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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Last day of the year and she is off...

The year is drawing to a close..and what a year!!! Maya has decided she is walking into the New Year. She has been taking a step or two here or there and then plopping on her bum. Last night she walked about 8 steps in a row and now there is nothing stopping her:)) I am having trouble putting pics up..trying other upload options....more later. See you in 2009!!!








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We had a second Christmas on Saturday. Went to Dajia to pick up a parcel from Li-Pei's dad. Mom and Ian sent some things over with him and Li-long. We also visited the famous Matsu temple with him rand he took us to see a 200 year old wall tribute the emperor had installed....of course as Dylan was lying on it a small piece broke off...yikes:))

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Friday, December 26, 2008

Christmas 2008!!!

We had a great Christmas ..eventful..too. As we had to work over this time...we followed a bit of a different format. Christmas eve we had some Christmas cake (yay the dairy free version of my Gran's cake worked!!) Dylan and Maya got to each open a present from us and they also got one from school!


Dylan was very excited about the cake...





A transformer!!

Maya was so cute sticking her finger in the hole i had opened slightly..very excited too.





The Christmas morning was a normal morning because Ciro had to go to work. I was not working in the evening so we decided to contact Santa and ask him to make an afternoon delivery. It was supposed to be a normal morning that is until i stepped on to the balcony to get the tablecloth off the line and "click" behind me...Dylan had closed and locked the door. Now this would not have been a problem as he would have opened it for me again but because the balcony is so high up and a real hazard we have a childproof doorknob on the inside of the door...he could not open it!! So there i am on the 15th floor...stuck outside. Maya crying inside and Dylan first playing and then after realizing he could not open it ...growing more and more concerned....long story short..neighbours heard/saw me...called locksmith...our door has two locks they couldn't break in to the second lock..Dylan would not open the front door for them. Ciro was a half hour away.... eventually they lowered a hammer down to me so i could smash the glass pane and open the door...such fun on Christmas morning!!!No one was hurt...all okay! !!! Not something i ever want to repeat!!

We had to go to work in the afternoon and then on the way home after picking up the kids (which i never get to do so they were pretty happy to see me there)Picked up the Turkey and it was Christmas time. When we walked in Dylan went straight to the tree...super excited!!









Such concentration!!!





Yummy dinner!!Will probably be having turkey for the whole week!!

Maya had some turkey too...loved it...she was licking the plate clean...literally!!!!










Santa was very good to these two!!! Dylan was so excited about the train set and Maya has an activity center....lots of noise in this house now!!!!!

These are some pics i have been meaning to post...Maya's teeth.

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Dylan found these red bugs on our walk the other day!


Monday, December 22, 2008

Santa

Dylan got an email from Santa..you can watch the link below.

Santa's reply

Thanks Karen for getting us Santa's address:)

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Maya 11 months

So much going on. Maya turned 11 months old last week and she has gone from 1 tooth to 4 teeth and 2 waiting to come out....it is all happening so quick. I have a clip...i hope to get up here where you can kind of see all 6 top teeth pushing against the gums..now her two top front teeth are out ..joining the bottom...and the two on either side of the top are pushing through. She is walking all over the place holding on and she is permanently chatting....Christmas is coming...we don't get the day off but i have the evening off so....Santa is visiting us later in the day.



My little elves...









Sunday, December 07, 2008

Wedding and winter is here!!

Last weekend we went to Beryl and A-bei's wedding reception. It was in Changhua..right next to the old bowling alley we used to go to. A really nice wedding, loads of yummy seafood on a beautiful winter's day. Dylan entertained himself with a car Ciro got him and Maya entertained herself with everything on the table!!!!
Somehow I had everything organised except batteries..switched camera on and realised battery was dead...thought that was okay because of phone camera...10 minutes later that battery died too...so thanks to Vivian and Karen for taking the pics!!!









Winter is here and this weekend it has really cooled down. Both kids had colds again this week. They are on Chinese meds and feeling much better today..yay!! Maya has grown so much and is making so many different facial expressions..tha latest is this open mouthed...ahhh!!!!(It is ahappy face:))))Pic is below and if you look carefully you can just see her one bottom tooth! Still just one.