1/2/2022, Sunday, travel to Redmond

Ella was distraught having to leave lao lao's. But she pulled herself together and cried a lot less than last time. 

After getting home, the girls drew together for a long time. Mimi found a darth vader coloring page. She was very excited. Ella said something like Oh we have that, Oh you have that, Oh I don't have that. I encouraged her to go look for another copy of the same coloring page. She went. Mimi said "my sister is so excited that I found Darth Vader". Jam said "oh we will see". Ella came back empty handed and whined about not having a Darth Vader. I asked her to go find something else, or else I'll take away color by number. As she went away, Mimi squeaked "get the one with the seal". Ella came back with the seal and a smile. Mimi went and got her seal and put it beside the paper and asked Ella to color just like it. Ella colored and showed us. She colored the other side of the seal picture, the seal picture was left uncolored, except she drew a little ball by the corner. Mimi liked it. We read delicious in dungeon, Jam showed them some star wars, they happily drew for an hour.

Wang shu came by and gave me our mail, just 3 packages, no phone :o I went to the mailbox, it was stuffed to the brim. Must have miscommunicated that we have mail in the box + in front of door, to just in front of door. I spent the rest of the evening sorting through mail and setting up new phone. 

When we came back our drive way was clear of snow. I later asked wang shu if he shoveled. He said no, and he asked xiao xiao and hao hao who shoveled his drive way, they didn't shovel ours either. Just lucky.

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