We are so grateful!

Just wanted to note a few things that we are thankful for here as we are in China.

1) Our sweet, precious girl!
2) Our wonderful group. We really have a great group of families who we are traveling with.
3) Morgan, who is traveling with us. What a great facilitator and guide!
4) All of the help from Oma and Opa.
5) That Grace is really enjoying Yana, Adam, Lily and Jadon. They all love to laugh and laugh and laugh. It is such a blessing that Grace is enjoying her siblings.
6) A good afternoon for Grace and Baba. They spent the afternoon together (just the two of them) and had a great time.
7) Great food! We love Chinese food.
8) The time in GuangZhou. It is so fun to have this familiar place to be.
9) A great experience in Guizhou. We enjoyed learning about some of the minority population in China. Also, it is the poorest province in China, and I am grateful to have had the experience of seeing how much of the world lives. It helps me to be grateful for what I have, and to desire to live even more simply in order to help others have the basic necessities of life.
10) An incredible time with some Catholic believers on Sunday. It was so enjoyable to talk with this group of people and also to worship with them.
11) Being here with all of our kids. They've done so well.
12) All of your comments, emails and prayers. Thank you so much!

These are just a few of the things that we are thankful for. There is so much more. We truly have had a blessed time.


I also wanted to note a few things about our sweet daughter, after having her for a week.

1) She has a smile that will melt your heart.
2) She has an incredible laugh.
3) Her first english phrase was "uh-oh". This also happens to be Adam's first phrase.
4) She loves fruit, and is not too crazy about bread products.
5) She loves playing in the bathtub.
6) She is afraid of dogs, but loves to look at Rosemary's picture. So, I think that Rosemary will win her over.
7) She loves to look at all of the pictures in her photo book, and point out everyone in the book.
8) She is a deep thinker. You can see it on her face.
9) She knows how to pout!!!
10) Jumping down stairs is a favorite passtime.
11) The Father loves her and has clearly kept her in His care. She is such a blessing to us!!


We had Grace's medical exam today. She did great. She smiled for the majority of the time. She weighs 12 kilos (about 26 pounds), fully clothed and is 89.5 centimeters tall (not sure of what that would be in inches).

Tomorrow we visit the Safari Park. The kids are really looking forward to this. Hopefully we'll get to feed some pandas!

Please continue to pray for Adam. He's been doing well, but did have one incident with peanuts on the plane ride to GuangZhou. He got pretty sick, but is o.k. now. We're so grateful!