Hope Li Mei

When selecting her Chinese name we chose carefully. 

Li Mei - L. M. are my initials and we chose the Chinese characters:

Li - Beautiful
Mei - Rose

She truly is our beautiful rose!

Happy Halloween!

2 Years 5 Months, Home 17 Months

 Leaps & Bounds... Our sweet girl is coming along.  It seems like these past 5 months she really has grown and up so much.  She is talking more, bonding has grown and she is coming out of her shell a bit.

She has never been very friendly with strangers.  Sadly, frowning at them while Kate steals the show with her outgoing grin.  This week she walked up to a complete stranger who said hi to her and gave her a hug and a kiss! Luckily, I was there, the woman was a mom and came down to her level and thankfully gave her her cheek, otherwise Hope was going to plant a wet one right on her mouth!

Hope is doing very well in speech therapy, sleeping better, eating well and has been generally healthy except for a pesky runny nose in January and the stomach flu we all got!

She is beginning to sing and LOVE's dancing...

Our CNY this year was just a simple dinner in with neighbors.  I decorated our kitchen from our CNY box and dressed the girls in outfits we purchased while in China.  I was thrilled that they still fit.  We decided that we would try and find a CNY event to attend next year when Hope is 3. She is still unsure of new situations and crowds so we decided to wait until she was a bit older. Didn't want to scare her with a giant dragon!