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!

First Play Date

Mary and Claudia's

play date:


Since they are both still in the advanced babbling stage, the conversation must have been incredibly witty to them, but the Moms need a class in babble!

The little girls had fun, baby sized berry pastry, and juice, and the big girls had assam tea and milanos.

Couple of photos from China, circa 1994, and naturally more of the often photographed Miss M.

These are photos that Tony took in 1994, when he and Janet went on a Pacific Princess cruise to China. Not sure if they went elsewhere, like Hong Kong. So these are almost vintage photos, but the street conditions etc . look much the same as when we were there last September.

Baby, it's cold outside!

See Mary laugh, wear a bowl on her head, read Webster's Dictionary, and show off her mod girl look!




Wickedly cold last week and this. We only ventured out a few times, when ab. necessary. I feel the need for a Nordie Rack run.
I took Mary to a Gymboree class a few weeks ago. I didn't feel like it the 'instructor' or facilitator did enough. It was mostly independent play, that is with the Moms guiding their child on the equipment, and just 10 minutes of actual guided activity.

Will try another local place, that has intro to tumbling, as much as you can do with a 12 to 24 mos old. Local ymca has stuff too, but for 2 yr olds and above.

Since we have been staying in, this month I have taken lots of photos and videos.