IT'S HERE IT'S HERE IT'S HERE!!!!!!!!

My 171 (US immigration services permission to adopt a foreign orphan) has arrived!!! Yes Jumping up and down with joy!!!! Dad ran over and checked my mail for me, he just called to tell me it was there. :-) Thank you dad! I applied for this form back in September. At the longest it should have taken 2 months to receive, instead after much intervention by the Senators office, an many prayers it arrived today. Now I can send mt dossier to China. The frustrating thing is, many of the other families with children from the same waiting list as Mei-Mei will leave to pick up their children on the 1st of March. I should have been traveling in a week with them.

Ill be there soon my baby!

A fun game

I was trying to get Baby bug ready for church yesterday and could not find matching hair clips in the right color. I have a Tupperware container full of clips, but it seems like a kind never find a matched pair when we need them. In frustration I dumped the container out on the floor and started going through them clipping pairs together. Baby bug sat next to me and got excited. :-)

Baby bug: You matching them?

Mama Bug :yes, do you see any matches?

Baby Bug: Yeah this be a fun matching game! Thank you buy this game.

A Half an Inch!!!!

When Baby Bug got dressed this morning, an outfit that fit last week was too small. I mesured her against the wall. The last time she was mesured was 1/07/07 since then she has grown a half an inch! The thing about this growth spurt? On 1/07 she had grown half an inch since thanksgiving. Yup that is one inch since the third week in November. This for a child who had been in size 24 month clothes for a year. She bypassed 2T and is now in 3T sizes. :-) YEAH!

Is it time to go to China?

This is what Baby Bug asks me every morning. It breaks my heart to say no. My sweey Mei-Mei sits in an orphanage, while I fight red tape. :-( I cant wait for the day I can answer YES.

Happy Valentines Day

Baby Bug has been very excited for this day. :-) She asked me a few days ago if she would get candy for valentines. I told her yes, her request? "I want some lots of carmels in a baggie that I not have to share." As her idea of lots is 5-10, she got her wish. :-)

Grandma

My grandma is in the hospital with pnumonia. :-( Please pray for her recovery and also for my mom who is trying to cover all the bases with my grandma and caring for Baby Bug.

Naked but

I was cooking dinner when I heard "mama, mama, maaamaaa." I went to check on Baby Bug and found her stipped and sitting in the (empty) bath tub. Upon seeing me she anouced "I got a naked but and no water" LOL Yup I ran a bath for her. :-)