Taro, Pharoah!

We’ve been going to BSF and are studying the life of Moses.  I’m always not quite sure how much Trey is absorbing, but usually he’s able to give me at least one coherent sentence about the Bible story of the day.
Tonight, he started singing an old gospel song, “Go down, Moses”:
Go down, Moses, way down […]

lessons for Mommy

Sean started crying when I took the boys’ silverware away.  I told him to stop crying and impatiently said, “I’m frustrated!”
(pause)
Trey: When we’re sad, Seany cries about it.
I love my kids.

AmCham Ball


Bye, Mom!

The other day over Skype, Lao Ye (Grandpa) asked Trey if he wanted to go to Seattle, seducing him with yogurt-covered pretzels and time-out/spanking-free bliss.  Trey very quickly agreed and started saying his goodbyes, “Bye, Mom! Bye, Sean!”.  Next thing I know, he’s gotten new shorts out of the drawer, his shoes on (it usually […]

Happy birthday, T!

(oops…we forgot candles)
 A big thank you to everyone for helping me surprise T for his birthday!

sandbox fun


beijing 2008

 

in loving memory…

 

 

Kaly Grace Crawford

Early this morning, as she was being held by her mommy, Kaly went to
see Jesus. While we are a little weepy, we are mostly just so thankful
for the eight hours that we had with her (the doctors didn’t expect
her to live past birth, and she actually lived to the next day).
Thank you all so much […]

going to the olympics!

Last Friday, we attempted to wait in line at the main box office for the last round of tickets.  Got there at 6 am and found a mob.  Apparently people had been camping out for 3 days, and around dawn that day, people charged the barricades, and what was once a line became this mob.  […]