12 December pics

Hi everyone,
Just wanted to send these pics out before we go up to the internetless
mountains tomorrow. Merry Christmas!!! Love, Alma


Quick description:
At WHO Filipino Christmas festival that the Filipinos put on for the
staff to raise money for typhoon charities. So proud to be filipino
and to see my kids devouring filipino food! Tom practised for several
weeks to sing with the choir, and do the bamboo for two traditional dances.

At Christmas outing to Santa's hamlet.

Kids with escalade (geneva holiday) chocolate.

Asia getting ready for her "spectacle" at school with her classmates.

First day of snow. It took us 40 min to walk home that day instead of
5 b/c kids played all the way.

Getting excited for Xmas at home.

Tom working on his dollhouse for Asia.

Then Christmas eve pictures. Asia showing us her christmas bricolages
from school. Too cute. A pot pourri packet, a candleholder, and xmas
magnets.

Joseph and Mary not sitting still for a second.

Loving their traditional buche de noel!

Two Asia winter stories

Last night Asia was helping me to wrap Christmas presents. She was
excited to write on the gift tags. So I would tell her, "Okay, write
To Papa, From Asia and Evan on this one." Or, "Write to Evan, from
Asia on this one."

When the gifts came back to me, I noticed she wrote the names twice,
Tom Tom and Evan Evan. See the pic attached. I just thought it was
amusing.

Then I started getting tired, so I said quickly, "On this one, write
Evan, From Asia."

And she said, "You mean, TWO Evans, From Asia."

Oh!!! That's why!

The other story is that Tom and Asia had to go to church early on
Sunday for meetings and primary singing rehearsal. So they took the
train. While they hurried to catch it. Tom slipped on the ice, holding
Asia. I heard about the unfortunate experience but didn't hear details
until after the kids were in bed. When I was helping Asia with her
prayers that night, I would say a sentence and she would repeat it. I
said, "Thank you that we didn't get hurt when we slipped on the ice."
And she paused, and looked at me, and said, "Thank you that we didn't
DIE when we slipped on the ice." When I asked Tom about it later, he
told me that when they slipped it was a pretty hard fall. Tom tore his
pants and scraped up his knee and jammed his finger. He was holding
Asia and dropped her so that her glasses flew off and she banged her
head on the ground, so she was crying but luckily okay. I had no idea
it was that bad and only understood Asia's prayer at that point!

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Love Annie

Evan... product of the Ipod generation

Here's a pic my friend snapped of him while I was trying to keep him

busy during Asia's dance lesson ;)

Alma