What a special treat for Abby to have Grandparents living in China! Abby loves to learn Chinese, so Grandma has started to teach her this song. Abby was singing bits of it this morning, so I think it started to sink in. We are happy to have it on video so Abby can watch and learn from it.

Grandma and Grandpa's VISIT!!!

Abby, Grandma and Grandpa!
Monkey Business......
Grandma and Abby
Grandpa and Abby

What an enjoyable visit!!!!

We had Grandma and Grandpa visiting us for 2 1/2 days! It has been a while since their last visit and Abby was super excited to have them here. They spent lots of time reading books, playing games and seeing Abby being a monkey. It was nice to just sit back and have a chat face to face. We certainly enjoyed it. Grandpa and Dad took Abby to her first baseball game and we introduced G and G to Mongolian style food at Daddy's restaurant!

Mostly we just relaxed, which we all enjoyed. Enjoy the photos, we think they came out great! You can see the happiness in Abby's smile!

Just Imagine.....

Just Imagine....

You are in your 40's, past child bearing age. You had been told by your country that only ONE child was allowed.........actually they force it.
You raise that one child, maybe even spoil him/her a bit because.................they are your ONLY CHILD....you hope that one day this ONE CHILD will be taking care of you.
Your ONE child goes off to school one day. An earth quake brings down the school and you never see that ONE CHILD again.

This is what is happening all over China. .......... my heart aches for the Mothers and Fathers that cared for that ONE CHILD.

Today they predict up to 50,000 gone. Mostly children and the elderly. It is a sad time for a country obviously working so hard for their top place in the world.

Just my thoughts....................it's hard not to think about it when I have my ONE Child's face to see every morning.

I could not IMAGINE the pain.

K

Mongolia.........NO MORE>>>

Well, we officially heard that our agency has closed it's Mongolian program.

They will be sending our dossier back to us, so we are officially off the Mongolian wait list. Atleast we are waiting in Thailand. I guess we will keep the mongolian dossier as a reminder of just how difficult adoption can be....

We are not putting much thought into this, since we have known this would happen. We are just glad another door opened for our family. We move forward from here.............

K and K