Too much!

Sophie is eating nicely with her fork and then celebrates with a funny face. Her sense of humor is really too much.

When You Wish Upon a Star...

This past week, Sophie made her first trip to Disney World. We spent the weekend at Crazy Nana's and had a fun time with her, Aunt Carin, Uncle Chris, and cousin Joshua. One of the highlights of the trip was spending time at Disney with the Howe family, a family that traveled with us in China.



Some other highlights (see below):
-Aunt Carin LOVED the Dumbo ride.
-I don't think Sophie knew what to make of Mickey.
-Joshua definately likes his tubby more than Sophie does.

It was as magical as all of the commercials told us it would be.

Enjoy the pics.

-Chris

Chinese New Year Part II

Celebrating the Chinese New Year would not be complete without attending the annual Families with Children from China (FCC) dinner. This is the annual event where the local adoptees from China are put on parade (literally and figuratively) for all of the other parents to see.

Against my better judgment we made the trek to a restaurant in Chinatown and joined an intimate gathering of 200 or so other families. Sophie had a ball with her two favorite pastimes - eating and dancing. Once she found her way to the stage, she couldn't be stopped.

Note the final picture of this blog. It is Sophie wearing the hat that goes with her New Years outfit. This is the day after the big dinner, where we couldn't do anything to coax her into wearing the hat. It goes so well with those jammies!

Stay tuned for tomorrows blog of Sophie's "once in a lifetime" moment - her first trip to Disney World. It is so cute, I promise you will lose control of all of your bodily functions. So grab your depends and log on tomorrow to enjoy the fun. Sophie's bean stuffed face and amazing dance moves are nothing compared to her reaction when she first met Mickey.

Happy New Year

We celebrated the Chinese New Year with two families we traveled with in China, Marianne & Glen, and Fran & Bob, and their children at Marianne and Glen's home in Chicago. Sophie got dressed in a traditional outfit and seemed to enjoy the mounds of food that everyone prepared. We had dumplings, meatballs, noodles, and Glen's secret recipe orange chicken. Everything was great.

The girls, Sophie, Lia, and Anna all posed for pictures - can you tell which one was NOT being cooperative? It must be the couch - I am sure that any photo on a couch brings back a wave of terrible memories for an adopted girl from China (see blog on Day 15 - 7.20.05 for more info on the joke).

We will continue our celebration of this year of the dog tomorrow night with an intimate dinner with hundreds of adopted children in Chinatown. I swore that after witnessing the insanity of last year's New Year's Dinner that we would NOT be going. I guess I don't win all of the arguments around here. Either way it will be nice seeing everyone. More pictures to come.

-Chris