Catching Up

It is now April and my goal is to get a new name for the blog and start blogging again! We need a new name because we have almost been a family of four for two years and our family is complete.

It has been a very busy year with one in kindergarten and one in special needs preschool all day. The afternoons have been packed with therapy appointments, soccer (in the Fall), Daisy troop meetings (I am one of the leaders of a very active bunch of girls), art class, homework, making dinner, etc.

We celebrated the day that we met Ellie Grace, we call it Gotcha Day or Family Day. She knows that is the day that we met her in China and became a family. She wanted Chinese food for dinner so we went to the restaurant nearby that we like and had a nice dinner. We gave her the little doll that represents the minority that our guides told us she most likely is, Zhuang. One of our favorite books to read is Crazy Cakes and I read it to her on that special night. So many memories and such growth in five years!

Spring Break is over and the children go back to school tomorrow. We had a very relaxed week and enjoyed eating dinner together, going to bed later, sleeping in, etc. The children enjoyed going to Big Canoe for their egg hunt and seeing their grandparents and baby cousin. Erik took a day off and we enjoyed going to the Fernbank Science Center and grabbing a bit to eat. Then we joined two of my high school friends at the zoo on Friday. The animals were out and we had fun but it was very crowded. We got a family pass since it will pay for itself by going two times so we will go back on a day that won't be so busy.

T-ball started today at the YMCA today and we resume swim lessons next week. Ellie Grace has been signed up for our neighborhood swim team and we plan on spending much of our summer by the pool.