National Day

Due to the fear of pig flu, the cut our National Day Holiday to 1 day. We celebrated by picking up Little Guy's custom made clothes. Since the addition of him to the family, shopping has become quite a chore. He came with the clothes on his back, so he has needed a complete wardrobe. We have been able to pick up somethings at Wallyworld and Carrefour, but he seems to have a shortage of pants. Rather than spend a half a day traveling by bus looking for the specialty area of boy's clothing in Harbin we decided to just have them made at the closest seamstress'. It actually is about the same cost as retail, if not a little cheaper. I sew back in the States, but have no machine here. Little Guy had 3 pairs of pants and some overalls made. Princess is so lucky to get hand-me downs that she hardly ever needs clothes, but she likes to match her brother. So she had a skirt made from the pant leg of Teenager's cut-off jeans with a matching patch to Little Guy's Obama'lls.

Checking each other out-vest is handme down handmade for Teenager

We watched the parade and gala on tv and were amazed at the ability for an open air limo for a world leader.
Back at class, the next day the students gave lots of feedback of their feeling of the celebration. They thought that the parade was very "serious" and the gala was "easygoing". They really like to share their feelings about the Western reporting of the events.

The parade didn't have clowns, but our house does!

Getting into the full handstand-don't drop him!

The best news is that last night was the first night we heard Little Guy laugh in his sleep. Quite often he wakes us up crying in his sleep. It is so sad because he won't open eyes for us to sign comforting things to him and since he can't hear, there is not much we can do. So we were really happy that he woke us up laughing in his sleep.

National Day Wear

Harbin, China