Hsu Family Blog: January 2010

It has been a month since the last post. We have been very busy here but have a moment to give you updates of the past month. We started early in December with Lisa and Zoë running a 5K race known as the Santa Shuffle.

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We then went to both our residency holiday parties which were (once again) on the same night. Zoë loved the dessert table and ate her filling of eclaires (literally).

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Zoë then had a play date with her friend from daycare, Alex, at their home. You can tell they had a lot of fun that day.

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We then went with our friends, Alison and Geoff, to the Lincoln Park Zoo for Zoolights. The whole zoo was covered in holiday lights, and we got to see a lot of the animals including the chimpanzees who were sleeping.

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Christmas finally came though I had to work on Christmas Eve in the PICU. I returned home on Christmas Day, and we let Zoë open a couple of presents since our plan was to celebrate later with the Preston family. Zoë got one of her favorite toys - Thomas the Train. She currently carries her Thomas the Train everywhere.

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Later that day we went to Chinatown for a Christmas Day dinner, Chinese style. We just didn't plan on anything special at home since we were going to leave in a couple of days for the Preston house. We ordered Peking duck, noodles, salted shrimp, congee and yes, fried pork intenstines. Yum! My favorite (and surpisingly Zoë's too!).

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We then headed to Normal, IL to see some Preston family. Zoë especially enjoyed playing with her cousins Rowan and Avery at their beautiful new home. Lisa's brother and his wife, Bryan and Lindsey, were even there.

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We opened presents and Zoë received her fair share.

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We then celebrated New Years at the Preston-Schreck house by eating venison chili, drinking eggnog and eating ice cream. Zoë got to play with a lot of kids and stay up late.

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On New Years Day we had breakfast at the Preston-Schreck house again. We ate French toast, farm fresh eggs and homemade butter (Lisa's Christmas present to Avery).