Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Happy 4th of July!

We had a wonderful 4th of July weekend with our family! Our local fire department has an annual picnic that we attend and it was wonderful to bring Jadyn this year! She really enjoyed all of the activities and watching her brothers play the games and take part in the rides. We contemplated the pony rides for her, but decided to hold off until next year:)

She had fun sampling the food and swinging in the swing at the park. We had a lot of positive comments from other people as to how cute she was and there was another couple with two adopted Asian daughters that stopped to say “Hi”, which was nice. We are still a little in the guarded phase because we do not know what other people think or what they will say; our hometown community is not all that diverse and I know of a few friends in the adoption community who have encountered some “not-so-nice” comments. Hopefully, we will be able to avoid those individuals!

Jadyn also had her first ice cream cone this weekend – she loved it! She kept screaming for more; it was so cute! There is also a picture of her with my old purse around her shoulder; it was too cute! I received a nice, new purse for my birthday and when I finished cleaning out my old purse I placed it on the floor for her to play with. She immediately tried wrapping it around her shoulder and proceeded to crawl around the floor with it over her back - it was so funny to watch!

She continues to try to walk a step or two at a time and her brothers are really working with her on this - they are such a big help to her and us! Gosh, we have an amazing family!!!























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