Big Baby & Dim Sum

I was going to finish my step-mom's scrapbook today for Christmas, and then P reminded me that awhile ago we had talked of doing our Christmas today! Think he could have reminded me earlier! (Of course, I should have remembered too...)

Sooooo....
P and I started a new tradition today: We went thru a blinding, blowing snowstorm to our most favorite Chinese restaurant in the world and had AMAZING dim sum. We've gotten dim sum from there before, but we've usually picked up our few favorites on top of our other favorites from there. I've been going to this place since I was about 10 - a total of 23 years, I realized!!!

We had shanghai pork buns, bbq pork buns, spring rolls, fried green beans, bean paste skin with pork, onion pancake, shrimp toast, and giant sesame rolls and steamed coconut rolls for dessert. (Don't worry, I'm not going to eat dinner...or breakfast...or lunch, tomorrow!)

The lovely woman who owns the restaurant has known about our adoption, so I showed her the pics of H. Her first response (the same as the rest of our Chinese friends, actually!): Ohhhhh....big healthy baby! She's soooooo big! She's a big big baby. Lucky baby. She will be large and tall, taller than us Cantonese. She has big bones. You know, she'll like spicy food. She's such a big baby!

Then she went on to tell us that we have to adopt again (after I assured her that we will not get pregnant now), because one baby is "stressful and troubling." Huuuummmmmm....P can't deny me now, the woman who feeds us well has told us we have to do this again!

Now, what do I have to do?!? Cram and jam on one pet scrapbook before 4 pm tomorrow.

Oh, and the IA doc said I had a "bruiser-ette" baby. I guess H isn't the petite tiny baby I imagined for the last 2 years! She's still completely perfect....

Next year, we'll be ordering dim sum for three...

Limited Time Engagement

Here's our daughter, our beautiful, smart, funny, engaging, independent daughter! (Amazing we can tell that all from a few small pics, huh?)


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We're in luv!

P and I wish all of you the most happiest and wonderful Christmas! May your holidays be filled with love, happiness, good times and hope!

We've Got Her!

We've got her file! Finally! We've got everything, and we've signed everything...we're officially Mama and Baba...

She's beautiful, introverted and watchful, protests loudly if she feels aggreived, likes to play with bright toys, has a crib mate or crib neighbor she's attached to...

Gotta go get doctor reviews and such - I'll post more later! Oh, yeah, and our agency has to answer back why some translations are missing - the "top-notch" translations that they got done that took so long!

My face is about to crack, I've got such a big smile in it. She's my daughter, and I'm in love.

Slowly Going Insane...

Sooooo....my agency, whom-I've-come-up-with-all-kinds-of-witty-and-insulting-plays-on-their-name-but-I'm-going-to-be-the-bigger-person, weeeelllll, they suck. Actually, that's one of the adjectives that I use ALOT in my funny renaming game. I drive down the road, being mad at them...simmering actually, and then POP! comes another funny one, and I can't wait till I can get one of my girlfriends-in-bitching on the phone to tell them what I've come up with now...

Hey - you could avoid a lot of awkward silence between me and your rep when we finally get to China, and I use one of my made up names to refer to your less-than-illustrious agency when I mean to say the real name...if you would just GET OFF YOUR ASS, AND PAY MORE THAN 19.99USD FOR OUR TRANSLATIONS OF OUR CHILDRENS' FILES, SO THAT THEY COME IN LESS TIME THEN IT IS GOING TO TAKE FOR THE NEXT ICE AGE TO ARRIVE.

Is that clear enough for you?

If you wanted to placate me, you could actually give me her stats (weight and such) like you did another family, even though you said you can't translate that (I soooo know that's not hard), and her picture...cause guess what - it doesn't matter...she's my daughter.

Again, verstehe dich?

We Have A Daughter!

Born 03/07
Hunan Province

Needless to say...we're estatic! Pictures next week!

We're INNNNNNNN!!!

I'm speechless...(well, y'all know that is never true)!

We're going to be a mommy and a daddy. This is amazing. This is unreal. Gaaaahhhh...I wish I had something profound to say, but I don't. What words can express the notion that yesterday I was a PAP, and now, I'm a mommy?!?

No words qualify - none are up to that task.

And so y'all don't think I've gone all Type B on y'all...I didn't post last night cause I left my @$*&# computer in the car at my Dad's house when I went over to scam some pot roast and sweet potatos, and, well, I didn't realize it was going to get THAT cold, I was only there 2 hours, but ol' Bessie the laptop here was doing the best impersonation of a iceberg that I've ever seen, so I was afraid to crank her up! I promise to be in true Type A++ form as soon as we get THE CALL!

12/14 referral received out West

A woman on the West Coast has announced receiving a referral, and her LID is 12/14/05...

Oh my god...this is happening.

I've been crying, laughing, screaming, twitching etc for over the past hour...

Is this really real?

Of course, my SW is off today...I don't think they will hit the midwest and East Coast till tomorrow though!

Acccccckkkkk!

Am I a mommy?!??!