Merry Christmas

We want to take a quick moment to wish all of our friends and family a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS! We promise to post more later about our Christmas but thought we would share a few pictures from Christmas Eve Dinner! (Please note that Kylie is attached to her Grandpa and wants NO ONE else!!)

Merry Christmas!!!

Hugs and Best Wishes, Brian, Tricia, Kylie and Mac too!

A Relaxing Weekend

We had a great Lum weekend. Filled with lots of laughter and lots of holiday cheer! We all went to the Goode's annual holiday party on Saturday night with a lot of people from Royal Caribbean / Celebrity in attendance. Kylie slept in her pack in play and slept straight through the singing and dancing only feet away. She is such a good girl and she stayed out (sleeping from 8pm on) to almost 1am!

She is getting a lot better from her mild bronchitis and we think the end is finally in sight. She has a follow-up visit with the doctor on Tuesday so we will be able to see if we have to continue with the breathing treatments.



The rest of the weekend was typical Kylie style, a little Tupperware cabinet playing time, reading the paper with her Dad and just being a little girl. Is it Friday yet??

Santa Claus at Little Cruisers

Well the weather outside is frightfully hot for this time of the year, 87 degrees! However, Santa arrived to Little Cruisers today straight off the ocean on his jet ski. He came to visit all the boys and girls at Little Cruisers and even brought a early gift for all of them! Kylie wasn't interested in Santa when she was sitting on his lap she was more worried about the pile of gifts next to him. When she got off his lap she started to cry and wanted Santa again. It was so cute!

Kylie with Santa

Kylie's Class with Santa and Teachers!

The Christmas Tree made of Stockings and Snowman!Kylie's Stocking on the Tree
Kylie is done with Santa and ready to rock and roll

Bonus: Last Night Kylie wanted to eat her dinner
in front of the Christmas tree!

The Lum Family Elves

On a rainy day Papa and Mama Lum, Kylie, Brian and I had a little fun!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Sek Fan (Eat Dinner)

Although, Brian is in New Jersey, Kylie is so excited to have her Gung Gung and Po Po in town. Tonight she had a miniature Chinese feast complete with special soup, chicken fried rice and special Chinese cake. She kept saying yum yum yum and wanting more! She wasn't too sure why Gung Gung was using sticks to eat but she enjoyed her meal!

Check out her ponytail from school and her big meal!

A picture of her from Sunday night being silly!

An Amazing Thanksgiving Out At Sea!

As Thanksgiving each year for the Lum/Straub household is a major event, this year we got a special treat. (No, it wasn't like the past few years of Black Friday by shopping thru the night to find the best deals!) Tricia, Kylie and I were joined by Grandma and Grandpa Straub, along with Cousin Shawn and Jeff Straub and their daughter Zoe to cruise on the newest Royal Caribbean ship Oasis of the Seas! From the rock climbing wall, to the zip line, to the ice skating rank, to the food, the amazing list goes on and on. Here are some moments and pictures these past few days.

"Oasis of The Seas"

The Solarium - one of the most relaxing places on the ship!

Kylie checking out the views from the Solarium

Yes, this is "the" children's pool at night!!!

Kylie in her baby beach chair by the pool

"Can I get any cooler!"

Who said that "the bathrooms on cruise ship are too small for a bath"! Kylie loved it.

The ice skating show was definitely one of Kylie's favorites as she laughed and threw her arms up in the air to celebrate the performance! Kylie and Zoe both caught in a stare.

Yes, a full size merry-go-round on the cruise ship!

Just one another one of Kylie and Zoe's favorite activities!

Walking in for formal night dinner! Kylie and Zoe, best of pals! (Any day now we feel that Kylie will be up and running on her own!)

The amazing water show at night!

I just want to take a minute express my thoughts and hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving with friends and family. In the fast pace world we live in, we often over look all the things we should be thankful for. We worry when we watch the nightly news, our daily professions, the traffic on the road, etc..Take a moment to be thankful of all your surroundings, the friends and family that care so much for each other, but not always expressed as much as we would always like to. Again, hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

Fantasy of Lights

As Tricia has been on Oasis of the Seas, we have been keeping Kylie pretty busy (or has she been keeping us busy?!). Last night we were at the Tradewind Park's Fantasy of Lights. It is event where usually the city puts it on for cars to drive thru a little up park with holiday ornaments and figurines, but they open it up for one night as a 5k run/walk. Unfortunately, Kylie just wasn't ready to keep up with the running group where even the over-60 age group finished in under 18 minutes. Kylie again enjoyed the fact of seeing so many people and just watched everyone. Here are some pics and a video of the night...

All Ready for the Race...

Here is a video of Kylie warming up...

Here is a picture of the walkers and lights (Yes, I probably should have taken a better one showing more holiday ornaments!)

The funniest thing we realized the next day was that I had given Kylie my phone during the race and she kept on holding the phone right to her ears and blabbing. Grandma and I thought it was funny, but it was truly funnier after hearing that Kylie actually dialed Gung Gung and Po Po and was speaking to them with out us knowing.

Finish Line! All done and completely zonked out!