Dancing with the Girls!

The girls love to dance. They love to spin in circles. There best dancing is on our coffee table. Emma is really quite coordinated. Nyah on the other hand just kind of jumps, stomps her feet and does leg squats. Quite humorous.

Emma, Melody, Jordan and Nyah

Princess Eric (Daddy Time)

I don't quite know what to say here, other than OH MY!

Eric was humoring the girls by playing dress up with them.

Eric is such a good daddy. Crazy but good. The girls love him. In this picture Nyah is on the left and Emma is on the right.

Dress Up!

Nyah decided to take the clothes off of Emma's stuffed bunny and put them on herself. Little tight! :)

We have our hands full!

The girls are doing well. They have become best friends and are very protective of each other. They are also very 2. They want what each other has, they fight, blame each other and so on. They are so exhausting and fun at the same time.
I have my hands full most of the time with them. Eric and the older kids are priceless. Not sure what I would do without them. They are great help. We keep plugging away. We are now in the process of trying to figure out how to give the girls life skills. This means, how do we teach them to survive with one hand. How do they tie their shoe, get dressed, write, hold things, cut paper...
It is a little daunting and overwhelming. If you have any ideas on how to go about this, let us know.
Melody

Happy 13th Birthday Jordan

Jordan is 13 years old. OUCH!! She is a great kid who cares about others. She is smart, not sure where that came from. She has straight A's. She is in a honors club that tutors students once a week. She plays basketball, volleyball and beats on her brother. She is an excellent older sister. I don't know what I would do without her. She loves music, movies, art, knitting, scrap booking, computer stuff and so on. She loves math (WHAT?!).
She actually gets excited when the teacher gives more math work. (She must be the mail man's kid!) She loves God and is giving person. We are honored and proud to be her parents.
Jordan had a birthday party with 6 of her friends. 1 is not here yet. Cartier Couch, Sam, Jordan, Megan and Cousin Riley Couch.

Jordan opening presents.

The girls played Curses. A fun game that is not as bad as it sounds. SO FUNNY!

Cartier, Riley, Sam, Taylor, Megan and Jordon on the back of the couch.

In a strange twist of fate, Cartier (far left) and Riley are cousins. Jordan and Riley are cousins. Jordan and Cartier are not cousins there moms are just best friends. You figure that one out.

Kelli came to help Melody with the birthday party. Of course Kelli couldn't move much because she broke her ankle the week before. She was more moral support for Melody.

The girls played charades.

The party was at Melody's Mom's house. This helped keep boys and little Chinese girls out. :)

Sadly the girls stayed up until about 4 a.m.

Melody and Kelli went to bed about 11:00 p.m.

Jordan and Melody's Family Birthday Party

Melody is ___ years old and Jordan is 13.
The family party was after the Chinese New Year party. We have pained looks on our face because of the beautiful music coming out of Melody's families mouths. The goal in her family is that you sing happy birthday in the loudest, worst way possible. Nobody is really sure when the song truly ends. BAD!!!
Riley and Nyah. Nyah was tired but she likes to pretend that she is asleep. Not sure why but she thinks this is fun.

Jesse and Nyah playing with dominoes.

A bag that Melody got for her birthday. Thought it was great!

Chinese New Year 2009

Emma in her Chinese Outfit!
Chinese New Year is a big deal to the Chinese. Every year the families who have adopted from Small World Adoption agency get together on this occasion. Last year was a bigger year than this one but, there were still a lot of Chinese children running all over the place.
Nyah and Melody with Megan and Joy.
Joy was Nyah's foster sister in China. She was adopted by Jim and Megan Andrews who live in Spokane, Washington.
Kathleen is another little girl that was adopted from China. She was adopted by a family in our church.

Kathleen's family.

Jim and Megan with Joy. Joy didn't want to look at the camera so I put one of each on.

Nyah and Emma had fun running around like wild children. The more sugar they had the more they ran.

Joy, Nyah and Emma

Joy seems to remember Nyah better than Nyah remembers Joy. I am not sure if this is because Nyah is avoiding or what. Nyah still will not look at Joy. We are going to have more frequent get together';s to help them stay friends.

Joy Andrews (Rei Rei)

Nyah trying to put stickers on a paper.

Emma

stickers