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Click here for a slideshow of our China pictures so far. After an early morning flight to Toronto, we met up with Oma, Opa and Uncle Kevin outside International Departures at Pearson–it was great fun to be able to visit with the latter two before Oma, Ali, Lia and I boarded our long flight to […]

When Lia wants us to entertain her during stroller and car rides, she asks “Can you read me a pretend story?” I love that books are her primary model for narrative 🙂 Her request is usually followed up with plot specs: “A pretend story about Cinderella and all her family going to the pet store/gymnastics/daycare/Chinese […]

Just in time for Christmas, we received news that the Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs has approved us as an adoptive family for Nico Han-Kun! This was about the earliest we could have gotten our approval (we waited a little over three months), so we were stunned and delighted. Not only that, but we learned […]

This morning Lia opened her brother’s presents. At lunch we put together his care package to send to Lianyungang. Tonight we will sing “Happy Birthday” and blow out the candles on his cake. Han Kun will be eating cake too: we sent one to the orphanage for the occasion. We are sad to be away […]