Like Father, Like Son

...ummm is it just me or do these two have the exact same expression on their faces?

And why did they stop and pose anyhow? geesh

Fly Catchin'

Why my son insists on having his mouth wide open when I break out the camera is one of the great mysteries in my world!

Why??

"Take a picture of me with my juicee, Mommy."

"....uhhhh ok Colin. Whatever you say."

First Day of Preschool

Colin is in his first day of preschool as I write this. I came home after dropping him off and have just kinda wandered around wondering what to do with myself. As you can see from the pictures he is just fine...mommy on the other hand...

A Journey Begins

As a few of you know Steve and I have been discussing adoption for some time. We had decided to put in an application in January to adopt a child from China. However, in

December 2006 China announced some new guidelines for adoptive parents to go into effect

1 May 2007. With this announcement we had a decision to make...

a) Wait until our fifth anniversary 22 October 2007 or

b) Rush rush rush to get our dossier to China before the 1 May deadline (along with several other fence sitters I presume)

We really didn't want to wait almost a year before starting the adoption process and with Steve being a British National getting all our paperwork for the dossier in such a short time would be near impossible if not entirely impossible. Besides did we really want to be in a mad rush with loads of other families? Not really when there are children all over the world in need of loving homes...so I started researching our options. When I came across Viet Nam we knew this was going to be the road we would travel.

This is the family photo we sent to the adoption agency.

It was a last minute 'gotta get the app in before the first of the year' photo.

Your guess is as good as mine.

He was concentrating so hard he had his tongue stuck out for the most part...

....until he saw the camera!