Wordless Wednesday

The tooth fairy came, woohoo!

Lily finally lost her first tooth (at 6 years and 9 1/2 months). Although technically she lost 2 teeth and even more technically, she didn't lose them, I had them extracted. Her permanent tooth started to erupt behind her baby tooth so there was no way that sucker was going to fall out on it's own. And while she was numb, we just pulled the other one too since I'm 100% sure it's going to happen again.

Lily did very well for the procedure. A little nitrous oxide goes a long way. Plus she's very comfortable with staff I work with. She complained about some gum pain on the way home, but I got her a milk shake and she was good to go.

She put her teeth in a hanging pillow thingy on her door knob. And this morning I heard her exclaiming, "I'm rich, I'm rich!" The tooth fairy left her TEN $1 bills.

My girls

Just a couple of cute pics of my girls.

We're still here!

Sorry for the lack of posting lately, we've been busy with school, work and then soccer on the weekends. Even though we've been so busy, I don't feel like I have much "blogworthy" stuff to talk about. We have done a couple of fun things. We went to St. Louis for AJ's family reunion. The girls loved staying in a hotel and swimming in the pool. Then we had some awesome Dim Sum the next morning with Nei Nei and Ye Ye (AJ's parents). I hardly took any pics while we were there except of the girls swimming. We hadn't seen AJ's cousins and Aunt's and Uncle's for a long time so it was great to see them and introduce the girls to everyone.





I know this photo looks bad, but Lia loves to put her face in the water. Guess someone is ready for some swimming lessons!



Lily is enjoying first grade and doing very well. She got an A+ in spelling and an A in math on her first progress report and then an O (for Outstanding) for her conduct. I asked her the other day how she continues to bring home perfect behavior scores everyday. She told me everyone else in her class talks to each other and gets docked behavior points. And she continued to tell me that she didn't have to worry about getting in trouble because when she talks, she just talks in her head, LOL!

We also took the girls to a wedding last weekend. They had a blast. This was Lia's first wedding. They were in awe of the bride (especially when she showed up in a carriage being pulled by a white horse!), it was really cute watching them.


Being silly before the wedding!

Wordless Wednesday

Gotcha Day #3!

Three years ago today, a 9 month old baby girl named Yangxi Dong Dong (aka Lia Jade Yangxi) was placed in her Daddy's arms at the Guangdong Civil Affairs Office in Guangdong China. And across the world her Mommy and big sister waited anxiously for the Skype video call so they could meet her.

Well, actually we were asleep until Daddy called us since it was about 4:00 am our time. It was the best wake-up call I have ever received. I was so excited to see those big brown eyes staring at me through the computer. Of course, I was a blubbering mess. And it was such a relief to know that her Daddy finally had her and she was safe.

Happy 3rd Gotcha Day Lia Jade! We love you to pieces!

If you would like to see our complete adoption travel journal, just click here:

Journey to Lia Jade

Super Soccer Saturday

Seriously, it was super! We actually got participation out of Lia this year. Woo hoo! This is Lily's 3rd year playing soccer with our local YMCA program and we tried to sign Lia up last year but she wanted nothing to do with it. We gave up after 2 sessions. But, our girl has grown up and really enjoyed herself today. Although, I think the motivating factor was the team snack and drink at the end of practice. We were so happy!

Lily did wonderful as well except when the coach tried to get her to "head" the ball. He tossed it gently to her and she covered up her head with both hands and dropped to her knees. It was hysterical!

Check out that stride!