Hope's 1 year Gotcha day

Wow I cannot believe it's already been a year since we met Hope.  She was such a scared little girl when we first me her and now she is a strong willed big girl!  She has grown so much physically, mentally and emotionally in this year.  It took her about five months to warm up to her dad and men in general.  She is super smart and can name all the uppercase alphabet, colors and shapes.  We are working on numbers and lowercase letters now.  She started consistently using the toilet about two weeks before we went to China to get her sister and did awesome the whole time in China with it.  She's had a little regression now once home but not too bad.  She loves to sing and dance, copy her older siblings and read books.  She is learning now how to share with her little sister.  I can't wait to see what the next year brings!  We love you so much baby girl!

Chase founder's cup

Chase had his last tournament this weekend.  The team has improved so much since the start of the season.  He has really enjoyed playing club and I can't wait to see what the Spring season will bring!

Also my new camera ROCKS!

A walk to the park

It's always hard this time a year coming home with a new little one.  The weather is not very good and we are stuck inside for the most part.  So when we get a little break in the weather we love to head out and make the most of it.  Last week it meant walking to the kids school and letting them play at the park.

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