My little protectors

Playing dress-up has become almost a daily activity with the kids. Seeing a little princess prance through the house has become such a common occurence that I have not stopped to snap a recent picture of either of the girls in their finest attire! I couldn't resist these of the boys. They really get into their roles!

William the Great


Henry joins in with his best Power Ranger pose.


Vivian decides to be a Power Ranger and William demonstrates the stance.


I think she's got it!


No post would be complete without the obligatory baby picture! Look how she is growing!

Be Mine

I was able to be at all the kids' Valentine's Day parties except for Vivian. Hers was on Wednesday and that is the day that I take Rebecca out of school for occupational and speech therapy.

Here is Henry making a candy necklace.


William waits patiently for his valentines.


Together again. The boys are in different classes, but they go to lunch around the same time.


At Rebecca's party. Actually, the whole family went! Vivian really enjoyed sitting next to Rebecca.


Rebecca's kindergarten class


This weekend Billy and I went to a couple's retreat with about 20 couples from our church. We watched a DVD series, entitled "Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage," by Mark Gungor. It was hilarious, and we both learned a lot about each other. Billy surprised me with flowers and balloons. He had them delivered to our hotel room before we arrived.
(I hate this picture of me! Now I see where all that weight is that I see on the scales!)

Spa services available

Daddy gives great pedicures!


Getting the "royal" treatment


I'm thinking the mullet might need a trim.

Inseparable

Now eight weeks old!

The Year of the Ox

Last night, we celebrated Chinese New Year with our local Families with Children from China chapter. However, we've recently tweaked the name to Families with Children from Asia since we now have some families who have adopted from Korea and Taiwan. I'm not sure of the final head count, but there were close to 150 people in attendance! It is always wonderful to see so many families formed through adoption together at the same time. There was also a baby shower for the Hammond family who will be traveling to China very soon to bring home their son, Reed.


The kids always like to try their hand at eating with chopsticks.


No chicken fried rice for you tonight, Ellen!


Forever sisters!

Another busy week

We've had OT/ST, an ENT appointment, a trip to the optician, a school play, and a field trip, along with the day-to-day stuff (which is enough to overwhelm me anyway). In the national news this week, a lady in California gave birth to (relatively) healthy octuplets. If that's not enough, I learned today that she also has 6 children age 7 and under! Can you imagine????

The entire kindergarten at Rebecca's school put on the cutest program yesterday, entitled "Let It Snow." We couldn't get a good photo of the stage from where we were sitting with our mediocre camera, but here are a couple taken after the big show.


This is Rebecca's kindergarten class. There are 3 other classes, so there were roughly 75 kindergarteners on stage singing. They all did so well!

And, speaking of the white stuff, SNOW is finally in the forecast for next week! Wouldn't it be great for the children to see their first big snowfall?

Today, the boys' preschool class took a field trip to Jump Zone. They had been so excited all week; Henry even started squealing in delight as we were driving up to the building this morning.

Of course, Miss Vivian joined us.


William and his friend, Van.


One of Henry's last slides of the day.


Ellen had a blast as well.



And, tonight...our Chinese New Year party!

Just a few pictures

Good help is hard to find these days!




I love hats and earrings!