We stopped by Sogo’s, a Taiwanese department store, children department to let Emma and Lorelai play with the bouncing horses (Mom knows all the “free” places, LOLz).  The elevators were manned (or should I say, womanned) with girls in uniforms bowing and asking which floors you would like to go as you enter in high [...]

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Our night adventures into the local night street markets were as fun as we had expected.  Lots of good food that I was fond of when I was a kid, and some of them I haven’t heard of.  Mom and Dad took us to their favor stinky tofu place, and both Jeannie & I agreed [...]

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After a long day, hot pot was consumed by all.  They sell thinly sliced frozen meat specifically just for hot pots at Costco here in Taiwan.  And being the meat lover that he is, my dad bought packs of beef, pork, and lamb, Costco size!  We attempted to finish them all but obviously failed.  Lorelai [...]

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Lorelai & Emma (my brother Ryan’s daughter who’s 4 month older than Lorelai) have been looking at and talking to each other on Skype for a while every week.  It was nice for them to finally meet in person.  They had tons of fun together and are now BFFs (although Lorelai does take advantage of [...]

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Been trying to finish up things at work before our big trip, and with all the holiday events and attempts to shop/pack, we’ve just been really busy (still haven’t really started packing).  Anyway, here are some quick picture updates: Lorelai @ the Halloween Fair, note the fake smile: Lorelai with Santa, note the very real [...]

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Congrats to Teddy & Tiffany on their new arrival – Terran!  He was such a nice boy and was delivered on 12/2/2008 in under 1 hour!  That must be some kind of record!

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Ever since the time change, we have been feeling super duper tired everyday.  This one hour can really throw your bodies off!  We basically have been trying to get some sleep/rest whenever we can and haven’t really done anything else lately.  Maybe it’s just dealing with Lorelai’s super high energy that’s making us tired, but [...]

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Time seems to get shorter and shorter everyday now that Jeannie’s school started up again.  Since Jeannie is teaching a new grade this year, there are a lot of class preparations that she needs to do from scratch, which takes a good amount of work.  House works are piling up and we are also dealing [...]

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For some unknown reason we dress Lorelai up last night with a Halloween shirt and hat, and had 5 mins of fun taking pictures of her. We also got a pumpkin for her this year and I am going to attempt to carve it this weekend (I believe this will be my 1st or 2nd [...]

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The weather was kinda nice outside today (overcast, not too hot, and not windy), which is the approved weather for Lorelai to go out and have a walk. But first, we needed to wake her up from her noon-after-meal-nap (She is now 14lb): Toothpick detects the possible chance to go outside for a walk, but [...]

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