CHRISTMAS IN LAS VEGAS...

We did not stop for a strawberry shake at the Mad Greek this time... but we did get some hummus.

Buffet Night! It wasn't that great, but the company was wonderful! Here I am with Aunt Lisa!
With my Aunt Lisa and cousin Aaron! My cousins Ally and Miki and Uncle Phil did not come this time. We missed them!

Mommy with Uncle Waynie!

Family picture!

My Lai-Eee and Uncle Steve!

On Christmas Eve we had a late birthday lunch for my 8th birthday! It was at Buca di Peppo.
We had a large, round table in the POPE'S ROOM. There were lots of pictures of popes in there!

The Pope wants some calamari!

Parents to be... Lai-Eee (aka Aunt Julie) and Uncle Steve!

Uncle Waynie and Aunt Vickie!

Aunt Lisa with her little brother!

My cool cousin Aaron and his mommy!

PoPo with two of her girls!

Mommy and me!

Aunt Gladys and Aunt Lisa

A self portrait with my cousin Aaron!

PoPo and Mommy!

Smile PoPo!

PoPo with her baby!

Eating spaghetti and a big meatball!

Big Meatballs!

Seafood Pasta!

Cheese manicotti for Aaron!

Presents!

Eee-eee tries to figure out my new rubrix cube.

Lai-Eee gives it a try!

Time for cake! (from Freed's Bakery)

Cake Picture!
Mommy was a little disappointed with the cake.
She's a cake snob!

PoPo tries to figure it out too!
Then it was off to our hotel for more presents!

Aunt Vickie and the scarves PoPo knitted.

A Fung Picture!

Uncle Steve and Lai-Eee (who is wearing the sweater
PoPo knitted with built in scarf!) Um... Mommy thought
it was for her, but gave it up.

It's Luke!!!

Thanks Uncle Steve!

Lego People!

Aaron got a haircut!

Another Daniel Self Portrait!

Christmas morning...
Aunt Lisa gave me a keyboard!

And Santa gave me a violin!
It didn't sound very good, but it's still a violin!

Christmas lunch with the Lau Family!
Someone ordered a tall tower of "soda".

PoPo drinks from the tower of "soda."

Magic card tricks by Johnny!

Playing a dice game for prizes!

Sleepy heads...

Change of position...

This is where we spent most of our time.
Twice a day, each day!

Happy Holidays everyone!

My Own Troy!

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ONE BUSY DAY IN ROOM 3

Look, there was a sign of winter on my lawn this morning!  Everyone else is getting snowed in, so I wanted to show that we in CA are also getting white stuff! It was a nice way to wake up to the last day before winter break!

How lucky are we to be walking distances from the California Science Center and the wonderful scientists that work there. Today Jen came in and did "magic" with the kids. Here she is filling a cup with water and poking a hole in it... but no liquid came out! Wow!  We learned that there was some substances in the cup that "absorbed"(-scientists don't use the word suck) the liquid. It's the same substance that is used in diapers. COOL!
We added water to the powder and it expanded and made SNOW! 

Then Jen gave each of us a special pet. If you put the fish on your hand it will curl it's tail! Magic! Or is it the special paper's reaction to the liquid in our hands? Hmmmmmm?
It was also Pajama Day! Yay! We have been waiting for it all school year and finally on the coldest day of the year, we get to wear our pajamas! Um, Miss Fung did not brave the cold. She said she didn't have pajamas that matched and the line at the Mervyn's was too long to stand in to buy the 80% off robe and flannel set. Whatever! We looked cute! (so did the boys)
It was also the last day for our wonderful student teachers from USC, Miss Won and Miss Chang. We are sad to see them go, but we know they will make some students very happy next fall when they have their own classrooms.  Here we are watching them open the book we made them and the book, Big Words for Little People. We added our own words for them!

SMILE!

After a nice lunch with our Reading Buddies, we took them to the Natural History Museum's Discovery Center. It's a wonderful place to observe and explore things! Here is Melvin with his buddy wearing real animal fur.
We ended our day with a princess cake for Miss Chang and Miss Won! We like cake!