Thursday, December 30, 2010




Well, I'm thinking I may relaunch the blog and maybe have the consistency to keep it up. Well, at least when we travel again I will keep it up. So, here's a short update of our lives.

We are once again Dossier to China (DTC)!! Woohoo!! We have been matched with a beautiful girl who is currently 18 months old. We are hoping to travel around May. We are also hoping to get a second match since china is now allowing simultaneous adoptions of unrelated children.


J has started school this year. Everyone (including me) survived her first day of school. She mostly loves it, but loves skipping more! You can see how excited she was on the first day of school!

K is partially mainstreamed this year. He is doing remarkable well in his class. He still requires a lot of assistance, but we are making progress.

We had a really wonderful Christmas. We made our traditional gingerbread houses and cookies. We got to have Christmas dinner with both sets of grandparents and got spoiled rotten with all our new toys.

Okay, maybe my next attempt at posting will be more verbose.

Friday, April 02, 2010


Today we celebrated three years with J. It still feels like yesterday we were missing our flight to China and arriving a few hours before meeting our baby.

April 2, 2007
We still have that packet of kleenex she has the death grip on.

April 2, 2008
Notice she's wearing the same blanket sleeper for the photograph.

April 2, 2009
Arriving home from our trip to China to adopt brother

April 2, 2010
The happy princess

Monday, March 15, 2010

March 15, 2010

Today is the one year anniversary of K joining our family. It has in many ways been a very short year and a very long one. It does feel like we have always been a family of four. In a most fitting way, K began his day at the eye doctor. This was followed by therapy, a trip to Chuck E. Cheese, and then dinner with both sets of grandparents and Uncle Don.

The blog may take a prolonged hiatus. It is harder to comment on our daily lives without revealing so much the kids are embarrassed. They are growing up so much and I want them to feel safe emotionally around us. They still tickle me and test me and sometimes I want to relay the latest drama, but I don't want to betray them. If/when we ever travel again, we will reboot, but for now, a break is in order.


March 15, 2009


Tuesday, March 09, 2010

I am so ready for the grass to be this green again!

My blogging enthusiasm has once again taken an hiatus. We have falling into a busy routine. We have some form of therapy every day of the week. There has been lots of progress. We were watching video from last Easter a couple of weeks ago and K doesn't even run the same. He has much better use of his left arm and is so much more steady on his feet. I think it has been so gradual that I didn't realize how far he had come. His physical therapist told me they are ready to increase his difficulty, which is fantastic. It's amazing to see how far he has come.

We plod along with our third adoption. Nothing really to report on that front. It has been suggested we select an "L" name, then the kids would be, in order of adoption, J,K,L. I think we should be selecting an "I" name, because they would be K,J,I in descending order of age.

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

We have scheduled our 12 month post-placement visit, which seems unbelievable. A whole year (well, technically 11 months)!

We are still big fans of dress up around here. Below the duo sport their latest aquisitions. We're pretending that's not a Dora dress. Surely there is some branded character who has not made an appearance in our house!


-- Post From My iPhone

Thursday, January 21, 2010


I fully intended to be a better blogger this year. Well, at least update once a week, but here we are, three weeks into the new year and I have yet to do a new post. Today is a good day to start, I suppose. It's hard, though, to always have something exciting to say. Things around here continue to improve. K is doing a lot of therapy each week and we are seeing improvement in many areas. It's hard to believe that we are fast approaching our one year anniversary with him. The year has really flown. It's even harder to believe we are approaching our three year anniversary with J. Wow! I can't even remember life without kids anymore. I think that I had a cleaner, quieter house, but, clean, quiet houses are boring!