I woke up on this very lovely leap day to this adorable little face…

Happy February 29th! More to come in March…
Today I:
Wrote semester end comments for all my students
Backed up my computers and external hard drives and migrated to a new work computer
Did laundry
Made lotus pancakes for dinner
Finished knitting the first sleeve on a sweater I’m making
Exercised
Figured out how to clean my bag
Sent out my dry cleaning
Got Hermes an appointment at the groomers
Got to see pictures of my newest cousin…
It was a good day!

While her uncle plays Angry Birds, Cricket dominates the proud little pig.

…and a really nasty subway ride, and was greeted by this lovely dinner when I went up to Char and Josh’s. It was so delicious!

I think he had missed my most recent comment and was trying to figure out what I had said!

Of course the first picture of the year is of Cricket!

This afternoon around 4, Nicole and Sydney headed back. I had an awesome time this past week!

…and will miss them both very much!

Calling home in the morning..,

In the afternoon we went out for a little coffee break…

…and appreciated Christmas trees made from pink teddy bears…

…and visited the worlds largest outdoor tv screen.

Merry Christmas!
We went to Din Tai Feng for a dim sum lunch!

And then after Christmas shopping we headed to Atmosphere, a cafe on the 80th floor of Guo Mao.

Where we had awesome cheesecake and fruit salad!



We went to a noodle shop close to the subway for lunch…


Char and Josh joined us…
