Family of Six: December 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009

So much to be grateful for...

Intense concentration!

Is he mocking me????

Overstimulation!!!!!!!!!

...we were landing in the Missoula airport with our beautiful, oh-so-sick, silent, scared, amazing daughter.

Tonight we celebrate our beautiful, absolutely healthy, oh-so-noisy, fearless, amazing daughter.

WHAT A YEAR. WHAT AN INCREDIBLE YEAR!

This is our referral photograph!

This is Sylvie-Aganoti today!

That's her first name?

That's her last name?

That's who took pictures of our readoption. Check it out!

http://www.cracklephotographyblog.com/index.cfm?postID=406

Great Adoption Books for Parents

(Africa/Ethiopia) "There is No Me Without You" by Melissa Fay Greene
(Africa/Zimbabwe) "Love in the Driest Season" by Neeley Tucker
(China) "And Baby Makes Two" by Judy Sheehan
(China) "China Ghosts" by Jeff Gammage
(China) "Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past" by Karin Evans
(China) "Passage to the Heart: Writings from Families with Children from China" by Amy Klatzkin
(US) "The Mistress's Daughter" by A.M. Holmes
(Vietnam) "Beyond the Blue" by Leslie Gould
(Vietnam) "Finding Katherine: A Spiritual Journey to Vietnam and Motherhood" by Ellen Fitzenrider
(Vietnam) "If You Lived Here" by Dana Sachs