Ni Hao!

Local street food...the picture doesn't convey the worst part: The fact that the snack was still moving.....

Now that we're back in China, Quincy is getting exposed to culture that she has missed in the past year: Lesson 1---Chopsticks!

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.

Our first snow in the new house!

Making snowballs for Cosmo....

Random Pictures That I Think Are Just Cute.

Quincy and Han Mei's New Room

We decided that rather than Quincy and Han Mei having their own seperate rooms, they would share a room until they decided that they were ready for their own rooms. So, a few weeks ago we went out and purchased a new bedroom suite, including bunk-beds. Quincy LOVES her new "big-girl" bed! She keeps stating that when her big sister comes home, she (Quincy) will be moving to the top bunk. What she doesn't know is that there will be no top bunk at that time....we'll convert them into twin beds for obvious reasons until they get older. I'm sure she will like the two side-by-side beds just fine when she has a sister to share them with. Ahhh, can't wait.....just a couple of more months!

Quincy's Big Christmas Present....

Santa gave Quincy her very own Inflatable-Bouncy-Thing for Christmas. We originally planned to put it in the basement but discovered that it fits perfectly inside one of the spare rooms in the house (never could have done it at the old place....).

Christmas Day, 2008

Quincy and her cousin Eli playing outside before the "Big Present Opening".

Always behind....random pictures from last December..

I think Quincy is going to be an engineer.....

Quincy and her good friend Tess....