The Zhao Family

We are making a lot of changes and moving a lot of furniture and doing a lot of things around the house to prepare for the arrival of our baby girl. As most of you know, Abbey has slowly changing her ways from when the boys were in her tummy and now doing all kinds of girlie things such as crocheting in previous posts to other things below.


For one thing, mama is making good use of her big belly: a temporary desk table so she can fill forms, write letters, and and keep a journal of things happened. (Yes her belly is that big already)


We've moved the boys together into one room! (great idea? or big mistake?-we will find out) Clayton is afraid of the dark and doesn't like to sleep in one room by himself so most nights he'd walk out of his room and go to his brother's room, on the hallway or in front of our room and sleep on the floor. So we've decided to move Brennan over and put them in the same room which would also give a free room for the new baby. For one thing they love their new room and new beds. First things first: Brennan settles on this new bed by jumping right on it. Clayton loves his new bed too. In this picture the boys rather sleep on one side of the room and share the other bed for their sister.


Both boys are reading (or pretending to read) and get ready to read stories to their little sister. They seem to love their new room and sharing the rooms. The first night, they would not stop talking through the night. We would recorded but it was just too fun to hear them talk to each other to sleep.So, so far so good they haven't fight yet and Clayton doesn't mind that he sleeps without the frame but sooner or later he will.


Picture of the day. For a very long time we've train the boys to continue kiss their little sister before bedtime. They really love their little sister and she reacts to their voices and kisses.

The cold weather is definitely here and what else better to do than to get ready for the winter. With the way the economy is going, clothes are expensive so Abbey decides to get crafty. I think with a baby girl on the way and the mixture of female emotions and a hint of femininity along with the artistic side of female brains all attached in one body...wonderful creations can happen as you can see below.


See Abbey spent sleepless nights (so did Da thanks to the bright room lights) and hundreds of hours to make this blanket for our coming daughter. Of course her brother's got to test it to make sure its warm, cozy, comfortable, and safe. What good brothers.


Mama's even making hats or making different hats for our daughter. Nice hey?


Mama made (crochet) these cool beanie hats for the boys to brace for the cold weather. They fit perfect and they boys love them.








I would only assume they love the hats or just making funny faces. Now where's the hat for Da since he's loosing hair, he needs some warmth on his head. (Maybe that will be a project in the far future when she has more time on her hands and all the kids have gone to college)

Here are some photos of the good looking boys. Take a guess who dresses them? (hint: a person with good taste)

Digging up some month old photos, we actually have some of them playing well together.





Brennan's Chinese School teacher always give away things at the end of each class and this day he's given a pair of cool shades and luckily Clayton got a pair too. They are cool little super stars.

Winter is not officially here yet but it sure feels like it. It is cold, windy, wet, and cloudy most days so we end up staying inside our cozy home. So what else is there to do apart from having too much from in our house,but to....



..to rarrrrr with mom


Got milk? want a kiss with that too?


Even mom joins in on the fun.


Everyone's in it!












This was dangerous, we could've lost a kid or so, OR were they just playing?

The economy is really bad these days, but Mama still loves to shop........so she still shops, but for off season stuff that she normally will not dare to buy.

so today, she went to Walmart and saw the sign "all Halloween 75% off". She saw some cute long sleeves tee with light on them when you move. Thinking the boys would just love them as Brennan had mentioned about the "light" t-shirts and sweater that his classmate and cousin had. The org. is $7. so thinking it will not be that expensive.......

after checking the prices.........hahaha..........they are now $1 per piece. so Mama got 5 of them....., got 2 for baby girl next year and 2 for Brennan (1 for this year and 1 for next year) and 1 for Clayton.

The boys can't wait to wear them........so there they are happily wearing their "off season" halloween tee" running around.......so the light keeps going on and on.......=p silly boys.


Brennan tried to say BOOOOOOOO.........


and trying hard to show the light, but it doesn't show on pic.......so Mama took a video

Since we have so many people around the world always checking our daily updated blog ;) , we've give you a treat. Here's some ultrasounds of our little girl :D



If you look at this photo long enough..it looks like she is facing another person(me..hehehe) on the left of the image. Imagine the corner of my face looking at the baby where the eye brow curve into the eye socket and then curve down towards the nose to the lips and cuts off at the chin. How many of you can kind of see that? scary hey?

She's smiling while sleeping; nothing out of the norm for a zhao kid

She's definitely got some distinguishable features from us. Can you name them?

One of the most exciting events the kids look forward to is Trick or Treating but not so much for eating the candy but for the excitement of dressing up and going out at night to run from house to house collecting candy.