Happy Birthday Kendalan!!

First birthday!
Second birthday!!
Third Birthday!!! She insisted on wearing her Care Bear Jammies as her cupcakes also had Care Bears on them!!

Still trying to figure out how to hold up three fingers! We love you Kendalan!!

Hot Sauce!!

Our girls are truly princesses! With that said, there is always an exception to the rule. Princesses do NOT always act prim, proper and lady-like. In fact, ours are pretty tough and rough much of the time! So much so, that our kitchen table chairs have taken a real beating. We actually had three different kind of chairs at our table until recently. That is because we were scrambling to find anything to sit on to eat! Then when we did sit down at the table to eat, because of the mismatched chairs, well and the fact that 2 of the chairs were metal folding chairs, it was always a rush to see who sat on which chair. 9 times out of 10 Mom and Dad were forced to use the cold metal chairs!

We trekked to Kansas City recently in search of chairs. Daddy had gone ahead with Uncle Mikey* (name may have been changed to protect the innocent!) The girls and I came up later. The girls felt the calling of their stomachs~personally I think they are always hungry! While we were waiting for our food, we were looking at the condiments on the table. The girls were very interested in the Louisiana Hot Sauce bottle. "What is in that Daddy?" "What is it for?" "What does it taste like?" So we came back with our own questions. "Do you want to taste it?" Jordis and Zora both took the plunge! I don't think they will be using this on their food in the near future.

BTW, we now have b-e-a-utiful chairs at our table!!

Tulip Festival

The girls and I traveled to Wamego Sunday for the annual Tulip Festival. Of course, since it was called the Tulip Festival, I assumed that there was going to be lots of flowers. If there was, we sure missed them! However, we did have a good time. It was windy, but otherwise a very warm day. Vendor tents were everywhere and many organizations had booths. We went hungry and didn't have any problem finding food to eat, the problem was deciding what to eat! We had funnel cakes for dessert. Yummy!

The girls wanted to partake in many of the "rides" that were there. After finding out what the cost was for each girl/ride, I had to make an exective decision for the girls to pick one ride to do. A miniature train ride was free and the girls enjoyed riding it a couple of times. The ride of choice was a inflatable house complete with a wall to climb, slide, and lots of bounce for the bucks! It didn't surprise me that they came out of that chanting "I want to do it again!" I was very glad to see that the park was filled with swings, slides, etc. that was all free!




The highlight of the day was getting to ride a REAL horse! The local 4-H group was raising money by giving kids a short ride. I think the grins on the girls faces says it all!




Wamego is also home to "The Oz Museum" http://www.ozmuseum.com/ I see a trip back to Wamego in the near future to visit Dorothy, Toto and all the gang!

Chuck E. Cheese time

Yes, we have finally caved in and have taken the girls to see Mr. Cheese himself! After church Sunday, our friends (and honorary Grandparents) and new friends, along with our girls converged on Chuck E. Cheese. RaeAnne was the only one we entrusted with the secret of where we were going to eat. Her response, "Allright! Yeah!!" ZoraLin had a different response, "Don't take me near him!!" Okay, so one of our girls has a mouse adversion! I personally don't like the little critters running around in our garage, but I can handle the bigger, lifesized versions. Of course, Zora would have nothing to do with Minnie Mouse at Disneyland either, so it would only figure that the Chuckster wouldn't be on her "friends I have to meet" list!!






Zora has to supervise how Kendalan and Jordis ride. And the 4 wheel drive truck needs two little girls to take the wheel!!

The girls were very good and managed to eat first before taking off to discover all the games. Daddy and I quickly decided that "next" time we will opt for drinks only and save our eating money for something that is tastier.


I had just as much fun watching the girls as they had playing. Of course, I ran out of energy long before they did.





Jordis and RaeAnne ride the roller coaster!
Zora tries her luck at the BumbleBee game.

Has it been SIX months???

Yes it has!! We are getting ready to do our 6 month post placement report on Jordis Li Meng. It seems like she has been in our family longer! She is not entirely fluent in English, but does pretty good. We had her tested for school and they say she is right at her age level. The only thing she is behind on is knowing her colors! Kendalan can fill in the colors for Jordis as she tested too and at 33 months of age she was on a 38 month level!



Our social worker will be here April 18th, so I am getting photos ready for her. This one was taken last weekend by a friend. We were saying "Chuck E. Cheese!"

Happy Easter!!!

From our beautiful girls and their new best friends!! That would be "Mollie" the rabbit and the little quackers and cheepers that are behind the girls. Of course, now I have been hearing "Mom can we have a bunny?"

Spring Break

The girls have been out on spring break this past week. Big brother, Nicholas-aka-Bubby, has his spring break the same time. Bubby has been at our house since Sunday evening. The girls get so excited when Bubby is here. RaeAnne and ZoraLin have spent more time with Nicholas than Kendalan and Jordis Li have. Now that he is a teenager involved in school, sports and has a part time job we don't see as much of him as we used to.

Nicholas has always been really good with the girls. Even though he is a teenager he does devote time to playing with the girls when he is here. An added plus for him is he can play with them and manage some weight training at the same time.