Emma's Holiday

Waiting to board the plane in Pudong.

For the holidays I went to Tupelo, my hometown.  When we came home, we got to stay in our house. Ms. Jennifer and Ms. Jessica have been taking good care of our house. It has been fun spending time with them and their little poodle, Charlie.  Robert and I have been sleeping on the blow up bed and watching way too much Disney Channel since we have been home.  We haven't seen it in a long time so we had a lot of shows to catch up on.

I have been spending my winter break visiting friends and spending the night at their houses.  My Grandma and Auntie came for a visit.  Grandma bought me mine own set of Baby Jesus toys.  Now Robert and I don't have to share!  We all went Christmas shopping the day after Christmas.  We found all kinds of Christmas ornaments and mama even found a new bow that looks like all of her other bows.  I had fun shopping.  I even got to pick out a birthday present for my Auntie.  Her birthday is the day after Christmas.  We have been eating out at a lot of our favorite restaurants.  My favorite place we got to eat was Vanelli's.  They have the best macaroni and cheese!

 

 Santa came to Shanghai and Tupelo!  Santa brought me a Barbie house, skates, a Hello Kitty clock, and some boots in Shanghai.  He even brought us a ping pong table!  In Tupelo, he gave me my very own American Girl doll that looks just like me.  Her name is Sarah Claire Wells, Jr.  I even got a Junie B. Jones Christmas book.  We have those at school in China.  I made my teachers some presents while I was home.  I even wrapped them myself!  Papaw came over for a visit on Christmas Day to see what Santa had left for us.  I gave my Papaw one of my chocolate bars, but I don't think he ate it.  Robert couldn't find his chocolate bars so he ate one of mine.  Now that we know where his chocolate bars are, I get to eat one of his chocolate bars.  My brother, Robert, got a set of bowling pins.  Charlie, the white poodle, likes to play with the bowling pins, too.  Robert also got a punching bag with boxing gloves.  He was punching everybody with those things.

 

 



Robert and I went with daddy to the barber shop.  Robert got his haircut.  I just watched.  The barber who was cutting Robert's hair gave us three pennies and we got three gumballs each.  I like spending time with my daddy and brother.  I really liked getting gumballs.

Emma Grace and Sarah Claire

On New Year's Day we went to Papaw's house.  I found my brother's monster truck book. He was so excited.  Papaw found one of Sarah Claire's boots. I'm glad he did.  I took Baby and Sarah Claire to spend the night at Papaw's.  I even went shopping with Papaw.  He bought a new Polaris.  We took it to his house and we got to ride it around the farm.  I love spending time at Papaw's house.  He made us pancakes for breakfast.  We had to go to the store and get some pancake mix and bread.  When we left the store, Robert picked up a piece of dry ice which was at the entrance of the store. I had to tell him a few times to put it down but he didn't listen.  He almost got frozen.  When he touched the dry ice, it felt really hot.  He burned his hands a little bit.  When we got home, Robert put his hands by the fire and his hand felt much better.  The ice melted.

Christmas in Shanghai

Christmas in Tupelo