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Homecoming Weekend

This was our homecoming weekend, the boys went to the dance on Saturday. Me, Amy and Lily went to the pumpkin patch with our adoption group on Sunday. Posted are a few pictures from this weekend.

10-07-07 Pictures

Just wanted to post a few new pictures. Lily is doing great, she acts like she wants to walk, but won't take that first step.

09-25-07

Pumpkin patch
Praise in the park
Self portrait
Praise in the park
LifeLink picnic
LifeLink picnic
Just wanted to post a few pictures. Lily is doing great. This was her first week in daycare, Amy's sister Shelly is watching Lily. Right now she is at Shelly's around 5 hours a day. The first day she cried for about a half hour. The second day about the same. Hopefully she will get used to her new routine. Shelly has four other kids that she watches so Lily has plenty of kids to play with. Sunday was our church's praise in the park, the weather was nice compared to last year which was cold and rainy.

Article in local paper

Nick at his soccer game
Nick, Lily, Jessie and Myah
Nick, Lily and Myah
Noah and Lily
Our adoption group was interviewed last week at our monthly meeting and the article is in the local paper. I thought the article was very well done. Here is the link to the article.
http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2007/09/15/features/doc46eb2f7b26fe5571253233.txt

Happy Labor Day Eve

Lily wrestling with Carson Strong , our neighbors son
Lily being a ham for the camera
Lily playing with her favorite toy


Just wanted to post a few pictures before we go to bed. Last night was the longest that Lily has slept in her crib. She slept in it for around 6 hours. Hopefully she will get comfortable enough to start sleeping the whole night in her crib. Lily really likes to be outside and enjoys going for stroller rides. We took her to the high school football game Friday and she was great, I think that the louder it is the more she likes it. Today we went to church and they had a bagpipe player that was very loud and it didn't bother her at all. We are very lucky to have her in our life.

Lily's adjusting to our time

Lily

Lily and her friend Myah

Shelly, Noah, Machelle and Lily

Whitney, Lily and Corrine

Lily is adjusting to our time zone and is sleeping very well. She will get up once or twice during the night, but that is better than staying up all night wanting to play. It is good to be home, we have had a lot of visitors and it is good to see everyone. I will be going back to work on the 20th and Amy will be off work until the middle of Sept. Shelly, Amy's sister will be watching Lily after Amy goes back to work. I hope that goes well I'm sure it will.

We need sleep

Lily is doing great during the day, she is pretty much staying up all day and is happy. We wish she would sleep a little more during the night. She must not be used to the time change yet. She will sleep in her crib for about an hour the she is ready to play. We have been trying to keep her up during the day so she will sleep all night, but it is not working yet. She is not fussy she just wants to play all night.

We are finally home

We finally made it home. The flight was around 15 hours, which seemed like twice that. Lily was very good on the flight and it is great to be home. Lily is still on China time when it comes to sleep. We tried to keep her up last night but she fell asleep around 9:00 pm and woke up around 1 am and she was up until around 5:00 am. Her and Amy slept in until 11:30. Hopefully we can get her adjusted soon. Other than the sleep schedule she is doing great, it seems like she is happy all the time. The only time she is fussy is when she needs changed or when she is hungry. We are so lucky and happy to have her home. It was great to see everyone at the airport and it was great to see Blake meet his baby sister for the first time.

Finally able to post again

I finally found a place that I will be able to post. If this does not work I will continue to send pictures by e-mail. Everything is going fine Lily is adjusted very well and she is sleeping much better. Today we went to a pearl market and bought a few pearls. Nothing too exciting. I can not add pictures so this is pretty much worthless. I know that everyone wants to see pictures so I won't post again until I can get pictures to load. If you want to get pictures get with my mom, Mike Gerkin, Bob and Janice or my Dad. I will continue to e-mail pictures using Vito's computer. See you soon.

Jeff

Last day in Fuzhou, we wil be heading to the police station for her passport later this afternoon and will be flying out around 7:20 for Guanzhou. All three girls got together in Gina's room last night for a playdate and did pretty well, mostly just starring and trying to grab at faces. Being here in Fuzhou has been amazing just to see their culture. In the evening they gather down the road from the hotel in an open area and dance, last night we had the joy of watching little ones learning to skate and ride bikes. We also had three little girls running around us and giggling, they later came up and asked how we were doing? They spoke very good english, although we are ready to move onto the next step to heading home, I will miss Fuzhou and the people. Think we have some photos of the girls from last night, enjoy.

Amy

Last day in Fujian Province

Today is the last day in Fuzou. We went to a museum today while we are waiting for Lily's passport. The weather here is very hot around 95 and very humid. Lily is warming up to all of us more and more each day. She is sleeping very well and eating alot. Last night we went down to a park that is close to the hotel. There were thousands of people out dancing in the park. It was very neat to see how when the sun goes down the people come out. During the day when it is hot there are very few people in the same park. We went shopping today at what I would call a flea market. They had about anything that you would want, alot of junk and alot of very nice handmade crafts, china, tea sets we bought a tea serving tray for 80.00 HBG which is around 13.00 us money. Nick bought a hand carved pipe for some reason. It was funny watching him bargain with the salesman, since they don't speak english they were typing what price they would sell for on a cell phone and Nick would type what he was willing to give. Eventually they agreed on a price.

It is almost impossible to make a phone call so Mom and Dad I have tried to call each of you, but I can't get a line out. The only person we have had any luck calling is Blake and I don't know if that is because we had him added to our international call package on our cell phone. I have been told that when we go to Guanchouz we will not have as much of a problem calling home. Anyway I will try to keep posting here to let you know that we are doing fine. We fly to Guanchouz tomorrow at 7:40 pm.