Kaeli & Madison at the Children's Museum

Kaeli and I met David, Amy and Madison at the Children's Museum this past Sunday and spent a delightful couple of hours exploring all of the great areas to play in. Kaeli and Madison really enjoyed shopping at the Kid City Market and playing in the water at the Water Works, and also going down the slide in the Dig Pit room with tons of shredded blue rubber bits to shovel around. We had lunch afterwards at Big Red's, where Kaeli and Madison enjoyed playing "peek-a-boo" around Amy. Then we headed home, where Kaeli took a good long nap to recoup!



 
 
  

Best Friends Hanging Around in the Park - Madison and Kaeli

 
  

Kaeli wearing pantyhose "just like NaiNai!"

A dark (duh) photo of some of the FCC entertainment

Kaeli, Amy, Madison and David (BaBa) at Legin

"Smile for the camera, Amy and Kaeli!"

The crowd of almost 700 at Legin restaurant for the FCC banquet

Nancy and Amy taking in the sights at Legin

Amy, David and Madison at the Families with Children from China (FCC) Chinese New Year celebration

We had a great Chinese New Year celebration on January 29th at Jin Wah, a Chinese restaurant in Beaverton. There were almost 200 people attending, which made for quite close quarters in the room provided! There were dance performances (in a tiny cleared area) by several Chinese school dance groups, and face painting and tables with things for sale. NaiNai bought Kaeli a case of flashcards of animals with the words in Chinese, English and PinYin. YeYe took Kaeli over to the face painter, who painted a wonderful butterfly on her face. Madison later got one, too.

Kaeli and Madison played in the dance area with quite a few other little girls attending the banquet. The two of them danced and played with balloons and had great fun!

Smile for the Camera!

 
Kaeli and Madison sat next to each other at the table at Jin Wah for the Year of the Dog New Year's Celebration banquet held by our adoption agency, A.S.I.A. They had a great time eating and visiting with each other. 

Kaeli and Ice Cream

Kaeli definitely likes ice cream - and wears it with glee! When she first tasted ice cream, WAY back last January, she was not at ALL impressed with it and made faces. But she has changed her tune and now loves to eat it.

Kaeli sweeping up crumbs

NaiNai and Kaeli reading in bed

JioJio's Birthday Cake

Kaeli supervised the removal of candles from JioJio's birthday cake. JioJio was celebrating his 45th birthday! He was able to come down and spend some time with us over the weekend.

JioJio's birthday was also the day of our one year home study update. This is the final update to be sent to China. China will consider the adoption finalized and closed once they receive this report. Kaeli had a great time entertaining Marci, our agency representative, and Marci gave Kaeli stickers which she promptly put all over her hands.