Oct. 22/08 I asked Eric to pass this site on to a school Mom who was interested in the girls adoption stories and he asked me if anyone still came to this site. He was surprised to hear that it s still in circulation and that we still have a big following. Blogs are taking over in popularity. Anyways, I ve always assumed by the feedback I get that this site is still linked on adoption list sites and it s mostly other adoptive families visiting. Occasionally I ll refer to the site to family or friends and they don t seem to visit here much anymore, or haven t kept the link. My Mom still comes here :) Anyways, when the baby s referral comes in, the ones who lost our link will be the ones scrambling to find the site to see his/her pictures! Nothing too new to report, the Halloween season is upon us. We re trick or treating in town this weekend and then having a get together for FCC families in the evening. Eric and I got pirate/hippie wigs and it s too hilarious. I ll post a picture for sure. We just got an invite to a Halloween dance at Haley and Hanna s school, the girls have been wanting to see their school so they ll be thrilled to hear about the dance. The girls school is having a movie night this week and they re hyped about that. They both have Halloween parties at school and a parade. I miss so much of the fun, stuck at work. Our agency has just opened up a program with Vietnam and we were notified yesterday that we can get on the list as a China waiting family. We have one week to decide and get our fee in. They are giving families one week to get in line according to their group numbers. After that you d join at the end of the line. It s sure tempting to be in both lines. My heart is stuck on China. The odds of a boy would greatly increase with Vietnam. You can t choose sex there. I d assume since we have two girls we d be much more likely to get a son. Like I said very tempting. Eric says he s fine to just keep waiting. I think he heard all new documents, homestudy update, whole new dossier and new immigration application and then pretty much zoned out :) They didn t tell us how long the other wait would be or what age the children would be, it s a new program for them too. Ok, back to work. Shelley Oct. 3/08 1st, there is no word on the baby. I have been dreaming almost nightly about my son that is 17mo. with the chubbiest cheeks ever and black hair that sticks straight up. He feels pretty darn good in my dreams. Matches have been made up to Feb. 15/06, we re May 8/06. There are 82 log in dates before ours. We ve put some chocolate stones in a jar and are taking some out with each batch of referrals now. I thought having something real for the girls to be a part of would help them understand how much longer. They still tell people they re getting a new baby sister or brother. It amazes me that their faith never wavers. September was one heck of a month. Phew. We re through it. Kids are both doing great in school. They like their teachers and happy to be with their friends. Lili is bummed at the lack of work in Grade one. She was hoping for some challenging work and homework. Some days she comes home and tells me what they did for the day and rolls her eyes. The other day as she was telling me about Ed (they turn the letter e into a little guy with eyes and hair) and she sighed and said Mom, I m going seriously crazy! . We just keep telling her it will get better and to find joy in the fun stuff. There was a meeting at the school the other night for parents to go and hear about how they were teaching the kids to read, I went and their program was amazing, and the teachers are fabulous. I feel blessed that Lili is with them. AND, I can see that their methods are very young for Lili and I can see now why she is frustrated. Hopefully she ll settle in and accept things the way they are, as she did last year in Kindergarten. Fei on the other hand loves school. We had our reservations and fears about her going, but so far so good. There was some disturbance in the beginning, we were told she had very poor cloakroom etiquette. Apparently one of the boys was putting his coat on her hook and she was fighting with him about it. There were also another incident with another boy sticking his tongue out at her, on further questioning it turns out he was simply putting blocks together randomly and not doing color patterns so Miss Fei was attempting to straighten him out ;) Gotta just love some of her issues. Then we heard that when she was supposed to be washing her hands she was actually going down the hall to say hey to Lili in her class. Sigh. Then lastly there was the day her teacher caught her and a friend running down the hallway screaming like banshees and then running away from their teacher. Such proud moments. Funny though. We haven t heard anything this week. Parent/Teacher meetings are next week, fingers crossed for a good report. We ve been told that it s likely Fei will need a TA, but at this point there doesn t seem to be any need. Scholastically she is doing great. Not quite reading but so close. She s not been too interested but Lili told her that Mrs. Thomas puts the days events on the chalk board and if you can read you ll know ahead of the other kids what is happening for the day, suddenly Fei is bringing me books and attempting to read. Yay!! Along with school was the start of dance. They have three of their FCC friends in class with them and one other Asian child from their class last year. There are 8 kids in the class and six of them are Asian. So cute!! Who would have thought a Highland class in our wee town would ever look like that?! Both girls also started private piano lessons. They are still with Mulberry and Kathy is teaching them. They re thrilled, they just adore her. I m so surprised at how fast both of them are learning. Fei seems to have better control of her hands, but still isn t reading music. Lili has a firmer grasp of what she is supposed to be doing with her hands but has a harder time manipulating her fingers. They sit at the piano together and help each other. So sweet. Lili reads Fei s homework book for her, but Kathy writes in cursive so it sometimes takes them a while to figure out what it says. I ve tried to help but they tell me they don t need me. My babies are getting so grown up! We bought the girls a piano, it took five guys and three hours to get it into the house. Eric told me to be sure of where I wanted it because it s never moving again ;) It took quite a while and we looked at a LOT of pianos, so we were quite delighted when we found the one . Ok, now the really exciting news....the upstairs bathrooms are working!!! It s been literally life altering. I m just so happy. I love, love, love my tub. The girls bathroom is small and they aren t as excited as I am with mine. We