It's Been Two Months!!!

Happy anniversary Mei-Ling. You have been an American citizen now for 2 whole months. You won't remember this, but when the customs officials stamped your visa in Detroit when we landed en route from Tokyo, you became an American. That was on October 21, the day before Mommy's 38th birthday!

You are the joy of our lives. We are so happy to have you.

Note: this was the very first picture we saw of Mei-Ling, when we received her referral in August of this year. Wow, how much she's changed already! Wo a ni sweet baby!

Wow, 50 YEARS!!!

I'm just full of posts today. I wanted to make some sort of mention of something that my parents DID NOT want a big deal made of. In September of this year, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Wow, 50 years with the SAME PERSON!!!! :)

Anyhow, they absolutely refused to let me throw a party or do anything for them publicly. So I did convince them to allow us to take them to a very nice dinner. I wanted them to have something different that what they'd had before, so we forced them to go to the Melting Pot, the fondue restaurant. They had a wonderful dinner of several things - shrimp, pork, beef, chicken and veggies cooked coq au vin style, a delicious cheese fondue, a California strawberry salad and much more. Of course it was interesting to watch them cook their own food in a fondue pot, but they got the hang of it pretty quickly.

Happy Anniversary Mac and Sylvia!

Love, your one and only child, Tina

Happy Holidays

We just wanted to update everyone that we are still over at www.myadoptionwebsite.com/meiling for a few more months. But, we'll still be posting on this blog some to get everyone acclimated to it. So, here's a nice picture of our family for the holidays. Thanks Mimi for Mei-Ling's beautiful Christmas dress!