Christmas cards assembly line

My little elves

I like Samuel's multiple labels on fingers technique.

4 days before Christmas, the boys help us with sending out our Christmas cards for the year.

Pennies going extinct

Conversation this morning:
J:  Dad, pennies are going to be extinct!
R:  Oh, really, why do you think so? (thinking he might be thinking of inflation and how it'll be hard to buy anything for a penny)
J:  Because there are so many souvenir penny crushers!  All the pennies are going to be wiped out!
Child logic.  I love it.

Halloween decorations

Minecraft guide

Joshua has been researching on the Web how to create things in the world of minecraft and taking these notes.

A fun California summer

Bookworm

Beijing's smog out this week coincided with Joshua becoming a bookworm.  It's really nice to see. I was beginning to be afraid he was turning into a video game addict.  He is really into the Jedi Quest books I brought to Beijing.  When we first arrived last August, it seemed like the reading was either too hard or boring for him.  Somehow, over the past 6 months of studying Chinese, he's improved his English reading skills as well.

Joshua doesn't like writing though, so I've started teaching him how to type via an app.  He seems to love it. Hopefully, that will stimulate him to write more. 

Mom gets very excited

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Joshua's first text message

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Cruising the Mekong Delta

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