Loving Olivia: February 2008

Thursday, February 28, 2008

2nd Anniversary of Referral Day

Olivia's mug shot.

Mommy's favorite referral picture... snot and all!

Get me out of this thing!

February 2007

February 2008

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Olivia & Zoe

We spent Friday evening and Sunday evening with the Saksons this past weekend. Zoe and Olivia always have a great time together but will occasionally fight. Sherri and I said since we are not going to adopt anymore children Olivia and Zoe will be sisters. Trust me they fight like sisters sometimes but they are also very sweet with each other. They will hug and sometimes kiss when they see each other or leave each other.

Daddy pulling Olivia around the house!!

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Ann from Red Thread China

Below is a picture of items that are being sent to Olivia's orphanage in ZhiJiang Hunan China. There is a wonderful Chinese woman in Guangzhou by the name of Ann that will send items to your child's orphanage at any time of the year. Since most of the orphanages do not have heat and China has had their worst winter in decades we decided to contact Ann and have her send needed items to ZhiJiang SWI. Words cannot describe how it feels to be able to contribute in some way in helping where Olivia came from. It keeps us connected to her former world.

Ann will also be making a trip to ZhiJiang sometime in the Spring to get photos and information on Olivia's finding spot. Several of the families that have children from ZhiJiang have gotten together goals for Ann's trip and she will be there for about a week hopefully getting pictures of all the finding spots and pictures of ZhiJiang and we really hope she will be able to visit the orphanage as well. I am so excited about this trip. Since we were not able to visit the orphanage because it was about a 7 hour train ride we have no pictures of where she came from. I do have pictures of her in the orphanage before she came to us but I want to see what ZhiJiang looks like and really want to see where she was found.

Ann also has website business at http://store.redthreadchina.com/index.html. She sells shoes; dresses and so much more at very reasonable prices. I have purchased two dresses for Olivia and was very impressed how Ann kept in contact with me and how fast I received the package. So please check out her website. You won't be disappointed.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day

This past Wednesday was Olivia's Father & Daughter Valentine's Day party at school. I volunteered so I got to go to the party as well. It was so cute seeing all the dad's and the kids together.

I know every parent thinks their child is the funniest and of course Peter and I think Olivia is the funniest child. At the Valentine's Day party Olivia was sitting next to one of the dad's and she turns to him with her hand sticking out and says, "Hello, I'm Olivia Miller. What is your name?" Peter and I just looked at each other. It was so funny. Where does she get these things from?

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Happy Birthday Grandma!!

Yesterday Olivia and I packed up and went to my Mom's house because on Sunday we were driving to Louisiana to celebrate my Grandmother's (dad's mom) 94th Birthday. Unfortunately we had to leave daddy on his birthday because he couldn't make the trip because of church and meetings on Sunday. Sorry Daddy!! My brother's family made the trip as well and on Saturday night cousin Joel entertained Olivia most of the evening. Thanks Joel!! He is great with Olivia and pretty much does whatever she tells him to do. She loves her Jo-el.

On Sunday we met the rest of my Dad's side of family at a restaurant. I was looking forward to go because Olivia was meeting her two second cousins from Vietnam for the first time. My cousin Chanda and her husband adopted Anais (8) and Chloe (5) from Vietnam. Chanda and I are the only two girls on my dad's side of the family and neither one of us could have children biologically so we adopted our Asian beauties. The girls had a great time and my Grandmother just loved them being together.