Click on the picture above to see more of the latest school pictures of Emily.
I’ve been home since Friday because Emily has been sick. Susan stayed home with Emily on Thursday. Susan took Emily to see the doctor on Thursday and Emily was diagnosed with a virus that just needs to run its course. Her symptoms steadily got worse so we took her to the doctor on Saturday and she was diagnosed with pneumonia. The symptoms on Thursday were a fever and stomach ache. By Saturday, the additional symptoms were a cough and heavy breathing (especially while sleeping). I’m thinking the stomach ache may have been more of a chest ache. She seems to be improving today. However, in the last few days, her temperature has spiked up in the late afternoon so we’ll see if the same thing happens today.
I’ve taken a collection of photos of the kids from 2002 to present and put it into a slideshow. The slideshow can be found at this link. The slideshow is a work-in-progress and more photos will continue to be added to it.
On Saturday, we went to a Chuck-e-cheese type place called John’s Incredible Pizza in Roseville and had some fun. It’s not exactly like Chuck-e-cheese in that it has activities for older children too (indoor rollercoaster, bumper cars, mini bowling alley, etc.) Click on the picture below for more pictures from the day.
I went to the post office today to drop off two thick insulated envelopes that will be sent to China. One will be going to Emily’s orphanage and the other to Megan’s orphanage. Once a year, I send pictures of the girls to their respective orphanages. It’s not a Chinese adoption requirement but I figure someone at each orphanage may be interested in what each girl looks like as each year passes. To keep things organized, I only send pictures in batches based on the calendar year when they were taken. So the batches from 2007 were sent today. Although I already have pictures from 2008, I will wait to send those to China until next year. The pictures were placed in small photo albums that are easy to mail (each album is barely larger than the 4 x 6 pictures they contain. each album is maybe 1/2 inch thick.).
Click on the picture for more school pictures of Megan received this month. Emily’s school pictures are coming soon!
On Sunday, we went to the Northern California Families with Children from China (FCC) 13th annual Between Two Years Party at the Presidio in San Francisco. Between two new years means between American New Year’s Day and Chinese New Year’s Day.
Pictures are available here.
As usual it was a lot of fun. We got to get together with other Chinese adoptive families we have met over the years. There was food, vendors, entertainment (including lion dancing), and arts & crafts.
There is usually a big jumphouse but that was cancelled due to the wet weather.