Sunday, December 27, 2009

May June 2009

Chinese class ended for the year. Lela and her friends have been together since they were 2.

Sunday School ended too. This is the cherub choir (mising about 10 kids) performing on Sunday School Sunday. And yes, we got some more use out of those flower girl dresses.


Lela finished 4s pre-k with a spring concert. After a rocky start (it took me three weeks to get out of the building) she thrived in her tiny (6 kids) class and ended the school year getting ready to read




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Lian also did very well in her speech focused pre-k and was recommended for the integrated class for her next year. And she ended the year with much shorter hair courtesy of some scissor experimentation. I had to take off about 6”in the back to even it up, and her bangs looked strange for a while. At least it was after the wedding.





The girls started swimming lessons at the nearly Town park and Lela took tennis too – if she can learn to hit the ball, she’s got a sport, as she was the only little girl who stepped into the ball and really swung


This is not their swimming lesson, where they were not wearing life jackets. It's at our good friend's pool, " Grandma" Barbara.




Fun in the waterplay at one of our favorite parks.





I took them into NYC to see Mary Poppins on Broadway, courtesy of Aunt Carrie's Xmas gift, the green that says I know you know what you want. They loved it. Afterward we had dinner with friends who had gone ot see Mama Mia, and above and beyond, had stood on the TKTs booth line to buy the show tickets for us too. Thanks!!!

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Mother's Day

Last spring while riding the train home from the city where I had just handed in the last of Lian's paperwork, I had nothing to do since I had gone through all my reading material while waiting at the Chinese Embassy. I got out a notepad and this poem started to flow and practically wrote itself. Adoption can be bittersweet as there is no gain without a loss.
http://www.emkpress.com/mothersday.html

Lian on left in yellow

Lian on left in yellow
about 14 months, with her friend Hailey

Lian at 6 months

Lian at 6 months
Who could resist that smile?

Lian at 4 months

Lian at 4 months
Right after surgery for her lip

Sha'anxi Province Map

Sha'anxi Province Map
HanZhong in lower left

China Map

China Map
Sha'anxi Province in center