Merry Christmas!!

We had a wonderful first Christmas with our precious lil Olivia! She's walking on her own now and starting to repeat everything we say! She loves to have us read to her and will sit sometimes for almost an hour while we peruse her favorite books!

Well look who's finally updated the blog?!

It's November 14th and it has been way too long since the blog's been updated. I'll try to do better but there are no promises.

Olivia is doing well. She's off the bottle which wasn't as traumatic as I feared. She asks for it every now and then but I think it's just out of habit. It's amazing how much the child can eat once the four bottles of milk a day were eliminated!

Above are a couple of photos from her baptism on October 5th and the third photo is just plain funny.

September 7th update

On September 4th, we completed the readoption process for the state of Wisconsin, where we went before the judge and had our petition to adopt Olivia approved. Everything is official now with the state. We can now obtain a birth certificate from Wisconsin.

As you can see from the video, she loves taking walks with Granddad and Mommy! She also likes to make her shoes squeak!

We also added a few more photos to the photobucket site. Check them out at http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/nn197/gaparrish/September%207th%20download/

New photos, finally.

Here are some recent photos of our Olivia. It's amazing how much she's grown since March. Enjoy! We've also added several more to the Photobucket site which can be found at:
http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/nn197/gaparrish/August%207th%20download/?albumview=grid

More photos

At the risk of overloading the site here, I set up an account on photobucket and downloaded several more pictures. I have many many more to download so check the site often. The address is http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/nn197/gaparrish/China%20Trip/?albumview=grid
Just copy and paste the address to your browser and enjoy the pics!

We are HOME!!!

After a delay in Guangzhou, a sprint to the gate in Tokyo and a delay in Minneapolis we are FINALLY home!! Grandpa Michie was happy to see us too (or at least happy to see Olivia!), as you can see in the photo. She warmed up to him quickly as we knew she would. Aunty Kim also got to get some lovin' in too! We are adjusting to the time changes slowly. We have been working the past couple of nights to change her sleep schedule to accomodate the time change. As many of you know, that's not an easy task with a one year old. All in all, she is doing wonderfully with the adjustments considering the 13 hour time difference.

We have Livvy!!!

We received our beautiful daughter on March 30th! Thanks to Mark I am able to post them on the site. For some reason my computer decided not to play well with the internet! Anyway, enough of my ramblings. There will be plenty of time for that later. Here are the pics of our lovely baby girl!!