Post Christmas note

Sorry it's been so long since I've written. The holidays have taken their toll on me mentally and physically. We had a GREAT Christmas, but it's been so busy! We hosted our annual Thanksgiving dinner for our friends the week before Thanksgiving, then traveled to my family's the following weekend. After that it was nonstop preparing for Christmas and we've been blessed to have had visits from both sets of our parents and my sister's family! We're taking a brief rest till Friday when my great friend Rhiannon comes for the weekend. I can't wait! Then I'll start preparing to go back to work :( I'm in denial.

So enough of this. I know what you really want is pictures. Here they are!

Love, Kim

Home over a month now

Well, we've been home for over a month, and Isabella is doing great! She has really acclimated to the USA and to us and the dogs. She seems very at home here. She is sleeping and eating very well - she eats EVERYTHING, including chili and Bojangle's chicken.

Her first real word is "uh-oh", which she uses every time she drops something or throws something on the floor. She's also saying "Hi" and "Mama" and "Da".

She's growing like a weed, and doesn't really look like a baby anymore. She's gotten taller and looks more like a little girl now. She's absolutely precious, and we absolutely won the lottery with her.

Attached are some photos taken by my good friend Windy, who visited just before Thanksgiving with her little girl Cassidy.