Acer Drumming at Christmas

Uncle Dawei was nicely helping Acer play the drums at the grandparents house, Helping by making sure the drums were where Acer thought they should be.

Christmas is still happening here.

We go today to pick up our Alex and tomorrow to pick up our nephew Brandon.  Brandon will be here until Wed Night and Alex will be here for a full week.  I'm so excited it's always a joy to have either one of them here, and now they'll both be here at the same time.  Plus, Alex will finally be able to talk to Little Miss on the webcam, an event that Little Miss has been looking forward to for a long while.

Traveling for their daughters

The Blog WenJun Gotcha is about a family adopting from Little Miss' orphanage.  They arrived home YESTERDAY with their daughter.

Heads up seven up is traveling TODAY to bring home their daughter Jorga.  

'tis an exciting world out there, and we'll be joining it soon (ish)

Still waiting

And from all of us to all of you, a Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Little Miss (she's on the left)

Baptism ceremony

We were blessed to Have Ric and Stef make the two hour drive in the blowing snow so they could stand with as as sponsors for Acer. The pastor walked Acer up and down through the church afterwards and had people shake hands with Acer. It was beautiful and we were so pleased to be able to have Acer baptized on his fourth Birthday. Acer behaved wonderfully, but was especially happy when Pastor Doyll took him over to shake the hand of Acer's friend - Mr Ron, the drummer from the band. We were almost late because we were helping our wonderful next door neighbor get her car unstuck from her driveway so she could go to her church.

Also the Church had a bake sale last week and we were given the check from the proceeds, They raised over $400 towards the Bring Little Miss Home Fund. I was very choked up when they presented us with it and  couldn't even say anything. - Me, not able to say anything!

Walking with YeYe

This is one of my favorite moments of the day, seeing Bill's Dad & Acer, dressed similarly, walking hand in hand through the church.  Acer was so excited that He was there and that NaiNai was there, he announced it to the whole church when Pastor Doyle was carrying him around.

Bill and Acer decorate the tree in the snow

Bill's work had a half day on Friday and so he arrived home in time to shovel snow in the daylight.  We bundled Acer up with snow boots and snow pants built to handle MI weather like this, and Acer headed out with the decorations for our tree.  Acer loves these and had been waiting all day to go out and hang them on our scrawny tree.  Bill took the time out of the shoveling to do this, that and the fact that he's not afraid to wear matching dragon hats with the rest of his family are just two of the reason I love Bill.

More Fun in the snow

Snow up past his knees!

Busy Day coming up.

Acer's fourth birthday is coming up in just over a week, on a Sunday.  For some reason I got an idea in my brain and ran with it; I decided to have him baptized on the same day.  Despite the thought that we'd celebrate Acer's birthday's quietly and his family days as a larger celebration, here I am, planning a large celebration for only four days before Christmas.

What a gift

Acer's school has a Santa shop, with gifts from fifteen cents to ten dollars. Yesterday we sent Acer off with his list to buy for and a specified maximum amount to spend on each person. He came home with his gifts in sealed and labeled bags and seemed quite happy about it. I am quite sure that he was very actively involved in choosing them because .... They all JINGLE!

Taking a little break due to chaos

Sorry I haven't been posting as often lately, I just haven't had the extra oomph to do it after coming home from work and dealing with the could outside.  That, combined with my house being in total disarray from the painting means that I just haven't been spending that much time on the computer at all.

We're all okay, Little Miss is okay, we're just playing the waiting game now.

Talk to you more as I get more time!