Introducing Ellie HanMei!

We get to leave on May 6th to bring Ellie HanMei home!!! Our Gotcha Day is Monday, May 11th! We will have our camera and laptop in China with us and we will load pictures daily (which is a huge change from the frequency that I currently upload pictures!).

Below is Ellie at age 2 years.
Below is Ellie at age 2.5 years.

And...below is Ellie at 3 years of age. Her third birthday was April 11th....and it was a HARD day knowing that we could not be with her. Quincy sang Happy Birthday to Ellie HanMei all week....it was simultaneously both cute and sad.....

Okay...the best for last. Last week we received updated information on Ellie so we would know her size and could bring along clothes that would fit. In addition to the update, they sent along new photos (see immediately above) AND two short 5 second long videos of her walking! For obvious reasons, this is a HUGE deal to us!

Easter

Tim and I are set to begin gardening in our new house (finally!). So, the best Easter present the Easter Bunny could have possibly given her was her very own gardening bag and tools.

Hunting for eggs at Grandpa's and Mimi's house.....

Pinkalicious

A few weeks ago we went on another book-buying extravaganza. One of the books we picked up is called Pinkalicious. It's about a girl who loves the color pink so much that all of her belongings are pink (kind of like Quincy). Oh...and her name is Pinkalicious. One day her mother made her a batch of pink cupcakes; she ate so many that she turned pink...hair and all. After seeing her doctor, she was informed that she had a very rare and acute case of Pinkititis.

Anyway, Pinkalicious is currently Quincy's "it" book....we read it every single night..sometimes 3 times a night. Well, to go along with the story, I ended up making a batch of pink cupcakes. Quincy began eating her cupcake...but then she stopped eating it and began to smear it all over herself instead. Why? She wanted to be pink, just like Pinkalicious.

Learning to swing...by herself.

Winter is finally over (yea!) so we have been going to the park everday afterschool.....Quincy doesn't want to sit in the little-kid swing anymore...my baby's growing up....heavy sigh.