January in a Flash

Oh dear, well the months have just gone by.  I will try to do a month by month update in a week.

In January, I was done with school and spent more time at home.  I guess the big news was that we bought an upright piano.  Alvin has been looking on a Chinese ebay site to look for second hand pianos.  Finally, he found one that fit for us.  It was only 7 years old, and according to the owner, wasn't used that much.

We hired professional movers, 4 guys, that helped move the piano.  Meliya took to the piano right away.  Everyday, she comes by to "practice," esp. if we are trying to play.

Also, at the end of the month, I received the  sad news that my grandma was not doing so well. My parents gave me the news and so our whole family flew to Los Angeles to attend my grandmother's funeral (as we were leaving for the states, we found out she passed away).

We were only able to stay 9 days in the states.  We were able to have a family reunion with my side of the family, celebrate and remember the memories of my grandma, and also Meliya was able to play with many of her cousins.  The sad part was that Meliya had roseola (an infant virus that has 3 days fever and then a rash for 3 days).  Those 3 days, Meliya was acting terribly cranky, and she pretty much stayed at Alvin's parent's house sleeping, except on the day of the funeral where she spent a lot of time in the car sleeping as we traveled from event to event.

After a long whirlwind of a trip, we packed up to go on our already scheduled annual trip to Thailand.  Come back and read about it in a couple of days.