JUST A FEW PICS OF OUR FACES

JOSEPH

EMMA

JAY

SELAH WITH A FRIEND

WEARING MATCHING HATS

IN THE KNOW WITH JOE

Just showing you my handsome face today. This picture was taken at the spaghetti party our family had for my mom's English students. They ate spaghetti and I just played. It sure was fun!

IN THE KNOW WITH JOE

I am so busy these days. I spend my days making my mom and the rest of my family crazy because I get into so much. I walk in my walker with wheels and my family doesn't remember that I can reach everything on the coffee table and everything at my level. I have recently tipped over drinks on the coffee table and I always want to play with the trash can liners. I eat everything I get my hands on and someone is always fishing things out of my mouth. Today I drank from a straw. Emma always tries new things with me and tonight she help a cup with a built in straw up to my mouth and I drank water up the straw. I love to talk all the time and my favorite phrase is "DADA", but mom always wants me to say "MAMA". Sunny, our family helper talks to me in Chinese so hopefully I'll pick up real words some day. I am crawling now, but hesitate to because our floor is so hard and it hurts my knees....so I crawl on one knee and keep the other bent. I am almost pulling myself up into a standing position....dad says I will be doing that soon. My mom will post more pictures of me soon....her favorite is the one of me in the tub on this blog.

SITTIN' WITH SELAH

Hi everybody. It is fun and cool here in China. I wish I could be there with you guys. The weather here is not that cold. It's really windy though sometimes. At the Hope School, where we do our homework,the bathrooms are a little different than the American bathrooms. They have a whole in the ground.Some of the toilets have a button on the top instead of on the side. I have to go now....
YOu're good friend,
Selah

EM-TALK

Hey- I just wanted to tell you about the bread here. It is sweet and weird. They don't have icing here. I think it might be too sweet for them. They have whipped cream which I am kind of happy because I don't like icing too much except for chocolate. In Korean class last Friday we had 2 tests. One test was where we had to listen to what the teacher said and we had to write it down in Korean, of course. I got a 96% on that test. The other test we had to write down the words she wrote on the board ,which were the words from the other test and we had to convert it to English. The other students had to convert it to Chinese. I don't think I did too good on that one. This Friday my mom's second English class students are coming over to our apartment. We're going to have spaghetti and probably play the Wii and some of our American board games. There are only 4 students in her class. In her first class she has 18 students. But only the 4 in the second class are coming over....thank goodness!! I hope to take some pictures of what the Chinese women wear and then post them. They wear freaky clothes sometimes. They will wear a fancy top, with shorts with leggings under the shorts and really really really fancy tall boots.Well I better go...my mom is booting me off. Talk to you asap.
Luv,
Emma

JAY SAYS

Today was a normal day. I woke up and sat in the living room to study my Spelling words. My dad told me to get up and get dressed. I did and then I packed my bag for school. Then I had a can of apple juice with chunks of apple in it...it was new and only okay. After that I played with Joseph. Then I looked in th 'fridge like I do every morning. I went to school and did all my Monday subjects. Then we walked to the Korean grocery store and we got some junk food because they have the best junk food there and then we took a taxi home. We live on the third floor and our helper, Sunny, had lunch ready for us. I ate rice and chicken wings but she also made radish strips and chop chay. If you're wondering what chop chay is, it's clear noodles with vegetables like carrots and cabbage and stuff and it's cold or you can heat it. I did the rest of my school work and I studied for my Science test that I'm having tomorrow. My mom told me to leave the living room because I was being loud and so I went to play with Joseph in my room and then I played with him in my parents room. Then I got on nick.com and played a few games. Now I am typing this and we'll eat dinner soon. We are having chicken breasts, mashed potatoes and no gravy (boohoo) and corn. Tonight I will probably play with Joseph more and watch Gilligans' Island Season 3 or play our Wii.
Jay signing off.
PS I like Pie
PPS I haven't got a haircut yet.