This is
Kimi with her first (and only) silver spoon! It was a gift from our cousin Lilian who lives in NY.
Kimi loves getting little blue boxes...who wouldn't!
She loves her spoon and takes good care of it, she makes sure not to throw this one!
Marissa,
Kimi, and Kyle! The three cousins on ken's side of the family. Kyle came to visit from Virginia. We had a good time golfing and swimming.
Kimi loved Kyle's magic tricks and eating his chocolate cake!
We decided to celebrate all the cousins birthdays since it was the only time they were all together. This is the delicious B-Day cake!
Here is the crew out for a walk, can you believe it is the middle of summer and we have to wear winter clothes! Have you heard the saying the coldest winter was the summer in northern cal?
Kimi and daddy went swimming with the cousins.
A girl and her dog, they are inseparable most of the time!
This is
Kimi opening her gifts for her cousin B-day party! Like her summer outfit
haha.
I'm behind on blogging these days so there is much to catch up. First I'm excited to announce a few of
Kimi's Taiwan
mei mei's (sisters) are coming home to their families in California Lucy and
Gracyn after very long court adoption cases!
Kimi actually met Lucy briefly when we were in Taiwan. We can't wait to get together with them. Best wishes to all the little ones on their way home. This summer stinks here, it has been cold and dark I think we have had 4 days of sun.
Kimi has not been able to wear all the summer outfits she has. We have been going to a park 30min. south of here just to get some sun. On th job front....Ken' s company decided to close after 6 months of negotiations to be bought by a Chinese company. Thier first game sadly did not do well. I can't get into to many details now but new projects are in the pipeline for him. For now I have taken extra shifts @ work and he is MR. MOM and finishing up closing the company! His cooking skills have pleasantly surprised me, one dish was so good I thought it came from a restaurant! He still has a ways to go in hair styling dept. especially
working Kimi's favorite 2 ponies doo.
Kimi is doing well, she is getting her bottom two 2yo molars in and that has made her fussy. She is doing well in her Mandarin School, she is speaking a lot of both Mandarin and English. She is also counting which she loves to do. She is also loving trains and any type of tunnel! We went to train town on the 4
th of July, there is a
miniature train and it goes through long dark tunnels. I taught her to clap her hands in tunnels to help the darkness go by fast. After that at home she was saying nano nano. It took us a long time to figure out she was saying tunnel! Now she loves going under freeway passes she claps her hands saying nano nano again. She is loving watching gymnastics, swimming, and running in the olympics. we may sign her up for a toddler gymnastics class since she is trying to do fancy downward god and headstand moves.
We have been with Kimi for 7mos. we are adjusting well to being a family. Most of all we celebrate everyday she is in our lives!
One of Kimi's first trips to the beach, or at least a beach that was sunny! She loved the sand and water...just look at that smile!
Before the beach we went to a park with water spouts, here she is running through in between spouting water!
She could have been carried away by the balloons there were so many. This was a party for all kids from Asia. We had a blast and Kimi went to her first concert/dance performance. She was so cute saying BYE really loud every time a performer would leave the stage.. she had the whole auditorium laughing.
I added this picture because she picked out these fantastic pink boots earlier that day and I couldn't resist!
Random cuteness the morning before the beach riding a stone snail!
