Good-looking kids and funny pics

Naomi's 2nd Birthday!

This post is quite late, since her birthday was March 1, but I've been busy. I have also started to use Facebook to post pictures and video. Anyway, our girl is growing so quickly and adding new words to her vocab every day. Her consonant sounds still need a lot of work, but she is making good progress. She continues to have speech therapy every week. I have noticed at least 50 words and phrases she can say and she also babbles long pretend sentences to me while gesturing with her hands just like we do. I think when she really starts talking she will talk our ears off! As a family we are all growing more attached day by day, month by month. I can't believe it's been almost a year since we got our sweet, funny Naomi.

Happy Year of the Rat!

We recently had the fun of attending two Chinese New Year parties held by adoption groups in our area. The food was great and the kids enjoyed the entertainment, though Naomi was a bit scared of the lion dancers. However, I predict Naomi will become a real party girl, judging by the way she loved being with all the other girls who were jumping around to a mixture of Hannah Montana and Chinese music. Naomi was too mesmerized to actually dance, but next year I'm sure she'll be right in the thick of it! I found it touching to see all the beautiful Chinese children of different ages, and whole families wearing traditional clothing. I hope we can get to know some other adoptive families who live close to us. The ones we met traveled a long distance to get to the parties.