One week to go ... Until Daddy comes home!!!

More photos of Switzerland!

Switzerland

More Pictures!

Jerry's Trip

More pictures...

Jerry in Austria and Switzerland!

Jerry is spending 2 weeks in Austria and Switzerland with our friend T. They are backpacking during the day and 5 star hotelling it at night! Bums! Here are some photos!

My 2 Favorite Men!

We went out to Lake Michigan on a warm day in December!

Some Random Pictures!

Our WONDERFUL Stroller! A Britax, the more we use it, the more we love it! Alex loves it too!



These are my youngest sister's kiddos! They are so fun and adorable! Alex really enjoyed himself! He was really not sure what that thing was in cousin Erica's mouth though! haha! He kept yanking it out of her mouth and looking it over!

My Sister April, Colin and Erica! Her hubby was not home that day!

Alex totally enjoyed the snow... a little hard taking steps in though... he mostly crawled... er... snowplowed through it though!!
This is our Family Portrait!

For Our Secret Pal from my July DTC group!

Alex loves his gifts!

CyberShower Pal!

THANK YOU!!!!

Cyber Shower Pal for October!!!
Thank you so much!! I love the dinner set! It was so perfect! It is so beautiful too! I am so going to enjoy feeding Kimi with it!!!
October’s theme was meal time! She sent us a 100 good wishes dinner set in honor of a new baby in Chinese tradition from Red Envelope! It is soooo nice!!

To My Secret pal!!!

Secret Pal!!!
No offense to anyone else, but… I HAVE THE BEST SECRET PAL!!! She is from my DTC July 2006 yahoo group! She sent us the most wonderful stuff while we were gone and another one came today!! Thank you SOOOO much!!! October was bath theme and November was Lady bug month!!! Not only did she send gifts for baby Kimi, but she also included cards and gifts for Alex!! So sweet and thoughtful!!! Here are the pictures of the gifts from her!!
Thank You!
Thank You!
Thank You!
This is what was waiting for me when I returned from Kazakhstan!! So sweet! The bib and the onesie is for Alex! October was Bath Month!

This was the November package that I received the other day, the theme for the month is Ladybugs! Which is a symbol of Luck for the Chinese Adoption Community! The towel and Bib both have the most adorable Ladyugs, they are pink ladybugs!!! She also sent another gift for Alex!!! He thanks you, Secret Pal!! He keeps the teether with him in his bed!! :) Thank you so much for the scrapbooking stuff!!!

New Blog!

We started a new blog because I think we ran out of space on this one! We want to post more pictures, right!!!? So click on this link!

http://cookfamilyadventuresinkaz.blogspot.com/

We Finally Meet!!!!!!

I know that you all just want to see pictures, so here they are, and my guess is that you are not even reading this!

We went to the baby house again and then we waited for the inspector to come, she came about 5:00pm went into the director’s office and they decided it was too cold in there for the baby. So we went into the music room, to wait for baby Alex to come. He finally came in with a caregiver. Oh my word! Our hearts just melted when we saw him. It was not at all like the other children we saw yesterday, we thought they were cute and all but no serious connection. I think the inspector could tell, too. We told her that we wanted him! The baby was actually happy to see us! He was bouncing up and down and hitting my chest with his little (big) fists! He was smiling and so happy to see us!!! He could hardly contain himself he was so excited!!! It was so precious! Jerry could hardly stand it!! He just wanted to kiss on him and stuff!!! We were completely in love and you could tell!!!
Our meetings with Alex will be at 11-12 noon and 3-4pm every day until the other family leaves next week. Then we will switch to 10-11 and the 3-4 will be the same. We are glad that we get to have 2 visits with him a day. We will bring 5 diapers a day and an outfit to put him in. They will give the outfits back everyday and we will wash them and then we can bring them again. I hope they fit! We can hardly wait to see him again tomorrow!!! We love him so much!!!!