Wednesday, February 25, 2009

HAPPY 4th BIRTHDAY

Asia-Faith is now 4 years old!

We had a lovely afternoon...Jason got off school early (he worked on Saturday, so they got Wednesday half day)...

We took a drive to a little harbor nearby and then stopped off at a park where we had a birthday party for Asia-Faith...then on the way home we stopped off at the beach...it was so great watch the kids having such fun in the sand!

We didn't have a traditional birthday cake...so we bought some donuts and stacked those with a candle on the top...although the matches I took with were too wet (from the humidity)...so we couldn't light the candle...but Asia-Faith just pretended to blow the candle out...too cute!

Enjoy the pics...


Tuesday, February 17, 2009

2 years ago....

Today we are celebrating Asia-Faith being in our family for 2 years!

2 years ago today, we boarded a train, headed for Taitung to go and meet our precious little girl for the first time...

It is amazing to watch her grow and become the little person she is...although we have come to realise that she has quite a tiger in her tank...Even the boys have commented that she is going to be a toughie when she gets older - no-one will want to mess with her! And she is quite the performance artist too....I think those little performances may get her an Oscar or 2 one day.

Then she has her gentile, loving side, where she wants to hug everyone, and calls her brothers "my boys"...and herself "mommy's baby, and daddy's baby"... she is such a sweet little girl...and I am so blessed to be her mommy.

Lately she has been talking a lot about where she was born and knows she was born in Taiwan, and her boys were born in South Africa, that the boys grew in my belly, and she grew in her birthmom's belly...She loves to look at the album I made for her with photo's of our forever family day, and listen to me telling the story about the day we brought her home...

Often these talks will lead to her talking about our little foster baby Doodlebug her friends Jade and Ben and their new little brother Daniel, all of whom she knows have also been adopted...I have a feeling there will be plenty more questions and little talks in time to come...

Enjoy the pics of our little fairy~princes....

Meeting our little angel....2 years ago


Our train ride home...full of smiles and laughter
Out little angel...today, 2 years later


trying out the red marker on her lips....

Trying out her new rollerblades...