Pictures

Here are the pictures of Emma meeting little Emma!  Our Emma's are only three months apart! We had such a great day!  Can't wait till the next time!
   
                            Our Emma just loves the water!  She is part FISH!

                                              She is jumping into the water!

                                                             Nana and Adam

                                                      Emma, Nana, and Adam

                                                Noah, Emma, Nana, and Adam

                                                 Emma strangling hugging little Emma

                                            Me, Emma, Sherri, and little Emma

                                                             Awww- kissing!

                                          Playing with cups of water with "our" daddy.

                                                               Noah and Daddy

                                    Little Emma in our room hanging out on the bed.

                                                              Reading books!

                                                      Having a nice little snack!

                                                Playing with crayons at Perkins.

                                        Sam, Adam, and Noah- some good looking boys!!!

                                                           Emma and Emma

                                                                       All of us!

Emma Meets Emma

HI everyone! I know it's been a while since I have posted- but we have been busy! The past few days we were in Fort Myers visiting friends. The first day there, we met up with my college buddy Kelly and her family. We went to a delicious Japanese Steak House for dinner! Yummy! All the kids had a great time visiting and playing with one another! They just thought Emma was adorable!

The next day- Wednesday, we met for the first time another family who adopted from China as well! Sherri and I have been commenting on each others blogs for a while now. So I emailed her to let her know we would be in their area and would they like to meet up? I was so happy when she told me YES!!! We had such a wonderful day with her, her son Sam, and her daughter Emma! Our boys got along really great and our Emma's got along wonderfully! Our Emma was even happy to share her food with little Emma! After swimming, we all went upstairs to our room to change. The boys went straight to the computer and our Emma's played around the room and read books!

We met up with Sherri's husband Todd for dinner at Perkins. Everyone had such a good time! Our Emma's got along so well! I even have a cute video of our Emma's blowing kisses and hugging one another! We truly have been blessed to have met such a wonderful family! We will definetely be getting together again soon! How nice for our Emma's to be able to grow up together!!! Enjoy the videos!  I will post all the pictures just as soon as I can get them uploaded correctly- for some reason the pictures will not come up!  AArgh!


                                        Here are our Emma's blowing kisses and hugging!

                                  Here is my Emma flipping into her pack n play!  Crazy!

                                            I couldn't believe that daddy let her do this!!

1 Year Ago Today!

One year ago today I received the call that changed our lives!  It was the call letting us know they had found a nine month old baby girl for us!  She was in the province Yangxi which is in Guangdong.  We were over the moon with the picture and information we received on her!  Her name was Song Xiaotao and she was just a little bitty beautiful thing!  Here is the first photo we ever saw of our daughter:

                                                 She was only 7 months old in this photo!


Here are some pictures of her taken in the past few days - she is now 21 months old!

Water Fun

Last week we went with some friends to the beach.  We spent the entire day there!  Everyone had a great time playing in the waves which happened to be huge and in the pool at their hotel. 

We also had a playdate with some friends of ours who we hadn't seen since the day we arrived home from China!  All the kids had a fun time swimming and hanging out.  They did not want the day to end!

I don't know if it has anything to do with the water but Emma is sick again with a nasty cough and runny nose!  I brought her yesterday to the doctors and she is back on the nebulizer treatment three times a day until the cough is gone!  At least her fever only lasted Sunday and Monday and was not terribly high! 

Enjoy the pictures!

                                                Here are the pictures of the beach and pool day:

Here are the pictures of our playdate at the pool with friends:

                                                    Adam, L, Emma, Noah, and R

                                                 Noah jumping into the tire.

                                                   L flipping into the water.

                                                 All of the kids being silly.

                                                         Noah carrying R

                                          L and Emma playing in the water on the floor.

                                                         R and Noah in the pool.

                                                       Siblings against siblings!

I don't know... but does this look fair?

                                 Big bro carrying little sis and little bro carrying big sis???

Poor baby is chilling on the couch watching "Barney."  You know she doesn't feel well when she is NOT on the move!