This morning, as we were talking about the reason today is special, I used the term Gotcha Day. Mary Joyce really didn't understand it, so I told her if she didn't like that word, we could call it Family Day or Adoption Day. She told me that she likes "Adoption Day," so "Adoption Day" it is!
We kept the celebrating kind of low-key. We went to lunch at McDonald's and invited one of Mary Joyce's school friends and his family along. Unfortunately, I left the camera in the car until late in the action, so I didn't get any shots with all of the kids. I got a couple of cute ones of the girls, though.
And a related funny...
All 3 kids were in the church nursery last night while I was at a Church Council meeting. Mary Joyce was pretending her flip-flop was an airplane. Miss Alesha asked Mary Joyce if she had ever been in an airplane, and Mary Joyce said, "Yes, when I came from China." Then she asked Mary Joyce if Katherine and Malcom had been on an airplane, and Mary Joyce answered, "No, they came from the hospital."
And here are a couple of bonus pictures...
6 comments:
Love that last photo! Classic!
Love, love, love her little story about the airplane and the hospital!
Happy 4 years!
How PRECIOUS!!! Happy Adoption Day Mary Joyce Thomas and family!!! It was such a blessing to share it with you and get to know you over the years through pictures and then to get a chance to spend time with you last year. I hope we get to see you again soon. Jaiden likes Adoption Day too...she wanted us to sing it to her tonight to the tune of Happy Birthday...she was singing it to herself and we told her she should sing it to her Tonguu sisters instead ;)
Jaiden made almost the same exact silly face in one of her VBS pictures! Amazing just how similar the girls are.
She's precious, then and now.
Can you believe she was ever that small, though? It went by so quickly!
Happy adoption day!
Congratulations on four years together as a family!!! Love that last shot.
Happy Adoption Day Mary Joyce!! I know I am a few days late, but that is ok. Ahnalin had her 5 year anniversary on September 5 and it just amazes me that it has been so short and yet forever. What a blessing you girls are!
Beautiful pics and very funny story about the airplane vs. hospital. :)
Kelly
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