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Daphne’s Citizenship Award

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Daphne Citizenship Award 2010-04-19, originally uploaded by xiaming.

Daph not only made the school’s Honor Roll this year, but she also won the Citizenship Award. Not bad for a ten year old American kid [...]

Daphne made the Honor Roll

Daphne Honor Roll 2010-04-19, originally uploaded by xiaming.

Daphne made her school’s Honor Roll on her first day back from Spring Break! We’re very proud of her.

What we saw under the microscope

Hi! This is Daphne. I was playing with my friend today and we were looking under my microscope, but we don’t really know what we saw. Well, anyway, my friend put her finger under the light and we saw kind of wormish thing wriggling around! We also saw dozens of little bubbles moving around too! [...]

Catherine and Daph are in Los Angeles

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Catherine and Daphne left for Los Angeles on Thursday morning. They’re away for a week — Catherine to attend a wedding. As much as we tried, it was just impossible for me to [...]

Daphne and Mao and the Mad Hatter’s Teacups

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We finally upgraded our blog software, so that we can include videos from YouTube.

Here is a cute one taken by Simon at Tokyo Disneyland on our last visit. It features Daphne and her best friend in Tokyo, Mao, on the Mad Hatter’s Teacups!

Sunday

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Today we treated ourselves to a visit to Beijing’s first MUJI store. MUJI is our favourite store in the world — collectively and individually — so we made the journey to the west [...]

Beijing Playhouse Kids’ Theatre Camp: A Christmas Carol

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Daphne loves to act. There are very few opportunities for foreign kids to pursue their interest in drama in Beijing, but lucky for us, our good friend Chris Verrill has introduced kids’ theatre camps [...]

Kip at Christmas

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My dog Kip had a wonderful Christmas along with my other dog Lily.

This is Kip on our sofa wearing a hat. He is one year old in human years, in dog years seven. [...]

This Christmas’ gingerbread house

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Of all the photos we took this Christmas, this one is my favourite.

On December 1st, Daphne and I had spent a fun hour together in the kitchen, making this year’s gingerbread house and [...]