Mary strikes a pose !

We opted not to do the mall Easter Bunny photo thing, after seeing the reaction when Mary 'met' Santa Claus.

Although Mary did not fully grasp the concept of the Easter egg hunt, she did gather the obviously placed plastic eggs and scarfed down a moderate quantity of chocolate. She would have eaten the entire large choco bunny had I not decreed that she had had enough.

a few more

One day til the Easter Bunny pays us a visit!

That's right, the Easter Bunny, not the spring bunny or the bunny with no particular affiliation, the EASTER BUNNY !

Acceptable language to use about Adoption

This link is to another blogger 's site. She offers up her sense and sensibilites about the proper way to discuss adoption.

and more photos!

More Sunny Day fun

March 14, temps in the 70s in PA, no jacket required!

hip pippie longstocking

Here at the Princess Trainer headquarters, mixing colors and patterns is what we do, all day every day.

Another taxpayer is on record, finally!

Finally Finally Finally we have a social security number for Miss M. I think they change the requirements (at the Norristown office) for each person that walks in seeking a number for an internationally adopted child. I heard the woman tell a person in line ahead of me (same situ.) that she needed a US birth cert, and other stuff. I was prepared with a print out of the necessary identity documents, from the SS website, and she still gave me a hard time at first, said why don't you have a US Birth cert for her. I said I have been trying to get one,mailed in the forms etc. last week.

I think because I had the baptismal certif. and the certif of citizenship, she submitted the request online. The only doc. I didn't have before was the baptismal cert. and a copy of the registration of the adopt... with the montgo county courthouse.

Someone else I know just went to the Norrist. office with cert. of citizenship, chinese documents, and the request was submitted.
THE TRUTH CHANGES!

anyway , that was a huge step, getting the ss #.

Sunglass Festival, Fevrier et Mars 2007

Feb. 18 2007, Chinese New Year Party

check out the slide show

Abstract random selection of photos from this past weekend

This weekend, we will go to the Chinese New Year party sponsored by our agency. The group of families and children has grown so large that it is held in a local hotel/conference center. Should be fun to see how all the girls have grown and progressed in the 5 months that we have been home!

Mary's aunties, cousins and grandparents sent these Valentine's Day gifties!

Aunt Lori, Uncle Mike, Kaitlyn and Megan gave Mary a cute unicorn, Aunt Sharon gave Mary a little puppy dog with some candy attached to his neck, Aunt Susan gave Mary a very cute doll with red hair and pink shoes and Grammie and PopPop gave Mary a cute white bear and a lovely bouquet of red and pink carnations and one pink rose!