Some left out cute pics :)

I LOVE the way she looks at you like this!

And this is the biggest smile ever!

Zoey with her friend Eisley!

Eisley let Papaw hold her! He had to get one of the girls to let him hold her! HAHAHA And he chose the ligher one..she only weighs a little over 16 lbs and she's 16 mths!! (That's what Olivia weighed at 9ths!!) She may be little but she's a spitfire...AND a sweet heart!! SHe just smiles and waves ALL the time! SOOO cute!!! SHe has to be a tough one because she has 6 brothers and sisters to go home to!!!

Our cool shirts and spaghetti!

We went to Shamin Island today! We will go back tomorrow but we wore our COOL shirts! Got LOTS of comments about them!!! Nana and Papaw LOVED the island. We will go back for longer another day! AND..Zoey let Papaw hold her for the first time! I told you things change when we get on that plane to Guangzhou!!!

Also..we had spaghetti for lunch and I think Zoey LOVED it!! HAHAHA She is literally LICKING HER PLATE CLEAN!! Isn't this funny??? HAD to take a picture!!

Don't like Dr's!!

Well, we made it through the exam no worse for the wear! Dr told me that she no longer is considered having a cleft lip and that she Does NOT have cleft palate. She said she has cleft gumline and it's not the same. I feel that she will have to have the one surgery to correct the nose and make the scar better (even though it's really good!!) And she will probably have to have surgery on her gumline but when her permanent teeth come in! I don't think she will need more than that but we will find out when we go to the dentist on the 15th and then to the cleft dr when after the first of the year! Not going to be fun by I am still just praising God that we good such a minor need!!! She's just perfect!!!

First airplane ride and medical exam

My beautiful girls!!!! And these outfits worked!!! :)

FRIENDS!

Vinny (Daniel)

Eisley (Joy) with her momma, Kathy

Libby (Jane)

This family (Vinny's) are so funny! It's Paul and Kristina (Kris), Joe, Kate and now Vinny! they are VERY active. Vinny is a chunk!! She carries him like this everywhere!!!

Eisley with her Aunt Becky(her and her Aunt Loreen came with her momma Kathy. They are sister-in-laws married to brothers who are all three Dentist! They live in Utah! We are pretty close to them. Eisley is Kathy's 7th child..first adopted. Becky has 2 domestically adopted children, boy and girl and Loreen has 4 kids! Big family who love eachother alot and are very sweet ppl!!!

Libby with her momma Lisa. She is a single mom and her sister, Michelle came with her! VERY sweet ppl who are doing an amazing job as first time mom/aunt! Very dwon to earth and fun to be around!!!

I have to tell you that all four of our babies came from Shanghai Healing Home. We did NOT know this until we all got together and only two of us knew our babies were there! They were all there for different amouts of time, with Zoey being there the longest. Yes, all of them are cleft lip/cleft palate babies who have all been "fixed" so it's really cool. When they see eachother they just run to eachother! It's soo sweet! Their names on SHH are Daniel (Vinny), Joy (Eisley...prounced EYES LEE), Jane (Libby) and Grace (our Zoey) We have formed a special bond with these families as well! Just dear, sweet people. Mrs. Betty said she didn't understand how we could have such a special bond with Olivia's group, but now she see's it! Adoption is a special thing and we are so blessed to have been a part of it, not once but twice!!! Just the other day, the kids were tired of being on the bus and all crying and so we all started singing songs...we had rounds going and everything..it was such a sweet night!! Here are some of our friends!!!

FOOD, the Chinese way!

Nana and Papaw, happy to finally be eating..well, maybe! HA

Us, feeling the same way!

Our food! In China they do the lazy Susan type eating. They find out how many ppl are there to eat, cook that much for them and bring that to the table. You spin it around and get what you want. Problem is that most of the food we liked, everyone else did so it went FAST! I have not gotten full yet, with this type of eating. :( But, Nana and Papaw are trying all of it. It's not as easy as you think! SOmethings look like it would be good and then you eat it and want to spit it out quickly, but you just swallow it and go on about your tastin! :)

TOFU!! YUCK! Zoey ate it though! HA

Stroller fun

These pics crack me up! First time Zoey REALLY laughed! She really only likes being in the stroller with Olivia..gotta get over that!! But these are so funny!

Look how good Nana and Papaw are doing! They have been troppers climbing the Great Wall and this temple! I think they are having a great time but we are VERY proud of them!!!

I just thought this statue was funny! I really didn't take many pics at the temple, but this one cracks me up!!

KUNG FU!

Well, Olivia's province is known for needlework and we found out Zoey's is known for KUNG FU! Yes, we went to where Jackie Chan studied for a little while! NO JOKE! And let me tell you, it's BEAUTIFUL! There is a school that cost 20,000 RMB (about $6000 US dollars) a year to go to. It's at the Shaoman Temple and it has mountains and beautiful landscape and then they teach them regular school stuff and then Kung FU! MAYBE that's why Zoey is so tough!! HAHAHA Anyway, it was cool and neat to know the things we do about Zoey's province!!!

First matching outfits!

Let me explain the outfits! I knew Zoey was a little big, but my sewing ability was not good on this one! I TRIED to put this top to her outfit on her...well between her big head and her big belly..it TORE!! BAHAHAH!! So, she just got to wear the pants! We laughed so hard!!!!

This is what happens here in CHina! I have NO idea why, but ppl want their kids in the pics with my kids! I can't tell you how many ppl took my girls pics with regular cameras and phones. Most of them asked but I just thought it was weired..they are Chinese???? Anyway, they are getting used to it because we have been asked MANY, MANY times to take a picture with the CHinese ppl!!!

But arent' the outfits cute and our girls BEAUTIFUL!!

I will explain these pics in next post

First time she let me put her down and walk away and take a picture!!! BIG STEP!!!

Bus fun

Olivia and Kate! They are having great fun together. Kate has a brother named Joe who is 6. Kate is 3 and they got a brother, Vinny (Daniel at SHH) who will be 2 in May!

Anthony being silly with the camera!

SHe actually sat beside daddy and didn't fuss!!

First Oreo and LOVED it. Didn't even make a mess!!