We started off by picking Katherine up early from school. She has been working hard for months to stop sucking her fingers when she sleeps. Her reward was to have lunch with Mommy and then I would take her shopping to buy a special surprise. She chose to eat at Subway and made herself very comfortable. :) She ate an entire 6 inch Subway Melt, plus the chips and a drink! She chose to buy a Hello Kitty necklace, a pair of jeans, a long-sleeved shirt.
Ayi fixed Hot Pot for us. It was actually very good. The water boils in the middle of the table and you cook a little food, eat it, cook a little more, eat it, etc.
Soon afterwards (2 days maybe) is when Regan developed a rash on her back. We still don't know what it was that she was allergic to, if it was something she ate or just came in contact with.
We had a wonderful time babysitting this little girl for two whole days! She was absolutely adorable! Some of the comments when we went out were funny, too. I had at least one person tell me that she didn't look as much like me as Katherine did, and one person that asked if we adopted her, and one that asked if I dyed Katherine's hair because my youngest had black hair. It was quite interesting.
She was great to have around and all the kids "fought" over her. Lauren enjoyed getting to play the role of "big sister" for two days.
Here is our final thankful tree. In the midst of everything, we managed to have two with pink eye, one with a 105 fever, one with allergic reaction, and two with hand foot and mouth disease (some kids overlap). Needless to say, one of our thankful leaves was for Doctors. By the way, please ignore all clothing choices in this picture :)
We also had Thanksgiving!! What fun to have some American food and a TURKEY! (We did not think we would be able to find one this year, but we did....I was soooo happy) When I went to pick up the turkey, there were 14 workers there checking out the turkey. I got to the counter and said, "I am here to pick up..." I got cut off by several people saying, "She's here for the turkey. She's picking up the turkey."
This is the group that came over to celebrate with us. We had such a good time and are so thankful for the many friends God has given us here.
This is one of Jonathan's friends that comes over sometimes to help him with his language.
Since everyone was still recovering from illnesses and our late night Thanksgiving dinner, we decided to take Friday off for everyone and do some Christmas decorating! The kids were so excited! Lauren was my little helper to make sure that lights did not get tangled.
The kids had fun putting on their ornaments.
This year, Katherine got to put the star on the top of the tree.
Regan posing next to her favorite ornament...baby Kung Fu panda.
Ayi enjoyed seeing all the decorations going up.
Benjamin in the Santa hat ;)
Lauren in the Santa hat
Lauren decided that Mommy neededd to wear the hat as well.
Not long after the tree was up, the first present showed up under the tree.
Oh-it's Katherine under the tree! :)
So that has been an overview of our past 2 weeks. We are on the mend, but still have some sick ones in out house. Hopefully, all we be better next week!!!
