A trip to Sandimen and meeting Matt and Molly (and Kim)....

Saturday (21 April) we met up with Molly and Matt and Matt's mom Kim, who are from the USA, and who I met on my yahoo adoption group, and we all went to Sandimen - the Aborigine Cultural Centre.


It was an interesting experience to say the least! We had been once before (before we had Asia-Faith), and we also went with a friend who lives here. This time we went on our own so we had to find it on our own! What fun!!!


We caught a bus to Pingtung and Matt and Molly's train arrived at 10:30 am (they were comming from Tainan), then from there we caught a bus to Sandimen (although not to the centre), then we had to try and find a way to the centre. We found a taxi, but then had to try and explain where we were wanting to go! Well, we had to make a call or 2 to some friends who explained to the taxi driver where we wanted to go - we eventually made it there! We had a wonderful time watching the show and looking around at all the souvenier (sp?) shops!

It meant so much more to us now that we have our own little Ami Aborigine daughter!


Matt and Molly were here in Taiwan to fetch their little boy Malone who they have adopted, and he is from the Paiwan tribe. We didn't get to meet him in person unfortunately as they were only fetching him on the Monday, but we have seen pictures of him and he is absolutely beautiful!


So we all had a wonderful time together, and it was just so awesome to finally meet these friends after chatting for so long in cyberspace!


Enjoy the pics....

Molly and Asia-Faith...

Molly, Matt and Kim...

It's been a while...

It is now April already and Easter weekend too!

Things here have been going really well. Asia-Faith has really adjusted well to our family! She is truly a little angel. She has her nap at around 10am in the mornings, and I give her her bottle, she lays on her bed with her pillow and a pillowcase which she loves playing with the zipper on it, and once she finishes her bottle, she rolls over and sleeps for about 2 hours.... WOW and she has a similar routine in the evening (sometimes I hold her while she goes to sleep), and then she sleeps right through the night!!!

We are still trying to get her adoption finalised. Things seem to be going slowly in that department. We are now waiting to have a homestudy done and then it all goes to the courts and we await the final adoption decree. So please keep praying that this will all be done smoothly and without any hiccups, and that it is done soon - so we can go home for a visit!!!

We will hopefully be registering for adoption at the end of April, so please keep us in your prayers.

Keanu-Storm is adjusting to not being the "baby" anymore, although there wasn't much adjusting really. He loves Asia-Faith to bits, and if anyone jokingly says that she is going home with them, he practically bursts into tears and grabs onto Asia-Faith's legs! He really adores her (except when she breaks his toys - like his railway tracks... somehow she managed to get hold of 3 of them and snapped them in half - he was so upset as his trains are VERY special to him!!!). He got over it soon enough though!

It is a long weekend here this weekend. Today (Thursday) is known as "Tomb sweeping day", where the children pay respects to their ancestors. They have also declared tomorrow (Friday) a public holiday, so we have a 4 day weekend - only catch is that next Saturday is a "working" day to make up for tomorrow - so there will be school and normal work next Saturday...


Enjoy the pics!

Our trip to Kenting...