Having fun with baby James, a much talked about cousin! 

Halloween: Porter and Autumn hesitating at this house

 

Porter and Autumn just before trick or treating. We have a great neighborhood for it...you get a lot of candy in a little time with townhouses! 

Hong Kong; Happy Halloween

Today is Halloween. Here is Grandma Edwards at Ocean Park, Hong Kong. What a nice day it was....and what a great trip. We will have more Halloween pictures of the kids after tonight.... 

Hong Kong: back side of the island from Ocean Park

 

Beijing: The Great Wall

Imagine if my belly was actually this big! I'd be pregnant, I guess.

Beijing: Forbidden Palace

Here we are at the Forbidden Palace in Beijing. We are standing on the Prime Meridian (north south axis) where only the emperor was supposed to walk (or more likely, be carried). The walkways on either side are for the servants who carry the emperor in his chariot down the road and up the lateral steps to the palace. (see the movie, The Last Emporer) 

Amber eyz

I have the most beautiful wife in the world. We had a wonderful time in China. Good times with good company....who could wish for a better life?! 

Today is David's 30th Birthday

We are back from China. More pictures will be posted as the week goes on. For now, here is a sponge cake we bought and ate in Chongqing, China to celebrate David's 30th birthday. It is quite artistic; even the tigers are made of soft wipped cream. 

My pigeon meal 

Porter and Autumn at Hershey Park. We had a great time celebrating Autumn's 3rd birthday as a family! 

Sunday we had a party for Chloe and Michael Argilan - family friends - and the Summers and J. Edwards family came over. Here we are listening to a storybook that I am translating for the kiddos called "Who pooed on my head?" Baby James is enjoying it. 

James and I at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway, NYC
 

some doctors i work with 

Jong Hui and Se Hui visited from Korea and brought some clothes for Porter and Autumn. We had a fun time; we travelled to New York and D.C. and saw all the sites. 

Porter's first day of school. Here he is walking into the school after riding the bus. Mom followed the bus to see how Porter did. Looks like he made it. 

Porter and Autumn in Waterton enjoying the nice cold water! 

Porter is very loved by Autumn and his cousin Alivia. This picture is taken at grandma and grandpa Cahoon's cabin in Montana 

Porter poses 

Autumn Season 

Here's Porter after his haircut trying to look tough. He can't not smile. He sure has lots of teeth. 

This morning was haircut day. Porter wanted his head shaved like all the other kids. Autumn wanted her head shaved too, but I just pretended to cut it and then tied it back instead. 

Monday we went to D.C. to pick up my China VISA and stopped in at the National Air and Space Museum. The kids were good and very interested in all the planes and ships. They earned their stars. 

After an early morning of paintball the moms and kids joined us for lunch at the farm. We looked at the animals and paddled around the pond with Darryl (a MD/PhD classmate) and Rowan shown here. 

Today we dropped in on the Smithsonian Yemen display looking for the alter offered to Almaqah by the tribe of NHM. This tribe lived and still exists where the incense trail turns east accross the Arabian desert, the place where Ishmael was buried in the 6th century BCE.