The month of June

It has been such a busy month. I am so sorry I have been so bad about doing updates. Alana finished swim lessons. She is now in gymnastics. She just finished her first vacation bible school. We have had playdates with her Chinese playgroup and we painted a 4th of July plate. We have been to the zoo now twice. We made a trip to the mall to Build A Bear so she could make a bear for her new sister or brother. She is so excited to have her brother Sean home with us now that he has gratudted. He is very busy interviewing for jobs. She has fallen in love with his best friend Adam! She won't get off his lap when he is here. I have to ban her from the room with them so he can get a break from her! We did Pump It Up on Thursday. Last night the 4th of July we went with some of the families from Alana's playgroup and spent the day at a 4th of July festival. They had all sort of booths and jumping and sliding blow up for the kids to play on. She ate more junk than she has ever had. Nana Ann and Aunt Jennifer and baby JoJo joined us as well. So we had a nice little group and all the girls had a blast. Then we watched the fireworks and after we went to one of the families house so the kids could do sparklers and watch more fireworks. It was a late night. Today we go into town to have dinner with Alana's Aunt Disa
HAPPY 4TH JULY EVERYONE!!!

Our little princess

Alana was an amazing flower girl last weekend! She is such a beautiful sweet little girl. We are so blessed! She did great. She has finally made the connection of Chinese/nonChinese. We were at a Chinese resturant getting a late dinner and our Chinese friend Cherry was taking our order when Alana's eyes got big and she yelled "you Chinese"! She then points to her self and said "LaLa Chinese" She spent the rest of the night making sure everybody in there knew if they were Chinese or not. When we got to the car she crossed her arms and gave me this evil look and said " LaLa mad at momma" I was shocked as I didn't do anything so I say why! and she informed me " because you not Chinese" :-) I said yes but this is how God made me and He loves me and gave her my so sad look and smiled and said "it ok momma, I love you too".

FINALLY!!!!!

You are not going to believe this but we finally got unstuck from this adoption process!!! After we got all our paperwork done, we were told one of the new laws the US started at the beginning of the year was you now have to do a background check at every place you have lived since you were 18 years old!! I have lived everywhere. Since this is a new requirement none of the offices know what they are doing yet.Some still have not sent us the forms and we have asked twice! They tell us they will send them,then we get nothing. We have been doing this now over 2 months! But the GOOD NEWS is our home study agent finally realised since Taiwan is not HAGUE Compilent so we don't need to be doing this!!! Thanks for finding this out now!! I am so sorry for everybody else because they have to do this. Good luck!! But now we have wasted the last 2 months and we could of been done. I am so frustrated as we are only updating our home study not doing a new one and we are already at 7 months and no end in site! It has taken us longer this time to update it than it did to do the thing the first time around! But at least we can move on now.