Some cute stories

Well it been interesting to say the least since we brought home Emma Lin. I knew we would get some rude comments or questions from people, but this past week two different little kids had some funny and cute questions.
First was at my friends son birthday party. there were about 10 kids there aging about 5 and 6 years old. There was a little boy adopted from Korea there. About the time the party was dying down a little girl came over to me and said
you little baby is so cute
ME: Thanks
Little girl as she is pointing to the little Korean boy "is that her brother"
ME:No
Little girl: are you sure
ME: yes honey I don't even know that the little boy
Little girl: Oh ok well your baby is cute
ME. Thanks

Thought that was pretty funny

Then a week later we were at another friends son birthday party
and this little boy came over to me and said is she (pointing to Emma) really from China
Me: yes
about 2o minutes later he was talking to Emma tring to get her to sit on his lap, he was kissing her and tring to give her a snack.
Of course Emma is just looking at this kid like he is crazy, not really sure what to do. So she just stood there for a minute then looked at me so I called her over to me and she jumped into my arms.
he then said is a really sad voice "whats wrong with her cheek" I told him about her rash and her eye.
As he listened to the answered he walked away and said again I can't beleive she is all the way from China.
When we were getting ready to leave he said bye Emma hope to see you again. Then asked me is she ok and healhly? I said yes and then he said oh ok good.
Not sure why he thought something could be wrong with her?
Kids are so cute, I am sure we are going to encounter some mean ones later on in life. But these two little ones were so sweet.

Well heres one story that took me by complete surprise. and i really don't think this was very nice.

We were at the mall (Emma, me and my mom) Emma is all dressed up in a dress with a bow in her hair.
This old lady ( normally i wanted use old lady,but this lady diserved the title) come up to me and said
"is IT adopted"
yes
" is IT a girl"
yes she is
well how much do they run you now adays?
So i just walked away how do you response to that>?????

This was our last week together before I go back to work, BOO. We had a fun filled week and got to spend time with some of our friends. We went to the zoo with Greg and Sarah and also to Point Pleasant beach with Judy and Micheal. Point Pleasant beach is super beautiful we really had a nice time playing in the sand and walking the board walk. Emma is doing really good. Her physical therapy is going good and Emma likes her therapist. Her belly and legs mussels are getting stronger everyday. She still likes to hold our hand when she walks, but when we are at home she gets around by herself. She still had a struggle getting up from a sitting position, but we work on getting herself up everyday. The one bad thing is her eye, I don't see any improvement on the clogged tear duct so I am thinking we might need the surgery on her eye. Its so bad it is causing a really bad rash on her cheek. I am not crazy about our last eye doc so I think I am going to make an appointment with a new doc and get a second option and see if there are drops or something else that might help the eye before we do the surgery. Well I hope everyone enjoyed their summer and hopefully we will get another month or two before the weather starts getting cooler.

2 month cupcake night

We celebrated Emma's two month gottcha day tonight with both families. I had my parents, sister, nephew, grandmom and cousins over. Ryan had his dad,nephew ,sisiter, grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins were over. We celebrated Emma Chinese heritage this month. We made panda bear cupcakes and Emma was dressed in a panda outfit. Emma had a nice time celebrating with her cousins and friends. Ryan friend Brian and his daughter came over and brought a moon bounce. Emma loved it. She had allot of fun sitting there while the girls jumped around her. It was nice for the two families to come together to help us celebrate our 2 month anniversary as a family. It sounds funny to say two months it really seems like she has been part of our life forever. She is such a joy in our lives. Life really can't get any better. I wish she could stay this age forever, she is so much fun. I love watching her all day. She is so smart and wants to learn everything. She already figured out how to open the baby gates. We were at the mall yesterday and saw a family with two children that had server special needs, when I looked at this family it brought tears to my eyes. I realized just how blessed we are that we have a happy, healthy little girl. We were in the special needs program and you never really know until your home in what kind of medical shape your child will be in. When we heard about Emma needs e really prepared ourselves for the worst, that when we brought her home her breathing could be bad. We feel in love with this pic of a beautiful smiling baby and when i said to my husband I think we should send in our Letter of Intent this baby was meant to be ours even if is only for a short time. He reply by saying or maybe she wasn't meant to be alone and if the worst happens she will have a family to be with her. We prepared ourselves for the worst, but thankfully when we came home all our docs said she is fine, no problems heart and lungs are great. We truly are thankful for a happy, healthy fun loving little girl. She is the joy in so many peoples lives. We also received her citizenship papers this week. Our little Emma Lin Glori Inch is officially a US citizen!

misc. pics

Sorry I have not posted in a while. Emma has been keeping me busy. We are enjoying the summer by taking some day trips. We have gone down the shore, zoo, malls, picnics, over friends houses. Emma is doing really well she is starting to crawl (well its more like the army crawl) she is walking great. She still likes us to be around her when she is walking but she does it on her own now. She can almost pull herself up on her own. and can even climb onto the couch herself. She has come such a long way in 2 months. Her Aunt Debbie is spoiling her, she bought her a roller coaster ( it is a really cool ride) and a motorized train with track, not to mention the super cute outfits and shoes. My nephews really love her and they do great with her. I can't believe the summer is almost over, I wonder what we are going to do all winter long? I am going to take her to please touch museum today. We go back next thurs for her hearing test, hopefully she will pass this time and we won't have to worry about getting tubes for her ears. Emma is starting to watch some cartoons on tv. She loves music so everything a song comes on she starts dancing. Watching her cute little butt shake is the cutest thing.