Pictures from Our Fun Day

Katherine Loves to Swing!

A Fun Day

Today was our monthly get-together with our local China families, and we only had a small group. We had a lot of fun, though. We got together at a local state park with a nice playground (in the shade!) and access to the Intercoastal waterway. Katherine LOVED the baby swings! In fact, she stayed on for a long time the first time, and would have continued, except we stopped for a snack. When we returned to the playground, the swings were occupied, but she kept pointing and saying, "Dis!" When Mary Joyce decided to get down, we put her back in, and she had a ball! I will post a video of her swinging.

Then, we walked down to the Intercoastal, where the girls had a great time playing in the sand and water. We finally relented and let Mary Joyce take her shoes off and wade. She thought that was the best thing ever. All-in-all, a very good day. :-)

Photos coming in another post...

Amazing Grace: Mary Joyce-Style

Play Date at the Park

We got together at a local park yesterday with a couple of other China adoptive families, and our girls had a great time playing together. (The other 2 families homeschool, thus the older girls being there in the early afternoon.) Mary Joyce names each one of the girls by name, and she spent the rest of yesterday evening telling us everyone she played with at the park. This morning, she woke up wanting to go again. Here are a few pictures:

Mary Joyce loves this rocking horse, and has since the first time we came to this park last year:


All the Girls (Except for Katherine who is still to little to sit up on that swing by herself):


Mary Joyce and her Tonggu Buddy, Lili--Doesn't it look like they are having a serious conversation about something?


Katherine enjoying some Goldfish:

Today's Appointment

I had my monthly doctor's appointment today, and all is well. We got to hear Baby #3's heartbeat for the first time. The doctor actually found the baby very easily (Katherine was never that easy to track down.). Heart rate was around 140. I also saw the "new" doctor in the practice today. (He's been there about a year, but he didn't come in until after Katherine was born.)

Edited to add: A quick answer to a question in the comments section--Yes, we do plan to find out the baby's gender. Chet and I are both planners, so we want to know beforehand. It will probably be early December when we are able to find out, provided baby cooperates.

A Girl and Her Purse

Our sweet nursery worker at church, who the girls just adore, brought Mary Joyce a new purse the other day. Mary Joyce can play rough-and-tumble with the toughest of little boys, but she also has a real "girly-girl" side to her. This purse is shiny and pink with a huge flower on it and came complete with sunglasses, toy lipstick, toy nail polish, toy perfume, and a pink cell phone. Mary Joyce has hardly been anywhere without it (except to bed) since Wednesday night. Here are some pictures from this morning. (My apologies for the fact that she was still in her nightgown.)

At the Blue Playground

Mary Joyce has been asking constantly to go to the "blue playground," which is the park closest to our house. Unfortunately, between rainy weather and us playing "pass-the-sick-bug," it has been awhile since we've been able to get over there. Finally, on Saturday, we were able to go. Here are a few pictures.

Always Wait for the Complete Thought...

Tonight, as Mary Joyce and I were going through her bedtime routine, I was rocking her and singing. To be honest, my mind had wandered a bit, when she said, "Mama, I got ow." At that point, she held up her finger. Like a good mama whose little girl has an owie, I kissed the finger she was holding up. Then, the complete thought...

"Mama, I got booger out myself."

Can you say "yuck"?!?!

Thankfully, I managed to kiss a different part of her finger, so all's well that ends well.

Facebook

Okay, between my friends Kim, Tana, and Angie, I finally was persuaded to start a Facebook page. I'm still learning my way around, but it really is fun. I've found all kinds of people from college that I had lost touch with, for one thing. :-) If you have Facebook and want to be Facebook friends, let me know. :-)