I hope this works. We are huge Harry Potter fans in this house and cant wait untill the new movie comes out. We would really like the book to come out sooner reather then later. i know the Ms Rowling is a ooberzillionare but good lord woman save us from ourselves and publish the book already. your killin us.

Don't want to run into them in a dark alley!!

Well asre these not the most fierce children you have ever seen? Yea right i know but hey. We are so proud of our kids. they tested this past week and have all moved up again. Mitchell and Kyleigh are comoflage belts (4th of 12 color belts) and Connor is a half orange belt.(the little tikes aka tiny tigers move up in half belt incrament easier for them to retain the info ) they were beaming on test day and were so proud of themselves. they all worked very hard and practiced at home (gotta watch where you go, you might get knocked by a #2 jump front kick) they did so well. they have grown so much through the dicipline of these classes. There instructers are GREAT!!!! anyway still no word from China on any travel approval. so more waiting is ahead of us. even the kids are asking for there little sister for Christmas. they are so sweet and very excyted to get her home. all our love to all of you-kathy

New Ellie Pics!!!!!

The lovely Kate from AGCI surprised me this morning. She got new pics of our girl. These were taken a few weeks ago but they were sent snail mail. Anyway isn't she gorgeous??!! The new photos show just how grown up she is getting. She's loosing her baby chub. God I hope we get her home soon. It feels like she'll be going off to college soon.
i know the photo quality isnt great but beggers cant be choosers. love those winnie the pooh hip hop pants. enjoy love and hugs kathy

sherrilynn wentworth

this is just for you aunt sherri we love you so much!!!!!

CANDY CANDY CANDY

Is Glutiny still one of the seven deadly sins? If it is i think that all of us in our house are probably headed streight to hell. This is the kids haul from last night. this is 4 yes i said 4 GALLON sized ziplock bags FULL, that isn't including the dozen or so bags of chips and corn nuts they got. Ug. We didn't even trick or treat for that long. I love candy more then your average bear. we are sugartarians after all but even for me thats alot of crap. im sure alot of it will end up in brownies or cookies and go to work with brian. All the guys at the site can look foreward to putting on five or twenty pounds, better them then me is all i have to say.

HALLOWEEN FUN!!!

We worked hard on our jack-o-lanterns. We even got a pumpkin for Ellie, hers is the princess on the end. if your curious they are arranged by age with grandma on the end with her great pirate pumpkin.The Kids had a blast picking out there costumes at the halloween store. We call the costumes quirky, Kyleigh is a gaisha, connor is a jedi warrior but he insisted on carrying the Criptonite I'm not sure if the combination creates some sort of superhero continuium rift. who knows what michell is but he looked cool and was very comfortable. We had a ball trick or theating with some of the neighbors. and were home early enough to be in bed by 8:30. wow Happy halloween!!!!!

Ellie's Quilt!

We finally Hung up the ABC quilt that i made for our Ellie. i found these really great quilt hangers on ebay for something like $16. I love this quilt pattern its the second one ive made and i love it. for anyone who is a quilter out there or might be looking yes i know that i put the z where the n goes and vice versa i am calling that "charm".

cookies!!!

Well, this was my evening. there are 40 something of these witch either makes me one cool "Betty Crocker" mom or an idiot, you decide. I also had a great chat tonite with a warm wonderful BTDT adoptive mom who was very kind to share her prospective with me. she gave me some great leads and im sure ill spend the next few days following up on them. in the mean time Mitchell has a halloween, oh i mean "harvest" party tomorrow, jez being PC is no fun but what are ya gonna do about it. Have a great weekend.

Our girl has grown!

Well the wonderful ladies of AGCI have come through once again. and we got an update on Ellie. No photos yet, can you tell im dissapointed? but Hopefully one will come soon. We did get new measurements. Our little girl is up to 25 pounds up about 2 pounds since april. She is roughly 35 inches tall. thats up about an inch. she also has 4 more teeth. i know this isnt much info but we grab onto what we can get and hope that our TA comes soon. here's a semi recent pic from a friend who went to get her Bengbu beauty a few monthes ago.Ellie is the tall one the other sweetie is Mira McCalmont, she is hope with her forever family already. thanks so much beth for the photos.

EVERYBODY LOVES NEW JAMMIES!!!!!
Thank you Grammy and Grumpa for the new pjs. Let the winter begin!!

MY DAY

I had fun at Babies R Us today. finally picked up Ellie's car seat. its FAA approved and everything. man am i skilled. our dossier is being submitted to the CCAA today, so there is another step down. we cant wait to go and bring our little girl home but we have given up controle and realize that it will all happen according to Gods calender and not ours.
off to pick up the neglected middle child from school. God Bless-kathy

This is a much more recent pic of ellie. She is talking a bit now. only a little bit because of her pallate but I'll bet she'll have some serious stories to tell once she is all healed up. She's such a beauty. Kyleigh swears that she looks like me huh that I'm not sure about

well this is the first photo we received of our newest Walsh. isn't she a beauty. Her cleft lip was repaired in China and it seems like they did a bang up job. Her pallate will be repaired when she gets home hopefully after she has had some time to adjust.

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