Scenes from our "vacation" in Palm Desert

We discovered that at least one of us tends to leap out of bed at the sound of a child's cry, regardless of whether it was one of our own children, because at some level, all children's cries sound the same - i.e. distressing. And with four children under age 3, in an unfamiliar environment, under a single echo-y roof, it was pretty inevitable that our nights were punctuated with very loud cries.

But the days were punctuated with so many joyful moments, such as:

All the kids piling onto Grandpa

Watching Sophia hang out with Asher, who was having a blast in his jumper. (So glad we brought along that jumper!)


James reading to Corbin and Dante.
Visiting the Living Desert Zoo...

And getting to feed a giraffe (chang jing lu!)

In the chaos, we missed taking photos of Grandma holding Asher (which she did numerous times, thankfully), not to mention Terri and Adam.

Spending time with the Breeden family was a wonderful way to start 2008!