We had a great vacation/business trip!
Annalee loved Zoo Atlanta. The panda bears were really cute, all 3 were awake! The mother and baby panda are in the same enclosure and the father panda is in a separate enclosure with a glass wall separating them. The mama and baby were playing in a leather hammock type thing, hugging and nuzzling each other and rolling around. The staff said we were very lucky to see that interaction, they said they usually sleep during the day. It was really cute! The aquarium was great too, but a lot less interactive. Shopping was fun and mom and I made several purchases. Glynn, not to be outdone purchased five pair of shoes (and he claims he hates to shop)! HA
As usual the time flew by and we are safely home again.
There is no place like home, there is no place like home, there is no place like home POOF!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Sunday, May 6, 2007
long time...
Well, since I do not know how to blog very well... I have been locked out of my account for quite some time!
I finally figured it out tonight. (by tomorrow I will not be able to access it again) ;-)
Since my last post, we were DTC on February 22ND and our LID is 3/19/07! Hooray!!!
We decided on a name for Annalee's mei mei.
It will be Juliann Isola. (Juliann is Annalee's choice and Isola for her great grandmother, who passed away in 2003)
We have almost 2 months of a possible 3 year wait behind us now.
We are trying to stay very busy. We are going on vacation/business trip on Thursday to Disney World. Annalee is very excited. Poor child, she has only been about 14 times. We then return home on Sunday night and leave again on Tuesday morning to go to Atlanta for a week. Another vacation for the girls and mostly business for Glynn. Oh well... at least some of us can party!!!
Zoo Atlanta and The Aquarium are the highlights for Annalee this trip. Lots of shopping will be the highlight for Julie and her mom.
OK enough news for now... let's see if I can figure out how to change my profile on this silly thing. It says I am 67 years old and that I am a Virgo!
We Leo's take our astrological sign very seriously - I have to change this! (just kidding - I don't know anything about "Leo" except that I am one.)
I finally figured it out tonight. (by tomorrow I will not be able to access it again) ;-)
Since my last post, we were DTC on February 22ND and our LID is 3/19/07! Hooray!!!
We decided on a name for Annalee's mei mei.
It will be Juliann Isola. (Juliann is Annalee's choice and Isola for her great grandmother, who passed away in 2003)
We have almost 2 months of a possible 3 year wait behind us now.
We are trying to stay very busy. We are going on vacation/business trip on Thursday to Disney World. Annalee is very excited. Poor child, she has only been about 14 times. We then return home on Sunday night and leave again on Tuesday morning to go to Atlanta for a week. Another vacation for the girls and mostly business for Glynn. Oh well... at least some of us can party!!!
Zoo Atlanta and The Aquarium are the highlights for Annalee this trip. Lots of shopping will be the highlight for Julie and her mom.
OK enough news for now... let's see if I can figure out how to change my profile on this silly thing. It says I am 67 years old and that I am a Virgo!
We Leo's take our astrological sign very seriously - I have to change this! (just kidding - I don't know anything about "Leo" except that I am one.)
Monday, January 22, 2007
Ugh! We are still waiting for the elusive I171H. It has been two weeks, still nothing. If we could just get this last piece of paper, we could send everything off to the Houston Consulate for Authentication. Then it would be about a week in Houston and then off to CCAI for translation and to be mailed to CHINA!!!
I tried to explain to Annalee today that we could not go and get her baby sister today, like she was begging for. It is going to be a long wait, having a three and a half year old certainly does help keep your mind off of the wait. I don't believe it will be as difficult a wait as the first time, since we now have Annalee. (if we could get her to stop reminding us every hour that she WANTS her baby sister!)
We are sending the paper work to the Houston Consulate tomorrow afternoon, with or without the I171H. If it is not in our mailbox tomorrow, then we will have to send it separately. Rats!
I tried to explain to Annalee today that we could not go and get her baby sister today, like she was begging for. It is going to be a long wait, having a three and a half year old certainly does help keep your mind off of the wait. I don't believe it will be as difficult a wait as the first time, since we now have Annalee. (if we could get her to stop reminding us every hour that she WANTS her baby sister!)
We are sending the paper work to the Houston Consulate tomorrow afternoon, with or without the I171H. If it is not in our mailbox tomorrow, then we will have to send it separately. Rats!
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
We began or Journey to Annalee on September 16, 2003. We applied to CCAI to adopt a child from China. Mounds of paper work later, our dossier was mailed to China! Our travel date to China was September 16, 2004. Exactly one year after we started the process, we traveled half a world away to meet our new daughter.
On September 20th our dreams came true.
We were handed a beautiful little girl, she was almost 15 months old she was screaming her head off, and would not stop for about an hour. Let's just say it was not love at first sight, at least for Annalee!
Well after all screaming... she bonded to all three of us with in two days. My sister traveled to China with us, she and Annalee still have a very close connection. My sister is Aunt RoRo, and Annalee believes that there is no one in the world better then Aunt RoRo and MiMi. (her grandmother, and she spoils her rotten!)
We got so sick on our trip, (beyond description) ;-) I swore that I would never sent foot in China again!
Here we are two and a half years later... hoping to get our paper work into China for our second daughter! My mom said last night "it must be like child birth... you forget how awful it was!" (the being sick for a month part) that was a nice analogy... it has always felt like our child's birth anyway!
On September 20th our dreams came true.
We were handed a beautiful little girl, she was almost 15 months old she was screaming her head off, and would not stop for about an hour. Let's just say it was not love at first sight, at least for Annalee!
Well after all screaming... she bonded to all three of us with in two days. My sister traveled to China with us, she and Annalee still have a very close connection. My sister is Aunt RoRo, and Annalee believes that there is no one in the world better then Aunt RoRo and MiMi. (her grandmother, and she spoils her rotten!)
We got so sick on our trip, (beyond description) ;-) I swore that I would never sent foot in China again!
Here we are two and a half years later... hoping to get our paper work into China for our second daughter! My mom said last night "it must be like child birth... you forget how awful it was!" (the being sick for a month part) that was a nice analogy... it has always felt like our child's birth anyway!
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