More Pictures

Enjoying spaghetti

Being coy

Future jockey?

Zoe and her alligator

The Itsy Bitsy Spider.......

We had a great long weekend! We went to our friends' Melanie and David's house for a Chinese New Year party. It was so wonderful to see the friends we've made on our amazing adoption adventure and to see how lovely all of the girls are! The last time we saw them Zoe was barely crawling and it was so nice to see her able to interact (albeit through toy stealing) with the other girls.

On Sunday Eric and I left Zoe with her grandparents and had a really nice date day. While I missed Zoe like crazy during the day, it was really nice to be able to reconnect with Eric. The weather on Monday was amazing and Zoe and I went to Arlington to meet up with my best friend from high school and her adorable sons. We went to a really fun park and Zoe loved running around. It had been too long since we'd seen them so it was nice to catch up. Today brought snow and cold weather with the change of more bad weather on Friday. With that, of course, comes colds and both Zoe and I are fighting one now....which seems to be par for the course of this crazy weather winter! Bring on the spring.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Zoe got a balloon (ba-oon in Zoe speak) for Valentine's Day.

Doing her favorite sign "More". As in, I want more of the chips that are in the cupboard that I just opened :)

Hey Big Kids...out of my way!

Loving the slide at the mall!

Xin nian kuai le!

Happy New Year!

February Already? 17 months old

Brushing my teeth before school (she's a little obsessed with teeth brushing lately)

I have a paper towel roll..........

And I'm not afraid to use it...Attack!!!

Aren't I funny?

Zoe is 17 months old today and has now been a part of our family for 8 months. The time sure has flown. She is absolutely loving her new daycare to the point that she swishes Eric and I away when we come to pick her up. We have her in a Chinese language play/learning class on Saturdays which has been fun. Not sure she's getting much out of it, but we're happy she's able to hear her native language for at least an hour a week. We found out about the class from another adoptive family whose daughter is less than a week older than Zoe and we're grateful they didn't mind us crashing their party :) Zoe discovered the wonders of the toddler playground at the mall today. Our usually shy little girl was fearless wandering away from us and trying to climb up the slide. She didn't even seem to mind the "big kids" who kept crashing into her (now where were their parents?) Eric is a little bummed that tonight's big game won't be featuring the Colts again...but we're going to be rooting for the other Manning brother tonight. Go Giants! (yes, I know, they're going to get killed)

You've all probably read about the snow crisis going on in China right now. Some of the orphanages are in pretty dire circumstances. We're always thinking about the babies in China that don't yet have families and if you can help them out then visit www.halfthesky.com They are raising money to help assist the orphanages during this time (and always) through their Little Mouse Emergency Fund. Thanks!