Happy 3rd Forever Family Day

It's hard to believe it has been 3 years since we became a family in China!  It now feels as if we've always been together. We are beyond blessed to be able to call you our daughter. We will always remember the day we walked into each others lives....how are hearts were changed and expanded beyond anything we could have ever imagined.

Sweet things about you at 4.5 years:

*you are 28lbs and 36" tall and wear a size 3T

*after most meals, you exclaim, "Mama you make a good dinner!!!

*you have a sense of humor, like the other day you pulled a clean pair of underwear over your head and said, look a new pony tail holder!

*you talk about Mei, Mei a lot and how you are going to love her and teach her stuff.  You ask if she will have black hair like you?

*after every bath, you ask, "will you how'd me a yiddo bit."

*you like to make up your own songs

*you want to put "lipstick" on when you see me putting mine on..I oblige :)

*you still ask to be rocked in the chair at times

*in the past few months, you like to pretend like you are a baby and make baby sounds

*you love to shake your booty at us which always makes us giggle

*you must have your 2 blankies and pillow with you wherever you are in the house and in the car

*when I ask you if we are blessed, you will say, "yes because of God/Jesus is in our heart and He made us a family!

Update on our journey to Mei, Mei this week: we submitted our I-800A application to the U.S. Immigration office! What a relief to be at this point and have that completed. Hopefully in the next few weeks we'll get an appointment to head to their office for our fingerprints.  We also sent off the last couple of documents to our State and a package to the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco.  We now have about a 6-8 week wait for the US government to give us the final approval so our dossier can get into our agency's hand and then off to China!  This week we will be complete and submit our waiting child application for our agency.  We can be listed on their waiting list for future referrals while the balance of our paperwork is going through the system.  The unpredictable part is the wait for the referral.  There are many families ahead of us.  We hope to be matched and get to see her face by summer and going to China by the end of this year! Lord, let it be so...AMEN!