A Busy Day

Nicole seemed like she got up from the wrong side of the bed this morning. Her crying woke me up. I rushed to her room, only to discover Chris already took her down and she was giving Daddy a hard time. So I hurried up to make her toast with jam, but no luck this morning, she did not even want to touch it. Becky got up early because she made an appontment for another picture-taking for Nicole. I was worrying all the time, how could we manage her when she was already in such a bad mood. We tried to teach her to use her new potty, but of course she would not sit still. Then right after I changed her diaper, she had a little poo poo, so we got to change her again. There was a lot of running around before we finally got her shoes on and got everything ready. When we got to the mall, Norstrom was not opened yet, but the main entrance to the mall was already opened. So we took her to Robinson Mays' bathroom to change her into her pretty dress. She even allowed us to put up her hair into two pigtails. However, when it was time to take her picture, she did not cooperate with us. No matter how hard we tried she just did not want to smile or stand still. The photographer was not too patient with Nicole. This upset Becky. She really wanted to get a nicer picture of Nicole for this year's Christmas card. We had to wait for one hour for the pictures to come out, so we took Nicole to the playground. The hour went fast.
She's so interested in what the other kids are doing, she insisted on climbing into this boat head-in first!
She loves to say hi to everybody!
A picture with a smile is a rare thing to capture!
Nicole is busy chasing after the pretty, curly-haired girl, trying to give her a hug!
The pictures turned out as expected not too nice, no smile at all. We picked one and hurried home. I was worried about what to serve Nicole for lunch, so I suggested that we should eat out. It turned out she preferred plain white rice this time to our surprise.

Nicole did not sleep too long for her nap. Becky was able to rest a little bit. Our first visitor in the afternoon was Peggy. She stayed a little while to play with Nicole. After she left, Nicole asked for her dinner. Before she finished her last bites, Rachel came with Kristen to have dinner at our place. Next came Pat and Christine. While chatting with them came the whole gang of OSU friends - Richard & Barbara, Irene & Chung, Paul and Christie and also Dorothy too. The whole living room full of people. Pat started showing them DVDs about Shanxi school. Chris came home from work to pick up Becky for Friday night Couple Fellowship. Nicole already went to bed. They left around 8:30pm for dinner. The house became quiet and peaceful again.