My Smart Little Monkey

I found a cheap puzzle of the map of the USA at Target the other day. I bought it for Hannah. She loves it. It has amazed me how she is already starting to learn where several of the states go. Also, when asked which one is her state she will find TN and show us. She is a smart cookie. My sister who teaches Pre-K said that her Pre-K teacher will be happy to have her in the class. I just hope we can find a good one for her to attend.

She also is learning what streets lead to our house. On the way home she will ask what street we on on. When we get on the street that our road is off of she will shout that our road is next. Then she will shout out our address at this point. I taught her our address with the tune of Our you sleeping Father John. It starts with her singing her name"Hannah Shockley, Hannah Shockley, is my name, is my name, "address", "address", is where I live, where I live" After we sing "her" song we have to go through all of our families. We told her that she will have to help teach it to Ethan.

Lord Send Your Angels

This is Greg: ) Today was the first time I cried for Ethan. Praying that he is safe and that he can feel our love for him across the ocean. This song is from Daddy to my son Ethan. I love you son! You will soon be home in our loving arms. Until then, I pray that God's angels will hold and protect you until the day that we are united. I love you!

Nothing new

Nothing new here. We are still waiting to hear something about Ethan. Greg and I were talking the other night about how it gets tiring to have to keep answering peoples' questions about whether or not we have heard anything. I know that all of you waiting and those that have done this in the past understand what I'm talking about. I appreciate that people are interested. I just wish that they would not ask every day.

We are probably going to get a care package together to send to Ethan soon. I am going to put questions in there hoping that they will answer them for us. I want to know as much about Ethan's life before we got him that they will tell me.

I am getting very antsy waiting. I could handle the whole waiting for the referral better than waiting to find out when I will travel. That I think is the harder of the two. It is great to have friends that have been through and going through the same experience to talk with.

Back Dorm Boys - Peking Opera

Favorite Photo Friday - God's Masterpiece

This morning we looked out our back door to this beautiful scenes. It just amazes me sometimes at the beauty of God's creation. He is such an amazing artist. Every brush stoke is perfect. These pictures were taken at the same time just looking at different sections of the sky.

Ping Jiang reunion

This past weekend was the reunion of our China travel families. It was down here in the Nashville area. We had a blast. It was wonderful to see all of the families again. We have missed them greatly since coming back from China.

Hannah had a wonderful time. She cried, let me say screamed, for 25 minutes start on the way home Friday night. She was sleepy and did not want to leave all the fun. She was very happy when we went back the next day.

It was neat to see all of the girls that were there. There were so many different personalities. They all seemed to get along so great.

Hannah spent most of the day Saturday in the pool. She really started doing great. She had on her swim vest and floaties. At first she would just hold on to Greg or myself. By the end of the day she was swimming off by herself. We really need to get her into swim lessons.

I forgot my camera so I do not have photos of the weekend. I will get some when the we get the disc of photos the professional made. If you would like to see some pictures you can visit some of the other families blogs in the sidebar.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

We had a fun 4th this year in our new community. My sister, Barbara, was in twon with her sons, Austin and Dylan, husband James. We went to the local fireworks show. It was pretty good for a small town. Hannah had a lot of fun. She really enjoyed having her family in town. She had fun playing with her cousins.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANNAH!!!

Hannah is now 3. We celebrated her birthday with some family and friends at Chuck E. Cheese's on Saturday. Hannah took a while to warm up to everyone and start to have fun. She enjoyed having me play skee ball. She would always put the the coins in the slot for me. She did not like Chuck E. too much. She was very happy when she opened our present of a little keyboard that she wanted.

My sister, Barbara, and her sons Austin and Dylan are staying with us a few days. Hannah is having alot of fun with them here.