100 Wishes quilt

Well I am starting Emma quilt today. We got most of the 100 pieces of fabric. I will make up the difference. I found a pattern I like. It is butterflies. I am going to make the wings and bodies from the different fabrics and in between the butterflies i will do a square pattern with different blocks in the different fabrics. I think it is going to come out pretty cool. Ryan is going to go to class with me to help design it and lay it out. We will probably start cutting the pieces tonight and finish out the week. Next week at class I hope to have all the pieces cut so I can start sewing. I will update this on the progress after tonight. Thanks to all my family and friends who sent in the good wishes. Emma is going to love this.

China adoptions

I found this post on MSNBC website. For some people who might have some qustions about Special Needs Adoptions click on this link.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36037857/ns/health-kids_and_parenting//

The Cake Boss

Last night my mom and two cousins went to see the Buddy from the cake boss. What a great show. For those of you who don't know who he is, he is the owner of Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken New Jersey. It started out as his father business and when his dad died he took the bakery over and turn it into something really big and great. He does different cakes for all kinds of people and places. The show airs on TLC and its called cake boss. It really is a must see show. Well the show last night was buddy talking about him and his family, how much he loves them and he loves working with his family, that he loves doing this show because it is something that parents and their kids can watch together. It made me miss Emma, I just can't wait to get her home and start some family traditions with her. Maybe Sunday night dinners or picnic Friday. Well whatever we decide I know we will be watching Cake Boss together and hope that it will give Emma the inspiration to be creative.

I-800

Finally after 26 very long days we got our Approval from Immagration!! Now we are waiting for the National Visa Center to send their ok. Hopefully we will get that letter by early next week!! Once we get that our paperwork will be sent to China. Then Aritcle 5 and TA! Let hope we hear something before the end of April. Today I ordered a new truck. This way Emma will have a brand new car to drive around with her mommy. We got a Dodge Dakota Crew Cab in a light brown color with tan interior. We had to order one because in a 100 mile radius they only had two, one was a black one and one was blue. I really wanted to light brown so we should have it by the time we are back from China.

Baby shower

Sunday my family had a baby shower for Emma, Ryan and I. It was beautiful. We have such a wonderful family and awesome friends. Ryan and I are just so lucky, first to be parents to Emma Lin and second to be loved by so many people. When I walked into the room is looked so great. My mom and sister did a beautiful job decorating the tables with these super soft cuddly panda bears. They looked really cute. Everyone had a favor, it was a little Chinese take out container filled with a fortune cookie that said when you cracked it open welcome Emma Lin. The cookies were dipped in pink chocolate and tasted great. They also had chopsticks for everyone at their tables. My mom made a diaper cake and on top sat Mulan. Every detail was taken care of. The room looked great and was filled with so much love from everyone. After I got there I walked around to all the tables and everyone couldn't be more excited for us and can't wait to meet Emma. My mom and sister also had picture of Emma at each table. Well as far as the gifts go Emma go allot. We are pretty much covered in the cloths department until she is about 3. Emma will definitely be the best dressed girl in town. We got a cloths line full of cloths with shoes and socks to match that was pretty cool. My cousin Rose and her family got us the cutest chair with Ottoman for Emma it is really beautiful. My cousin Sally got us the cutest cloths she did a theme for different ages. I cannot wait to put Emma in this Panda jacket she got her. She also did a whole theme of Ladybugs cloths and a beautiful Pink fluffy jacket. We got this really cute butterfly rocker for Emma. It is really is the cutest thing. We got all of our big stuff from all our cousins. My parents, sister and Nephew got us our crib,mattress,nightstand, dresser and Armour for Emma's new room. My mom made me this beautiful jacket in red with ladybug buttons. it really is the cutest thing. My sister got us the cutest dresses,plus many great travel accessories to bring with us to china. I really could go on and on, we are truly blessed with everyonthing we got. I hope Emma felt some of the love that we were sending to her on Sunday. Thank you to all of our family and friends that came out to share in our celebration. We truly are grateful for everything that everyone did to help with the celebration and all of our gifts. WE can't wait to show them all to Emma.

Updated pics

Wow, thanks to Ann at Red Thread we got updates on Emma. It was such a nice surprise to see these pics this morning. I got into work and checked my email to see updates on Zhang Qi Fu. I got so nervous I couldn't even open the attachments. What a wonderful thing Ann at Red Thread does. She has such a great job and does this for families really for no money at all. I really want to send her a thank you gift but what? Something nice that says you don't know how happy you just me and thank you from the bottom of my heart. From the looks of the pics I think she might be walking, she has two teeth and weighs 19.8 lbs. Not sure if that weight is with or without her many layers of cloths. She looks so proud to be holding that flower in her hand. she still has her dimples and her hair is coming in. I really hope that they don't shave her head. I love the split pants, I can't help but get a kick out of them. Well all in all she looks happy and proud. Looks healthy. Now let hope we get the rest of our paperwork and Travel Approval real quick so we don't miss any more time with our Emma Lin.

I-800A

We received our I-800A yesterday! Pretty exciting we needed to renew this because we switched to Special Needs. We just got fingerprinted for the second time on Monday of last week and got the approval notice one week to the day. We are super excited hopefully our I-800 will be as quick. They recieved our paperwork on Wed of last week so hopefully we will at least get the receipt this WEd.