Double Yippee!!

Snoopy Dancing in Kansas!! Not only did we receive four new photos of Linzi Rose MingShan and answers to our 10 quesitons we sent her. We also received our fingerprint invitation letters! We have been invited to come to the USCIS office in KC, Missouri to have our fingerprints "captured". Yeah!! The bad thing is that our appointment is May 31st. That date will not work for us :( Nicholas will be done with college for the summer and in the process of moving. I will be working and we will just have returned from our California trip. SO we are going to drive to KC tomorrow and see if they will let us walk in and get them done early. Please pray for us!! This has been okay at times and then other times families are turned away. I will beg, cry, plead and anything I need to do so we can have them done tomorrow. But all the prayers will certainly be welcome!!

Back to the Linzi photos. In one photo she is wearing one of the dresses that we sent to her through Ann at Red Thread China She is also holding the stuffed doll we sent. I can see the box with the other items in the background behind her. I hope she has time to look through the photos of us and get to know us. We are planning on buying one of the recordable books and read a book to her. And also send her a long haired doll...that is one of the kind of toys she likes. She also likes Barbies! It is really cute that she has all the hair pretties in her hair that we sent! She is just absolutely beautiful!! We can't wait to go get her home!!

Keeping busy.

We have been keeping busy at home as we are waiting for our paperwork to move along. We celebrated Kendalan's 7th birthday on April 24th. Then we have been busy everyday since her birthday. So today we finally had the chance to use the Ultimate Easy Bake Oven that she got for her birthday. She was just a little disappointed in the size of the baked product, but she had a great time rolling the chocolate chip cookies into balls and baking them. Of course, eating them was the best part of the day and she was kind enough to share with her sisters.

We haven't heard anything back from Ann at Red Thread China about the care package we sent to Linzi Rose. We are still holding on to hope that we may get some new photos of her. We really hope to get our fingerprint letters in the mail this next week before we take off on our vacation. Of course, her just receiving our package would be the greatest gift. Having photos of her family to be would make us very happy. Tessa has been loosing teeth right and left it seems. She has lost two more on the bottom this week. The poor Tooth Fairy will need to take out a loan soon if she continues this rate. The new teeth are huge! I can definitely see some kind of expander in her mouth to make room for all the new teeth.

The girls were being super silly Saturday afternoon while watching TV and playing on the computer. I especially liked Kendalan's sense of fashion. Our girls are such a treat!!

Dossier moving along nicely

After a couple hours of running around town the other day, I dropped off a FedEx package that arrived in Illinois today. The package contains 11 parts of our dossier. Our dossier will be composed of 13 parts. Which means that we have a good portion done. Yeah!! The most major portion right now is the approval from Immigration and Naturalization. It has been received and we hope to get our all important "invitations" to come to Kansas City to have our fingerprints taken. After that we should get our "golden ticket" from them! I have heard rumors that this portion of the process has gained speed. This is wonderful news!

We sent a care package to Linzi Rose MingShan this week from China. It included photos of us and our house. We also sent her a couple of summer dresses, pair of shoes, stuffed doll, camera to take photos of her friends, candy for the nannies. We hope she is shown our photos and they explain to her that she has a family. We have been told that her orphanage is really good about preparing the kids. We are so grateful for this!

With 6 you get eggroll

I know that we don't have very many followers anymore, but for those of you who have hung in there...we have wonderful news!! We are going to be parents again!! All the girls are going to be big sisters! This precious face spoke to us..it said "Come get me, I am yours!!"



For those of you who are my age, you will remember the Doris Day movie, "With six you get eggroll." I love Doris Day movies and that has always been one of my favorite. However, I digress...Daddy and I had talked about adding our caboose, and this IS the LAST ONE!! We will have our sixpack of eggrolls!!



Our home study was completed this week and we sent our I-800A into the USINS. At this point we are praying that we will be able to have her home before the end of the year. However, we are well aware that He is in charge with any adoption and we will just have to be patient.



Her name will be Linzi Rose MingShan. Her DOB is 9/29/2006..she will be our baby! We don't have any really clear, newer photos of her. We are getting ready to send her a care package and hope to get some updated photos too. We know that she is in a very special foster home and we feel blessed to have her being so well cared for until we can travel to get her.



As for her special need...she needs us! She was diagnosed with atelencephalia which is a very big term that we really can't find out what it is! They said that when she was found at 3 months of age her limbs were "inferior"?? They did a plain scan of her head when she was two years old and it did not show any abnormalities. She is meeting her milestones...sings, dances and attends school. She had been available for adoption for more than a year...people were overlooking her. That is because she was waiting for our family!! She is OURS!!

WE are so happy!!

The wind won this one :(

We are very lucky that this is all that the wind got last night. I think we are done with trampolines for now...at least until we can figure out a way to keep it from blowing around. I think that we probably got our $250.00 out of the trampoline and fortunately...NO BROKEN BONES!!

~~Happy Easter~~

And our beautiful Easter Bunny/Chicks are ready for the day!! How did we ever get so lucky to have beautiful Bunnies like these??!!

A new chapter.....

The girls have been interested in Taekwondo for a while now. Some more than others. The girls get their hair trimmed just next door to a Martial Arts studio. We had watched through the window one night and most of the girls were excited to try it. Zora was our only hold out. And why we have never figured out.




Tessa received a Valentine from a classmate during the school exchange. Tessa's was for a free week of Taekwondo classes. Dad called Master Lee (one of the trainers) and visited with him. He explained that we have 5 daughters and we would like them all to give it a try. It took us a few weeks to find a week that everyone was available and the first class it was just the littles who wanted to try it. So Tessa, Kendalan and Jordis participated. The next night the other two older girls decided to try it. It was a HIT! Now they are all signed up...we get a discount family rate which could include Mom, Dad and big Brother if we would like to also join.



We are thrilled with the trainers and the classes they have had so far. Can't wait to see them work their way through the different colored belts.