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Weekly Updates from my Twitter Account

The 'name dropping' on twitter is starting to bother me. # Wow! It's become COLD outside (and inside!) # Back home, trying to stay warm! #

Weekly Updates from my Twitter Account

Twitter, I'm still trying to figure out how you make me more efficient at anything! # After a few hours of pre-new year insanity, I ended up at our corner grocery store and in the midst of the chaos she says "isn't this fun!" # She was serious # There is going to be some serious firework action [...]

Happy (Chinese) New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! Even though I’ve lived in China for 9 years, I’ve never actually been in China on THE eve of Chinese New Year. I can hardly describe what I just experienced! All I can say is this, China just re-did that famous scene from Crocodile Dundee where he pulls out his huge knife and [...]

The World’s Longest Piano Recital…

Yesterday the girl’s pre-school (which is also a music school) had their big “Chinese New Year” performance. They rented out a theater in one of the fancy buildings downtown, and when we showed up, we knew it was going to be a ‘big deal’. (You see, they never really tell us – sometimes we show [...]

Gaming injuries up, tree-climbing injuries down

It seems that the best way to keep your kids from getting hurt is to get them out of the house. According to figures from the U.K. government, obtained by the Sun under the United Kingdom’s Freedom of Information Act, the number of kids under 15 injured while climbing trees, skateboarding, and the like has fallen. Does [...]

Changes…

There is a new mode of transportation in town, and we are pretty excited about it! When I first moved to Yueyang (about 9 years ago) there were two ways to get to this city from the closest city with an airport. The ‘highway’, which took 3-4 hours in good weather and the train which was [...]

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!

While Mom is in HK…

Erica and Nate left this morning for Hong Kong. That leaves me with Elizabeth and Anna until Wednesday! I wanted to take the girls somewhere fun that would be special for them since they love HK so much and were sad that Mom and Nate got to go and they didn’t, so we headed out to [...]

Updates for 2009-10-13

Elizabeth is stressed out because "Dora and Boots always wear their shoes INSIDE the house!" #

Updates for 2009-09-28

"Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall" #

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noemail@noemail.org (Steve Webel) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:47:40 PST

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noemail@noemail.org (Steve Webel) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:43:00 PST

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Nate's 2nd Birthday on Vimeo by Steve Webel [Flickr]

noemail@noemail.org (Steve Webel) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:37:47 PST

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Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by Steve Webel.

Chinese New Year Fireworks [Flickr]

noemail@noemail.org (Steve Webel) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:02:49 PST

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Chinese New Year had some CRAZY fireworks... pictures can in NO WAY capture the insanity!

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noemail@noemail.org (Steve Webel) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:47:25 PST

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Chinese New Year had some CRAZY fireworks... pictures can in NO WAY capture the insanity!

This is what it looked like during the fireworks, just outside our window! I don't know how our kids slept through this!