4 Feb 07

Well, I haven't been keeping up with this as much as I should but here's what's been going on since Christmas. First we took four days and went down to a hot springs area called Rio Quente. Sarah had a great time. She already loves water like the rest of the kids. Here's mom with Sarah and Sam.


Jesse, Rachel and Hannah at night


Here's Sarah when she was a little hot and cranky but for the most part she had a great time.


Here's the whole family on the afternoon of the last day. We had a little bit of a challenge on the day we woke up to go home. Sam and Sarah started throwing up. So after the rest of us ate a quick breakfast we piled in the car for the ride home. Shellye had the unenviable task of sitting between the two for four+ hours holding bags.


Some friends from the Chinese Embassy came over to meet Sarah.


Look how happy Sarah is with her mommy!!


Here are all the sweet girls!


And here's a piece of really big news. Drum roll please...yesterday Sam learned how to ride a bike without training wheels. It took all of about twenty minutes. Now he loves to ride under his own power. Here's the pictures to prove it. Lest you think I taught him in the rain, the sequence went something like this. He learned in the afternoon in nice weather while mom was at the beauty salon, we had to go in to start supper when it started raining. When mom came home Sam had just gotten out of his shower, but we went out to the street to show mom his new skill. We bought this little red bike in 1997 when Jesse was turning three. We've now had four kids learn how to ride on it; it's a Crocodile Cruisin' from Wal-Mart. If that's not good advertising for Wal-Mart I don't know what is.