more may 17

Blog site is messing up my pics, so putting them on different page……

may 17 pics

sorry it has been a while since we posted pics, we are more busy and have less free time than we used to have……..click on thumbnail to see enlarged……

She’s asleep!

It’s been awhile since we posted anything and we have a chance tonight! Karlie had an eventful day today as she picked out lots of new things at Babies-R-Us in Austin (thanks Fowler). She had a blowout at Schlotsky’s and messed up my shirt and my pants…ugh!! Luckily i had another outfit for Karlie, but i was stuck with poopy clothes the rest of the day. We think that it is the formula change that she’s gettting used to. We bought a jumper today and it just swallows her, but she seems to enjoy it for the most part. She rocks more than jumps, but she’ll get the idea the more we put her in it. We also got her an excersaucer that the dr. suggested. She has a flat head and she needs to be up and active as much as possible. She did a lot of laying around while she was in the orphanage. She has now moved from Kangaroo milk…ha! (Chinese formula) to Similac. Her dr apt went well yesterday and she weighed 15.7 lbs. and was 25.5 inches long. She only needed one shot and she didn’t cry for too long. She is very little and is in the 5th percentileof kids her age. Hopefully she will get bigger and stronger on this new formula. We will also introduce veggies too. She is such a sweetie and always has a smile for us! We are so thankful that her transition with us has been this smooth. Except for sleeping through the night she is doing wonderfully. We are having difficulty posting pics at this point, but will give it another whirl tomorrow. Thanks for all of the well wishes and prayers, we really appreciate it!

new pics

Here are some pics from Beijing and some from home. Karlie in her room, Grandmaw feeding her, Strolling at the Forbidden City, and 2 warriors with Julie and Karlie, and Great Granny

Beijing Pics

Here are some pics from our tours in Beijing

pics finally

You don’t know how glad we were to wake up in Texas this morning! Visiting China for 18 days was the trip of a lifetime, and we came home with our baby too. But finally sleeping in our own bed was wonderful. I will now post pics in the reverse order of our trip. So tonight’s pics are from our last 2 days in Beijing. We toured the Great Wall, Forbidden City, and Tian’ an Men Square all on Thursday May 8. It was the clearest day full of blue skies. We hadn’t seen blue sky in 2 weeks because of smog. Here are some pics and I will have a post right after this one that is just pics…..

Back in good ‘ole USA!

….but we are delayed in Newark!  Our flight was delayed for 4 hours, now instead of getting back to Austin around midnight Friday it will be early Sat morning.  Unfortunately we weren’t able to blog at all in China.  It was restricted by the government.  It really stinks that we couldn’t access it b/c there were so many days that we would’ve liked to  type about.  I should’ve kept a journal, but everything was so rushed that we spent a lot of time trying to get some sleep whenever possible.  We actually arrived in China around 11pm, were picked up by our guide Grace and then back to motel by midnight and we got Karlie the next morning around 11.  Can you believe that we didn’t even have a whole day to ourselves to get a handle on everything before she arrived?  Talk about overwhelming.  I really didn’t know if I could handle being there b/c I was so nervous about everything, then throw in Karlie and things were even more crazy. The nannies just delivered them to our hotel floor right off the elevator, it was really strange, everyone trying to pick out their babies.  We didn’t recognize Karlie at first  b/c she was 3 mos older, then we saw those huge eyes, and Drake confirmed it was our En Zhen!  She couldn’t be any cuter or sweeter.  She is just perfect and we feel so blessed to call her ours. We can’t wait to get back home to show her off.  Drake and I will post pics and messages when we get some time to catch everyone up and catch up on our sleep. THANK you all who prayed for us throughout this incredible journey to get our Karlie.  Our long wait was definitely worth it!  Now just a few more hours and we’ll be home!  Please continue to pray for our family!  God is so good!