Happy 6th Birthday Jordis Li Meng!!

Mmmmmmmm.....this is yummy!!!!

Her cuddle/100 Good Wishes quilt.

The Birthday Girl

When we first saw her photo in February 2007 we had hoped to celebrate her fifth birthday with her, but that was not to be. So one year ago, we sang Happy Birthday to Jordis and we kept her close in our thoughts.

Today we celebrated Jordis Li Meng's 6th birthday! When asked if she ever celebrated her birthday in China she said, "I don't think so, I don't remember." So we started off the day with Happy Birthday wishes and continued throughout the day. She was confused at first about why we would wish her Happy Birthday more than once. We explained to her that the whole day was HER birthday and we were glad she is here with her family so we can celebrate. She decided that was a good idea!

Our neighbor friend, Paige, came over and spent the day with the girls. Jordis picked "China food" only not in China" for her birthday meal. Off to Panda Express for a late afternoon meal. Then back home and we sang again, Jordis made a wish and opened her presents! She was SO careful not to tear the paper on the gifts. Her sister's patience finally forced her to tear them open! I think that the look on her face was priceless!

Here are a couple of younger photos we have of her. Unfortunately, the only baby photo we have of her is a very small, grainy black and white one. We are lucky to have some of her when she was a toddler. We missed part of her childhood, but we are making up for lost time. She is a great daughter/sister and we are SO HAPPY to have her here!!! Happy Birthday Sweetie!!!

The Tooth Fairy~~Again!

Friday was school photo time. Since I had to work and the girls wanted Mommy to do their hair, I was up 30 minutes earlier than usual. I rousted the girls out of bed at 5:30 am. Last year at school picture time Daddy was in charge. Things weren't too bad, but I did notice right away that ZoraLin's shirt was on backward in her photo! Oops!

ZoraLin has had a loose front tooth for a couple of weeks now. I just knew that it was going to be missing for her 1st grade photo. When it didn't fall out, but was hanging kind of sideways in her mouth, her Daddy and I both tried to help it along. That tooth was bound determined to stay put! We hope that the kids weren't calling her Snaggle Tooth!

This morning Zora ran into our bedroom at 7AM! The tooth is Gone!! And we can't find it anywhere! We suspect that she swallowed it in her sleep. Fortunately, the Tooth Fairy "knew" that she was going to lose a tooth, so there will be a visit to our house tonight even without a tooth. Besides, I really don't like the idea of trying to find this tooth when it passes through!!

Dance Baby Dance!

Yes! We finally have the girls in dance classes! I have talked about this for a long time and the opportunity was here for the taking! Jordis Li and Kendalan take dance from 6:00 to 6:45 p.m. ZoraLin is in tumbling from 6:45 to 7:30 p.m. and RaeAnne finishes the night from 7:30 to 8:15 p.m. The classes are very close to home and after the first night of class, the girls were SO excited! They will have a dance recital in May and RaeAnne's class will perform in a couple of weeks! I didn't get much of a chance to snap photos the first night, but here are a couple. Kendalan and Jordis were support for each other in the little girl class. ZoraLin learns to balance on her head and knees!!

Rare visitors

Funny that this would happen after some of us Mom's have been "talking" about pets and/or insects. The girls came running into the house last night. ZoraLin was in the lead and was yelling "Mom, come quick!" "It's a praying stick!" Okay, she was half right. It was a Praying Mantis. We had one we saw occasionally at our old house, but this one is HUGH! The photo does not do it much justice, but I would guess it was almost four inches long. I am not queazy about insects, but I think that these will bite. So we checked it all out from a distance, I had it pose for a photo and then we left it alone. I explained to the girls that Praying Mantis are good bugs that eat bad bugs.



Each weekend we have another visitor that make the girls even more excited! The Ice Cream Man drives through our little neighborhood each Sunday afternoon, early evening. All the neighbor kids welcome this van! And the goodies he has, YUM!!



Here are the girls with their tasty treats. Yes, you counted right, there are five girls in the photo. The middle one is RaeAnne's BFF who spent a weekend with us a few weeks ago.

School starts!!

Today was the first day of the 2008-09 school year. This morning started off early with a lot of tired girls. Things went very well and they were ready much too early. Daddy and Mommy drove them to school so we could take photos of the girls....just as many other parents did! They rode the bus home this afternoon. They were so excited to get off the bus, I was only able to get one photo!

Boys don't make passes.........

at girls who wear glasses!! We now have TWO the boys can leave alone!! BTW, they each picked out their own frames. I'd say they did a pretty good job!

They sing......

We had company for the past couple of days. RaeAnne's BFF Hollie came to stay with us. It was scorching hot outside, so the girls had to entertain themselves inside. This is what they did. This is also my first experience with recording a video with my digital camera. You will have to scroll down on the blog to our play list and hit the pause button so you can hear them sing. Enjoy!!