Friday, August 19, 2016
August 10, 2016. Luke's Gotcha Day!
Oh, baby! It's been 4 years! We were finalizing your adoption in China together 4 years ago! I love you!
Gotcha Day is the day we celebrate your adoption. Mommy likes to talk about China, and our time together in China! What a gift you and I have been given! You and I went to dinner at our favorite pizza restaurant. We have fun solving the puzzles and riddles on the butcher-block paper. You were so excited that you told the waitress, "It's Adoption Day!" After pizza, we went to Graeter's for ice cream! You had Raspberry Chocolate Chip and I had Mint Chocolate Chip. You wanted to sit outside on the benches! We had a great Gotcha Day!
Gotcha Day is the day we celebrate your adoption. Mommy likes to talk about China, and our time together in China! What a gift you and I have been given! You and I went to dinner at our favorite pizza restaurant. We have fun solving the puzzles and riddles on the butcher-block paper. You were so excited that you told the waitress, "It's Adoption Day!" After pizza, we went to Graeter's for ice cream! You had Raspberry Chocolate Chip and I had Mint Chocolate Chip. You wanted to sit outside on the benches! We had a great Gotcha Day!
July 2016. Time for Summer Vacation!
It's time to go to North Carolina again! We get so excited for this vacation! Aunt Gerry said that you had grown taller! Aunt Gerry bought you a lightning bug flashlight. She also bought us tickets for the Grasshoppers baseball game. The game was on Independence Day, July 4. We had so much fun eating hot dogs and blue snow cones! I was a little worried about the fireworks because you had never watched a big fireworks show before, and it was going to be very loud! You loved it and Mommy had worried for nothing! Jenna and Matt spent the 4th in Chicago, and we would see them in a few days.
The next day, we drove out to the country to meet Aunt Gerry's friends, Miss Kay and Mr. Les. They took us to a tractor festival, and we loved it! We ate funnel cakes and ice cream! You actually milked a cow, rode on a train, and drove on a tractor with Miss Kay! What a great day for us!
Jenna and Matt are back from Chicago, and up to the mountains we go! We all looked for gems in Blowing Rock and went to Mast General in Valle Crucis! We all had a bottle of Peach Soda, and thought it was the most delicious soda ever! You played putt-putt golf with Jenna and Matt, and climbed the climber at the Rec Center. Aunt Gerry took all of us to Kilwin's for ice cream. She bought you the coolest tee shirt with seven scoops of ice cream! Mommy bought you a red snowboard shirt from Fred's on Beech Mountain. We wish our family vacation would last forever! We are blessed!
The next day, we drove out to the country to meet Aunt Gerry's friends, Miss Kay and Mr. Les. They took us to a tractor festival, and we loved it! We ate funnel cakes and ice cream! You actually milked a cow, rode on a train, and drove on a tractor with Miss Kay! What a great day for us!
Jenna and Matt are back from Chicago, and up to the mountains we go! We all looked for gems in Blowing Rock and went to Mast General in Valle Crucis! We all had a bottle of Peach Soda, and thought it was the most delicious soda ever! You played putt-putt golf with Jenna and Matt, and climbed the climber at the Rec Center. Aunt Gerry took all of us to Kilwin's for ice cream. She bought you the coolest tee shirt with seven scoops of ice cream! Mommy bought you a red snowboard shirt from Fred's on Beech Mountain. We wish our family vacation would last forever! We are blessed!
May 8, 2016. Happy Mother's Day!
I had a lovely Mother's Day this year! You painted pink flowers on a ceramic tile ...It's really my favorite gift ever! Grandma sent a beautiful flower arrangement for the back deck. She always signs your name! Thank you, Grandma.
Happy Easter, 2016!
This is the second Easter in our new house! We have lived in our house for just a little over a year. Your getting so big, Luke! You are 5 years old now. I'm so proud of you! We went to the chocolate store a few days before Easter, and Mommy took your picture with the Easter Bunny! We bought some chocolates in pretty flower foils for Grandma!
On Easter Saturday, we went to church for The Blessing of the Easter Basket Mass! After the Blessing, we went to an Easter Egg Hunt on the field next to church. You were so excited, and it was a beautiful, sunny day! During the Easter Egg Hunt, a little boy dropped his basket, and his eggs rolled everywhere. You stopped, put your basket down, and started picking up the little boy's eggs. You were helping him fill his basket back up! It was a very kind thing to do, Luke! You are such a kind person! A parent came up to you after the Easter Egg Hunt and said, "I saw what you did and I want to tell you that not everyone would have done what you did!" He was right, Luke. Not everyone would have stopped to help a child during an Easter Egg Hunt, but you did! I am so proud of you!
The Easter Bunny came to our house the next morning! He filled your basket with chocolate coins, foil ladybugs, and foil bumble bees. He gave you a beautiful chocolate bunny! He gave you a nightlight with a little boy saying a prayer! The Easter Bunny gave you a soft, brown bunny rabbit! Grandma gave you yellow truck pajamas and orange tiger pajamas! Thank you, Grandma!
A couple of weeks later, you and I attended Kindergarten Screening at church. You and I were both so excited ...Kindergarten is right around the corner!
On Easter Saturday, we went to church for The Blessing of the Easter Basket Mass! After the Blessing, we went to an Easter Egg Hunt on the field next to church. You were so excited, and it was a beautiful, sunny day! During the Easter Egg Hunt, a little boy dropped his basket, and his eggs rolled everywhere. You stopped, put your basket down, and started picking up the little boy's eggs. You were helping him fill his basket back up! It was a very kind thing to do, Luke! You are such a kind person! A parent came up to you after the Easter Egg Hunt and said, "I saw what you did and I want to tell you that not everyone would have done what you did!" He was right, Luke. Not everyone would have stopped to help a child during an Easter Egg Hunt, but you did! I am so proud of you!
The Easter Bunny came to our house the next morning! He filled your basket with chocolate coins, foil ladybugs, and foil bumble bees. He gave you a beautiful chocolate bunny! He gave you a nightlight with a little boy saying a prayer! The Easter Bunny gave you a soft, brown bunny rabbit! Grandma gave you yellow truck pajamas and orange tiger pajamas! Thank you, Grandma!
A couple of weeks later, you and I attended Kindergarten Screening at church. You and I were both so excited ...Kindergarten is right around the corner!
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