Thursday, July 2, 2009

Fun and Funny in June.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO THE BEST BABA IN THE WORLD!


For Fathers day BaBa got a hand painted blue, magnetic, dragonfly with red spots that were made with Mae Li's toe prints. The clothespin dragonfly was BaBa and the little ladybug riding on it's back was of course, Mae Li! Shane and Kyle made a donation in Dad's name to a Gospel for Asia child named Tsepiso. Daddy also received special home cooked gourmet breakfast, his favorite home made eggplant parmesan dinner, his favorite hard to find ph lemon soap and massage oil. He chose the activity of the day and it was for the whole family to take Mae Li to her first movie. We saw "UP" and it was adorable! In a sense it had an adoption theme because the little ASIAN boyscout didn't have a dad and a grandfatherly man eventually takes him under his wing. I thought Mae Li would be transfixed on the screen but lets just say thank Goodness I brought toys for her. We were not surprised however that she LOVED the popcorn!




HERE, BABA. I MADE THIS FOR YOU FOR FATHER'S DAY. I LOVE YOU!!!







MAMA AND MAE LI LOVE STRAWBERRIES...

BUT, MAMA GOT A LITTLE CARRIED AWAY AS
WE SEE OUR LITTLE STRAWBERRY BLONDE
BABY.

















She is sporting a spiky do, and her favorite word is "More, more, more" but Mae Li is not impersonating Billy Idol. She's rockin' out to "Head, Shoulders, Knees and toes!"
seconds after removing her hair tie.



Mae Li with her handsome "Ge Ge"s (Mandarin for Big Brothers)
on Father's day.




Lagoon adventures! This pic is really from May 21st when we celebrated Mae Li's referral day.
She just looks so cute, I had to include it.



Shane's guitar picks. Ya just never know where they will show up.



























A very special, loving family came home from China with their sweet and handsome baby boy who also has albinism. This is really a phenomena because albinism only affects 1 in 17,000. Here in our own local support group which is 51 families we probably have about 200 members and 2 children with albinism. We are so happy that they found each other and have so much in common. Upon meeting Mae Li for the first time he immediately handed her one of his new toys. So sweet!
























Welcome Home AJ! We wouldn't have missed your homecoming for the world!


Our girl really loves her early steps classes. Here she is practicing tactile exercises with yummy whipped cream and colored sugar! A totally new flavor for Mae Li. Fortunately it didn't spoil her appetite for healthy food.


Our pensive girl. So beautiful.


Love Bug Leotard, pink tights, and Hula Skirt! Girly Girl!



BOY, DOES THIS BUG ME! DARN BLOODSUCKERS! LEAVE MY BABY ALONE! GO SUCK BLOOD OUT'A YOUR OWN BABY!


























Lunch time funny faces and showing off Jolene's pretty bows!

I have a great vid of this but can't trim it to fit the blog :O( shuggerpeas!!!

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Starting Today for Sweet Baby Mae

Hello sweet Mae Li,
I will address you now and again directly as I record our beautiful journey of life together. Today, we can be thankful for our wonderful friends Mrs. Tammy, Mrs. Candy and Mrs Grace, as well as your Auntie Stasea who encouraged me to start up my journaling for you again. They reminded me that it is more important to be consistant and not miss more days than it is to catch up. They also pointed out that this is for YOU. That really motivated me to not worry anymore, but to sieze every precious day from NOW on. So here we are and I am so happy to be here and to be celebrating the gift of your life this way.

We will meet here as often as possible with a cup of hot tea in hand to recollect and record the wonderful, crazy, fantastic, and beautiful happenings of our life together. We will include it all. The laughter as well as the tears and hopefully your mommy will succeed in leaving you a legacy of love letters. Tangeable memories for you to look back on and remember how much we love you and how proud we are of you. How you have blessed our lives so abundantly.
I love you my beautiful angel,
Mommy