Happy Chinese New Year!!

We attended our first CNY party on Saturday and had a great time. As usual, Kyle was reluctant to go, Paige was a little reluctant but her love of the new traditional Chinese pink dress overrode her fear of meeting new people and Danny, as usual, went with the flow, was happy and smiling most of the time. He loved the drums, dragon dance and taking people 's name tages and trying to eat them.




I purposefully volunteered to help with games or crafts later in the event thinking they would all be clinging to us but P & K quickly got over their fears or going someplace new once they saw games with prises. It does not matter what the prises are they just like to win something!




Danny was probably the youngest one there and the only crawler but I was happy to see a few other boys from Taiwan and South Korea a little older than him. As usual the event was full of adorable little girls in their beautiful traditional dresses.




The e-mails for the event included a note saying to wear their traditional garb etc. I had bought the kids matching dragon t-shirts to wear but felt like Paige would probably want to wear a dress like the other girls but was not sure where to get one on short notice. Then while in Las Vegas last weekend, I saw a stand on Freemont Street selling them. I probably spent more than I needed to, but I purchased one for Paige. I looked at boy outfits for Danny but knowing he did not care what he was wearing, I passed on that. In the end, Kyle did not wear his matching t-shirt but I was not really surprised.




Ed and I enjoyed talking to the other adoptive parents and watching the kids play. This is the fourth event we have attended over the last 8 months so we are starting to see some familiar faces and enjoy catching up (as much as you can with three kids going in different directions).




I need to find out who made some spring rolls with cilantro and noodles in them. If it was you, please e-mail me the recipe!




Thanks again to the mom's who organized this terrific event! Here are a few photos. Kyle is in the stage where he dislikes the camera so his pics are very limited.

Back to say hello....

How did it get to be mid-February? I knew it has been a long time since I blogged but it kind of got away from me.

Feeling very bad I looked in my phone for whatever (decent) photos I have and found these from our children's museum visit after Christmas.


He is always moving so this was the best I could do...

Fixing the Alligators broken tail...

Our future "pet" doctor- with face painting of course!

Danny is doing terrific and totally fits in our family. He is pretty easy going most of the time, but in the morning and after work he wants to be held and cuddled. This is actually a great reminder for me to stop, forget about dinner or homework, the mess in the house, and just talk, play and hold him. After some quality time, he is happy to follow the other kids while I make dinner.

And he can eat! I think many times he eats more than Paige. You know he's done with whatever he is eating when he starts dropping it on the floor. He may not be done eating altogether but done with that "course".

He continue to crawl and furniture walk... but does not show any interest in walking on his own. He loved to climb the stairs, clap and play "peek a boo". He is still "Bob" and we all find ourselves referring to him as Bob more often. This does not bother me but I think other people think this it is odd.

We learned this week that our Illinois readoption is COMPLETE! Our attorney was terrific and made the whole process easy. The Illinois certificate of foreign birth should some in about 6 weeks. Since he already has a passport and social security card, this was the last document on my list. Yeah!

Sleep--- Well, that was going really well until he got a cold and then 4 molars a the same time. He can wake 1-3 times starting at midnight depending on the night. Not sure what to do about this... but he did sleep thru the night last night.

I almost forgot- I may be a really bad blogger but I am not a complete slacker! During this break from blogging I was able to draft Danny's lifebook! I still need to research a few little things and finish one page and it will go to print! I totally reccommend Asia lifebooks (links below) for the education on how/what to write and digital scrapbook kits for the pages/templates.

http://asialifebooks.org

http://www.digital-scrapbook-kits.com

Have a happy valentines day and Chinese New Year! Maybe I will post again in March????