Faith's Welcome Home shower

My coworkers threw us the cutest welcome home party.  Ladybugs were the theme and the food was awesome.  She received lots of clothes to wear as her size is much smaller than we were expecting.  She fits in a size 12 month clothes and size 2 shoe good.  She really enjoyed her party and opening gifts.  She was so happy during the entire party.

MIA

Sorry I've been MIA but we been doing some very important things!  We just returned home with our newest daughter Faith!  She is amazing!  She is almost 2 1/2 and just six month younger than her bigger sister Hope.  We left for China on the 13th and first visited Xian.  We met Faith on the 19th.
You can see visit our website at www.myadoptionwebsite.com/faith.  Today we had our first post adoption placement visit and Hope's 1 year.   We decided to venture off to the park afterwards to get out of the house.  The kids had fun and I was able to get a few pictures to share.

Playing with babies

Big sister has to do everything little sister does

Showing me how she can climb the stairs.  The children are always so interested in the stairs when they first get home and we usually have to put up a gate after week one home

Doing pretty good for how little she is

At the top and happy with herself

Playing in their room or shall I say dumping everything out that mom just cleaned up

She loves this tent

Showing me the book that has our picture in it from when we sent it to Zoe

Hope have a meltdown

Gotta love the twos

Getting ready to go on our walk

Hope showing us what she can do on the playground

Beautiful baby girl

Not to sure of the slide

Zoe

Climbing up again to go down the slide

My attempt at a picture of these four.  We will take our family picture on Thanksgiving

Traveling soon!

We leave in 19 days for China.  And right now I have a horrible cold and can't do much.   I had three days off in a row and now these days feel wasted since I'm so sick.  Here is the itinerary below:

10/13 Evening flight out of Portland
10/15 Arrive in Xian
10/16 Tour Xian
10/17 Tour Xian
10/18 fly to Wuhan
10/19 Gotcha day
10/20 Adoption day
10/21 tour
10/22 tour
10/23 Fly to Guangzhou
10/24 Medical apt
10/25 Free day
10/26 Free day
10/27 Consulate apt
10/28 Free day
10/29 Free day
10/30 Fly home

We have Travel Approval and travel dates!

Wow what a whirlwind of a week.  Monday we got article 5 pickup.  Thursday shockingly we received our travel approval and today Friday we got our confirmed Consulate appointment date.
We leave for China on the 13th of October, meet Faith on the 19th!  I will be starting our website soon and will share it once it is completed!

Adoption update

It's been awhile since I've updated on our current adoption.  We are currently waiting for our Article 5 to be picked up.  I will be picked up on Monday the 24th and then we will be officially waiting for our Travel approval from China.  When we get our travel approval we can start booking our trip to China.  We plan on leaving around the 14th of October and returning just before Halloween.  Gotcha day will be the 19th of October!

Parade time!

Today we finished up our fundraiser garage sale!  We almost made $500!  This was enough to cover the costs of our visas and a carseat for Faith!  Today was also the Philomath Parade that Zoe was in with her dance group.  It was also Hopes first parade.  Hope loved it and especially the part where they threw candy out!