His Hands Blessings

You may remember JaiLi.  She was at His Hands in Taiwan the same time Mia was.

 August 2010 at His Hands in Taiwan

We met her when we were there to get Mia in August 2010.  In December 2010, JaiLi's parents got to go get her!  We met up with them when they were still on their way home.

December 23, 2010

Today we got to meet up with them again!  It was so much fun to see the girls together again!

They've both gotten so big!!

pretty girls

the dads trying to get them to hold hands and slide down

reading together

drink break

 hugging goodbye until next time

Home Study ✔

Our Home Study is done!  They're mailing it out to us!!!!!

{soon}

Today we got an e-mail from His Hands.  It was a "get your home study done because you will get your referral soon" e-mail!  WhooHoo!  Each day brings our closer to our baby!!

November

Today I took the kids to {try to} get some good pictures of them.  After bribes of candy if they cooperated and did well, I got several good ones.  :)

 {one of my favorites}

Adoption Workshop

Today we completed an all day workshop for our Home Study.  Whew!  This was our second time to sit through this same workshop.  We thought we'd be bored to tears, but we found that going through it a second time AFTER we have already adopted a child was beneficial.  We picked up on a lot of things that we missed the first time.  My sister watched the kids for us {THANK YOU, Melissa}.  Today was not as boring as we expected, but we were glad to have it behind us too.  :)

Adoption Yard Sale

So, we cleaned our house out from top to bottom.  We found lots of things we didn't need and could sell to raise money for our adoption!  LOTS of people in our small town came.  We did donations only.  I think there were 2 big things that we put a price on, but the rest we just accepted donations for it.  Whatever people wanted to give was fine with us.  People couldn't believe it.  They bought stuff, went home and told their friends, and then came back and bought MORE stuff!!  When it was all over we raised $1,280.11 for our adoption fund.  WhooHoo!  Praising God for His blessings!!

18 months

Miss Mia is 18 months old!  Time goes by SO quickly!

Here's a little bit about her now:

-She wears mostly 6-9 month clothes.

-Size 4 shoes
-size 2 diapers
        (she's still wearing Pampers Swaddlers--
        my other 2 outgrew the swaddlers by the time they were 4 months or so!)

-She hardly ever walks, she RUNS!

-She is a skilled, fearless climber.

-She LOVES her Daddy and calls his name {loudly} when he's not easily visible to her.

-She still doesn't say a lot of recognizable words,

        but that doesn't stop her from talking {a lot}!

-She is ALWAYS GOING!  We have to stay on our toes to keep up with her!

-She still takes 2 good naps a day {usually totaling 4-5 hours--which is good

        because we need the break!}

-She is very loving and gives out hugs and kisses freely!

-WE LOVE HER SO MUCH!!