Category: Home Life

Today we celebrate that Nadia has been with us 1 more day than she was without us. We have been a family for 268 days now and we can’t imagine life without her. She has gone from the tiny baby in China to a hilarious toddler who just seems to absorb knowledge like a sponge.

I think I should add that we bought this little red OINK outfit a few weeks after we were Logged Into China. Not knowing of course how long the wait was going to extend. So it seemed appropriate for her to wear it for the first time on this special day. I also added 2 more photos from this afternoon. She wanted to play with the goodies I bought for the church picnic this weekend.

Here are a couple shots from China in July.

And from today.

Honestly, could this photo BE any cuter???

And here she is doing her Air Guitar! Jenn – she’s ready for Rock Band!

Tonight we attended the “Party on the Patio” to support the Child Study Center in Fort Worth. My uncle Roger is director of development for them and they do a wide variety of things to help children in Fort Worth. In addition to all the other services they provide to local children, they have an international adoption clinic. I am glad it’s there, but blessed that we haven’t needed their services because Nadia is doing so well. But I love that the option is there for adoptive families.

Their website is http://www.cscfw.org/

Tonight was their big fundraiser at Joe T. Garcia’s Mexican restaurant and Roger asked us to bring Nadia with us to be the “model” for the hand-made rocking horse. The horse was painted by the children at the C.S.C. school. We saw it last week at and thought it was the cutest thing. They had a bunch for really cool things for the silent auction and live auction. Nadia was the only child at the event and of course looked cute and got lots of attention. Which led to her giving people the “stare down” while she studied the situation. HA HA! I was glad to see how well they did at their fundraiser and it was a nice night out with the cuteness.

Joy and Janis bought Nadia the Fisher Price “Little People” Easter Eggs and put them in this cute Easter Basket. I am just now talking about it because of how funny Nadia is when she plays with it. She is very precise with it which is fun to watch. She likes to sit in one of our laps with the basket in front. Then she takes them out one by one and opens them up to look inside. When she opens the bunny she will say, “Hop, Hop, Hop” and make the bunny hop. When she opens the sheep she says, “Baaaaa.” Before moving to the next egg, she closes the current one and says, “All done.”

After she has opened all six, she puts them all back in the Elmo basket. Unlike her other toys that get thrown around and mixed up, she is very careful that all the little people go back in their eggs and then back in the basket. She just cracks me up!

While in China I really enjoyed the playground that was right by our apartment. To be able to walk over there with Nadia in the afternoon was wonderful. She loved seeing all the other kids and of course playing. So I have been on the hunt to find a few parks and playgrounds near us that would be fun for Nadia. We drove by one a few days ago in Hurst, but didn’t get out and play. Tonight when Mike got home from work we went over the Adventure World in NRH. This one had swings and all kinds of play areas.

Nadia wanted to walk all over the area holding on to Mike’s hand. We put her on a swing for the first time and she got a big kick out of that. She did a little bit of climbing, but honestly was more interested in looking at the wood chips and rocks on the ground. Mike made a comment that the ground was messy and she kept walking around pointing at the ground going, “Messy.” Then she would bend down and look at the rocks.

We got a zoo membership today which I am very excited about. My mom’s group from church is going to have a playdate there next week.