Forever Family Day!

Eight years ago today a small, scared baby girl was put in our arms! She could not sit up or rollover or even smile....with in a week she was giggling, rolling over, grabbing for toys, and sitting up (with a little help)! We can't believe it's been eight years! Today we are honored to be chosen to be parents to Regina Ya Xuan Fuster. Today we bless and honor her birth parents and China for giving us the most wonderful gift in the world.


As you can see we (Nick and I) tried everything to scan in photos of Regina's match pictures and this was the best we could do!

Our beautiful eight year old! Almost nine!!

CCAI OPEN HOUSE AND REUNION

CCAI's open house was so much fun! It was wonderful for everyone to meet LuLu! Pam and Sara were so excited. Sara cried, I cried..... We hadn't gotten a picture with Josh and Lilly in a long time so that was nice. Regina and Lilly are from Hunan! Regina played so many games and shared her prizes with her sister. I met Josh's sister who is doing work in Henan and she knew LuLu....man did I start crying when she was talking about her in the orphanage. She had longer hair and it would stick to her head it was so hot (this explains why she wanted her clothes off all the time when she joined our family)! She would stand in the hallway with her friends and she was very pale because they didn't go outside very often......what a sad start to a little girls life. We now know that is why she always is so happy when we go outside to play.
We ate homemade dumplings that Josh's mother made I think they were the best I have ever had here in the US! All in all the day was excellent, Regina had a blast, Daddy and LuLu bonded and ate lots of dumplings and Mama got to show off LuLu and Regina and meet some of my cyber space friends.

Lilly, Josh, Regina and LuLu in the CCAI entrance. They truly are wonderful people.

They are the owners of our adoption agency we used for both adoptions.