The BIG Ultrasound

I had my 20 week ultrasound appointment this morning. Rich and Angela tagged along and waited patiently for the ultrasound tech to do a big reveal of the gender. Although baby # 2 was not very cooperative, we're pretty certain that Angela will be getting a baby sister in February!! This will be confirmed in a few months at my 32 week scan, but for now we are thinking PINK!

Welcome to Dubai

Just thought I'd post a quick update with photo's of our new apartment. There is still a lot in process and we'll be filling the empty spaces soon I hope. It sounds like our shipment from China should be arriving on September 25th. It will be nice to have all of our stuff back, Ang sure is missing her toys.

Enjoy the photo's!

Farewell USA, Hello UAE

We have landed safely in Dubai after a great trip home to the US. It was so great to see so many of our family and friends and as always it was sad to say goodbye. Although it always seems a bit too chaotic while we are visiting home we always enjoy the trips home and look forward to the next one. I took so many photos while we were there and have finally had time to sort through them all.

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Our first week in Dubai has been uneventful. Our apartment looks great but is so much larger than I remember it being. It still feels a bit empty since our shipment from China hasn't arrived yet. I took some photo's of the rooms that are mostly finished which will be posted here soon. Unfortunately I have been having some computer problems (yet again) and can't turn my laptop on at the moment. That also means no skype for me so if you are looking for us, try Rich!

I promise more updates as soon as I am back on my laptop!

Jie jie

In case your Chinese skills aren't up to speed, Jie Jie (which is what it says on Angela's shirt) is the Chinese word for big sister! We are very excited that we are expecting baby # 2, due February 2, 2011.

aunts & uncles

Sorry for the delay in blog postings - its been a busy summer for us so far! We've had so many visitors and are having a lot of fun showing everybody around China. I have lots of great stories and photo's to post from our trip to Beijing with Deb, Ali & Dan. There are also some great photos that were taken in Xian during a weekend trip that Dan & Rich took. But for now, I'm just going to share some great aunt and uncle moments.

Angela is really enjoying all of the extra attention. She loves to go hunting for Dan in the apartment - usually while carrying her panda hat so that he will put it on and chase her around. She mimics him a lot and he can always get a good laugh out of her.




Katie has been doing a lot of reading which Angela absolutely loves. Every night she gets three or four books to read before bed and usually goes back for at least two more. She also had so much fun with Katie in the pool the other day, check out the video link below for some happy baby fun! She just loves getting her face wet.



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Dragon Boats

There was another holiday in China this week - the Dragon Boat Festival. Its only a one day holiday that falls on Wednesday but the government declares the Saturday & Sunday before working days and then everybody takes Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday off.

As with many of the local holidays, I am not really sure what this one is all about. I asked Bonnie but all she could say was, "oh, we eat rice wrapped in leaves, you know that one?" Um no. Thanks again to Wikipedia, I learned that there are actual dragon boat races too.

Rich got to work from home Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday which was nice since he was in New York all of last week. Angela was so happy to have lots of daddy time at home!

Unfortunately we didn't actually make it out to see any of the dragon boat races (and we didn't eat any of these rice wrapped in leaves things either). Its so hot here now and I heard that the crowds along the rivers where they race can be horrible. Since I don't have dragon boat photo's to share, you get a few of Angela instead!!

California highlights

It took me ages to get all of my photo's organized from our trip to California for Cheryl & Tim's wedding. We had such a wonderful trip and it was so much fun spending time with everybody. There are so many great photo's so I created a slide show - its long but will definitely show you the highlights of our trip.


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