Chinese relatives.

This is hillarious.  Very educational.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCFRoILS1jY

New boys name for the list.

 

Luk

 

meaning - sixth

 

He will be our sixth family member so this one is pretty cool.

 

It is pronounced loook but we would use the shorter familiar sound of Luke.

 

All of us love it and it's the front runner right now.

Jia's new best friend D.O.G.

I bought this robot dog at the thrift store yesterday for .50cents.  Three AA batteries and he was good to go.  He walks, backs up, barks, chirps, pants, ears move, bum wiggles, tail wags.  Very cute.  Jia was over the moon excited about him.  She loves him and it was instant.  She's named him D.O.G. (Dee-oh-gee).  Fei and I wanted him to move around so we could see everything he does but Jia had a hard time putting him down.  She just keeps picking him up and hugging and kissing him.  So incredibly sweet.  Please excuse the hair-doo, Daddy just doesn't care about these things on his watch.

Rainy weekend

Fei and I got up early on Saturday, I took her out for breakfast and then went to a Parents Unite sale, spent $20 and got a pretty good haul.  Doing jungle theme in Little Brothers room so was happy with finding the cute jungle animal hooks.  Jia has been wanting that toy vacuum cleaner for a while now and she was thrilled to have a Dora movie.  The big girls had the same one on vhs.  We put it on for her in the living room and we all remembered all of the songs.  Too funny.

Thank you Mom/Gramma for our new Keens.  We all just love them!

Jia in particular is having her first real love affair with a shoe.  She takes them off and puts them on one of her little chairs, the shoe cubby isn't good enough for them.  She actually got a wipe the other day and cleaned them!  She wants to wear them all of the time now!  She wanted to sleep with them on the first night.  I think they'll make the perfect summer/camping shoe for all of us.

Jia found a shelled peanut in the rats food bag and then packed it around the house for an hour feeding the elephant.  So when we grocery shopped, I got a whole bag of them (fit for human consumption) and we brought them for our play date.  The two littles had a riot peeling them.  Jia told the cashier when we bought them that they were for the elephants and the cashier said "I don't think we have elephants around here" and Jia told her "ya' we do, dat's why we gots the peanuts". 

They are just so cute!

Eric verathaned Lili's floor on Saturday, it looks fabulous.  It was very stinky though.  His arm is killing him from all the repetitive movement of refinishing her floor.  We tried to get out for most of it but it was such a rainy weekend.  Ended up doing a long grocery order on Sat. at Wal-Mart and going for donuts at Tims just to escape.  Lili and I went to see The Host on Saturday night.  I was impressed at what a great job they did following the book.  I had no idea how they were going to portray that movie, especially the two voices in one head.  Sunday Eric went riding and the girls and I planned to see the new baby goats at Beacon Hill with Debbie and Emily but it was just raining so hard.  After our stormy drive there we were quite happy to just hang out at Debbie's and let the littles play.  Jia just adores Emily.  They are so cute together.  Lots of giggling, screaming, chasing and hugging. 
 

For anyone who remembers this story

An update on the family that was arrested in Ghana last year, falsely accussed of trafficing their four adopted kids and two bio sons.

http://themoghadamsjourneytoafrica.blogspot.ca/2013/04/our-stuck-story.html

The floor

The floor was the hard part to deal with in Lili's new room.  Eric is half done stripping the floor in this picture.  It's all done now.  It turned our better than we hoped for.  He needs to stain it and put varnish on but that part is super stinky, so we're waiting for some days that it's convenient to sleep in the trailer.

 

I was looking back through the blog to our trip to Jia, looking for the name of our Beijing guide, it was Mr. Yang.  Anyways, one of the things I thought was funny was how many nap pictures we got of Jia.  Not much has changed.  She loves to shop but even more she loves to nap while we grocery shop.  I think she likes the sounds of the big stores. 

This morning Minnie Mouse came to visit on her way to the Mickey Mouse Club House.  She was gathering up her friends, Fei who was Pluto and Lili who was Daisy and me who was Mickey Mouse, when we got to Dad I asked who he was and she said 'oh, he's just a dog'.  She loves dogs a lot so I think that was a bit of a compliment?

 

Jia "Mommy, lets make silly faces"

Me "ok, lets see what you've got"

Me "isn't that the same face Jia?"

Jia "no, it's different"

Me "Jia, do you need your fingers in your mouth for all funny faces?"

Jia "uhm, huh".

 

DTC!!! DTC!!! DTC!!!

Date To China, Dossier To China or Documents to China, any way you say it, our file is on it's way to China!  Now we wait for a Log In Date, LID.

When I made the DTC, Jia wanted to help, but I had her do her own letters instead, notice the fabulous job she did of painting her Jia.