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December Daily :: 30 :: Happy 3rd Birthday Schäfer!

By Shorel & Sandra on December 30th, 2009

The day began with a very happy Schäfer. We had groatmeal for breakfast and then he was off to preschool.

Ayi came with a nice card and thermals for next year. She’s so thoughtful! We don’t have any thermals for next winter.

At 9am, I started looking for recipes to make cupcakes. It gets this way every

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A Tale of Two Travels

By Shorel & Sandra on November 17th, 2009

11.17.09

I went to bed at 1:30am. Seriously, there was just that much to be done before Schäfer and I began a day of traveling.

All too soon, I woke up at 5:30am to finish the last minute packing and cleaning. When I woke Schäfer at 6am, he was delighted – simply delighted – to be going

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Happy Birthday Yu Jie Jie!

By Shorel & Sandra on November 15th, 2009

Today is Yu Jie Jie’s 3rd birthday, but her party was canceled because of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease. Here’s a video of Schäfer and Yu sitting by the Lotus Pond singing songs from preschool.

Untitled from Easternjourney.com on Vimeo.

San Xia Ren Jia 三峡人家

By Shorel & Sandra on November 7th, 2009

At 7:30am on Saturday morning, we headed to the boat docks with friends in search of adventure.

Before we even got to the boat, Schäfer was already having a great time!

This boat was taking many a passenger up the Yangtze to several tourist spots.

Of course, we can’t be around this many people from Yichang without Hubs

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The Crab Dance Competition

By Shorel & Sandra on October 29th, 2009

10.29.09

At the first parent/teacher conference, Teacher Liu mentioned that there would be a “competition” in October. Last week, Teacher Liu asked me to dress Schäfer in an orange shirt and blue jeans on the 29th. OK!

I went home and checked out his clothes to find 2 orange shirts and 2 blue jeans options. We were

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Happy 60th National Day

By Shorel & Sandra on October 1st, 2009

We celebrated China’s 60th birthday by wearing the t-shirts we bought when the Olympic flame came through Yichang. The front says “Go China!” and the back says, “I love China.”

Schäfer wore his “Made in China” t-shirt which our local friends love.

Since the weather was almost cool (read: in the low 80′s) we decided a family

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