Monday Music Time

I'll be in the air, flying home for the first time in a YEAR AND 9 MONTHS, and I think it's safe to say that I am completely incapable of focusing. So I'll grace you all with more videos of my little kiddos that I'll miss so much while I'm gone. These videos were taking from Monday Music Time!

My 6 year olds (American age 5 -- it's annoying that I always have to clarify that, isn't it?) singing their hearts out to "My Bonnie."

My 3 and 4 year olds rockin' out during instrument time!


And my favorite part of music class -- the lullaby! At the end of each class, they all pass out during a sleepy song. And if you're wondering how I get them to all lay still..."NO SLEEPING, NO STICKERS!"

I'll be Home for Christmas

I leave for America in 2 days! My mind has been in a whirl -- tying up things at work, last minute Christmas shopping, giving Ali a haircut, packing, unpacking, repacking, realizing my suitcase has gone WAY beyond weight limits, unpacking again, packing into two separate suitcases, remembering how much I hate packing...

Why can't Thursday just be here already?!? I had a nice conversation with Alligator Class about Christmas today, that is, after we cleared up that Sam had apparently taken a quick trip Haiti to see dinosaurs on Sunday...

Ali's Birthday

And just like, I'll be going home for Christmas in 2 weeks. In fact, exactly 2 weeks from this very moment, I'll be on a plane heading to Tokyo, and will just be a hop and a skip through Dallas away from landing in Omaha for the most epic Sybesma family reunion of all time! :)

Last weekend was Ali's birthday, and we celebrated in style. I'll let the pictures do the talking.












Firday night, I took Ali to a French restaurant with 7 courses! This was course #6: AMAZING steak! Almost as good as steak from Iowa. :)












The restaurant was called Chez Simon, and was up a little staircase down a little alleyway in an amazing part of Seoul. Great atmosphere, great food, great company! :)














Then Saturday, we roamed the streets of Seoul with Taylor, had coffee from one of the one hundred top espresso machines in the world (the pope has one!0, and then had an afternoon beer.











Saturday evening, we met up with friends at a little Spanish restaurant called Pakito.















Birthday cupcake with crooked candles!














The wine and beer was a flowin'.











Then we went bowling and drank white russians! (Which we brought ourselves.)












Go girls team! Me, Sarah Jane, Mary Soo, and...Olivia! (Olivia is really Oliver, but he very graciously played with the girls to even things out...)











Boys team! Ali, Taylor, Reuben (with a seriously gross mustache for his soccer game the next day), Ross, and...Olivia! I mean Oliver.



Welcome to your 26th year, Ali!!!