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Welcome to our adoption website. This is so friends and family can keep up with us during our amazing journey to adopt a baby from China. We traveled to China in February 2006 to bring our daughter Emma home. Our travel journals are archived in the drop-down box under the web buttons. This website continues so Emma's family and friends can continue checking out her progress and daily adventures.
02/21/2010: What's for breakfast? This morning Emma dragged me out of bed and exclaimed that she was hungry (just her way of getting me out of bed on the weekends). I stumbled into the kitchen, wearily asking her what she wanted to eat for breakfast....eggs, cereal, yogurt, fruit, oatmeal. She asked me if there were any enchiladas left over. Yes, she would have eaten a plate of chicken enchiladas for breakfast. A girl after my own heart. I told her no, that breakfast consists of healthy food, like the food I mentioned earlier.....plus I added quietly that I had eaten the last one for dinner last night. Then she asked if there were any rice and beans left. Note to self: make sure to save some enchiladas (and rice/beans) for the child's breakfast!!! Emma's been really excited lately about spelling. In her pre-school they are writing short sentences already. We went outside this weekend to enjoy the warm weather and she got out the chalk and started this.
I helped her with the spelling of the longer words, but the others she did all on her own. I'm sure our neighbors are enjoying having something to read as they drive by. Oh, and she said this was me when I was a little girl since I always had pig-tails.
02/17/2010: Love those mutts!
02/16/2010: We managed to go to the parades again this year. We had a great time! In the second video clip, you can see her catching a string of beads, then she flings them over her shoulder and says "here momma". I'm the catcher-of-the-loot, I guess. That and pick everything up off of the ground like she requests. In the third clip, she's dancing her heart out...until she loses her shoe. Then it's over with. Our first catch of the day - a cute little flower.
Throw me something, mister!
02/07/2010: Our superbowl sunday starts with helping Daddy clean the red beans for the big game tonight. What fun!! Yes, she does say something about "tooting" in the video.
02/06/2010: A double birthday party day. These cute sisters were celebrating their birthday today with a big pink bouncy castle and a huge HeIIo Kitty cake. She REALLY didn't want to leave such a fun place. 02/04/2010: Posting this a day early, since I know I won't have time tomorrow. How has it been four years already that we met this sweet little ballerina? She's the sweetest little thing ever and tells us daily "You are my favorite Mommy/Daddy in the whole wide world". She loves to hear about how we became a family and stories of when she was a baby. What a lucky Mommy/Daddy we are!!
02/03/2010: Today was the 100th day of this school year. At Emma's pre-school, each of the kids in class brought in 100 of a small snack, and each child went home with a baggie full of candy, cereal, raisins and cookies. I think they had fun counting the snacks. Something tells me that she tested some of the snacks before she got home though. They also decorated crowns with 100 stickers. She brought this home and decided the doggies needed to celebrate as well. Abby got the 100 sticker crown. and Taz got the princess crown. Don't they both look thrilled? Such sweet mutts, just letting her dress them up.
This past weekend she wanted to learn how to play one of the video games that Daddy has. He set her on track with the little wheel and she was off.
Later, she sat in my lap and wanted me to help her drive. After about 10 minutes, her head fell to the side and she took a nice little nap.....in my lap!!! How quickly your body can go numb sitting on the floor trying not to move too much.
01/24/2010: Another good thing about living in the South. Going to the beach in January! It was about 63 degrees and just beautiful, so we decided to head to the beach and try to fly Emma's little ladybug kite that she got for her FIRST birthday. So we took it out of the package and assembled it and got to the very windy beach. Daddy had a little bit of success getting it off the ground.
Very little success.
I don't think Emma cared much. It gave her a chance to gather some sea shells.
And chase some poor seagulls.
We did give her strict instructions to STAY OUT OF THE WATER because we weren't prepared for messy cleanups or change of clothes. Oh well...
And can you believe those SAINTS!!!! Way to go, boys! 01/18/2010: We had a fun playdate today with our little friend at the "cool" playground. It was a nice day, for a change and we enjoyed walking to the park and running all around. These two are so funny together. There is about a 2 1/2 year age difference, but they had a blast, mostly Emma telling him what to do and him yelling "Emmaaah" when he couldn't find her. 01/17/2010: Not much going on lately. Just doing like most people, organizing and cleaning. Emma thought she would provide the comic relief. What a super star!! Oh, and the smiley face pancakes she requested for breakfast. Aren't these cute?
01/02/2010: I'm back!! I got a new computer for Christmas, so it's taking me a while to transfer files and reload software. I'm not back 100% yet, but my first order of duty was to update Two Mutts. We had a great Christmas. Emma was so excited in the days (and weeks) leading up to Christmas. So seeing that I have a camera in my hand 24/7, it was natural for Emma to ask Santa for her OWN camera. Well, the jolly old elf delivered and she got her own (pink) camera. She has been having a ball taking pictures. We're working on quality rather than quantity right now. The biggest thing is getting her to hold still for a milisecond while taking a photo. After deleting about 500 images, I gave up and just let her go, which made it pretty funny to download the photos and see what she ended up with. A dog dish: Her tights (aren't they cute?) Her new rodent: The dogs: Her new puzzle: So after this, I decided to take her to the aquarium, so she would stop taking pictures of ME! It's hard to get decent photos there anyway because of the glass glare, but it was fun. A turtle, I think: Starfish: A curious penguin: A shark hanging on the ceiling: And I had to take a picture of her in action. But the funniest were these. She had fun turning the camera on herself and taking closeups of her own face. These cracked me up as I downloaded them.
Hope everyone had a wonderful new year! We've been pretty quiet this past week. Emma caught a bug and has been coughing and running fever. After a trip to urgent care and a prescription for some antibiotics, we're hoping she kicks it in the next couple days. It's been a while since she's been this sick. In fact, at midnight on New Years Eve, I was running downstairs for the children's medicine because she was burning up. Ahhh, oh well, things could be worse. Happy 2010!!!
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03/07/2010: A four-year olds perfect weekend. We went
to a movie promotion this weekend for the new Barb-ie movie. We got to
watch it before it is released on dvd, then in a separate room, they had
Barb-ie games, crafts and mani's and pedi's. It was her first professional
mani/pedi and now I'm apparently going to have to step up my at-home nail
services, because she knows how they are supposed to be done now. It was
cute and she had a great time.
