Go Ravens!

We are sporting our Raven's outfits for Big Daddy! 

Daddy's LIttle Helpers

so these kids love helping!  lately they've been helping me cook, stir, mix, whatever I allow them to do before i get impatient...but their daddy is very patient and so he allows them to help as much as they request.  i am so impressed with how incredibly patient he is in this area, amazing!  so recently daddy has had lots of projects and with these eager I want to help kids...here is an attempt of a few pics!  They are sweet and he is great about letting them help!

Evie JOy riding the bike!

We've been trying to encourage Josiah to ride his bike a little- he can but doesn't really enjoy it.  Evie Joy, on the other hand, will ride for 20  minutes at a time.  She doesn't get frustrated, just easily finds her way back to peddling if she gets stuck.  We are quite impressed and happy that she enjoys it so much!  Today she was so funny, determined to ride down the hill and learn how to break!  gotta love her spunky determination! 

Woody Josiah!

He was being so cute dressed up pretending to be Woody the Cowboy!  Love this kid and his sweet smile!

Evie Joy and her animals!

 

Here Evie Joy dressed her bears up so pretty and herself- she said "Mommy, We are gonna get married to you!" haha!

Here, she is having school with her animals, teaching them how to write their letters and about Jesus.

Christmas in China 2012!

 Josiah 5 and Evie Joy 3 so excited after decorating the Christmas Tree!  It is a little over crowded on the bottom but we just left it that way :)

 At the Christmas party beside the Gift Tree with Joey the dog! 

Josiah helped give out gifts!

Evie Joy helped the guitar class with their performance

 AT 6 AM - Josiah woke us all up by falling out of bed and had a huge bruise on one of his cheeks
They do look super cute in their fleece footed pj's!

Opening gifts- since they went shopping with Big Daddy and already opened gifts at MiMi and Poppe's, they only had 3 small gifts to open- but they were very thankful for them- they each got a puzzle, Wii Kid's Dance 2 and finger puppets to share, Jo got plush super heros and EJ got a few new books for her Tag Reader

 our America friends came over for Breakfast, we read the story, sang carols, acted out the play, then watched lots of Christmas movies!

 our Chinese friends came over for dinner and we played Wii Dance 2 together!  We were super warn out from such an incredibly long 2 days but we did have fun! 

My Evie JOY!

Evie Joy loves playing Mommy to her babies and animals!  Here she said I am so pretty (the beads) and so handsome (the aviation belt)

Evie Joy plays dress up for English Corner students!