CHINESE NEW YEAR

Bree and her friend Lily---true China dolls!


Our local FCC (Family of Children from China) chapter hosts a New Year Party every year. Last year Bree was still in casts at this time-this year she ran the restaurant! I grew up with Chinese food being my favorite-now, finally, I have someone to enjoy it with me. Brynn and Brooke just haven't acquired the taste yet. I am, however, by no means an adventurous chinese eater....no scorpions on a stick, no fried frog legs, no whole shrimp with beady eyes staring at me....just good ole cooked shrimp, fish, dumplings etc. At the end of our dinner, the girls all got ice cream, I was still eating my meal, I looked away for a second and returned to my plate to find Bree's ice cream cone on it and my egg roll in her mouth. Not going to argue that!

DIVA NIGHT

Tonight was the annual Father/Daughter dance at the girls' school. The theme for this year was "Oscar Night" and they were to dress as divas! After a busy afternoon at the zoo for their cousins birthday party, we shot home to get them ready. Bree decided that she should be able to go with them and just couldn't understand why she couldn't. She began to cry as they readied to leave...and I mean cry. She hasn't cried for me like this since the first 45 minutes she was in my arms in China. I finally, after 20 minutes, had to bribe her with chocolate chips to get her to calm

her down. When all else fails with this child---chocolate is the answer! Just like her momma!

PAJAMA DAY

Just a cute picture of Bree and some of her classmates on a recent pajama day at preschool. Her best playmate is Elaina standing next to her.