Life Lately: Chinese, Gingerbread, Lard, Bubbles, and the Third Trimester!

Daily Chinese homework

Gingerbread house-making

Kitchen experiment: rendering lard (just $1/pound in the local market!)

 New Year's Day brunch with the 室友

 Blowing bubbles at the park

And...hello, third trimester!

聖誕節 Christmas 2013

A few pictures from Christmas 2013... 

Guess who was in charge of the Advent calendar this year?  ;)

Date night

Christmas morning!  聖誕節早上！

Christmas afternoon with friends  聖誕節下午跟朋友們

New Christmas pajamas!  新新的睡衣！

Helping Dad with Christmas dinner
Keira做飯做得很好，像她的爸爸

Helping make Christmas cookies
Keira做聖誕餅乾

Hoping you had a blessed Christmas, and wishing you a Happy New Year!
聖誕節快樂！

Happy Thanksgiving from Taiwan

We are thankful...

 

...for this precious little girl...

...and for wonderful friends...

...and for quirky Taiwanese kitchens...

...for a gluten-free feast...

...and for baby Max, Keira 的朋友...

...for these awesome house-mates...

and for morning-after-Thanksgiving pajama cleaning parties.

...and for all our friends and family across the ocean.

Happy Thanksgiving from Taiwan!

Pumpkin Carving

Happy autumn!

(史 is our Chinese last name).

On Learning Chinese

"To acquire the Chinese language is a work for men with bodies of brass, lungs of steel, heads of hope, eyes of eagles, hearts of apostles, memories of angels, and lives of Methusaleh."

William Milne, missionary to China, 1813

Happy 1st Birthday, Keira!

Here are a few pictures from Keira's birthday weekend...

Helping Mama clean our apartment before the party.  "Sweeping" is one of her favorite activities.

Opening packages from grandparents!

Keira's gluten-free, sugar-free birthday cake.  (Actually, it tasted pretty good!)

First time playing with bubbles--thanks Caty and Dillon!

Fun with friends!

All those new toys, and the cardboard box is still a favorite.  :)

Thanks to everyone, near and far, who helped make Keira's birthday special!