Tuesday, February 19, 2008

2008 Year of the Rat Celebration

Ravenna and Maddy were both in Xuwen orphanage in Guangdong Province. We need to try & get together more. As that is such a special bond these girls will have & we live close.
The girls are learning Chinese ribbon dancing. Delaney was digging it!

These 3 Chinese cuties are our friends Roger & Jodi's girls. They were in China adopting Maddy (the one closest to Ravenna), the same time we were there getting Ravenna.


The older girls doing some arts & crafts. They liked most of the events, but the Kung Fu demonstratoin was not their favorite.



Ravenna (a little unsure) & Delaney smiling perfectly!




Ravenna & her cousins Hannah, Bridget & Delaney. We took them to the Chinese New Year celebration then out to dinner at "The Old Spaghetti Factory". A very fun afternoon w/ the little sweeties! Thanks for coming girls!





Ravenna trying to make off with some balloons at the end of the party.
It is always so great & quite a sight to see all these little Chinese kids running around together in a room in together up in Coeur d' Alene ID. There is such a great community of adoptive families w/ Chinese children here. We are very fortunate for that & plan to attend all the events we can. As it will be so important for our children as they grow. We also saw & met some nice families who have kids from China with partial missing limbs, like Hudson. So they will be a great connection/resource to have for us & Hudson.
I didn't hear anything today about travel & consulate appt. I am dying. This is killing me! I know it will come soon. Patience is one virtue I lack! I need to work on that.






1 comment:

Tiffany said...

These pics are adorable! Looks like you guys had a blast! I'm so happy for you guys that there are so many families here for you to connect with and so many Chinese children for your little ones to grow up with. Like you said, they will all have a really special bond forever.

Crossing my fingers for travel news...

Love you guys!