23 months old today!

One more month until our Olivia turns two! Attached are recent photos: one with her buddy, Jwana, that visits us every now and then and the other is from a recent gathering with her China buddies, Cari and Nicholas.

One Year Ago Today...

Hard to believe it's been a year since we received our referral for our beautiful baby girl.

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!