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Need I Say More?

 

 These photos were in Rachel's history report. They were taken while she was in the orphanage. This is the kitchen of the Wanzhou SWI. Need I say more??????

Rachel Faces.... She Loves Having Her Picture Taken Now!

 

Rachel's Odd Clothes

Rachel has an odd sense of fashion. She always wants to take her clothes off or roll them up. Her she is in an undershirt and long pink pants rolled up to look like short, shorts and Morgan's belt!

... and yes it is cold! We are always making her put her clothes back on!

Singing with Mei Mei

Purple Hat Girls and Great-Grammie

Here is where I first posted about my purple hat girls and their great-grammie!

Here is another post about great-grammie and my trouble bubble game!

Rachel's Readoption

We chose to readopt both Kelsey and Rachel. The adoption was finalized in China, so we do not have to do this. We did it so that the girls can have Virginia birth certificates with us listed as their parents. Otherwise, they would have to show their Chinese birth certificate AND adoption papers for everything official. Now they can just show their Virginia birth certificate. Today we got Rachel's Final Order in the mail today (her adoption papers). Some states have little ceremonies. Here they mail it to you. We are just so glad to have this last step taken care of! Rachel's paperwork was signed in October, but we just got it today!

 

Calendar Girls

CCAI is the wonderful agency that we used for our first adoption. They sell a calendar every year as a fund raiser. We always get the calendar. There are many children in the calendar... some we know from on line. Anyway, it is always a big deal. "The list" comes out with the children who were selected. They try to use many different children, but CCAI is a big agency. They can't use them all. This year we decided to submit a photo of the girls. (Yes, Rachel can be in the photo even though she wasn't adopted through CCAI.) We just found out that the girls will be included in the 2009 calendar! We don't know what size or what month. I am attaching the photo to the bottom of this post. At least, I THINK it is the one I submitted. :-)

Click here to order your own copy of the calendar. They are only $10.95. :-)

Here are some other friends whose children will be in the calendar. April, Ralph, and Heather. There are others that we know, but they don't have blogs or their blog is private.

Phone Call

I almost had a "heart attack" yesterday. I was driving the girls to the doctor's office for their flu shots. I received a message. It must have been on my voice mail for a couple hours, but I teach so I didn't see it until later.  "Hi, this is ___________, Dr. _____'s nurse. I see that you are bringing the girls in for flu shots this afternoon. So, we can talk to you when you come in about the girls lab results. Make sure you tell the front desk that we need to talk with you after their shots." WHAT?????? Right away, my mind was racing!

The girls had blood tests done a couple of weeks ago to test their kidney function. They were possibly exposed to the tainted formula in China. OK-- so my mind is racing! I called Chuck to meet me at the doctor's office. I told him that they didn't say anything was wrong, but they needed to talk to us.

It turns out nothing is wrong with them! Their tests were negative!! Yeah!! The doctor had done research. (I read much of the same stuff when I was researching.) She said that not all problems or stones would show up on that blood test yet. The research is suggesting renal ultarasounds to be sure. Since this is non-invasive, she feels that it would be a wise idea, so that we know. It is not urgent. They will have them in the next month or so-- whenever they can be scheduled. They are in no pain and this is just an extra pre-caution.

I asked her if the girls were fine after the ultra-sound, if that meant they were fine for life. She said she didn't find much in the research. People really didn't know right now. They assume that they will be fine. If they ever had kidney type problems, they would look into a connection.

:-) So... to recap... the girls are fine! We are just going to have the ultra-sound to be on the safe side!

Smiles All Around

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