Mingqun Lin's Weblog

Just received some photos from Wan Shimei in Shanghai. His boy, Wan Chengzhang, was born on Jan. 25, 2005, and now is 14 months old. Click here to view the album. Congratulations!

The sun hangs longer on the sky than before, but the temperature remains very chilly in February. We even got -14C two weeks ago. Fortunately, the blizzard blankened northeast US missed Ohio.
Now you may start to notice that train is not the only toy for my sons. Right, they explore new things, such as Dora! It is amazing that how suddenly they fall in love with Dora the explorer, within one week!

It's sure that two boys make more trouble than one. Actually, our major task is to keep these two energized guys from fighting. You cannot imagine that almost everything can be their causes of fight: toys, books, which video to be played, or even who should be dressed first! Of course, they mostly fight for their favorite train toys. They rarely fight for snacks, probably we always have more than enough for them (unlike our age of childhood, everything is in shortage).
Regardless of their fight, they do think of each other and love each other very much. Here are few examples. Last Thursday, there is a party in Eric's classroom to celebrate two kids' birthday, and their parents brought some party stuffs printed with Dora and Boots (their interests have diverted slightly to Dora's Explorer series recently). Eric took one set, then asked his teacher if he can get another one for his brother Rick. Before his teacher agreed, he took another set and gave them to me for Rick. Yesterday, Rick brought back a bag of M&M candy from school. When we're back at home, he took out two dishes from the dish washer and shared the candies with Eric. It's so sweet to watch them sharing things!

Here are some pics from Tang Huadong's family. His son Albert was born on Aug 15, 2005. I met them last year in New Jersey during my trip to Boston and they do have a great life there.

Congratulations to Laoyazi and wish everybody has a healthy and prosperous year.

Happy Chinese New Year, classmates!
Here is the greeting from Erhei - a little Ertz.