Love

If a mother and father can love more than one child then why is it so hard to understand that a child can love more than one mother and father?

Sleepy Eyes

Dinner Time
What's in the package?

Trying on a skirt, but she doesn't like the color!

We love a girl with her own opinion on fashion

But this cute tank top will do...

Sleepy eyes

One more cookie before bed

We are happy Mei Mei's sleeping with the soft floral blanket we sent her.

Jie Jie has a matching one at home.

Good night, Wan An sweet sleepy-eyed girl!

Precious Panda Picture

Tian Tian, this big xiang mao is for you, 

he's waiting in your new bedroom. 

Still Waiting for Travel Approval...

"Adopting a child

won't change the world,

but for that child

the world will change"

City Girl

City girl is downtown today

Please let me have a piggy back ride

This is the way she likes to travel

I see you

So pretty

Looking at photos of her new bedroom 

Eating a cookie

Happy Earth Day

Just Add One Princess

We found out today that our Article 5 will be picked up on May 4th,

and we can expect Travel Approval 2-3 weeks later!

Good thing Tian Tian's room is all ready!

We hope she enjoys the Asian flair

I just love this Mother-Daughter artwork

Big Panda waiting with lots of books

We are so grateful for all the clothes 

her generous big sister, big cousins, and friends have given her

Closet Envy!

Meltdown

Tian Tian, we know there will be tough times ahead when we meet each other in China, but we are ready to hang in there and comfort you while your little broken heart hurts and then heals as you grieve for your foster family. We expect you to grieve, you are very attached to your foster mother, foster father, and foster sister. Because you have already attached we know you can and will, in time, attach again. We just need to be patient and allow you to see and feel our love and support. We are ready to sing to you, rock you, hold you, and let you see the love in our eyes while you go through the necessary process of grief and healing. We will be patient. We will hold you and support you as you let all your BIG feelings out. 

Nonconformist

At the zoo today I noticed this hawk. He was not following the rules.

                   

Beautiful Day At The Zoo

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

~Pericles

Waiting for Travel Approval, Day 29

Slow

Moving

Moon

It started out a slit of light.

Stubbornly, it grew to a crescent.

In this March-April sky,

while I wait to see you for the first time,

its progress seems painfully slow.

Three-quarters now, it will be full in three nights.

Then in reverse, it will shrink to a crescent before I travel.

Eleven long nights.

I have no power to speed the earth's shadow 

as it moves across the moon's face.

I think that I may notice each degree of progress.

by Marea Rose Jennes