James, Iris (pregnant) and her parents during the mid-autumn festival. |
Iris standing beside a stone calligraphy carving of the Chinese symbol for
dragon. |
Iris and her sister in-law standing in a parking lot at the foot of a
mountain. |
Do I look like a tourist? |
James standing in front of a Chinese calligraphy carving of the symbol for
dragon. |
Iris sitting on a wall in front of one of the oldest churches in Beijing,
China. |
James standing in a doorway at Tiantan park. This doorway faces the Temple
of Heaven. |
Master seal carver Huang He teaching James how to serve tea. |
A rainy day in a city near Iris's hometown. |
Iris and James at Tiananmen square. Iris is almost 5 months pregnant with
twins. |
Iris and our nephew Shaun at Tiantan park. Shaun is a nice young man and
is attending university in Wuhan. |
Iris and James at a popular tourist market in Beijing, China. I like to
visit tourist spots to see what foreigners are buying. |
Iris, one of our friends and his mother at a spring festival celebration. |
Laura's Dog Sidney. |
From left to right, Iris's youngest brother, his wife and Iris. |
James standing in front of the Temple of Heaven at Tiantan park. |
Iris standing beside a Chinese scroll painting of peony flowers. |
Iris writing Chinese calligraphy. Here she is writing the Buddha Sutra. |
Iris during one of our day trips in Beijing. |
James and Shaun in front of a temple inside of Echo Wall at Tiantan. |
Iris holding painting of plum blossoms and the symbol for double
happiness. |
James and Iris meet Shufan Zhang, Vice-Chairman of the Beijing Calligraphers’ Association. |
Shufan Zhang teaches Iris and other artists how to select calligraphy
brushes. |
Shufan Zhang teaches Iris and other artists how to write properly balanced
calligraphy characters. |
Iris holding Emma the morning after giving birth. Iris really did great
despite a complicated delivery, and I am VERY proud of her. |
Mayah is finally home from the hospital. She spent 12 days in Neonatal
care with Pneumonia and a mild brain hemorrhage, though the word
mild certainly didn't make her daddy feel better. |
Twin sisters finally together! They are identical twins, though Mayah has
a lot of catching up to do after her stay in the hospital. Daddy's two
little pigs (Zodiac sign) with their rat friend (2008 year of the rat). |
Emma - She looks much bigger, but NOT fatter than her sister, don't you
dare call
her fatty. hehehehe |
Mayah seems to be asking that we don't shoot her. She is a little angel, I
am sure she didn't do anything wrong. |
In this picture the girls are about 45 days old. Mayah has come a long way
since coming home from the hospital and now weighs almost as much as her
sister. |
Emma when she was just over a week old. |
A close up of Mayah, she does not seem to smile as much as Emma, but we
are trying to help her become a happier baby. |
Emma is sleeping peacefully, for now at least. Though she was born in the
year of the pig, it is already the year of the rat, so she has her little
rat friend beside her. |