ve all moved upstairs again. Lili is in her own room. She is struggling a bit and is wandering at night again checking on me. We ve told her she can sleep in our room but she is still wanting to try being in her room. Fei still didn t want to go into her old room and is holding out for the yellow one, but she can t sleep in there until the floor is done so she is also in Lili s room. I can actually lock a door and have a bath without kids, dog and cats. It s simply heavenly. A bit more molding, painting and electrical to hook up to be done. I only care that there is hot water in the tub and a flushing toilet . The girlies got a kitten this summer. Her name is Jenny. She s very sweet and they are so in love with her. We managed to take her camping for most of August and half of Sept. So she is nicely harness and leash trained. I never would have thought that was possible. She is quite adventurous and we are able to take her out and about anywhere we go. She creates quite a stir when she is out. Apparently I m not the only one who didn t know you can leash train a cat or take them out without them freaking. She does get freaked now and then but overall not too badly. She wasn t totally thrilled with being at the ocean as you can see by her eyes in the photo below. She is 10wks in the middle photo, taken right after we brought her home. We had hoped that Jenny would be company for Lacie who has really been missing Kady. It took a while but the two of them are very close. They play often, sleep together and follow each other around. Jenny is still as indoor cat. We re not sure if things will stay that way or not but for now it s working out great. Maoduke who is almost never around, outdoor cat to the max, wasn t too thrilled with Jenny but even he is softening a bit and allowing her to bat at his tail now and then. New babies are just so much fun. Oh, oh, more fun stuff, Eric found me a camper for his truck (well, my truck now). He isn t as thrilled to camp as much as I like to, so I can head out with the camper without him now. It s big but manageable. It s a 1981 Vanguard 11.5 . No shower but the girls and I will manage just fine. Eric has been getting it set up on his truck and making it more user friendly for me. Very exciting. It will allow us to get to some places that the big trailer just couldn t go as well. I m even thinking it would be fabulous for road trips. We re hoping for one more trip out for Thanksgiving. The truck below isn t my white ford, but a crappy thing that came with the camper, it needs a new home still. I took the girls camping in a tent to Miracle Beach with some friends. The whole right of passage to camping for the girls sort of thing. Eric thought I was nuts, but he helped pack us up to go anyways. I hadn t been tenting in 16 years! I bought a porta-potti which greatly helped the experience. It was fabulous the first night. We were very cozy in the tent and using a corner of the table as our kitchen was fun. We brought Lacie who also quite liked the tent. We tried having Jenny in the tent while in the backyard, but cats can climb tents! Right to the top. After removing her from the walls a few times we gave up. The second night camping was torrential rain and we had a wee river of water running in the corner of the tent, there was simply too much water converging on that corner from our friends awning and table tent. We debated going home as the girls canvas bed was soaked, but since my air bed was vinyl we crawled in together and toughed it out. We managed ok in the rain. We were glad to get home. Tenting is a lot of work and next time it will be for more than two days to make it more worthwhile. Eric tried sleeping in the tent with us in the backyard but he hated it. The girls and I slept out for a few nights as a trial before heading out to do real camping . Eric went in a dirt bike race last weekend. I don t think he particularly liked the racing part. He said he d never do it again. No details were shared with me. He ll be happy to head out this weekend without the stress. Ok, writing this was easy, now to go load some photos in. This page is getting so big that it s hard to load. I d love to share more photos but I m limited per page. Likely I should consider moving to a blog so I can share more photos. That would take time and thought and I just don t have enough time to be on the computer. It s a slow day at work today, hence the update. Love Shelley July 25/08 It s been a while since the last update. We ve been busy. First was the Alaska cruise, which was fabulous. All of us had a great time. I might have preferred a bit more time to relax. There was lots for the kids to do and they went daily to club HAL in the evenings and a few day visits. They basically had a party every night with the friends they made and Eric and I got an hour and 45mins. on our own. I m sad to admit that a couple of those nights we snuck back to our room and napped. How life changes. The food was lovely, it was nice traveling with Mom and Dad. Our room steward was Victor and he was awesome with the kids. He made towel animals every night and always heard them coming and going and would call out to them from whichever room he was working in. Every time we left our room he went and tidied it. I learned really quickly to put everything away as I went or when we got back he d have done it for me. That was hard to get used to, but halfway through I was starting to enjoy it. The girls did a fair amount of swimming on the lido deck and are both getting quite comfortable in the water. I even got sunburned on the first day at sea! Lili and I did get seasick the first day, Lili actually turned green...I thought that only happened in the cartoons! She had it the worst, I felt better if I just lay down. Her wee stomach emptied everywhere. Fei said she felt sick for Lili. The day trips on land were fun. We managed to do a couple tours, went to the summit and back into Canada in Skagway. Boy was that confusing to explain to the kids. We took a tram up Mt. Roberts in Jeauno and played in the snow. We met KD the Klondike dog in Ketchikan. Lili has decided she looked like a wolf and her wolf infatuation grew some more. Eric was taking her up on deck at night so she and her new stuffed wolf (malamute) could howl at the moon and howl to let Kady s wolf birth family that she was in a good home with Lili. What were the odds that the dog we met in Alaska would have the same name as our sweet Kady. Great photo opportunities everywhere, it was really hard to pick 12 for here! One of the sea days we cruised through Glacier Bay and it was so beautiful. The girls put pillows in the window sill of our room (which was quite wide) and they would just lay in there and watch. So cool.
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