The Coldest Week?

It was so cold last week in Dallas that the night temperatures dropped to teens for several days. I took a sick day on Tuesday since my coughs got worse. Thursday when the high temperature dropped below the freezing point, my manager asked me to work from home. Emily and I hadn't been out of the house unless absolutely necessary. Fortunately we both got over the cold on Friday. So Friday night we went to the party for David's readers Hongyu and Sandy. We were surprised to see David's former reader Mike and his girl friend Grace too! We haven't seen them for a long time. We wished we could talk more with everyone. But before we realized it, it already passed Emily's bed time. Hongyu's dad was so good with kids that he played with Emily for a long time so that David and I could visit without much distraction. Sunday we went to Gayla's house for lunch. She was going to introduce a girl who committed to be a missionary sent by His Little Ones to us and to the Stoltes. But the girl was sick so the rest of us had a nice lunch together.

David ran all the errands while I was sick. He also went to several Christian bookstores to look for the Bible study materials for Teenagers. Our missionary friends Andrew and Jamie in Beijing need them to study with a teenage girl. Finally David was happy to find an easy to read Chinese Bible and several Bible study books. David went to the MRN conference on Saturday. It was really refreshing for him.

We started to pack away Emily's clothes that she has outgrown. It was sad that she will never wear those pretty clothes again. Each of them has been soaked with our precious memories. She is off to the two-year-old clothes now. Emily's favorite food these days are homemade cranberry sauce, bread, all kinds of fruit, yogurt and tofu. She wasn't very interested in the vegetables (that was a regression from several months ago). Even for fruit, she just sucks out of the juice and spits out of the meat. Hopefully this will change after more of her molar teeth come out.

Here are a couple of pictures we had during the week:

This picture is a bonus to make you laugh: Emily is curious about everything we do. Here is her peeking through the door crack when David was taking a morning shower. She did it long enough for me to find the camera, snap a shot, and bring her clothes over for a change. Luckily she couldn't see anything since the shower was to the left of the door ... Ha!

Keep warm and have a wonderfully blessed week!