Good News

My baby girl screamed during the entire ultra sound today (less than 30 minutes). The good news is everything looked normal. Liver looked good and no kidney stones (melamine exposure).

Kids

I took the kids to the Science Center today. They enjoyed. So did I. It was fun watching the 3 different perspectives. Nathaniel's favorite was the dinosaurs and well pretty much everything. Zach had to play it a bit cool but seemed to like the Lucy exhibit. Naomi was a little overwhelmed and tired. As crazy as it is sometimes, I love having these 3 little people in my life.

Nathaniel in the Dinosaur footprint.

Tomorrow Naomi and I head to Children's bright and early (7 am) for her liver and kidney ultrasounds. Should be a blast considering every time a doctor comes near her she screams. I guess If I had surgery on my lip at age 9 month I might cry too. I hope I get to post that everything looks good.

Christmas cuteness

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Naomi and Daddy - Christmas morning bottle. Naomi slept until 8:30 Christmas morning, not exciting enough for here. (really not enough sleep that night)

Zach and Auntie Kim enjoying Christmas

And the 1st big surprise was the Wii. I am one of the moms' who won't let my kids have a game system. Well this year was a big one, a new sister and a game system. 2nd Big surprise was RockBand. I think Pete and I might actually like this more than the kids. Thanks everyone

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Just plain cute.

Merry Christmas

My Baby boy is 5

5 years and oh so sweet

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Happy Birthday Thanie. I Love you!!!!

Every year the nights leading up to my kids birthdays I think about the days leading up to their birth. How I could not wait to finally see them, hold them and kiss them. Well 5 years ago today this cute little guy was born. We had a rough go in the beginning. But now (and always) he is just amazing. . . He is a perfect little Thanie, this one wears his heart on his sleeve, gets mad or sad or just plain happy. I love him so.

This morning when we said happy birthday to him he came up to me and measured himself and of course he was much taller than when he was just 4.

Is this really Seattle???

Check out our backyard . . . I can't remember the last time we had this much snow????

Zach just loving the snow, the boys made a jump in the middle of the street and had a blast. I think half the neighborhood was on our hill. FUN

Naomi spent most of her time in the Ergo because we had no boots for her. The boys convinced me to find some boots in the basemen I finally found some size 7's and she is a size 3, a bit big but her feet stayed dry.

This little man finally decided to sled all on his own. And now loves it. Took him a few days to warm up to the idea.

Our old lady Aspen, still has it in her for the snow.

Home for 2 weeks

We have been together as a family of five for 2 weeks now. Isn't that face just so cute?!!! I love this little girl. We have discussed several times how she is the one for our family, she fits right in. I never really believed people when they said such a thing, but it is true.

We had her first visit to the International Adoption Clinic this week. She weighed 18 lbs in China (fully clothed with a toy in her hand) on Monday she was 19.6 lbs (naked) Nice! Everything looked and sounded good. Then we headed over to Children's to have half of the blood drawn from her body . . . no really there was a moment when they thought we would have to come back for a second draw because they needed so much. Poor little thing. We are waiting for the results to come back. We have a referral to see the cleft team and have ultrasounds of her kidneys and liver. She is a trooper. Have I mentioned how cute she is. She is a spunky little thing, she knows what she wants and has not problem expressing so.