Home Two Weeks - Incredible!

It's hard to believe that we've been home for two weeks already. This two weeks make the two weeks in China feel like a month! We really did enjoy our time in China this time much more than the first time five years ago.

Time has just flown by! As you can see, the girls are getting along quite nicely. Lily loves to copy Emily or get the same treatment from mommy or daddy. In other words, if Emily is getting her hair braided, Lily wants mommy to fuss over her hair! If Emily gets a hug from daddy, Lily wants a hug from daddy.

We have already received some of the lab tests back from the doctor and so far everything is fine. there are still some tests that they have to do but so far everything looks good.

Lily is completely adjusted to California time. She goes to bed at 9pm and wakes up at 7am, then takes a 2-2.5 hour nap after lunch. Of course she can't sleep without her wawa (doll). She is starting to demonstrate some very girly behaviors (which we thouroughly love-remember we have 5 sons!). The other night she was holding a doll and was moving its arm, making it wave bye bye to us. Tonight she was reading a book to a doll, moving its hand and pointing to pictures in a book telling the doll what they were. Of course every picture was an owl according to Lily.

In California there is always more red-tape and paperwork. When we got back we received a 35+ page document from our home-study agency..........whew! Most of it didn't even apply to us but we had to read it and initial every page........supposedly a result of the Hague requirements.

All in all things are going great! We are blessed to have Lily and continue to see more and more of her little personality each day.