five or ten minutes later, we went in to check on her. Sometimes she was still sitting in the crib silently touching her bears or holding her blankets. We never heard her crying or objecting/complaining after we put her down for naps or night sleeps. She is just amazing and easiest baby we can have! Guess her nap schedule is changing soon. Here was what we saw after she fell asleep afterwards:

The third change about Emily was she didn't like to be out of our sight. She likes to be around us. When she wanders away, she always turns right back to us. When we leaves her, she would follow us wherever we go.

Emily normally doesn't like anything on her head: hair pins and sunhats. But she surprisingly liked this winter hat. She put it on all day when it was cold last week. Combined with the puffy Chinese coat, does she look like a China doll?

This is the second Christmas dress that Emily had. Our friend Mary Biggers from FriendSpeak bought it for her. She got so many compliments.

Emily loves all her stuffed animals. She kisses each of them whenever she sees them. But she was scared of this moose who sings Christmas carols for some reason. Before long, she developed close friendship with it too! She huggs it, kisses it, and most of time, dances with it ... Emily loves dancing with music. She swings from side to side or bounces up and down. Sometimes she just waves her arms. It was amusing that whenever we do the laundary, she would run right up to the washing machine, face it, and dance according to the rhythms of the washing sound (which sounds like a music to her). She has an excellent rhythm!

(Note that she was holding a blood pressure gauge when she kissed the moose ...:-)

Once again: Merry Christmas!!!