Sophie meets the dragonnettes!

cooking class



Lisa and Emma, Me and Sophie


Pink Dragonnettes


Sophie and Emma


Christie, Caleb and Sophie


Saturday was so much fun when all the pink dragonnettes..i.e adoption friends(minus Kim with pneumonia)came over to hang out and meet Sophie. It was so good seeing 4 little chinese "cousins" together...Zoe, Meisi, Emma and Sophie. All the food was so good. And it was so nice to meet Sam and see how big Caleb is getting. Everyone was so excited to hear the news that the Willard family will be bringing home two little boys from China in the next few months. Please remember them in your prayers. It is hard to believe it has almost been a year since we all first met. I cant wait until our CNY get together.

I'm a cutie!

Sophie looked so cute in her blue outfit from Gigi..THANK YOU GIGI!!!
Sophie woke up Tuesday morning with a yucky cold. I sat in the church nursery with her Sunday morning and it seemed almost every kid in there had a runny nose. So I am sure that is where we picked it up... but such is life. The picture of Sophie and Elizabeth Grace was from Sunday morning. It took about a million shots to get one of both of the girls smiling...but I finally got it.

More pics from the weekend

Sophie meets the Pierce family

Since we had the party for Bert it gave the Pierce side of the family a chance to meet Sophie. They have all waited SOOO patiently to make sure we were settled in to come visit. THANK YOU! Sophie had a great time meeting her Granny and more aunts, uncles and cousins. Aunt Amy brought Sophie a baby doll and some bottles which was a BIG hit! We had a great time staying up late Friday night and watching Aunt Amy laugh until she cried! Saturday morning we had a big breakfast and spent the afternoon fishing, jumping on the trampoline and riding 4 wheelers and scooters. We cant wait for the family to come again!

Surprise Daddy!!

Last night we had an awesome surprise 40th birthday party for Bert with some of our nearest and dearest. 3 of Berts brothers and their families were there along with his mom and ALOT of friends. Bert had no clue!! Of course I have had to fib to him all week.(uh-oh). He said I was the last person he EVER expected to be able to pull this off! GOTCHA Babe!! It was so much fun and thank you all who came to help us celebrate my awesome hubby!

Pics of Sophie and her baby doll

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Sophie was so cute with this baby doll this morning. The baby cries (you can hear it on the video). Sophie gets so jealous if I hold this baby and rock it! You can also hear Sophie say "mama" in this video.

Yum

This was too funny. Bert totally bribed Sophie with this sucker. He put the stick end in his mouth and she would come up to him to get to the candy part. She was loving it and of course he was too!! Gully had to get in on the action too!

IAC

Today was Sophies appt at the International Adoption Clinic. Dr. Chambers and her staff are absolutely wonderful! Sophie now weighs in at 22 pounds. She is in the 10th percentile for weight and 5th for height. She is going to be a little girl for a while. She had to have blood drawn too..somehow we survived! She is such a trooper. After her appt we ran home had some lunch and headed out again for her cardiologist appointment. Her VSD is still there but it is very small and he feels sure it will close on its own. So praise the Lord it was good reports all around. She will go back to the IAC in 3 weeks and we will get all her lab results to see what shots she still needs, etc. My pictures wont upload right now but as soon as they do I will post them.

Fun day!!

Tyler and Kaitlin made us a delicious Banana Mallow Pie...it was sooo yummy. They posed with the pie in their spy gear.
Our friends the Kings came to visit...Sophie is happy with them all!! Yeah!!

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Ok I think I figured out this video thing...it has only taken my like 2 hours..not bad and I did it on my own! whoo hoo. (Bert cheered me on). I dont know why it is showing 2 video screens?? Now if I could just figure out how to get my captions right!
When Bert comes home exhausted every morning he always takes a minute to enjoy time with the kids before going to bed. Sophie loves to crawl on top of him.

Pancakes, Noodles and Yogurt

This has been Sophies nutritious menu for the past 2 days. She will eat NOTHING else. I have tried everything we eat. She wont eat at restaraunts..I dont know what is up. We have tried mac n cheese, scrambled eggs, rice, gerber graduates meals etc. etc. Any suggestions are welcome! She ate everything in China and seemed to enjoy it...??
Today we took the kids to the playstation/skate station here in Trussville. The boys had a great time playing video games and laser tag. Elizabeth enjoyed her new roller skates and Sophie enjoyed stealing peoples skee balls and playing "dance dance revolution".