Happy Thanksgiving

The kids (minus baia)-Clockwise: Kieran, Owen Gold, Miles Gold, Emily Merritt, Hannah Merritt, Kellan

Thanksgiving Smiles with the Gold and Merritt Family!

Merritt's gave Kellan this horse costume which he absolutely loves!

Baia loved playing with Emily Merritt's doll on Thanksgiving day:)

Baia and Kellan were playing dress-up. We really do need to get some girly dress-up things sometime soon. What do you think?

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday. For us here at an international school-we do not get a holiday break for Thanksgiving-so we celebrated Thanksgiving with friends on Saturday. These friends-the Gold's and the Merritt's-are our family here in Beijing. They are wonderful people and we are lucky to have them as friends.

Baia's new word is OK--so when you ask her if she wants something-she says OK. Still sassy as ever. She will not wear anything in her hair-although her hair is long enough to clip back.

Kellan is fighting a sickness-woke up last night with sore ears. Said they were fine today-so we didn't take him in. We will see how tonight goes-may need a trip to the doctor tomorrow?

Kieran is working on getting his space derby race thing ready for a cub scout race next Saturday. Not sure how excited Riley is about this-some of the steps are a little too complicated for a six year old to complete-then dad ends up doing it for him. Think the idea is good-maybe something a little less complicated for the younger ones though??

Riley just turned 38 on Friday-so we had a night out with the kids and some friends. Then we came home for birthday cake. Riley's trip to Western China was his gift-but we also gave him a cashmere vest and some of his favorite candy treats.

I am doing well-can't complain. Designing a new curriculum for our Algebra class-which is very time consuming-but very well-worth it for the kids. Everyone is happy and healthy -which makes me happy!

We love and miss you all!

The DuBois Family