Continuing to peck away at all my pictures from our trip to China for Clementine. It’s getting harder and harder to pick favorites – so instead of being pickier, I’m plucking out more and more. But it’s for a good reason. Once I have them all edited and organized, they’ll be saved here. I’ll also have them them made into… Read More
half a year with Clementine
It’s been six months, y’all. Since she came home in November, I’ve shared a few updates, detailing her adjustment into our family and the numerous milestones our girl has reached. Two weeks. One month. Two months. Three months (or so). Yep. We’re pretty proud of this little bug. But right now Clementine health depends on a major surgery. And sooner… Read More
to China for Clementine – my favorites: the Great Wall
(continuing on with posting my favorites from China – you can see the first post here.) It was six months ago, yesterday, that we were standing right here. In fact, it was on the Great Wall that we got a phone call with the news that Clementine would be well enough for us to meet her the next day. It… Read More
to China for Clementine – my favorites: Beijing
I know. We’ve been home with Clementine for almost 6 months. But when we traveled to China, I brought along my camera. And I brought along my iPad. But I didn’t bring along my PS6. That was here at home. On a desktop that most definitely wasn’t going to make the trip. And since we returned, I’ve been wanting to… Read More
firsts.
Clementine came home last November at 19 months of age. And five months later, so much has changed. I’ve done my best to blog about all the changes, but honestly, she’s learning and doing and changing so quickly, I really can’t keep up. Five months. When I think about the amount of time she’s been home – in relation to… Read More
guess who is two.
We got to celebrate Clementine turning two the other day. Her first birthday with us. And I’m not sure who had more fun, Clementine or the rest of her crazy-for-Clementine family. As she always does, Victoria wowed with a beautiful cake for the occasion: a four-layered, pink, polka-dotted cake, just for our girl. We tried to make a mini-smashcake, just… Read More
co-sleeping is king.
As a mom of a large, relatively conspicuous brood, I get a lot of questions. One question I’m asked frequently is how we manage so many little ones, specifically, how we are able to foster attachment considering the size of our family and how quickly our family has grown from 4 kids to 12. I do have some thoughts on… Read More
her new love.
This child. She babbles constantly. But speaks rarely. So rarely, we’ve been putting off pronouncing her official *first word*. Sometimes she says Dada. Sometimes she says Mama. But nothing you could say for sure. (Chris and I might both be a smidge biased.) But now. Now she has a new love. And the love is strong. So strong that when… Read More
105 days
105 days ago we stood in a police station in Changsha, waiting not-so-patiently for the first real-life glimpse of our daughter. And as I have shared, that first meeting was far from storybook. Amazing what 105 days can do. And so, in an effort to record how far she has come and all she has accomplished, buckle up for a… Read More
the year of the sheep
We wanted to celebrate Chinese New Year on Thursday – the official first day of the Lunar New Year. Didn’t happen. Then we hoped to celebrate on Saturday. Nope. On Sunday Chris took the boys to church and I kept the girls home since we had three still recovering from fever/nausea/rash. And we were finally able to get the party… Read More
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