December in Shanghai

As we all were sick for most of the month of November and December, I got really behind in blogging, so this is a recap of December activities.

Most of it was spent at the house with two sick boys. Some of it with Dustin and I sick as well. Dustin did have trips the last week of November and in December before we left, which made being sick for all of us that much more fun. :-)

The rest of the month was filled with high and low parts. The amazing part was that my little baby turned 2, yes 2 on December 1st. Where in the world did the time go? He is looking so big now and grown up, I can barely believe it. Now if we can just move past the getting into everything and throwing fits stage, and I really won't know what to do with myself.

The cutest part of the month was watching Danny in the church program (he was a shepard), and his school program (they were all reindeers and sang Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer--Danny was Blitzen). The church program he had a speaking part (along with the rest of his class) and a song. He did a great job with both. The school party was cute and Santa even stopped by the school (Santa was quite witty with a surprisingly Australian accent and had on tennis shoes--pretty fitting for being at the Racquet Club)

We decorated the house a little bit for Christmas as other people who were staying had gone all out and I could tell Danny (okay and myself as well) were missing the decorations. I went to the flower market with the girls and got a small artifical tree and some other items. They did have amazing fresh arrangements and wreaths, but I felt for two weeks it really wasn't worth it.

An unexpected highlight of our month was that my brother came in on business and we were able to pick him up and bring him to our house (i.e.--clubhouse) for dinner. It was a quick visit but so nice to have him here with us.

The low part of our month, besides the crazy colds was saying good-by to some of our friends. My good friend Kate and her family Dean, Allison and Clark headed back to Minnesota and our new friends Liam (in Danny's class) and Jamie, David and Mackenzie headed to Iowa. They will be greatly missed here, as everyone within our little group here is like part of our family. It is a hard part of living here, but we will all adjust.

We headed home for the rest of the month, and we boarded the plane pretty exhausted from all of our colds, but excited to see everyone and just be out of China for awhile.