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Emily’s Dance Show – 12/15/2011

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloweeen! This year, the girls ventured out a little more with friends and did more than their usual once around the block trick or treating.

First Day of Kindergarten

Here are a few pictures from Megan’s first day of Kindergarten on August 16, 2011 (along with a few pictures of Emily). Emily started 4th grade a week earlier. Click on the picture of Megan to get to the photo album. Megan is slowly getting use to Kindergarten. Susan is responsible for dropping her off [...]

From today’s New York Times

Chinese Officials Seized and Sold Babies, Parents Say

Guatemalan judge orders US couple to return adopted young girl to her birth mother

By Associated Press, Wednesday, August 3, 3:12 PM GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan judge has ordered a U.S. couple to return their adopted daughter to her birth mother, siding with a human rights group that says the girl was stolen by a child trafficking ring and put up for adoption. ..The rights group claims the [...]

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Happy Chinese New Year! Welcome to the year of the rabbit. Here’s Megan dressed up for school today.

Chinese New Year Party

On Sunday, I drove the family to Corte Madera (about 12 miles north of San Francisco) for the Northern California chapter of Families with Children from China’s (FCC) Between Two New Years Party. The two New Years are January 1st and Chinese New Year. FCC is made up of families who adopted children from mainland [...]

Associated Press: Foreign adoptions by Americans hit 15-year low

The number of foreign children adopted by Americans fell by 13 percent last year, reaching the lowest level since 1995 due in large part to a virtual halt to adoptions from Guatemala because of corruption problems. China remained America’s No. 1 source of adopted children, accounting for 3,401, according to figures released by the State [...]

Megan’s School Pictures – November 2010

Click on the picture to see all three pictures from the photo shoot.

World Series Victory Parade

Here are some pictures I took at the San Francisco Giants World Series Victory Parade on November 3, 2010 in San Francisco (click on the photo below for all of the pictures). Sometimes I really hate being 5’4″ (especially at parades).