Need prayers!

Friends, we need to pray for my friends who have been waiting forever for their LOA. They have been told that CCAA may have lost their paperwork. Ok this is so unfair. I can't begin to think of how awful they feel tonight. Please everyone pray they get GOOD NEWS from China tomorrow! This little girl is so sad, she needs her Mommy!

Doctor and home

It is hard to get a good photo of Ms. Emily because she is always on the move! Here is the best I can do.

Doctor appointment went well. She hated it...no surprise. There is still noise in the heart. Doctor said that is nothing for the surgery she has had. He wants us to wait a couple months and then see a specialist just to be sure, but she is growing, eating, and healthy so he is not worried....oh for those on the waiting list, Emily had to get 3 more shots when she got home. Something about she got them too early and now needs to re-do to be safe. Daddy had to hold her because I couldn't stand that. Now I have two boys, but with everything Emily has been put thru, those shots just made me want to cry!!

We tried to get a family photo done, but Emily would have none of that. I'm going to have to do my own Christmas Photos I guess....

Enjoy the photos because there is zero time to keep up with this blog now!!! I'm trying!!!

1st!!

Ok time for some happy posts again!!
1) First Photo
2) First Smile
3) First Day
4) First Bath

Dedicated to my Father

This is my dad. He was a Waterman. Part of a dying breed now. People don't take this job anymore because it's a hard, rough way of life. I remember my dad's hands. His hands were like leather. Worn, and rough from the ropes, and salt water. I remember growing up poor. We didn't have a lot. We worked hard everyday of the week. We never knew that we didn't have everything in the world. Christmas was exciting to us, not like kids today that complain they didn't get everything on their list. I don't think we ever had a list. I think we all got something that we shared and we were the happiest kids in the world to have that. I remember the church giving us a food basket one year and my father sent it back saying that someone more needy could use it. Sometimes I feel sorry for kids today. They have it all, but they really have nothing.

My father built this boat. He didn't write any specs down. It was all in his head. He amazed people by his abilities. Yet his love was the water. He worked the river my entire life. I remember when I was about 10 yrs old there was a very bad storm and we had to swim out in our PJ's to save the neighbors boat from sinking. We had the only railway (to pull boats out of the water)for many years. My father also built that himself. It was a hand crank tractor engine that pulled that railway out of the water. I think that old motor still works, the railway was long ago done away with. Hydraulics now do all that work.

My father battled cancer for a long time. His one comment over and over was that he wanted to get back on that boat. Well, he never did. Cancer took him October 9th....4 days shy of his 75th birthday. We gave that boat to his best friend Gene. Gene took dad every Monday for months to his Chemo treatments. I thought that was best. We couldn't have taken care of the boat, and I didn't want someone we didn't know to have it. Gene cried to me on the phone one day and said he felt like he had not lost a friend, but his dad. He said my father was more a dad to him then his own father.

Dad is happy now, the waters are calm, and the nets are full. The gulls are screaming as they chase the boat into shore, the sun is setting, another day's work done.

The Finger

If Ms. Emily wants something, we get the pointed finger...hee, hee....you were thinking something else, admit it!

She is still speaking Chinese, but I am hearing Mommy, Daddy, and ball. I hear Goo-ga a lot...anyone care to guess what that means?

Her first doctor appointment is Monday to check her heart repair (done in China) I've noticed a slight tinge of blue in the hands at times....hope it's the lighting, and her skin tone. I'm really beginning to worry a little.....

Some problems

Well folks we are having some troubles. Emily has a terrible fear of bedtime. It's not a normal fear. It's complete panic here. If I go upstairs after dark, she panics. I have to go upstairs to my laundry room, which is where I spend half my life. But if it's after dark, Emily just falls apart. She screams at night if I put her down....not a normal scream, but like something out of a horror film. She is terrified. I have lights on in the room because I know she is fearful of the dark, but this fear of bedtime, I don't understand it. She wants to sleep in my arms. She has NOTHING to do with her bed. She sleeps in a crib next to us. I can touch her, but she wants me to hold her. I have never seen a child so scared....
Has anyone every experienced anything like this? My son had night terrors, but that is after you are at sleep. She is scared of the whole process.....pj time is panic time, because that means bed.........I'm really worried about her. I kinda wonder if she wasn't tied down or something at night?????

Happy Halloween

Ok time for a happy post. These are photos of Ms. Emily's first halloween. She liked giving out candy more than trick or treating. Be sure to look for her tail. She is supposed to be a bear, but the outfit looks more like some type of mole. Oh well at least she wasn't scared of it.