Happy Thanksgiving to all! What am I thankful for this year......of course...DAWSON! I am so greatful she is home and loving the U.S.A.! Please keep the other adopted children from Guatemala in your prayers. There are still so many left that are not yet home! I was fortunate to get her out but, many remain due to governmental problems. On another note, we had a fun day today. We stopped by the little gym to play and then went to Buehlers to get a few things! I am just enjoying my 5 days off!

November 24th, 2008

How do you like my new hat? I still have a bad cold and really bad eyes but, don't I look cute?

November 23rd, 2008

On Saturday we went to breakfast with Santa, downtown Akron, where the annual Children's Hospital Tree Festival is held. Dawson continues to struggle with a major cold that has caused a bad cough and some yucky eyes. She felt good enough to go but, as you can see from the scanned picture...she looks a little Chinese instead of Guatemalan. She didn't like Santa at all and barely tolerated Mrs. Claus. She is slowly stretching out her hands to get away! I'm thinking this will be my only Santa picture this year!!

November 16, 2008

Last night we had our first snow fall of the season and DAWSON saw snow for the very first time. She ran to the window and just kept pointing. We only had a dusting on the ground but, the snow was falling really hard. The ground was just too warm for it to stick. I tried to get the snow to show up in the picture but, it just wouldn't work. Here she is, ready for bed with her bear, just amazed at the snow falling down!

November 10th 2008

We went to Step 2 in Hudson looking for some Christmas ideas. We tried ........

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A HOUSE....

A SLIDE......

A NEW RED CAR

OR A DINER......

(YOU COOK ON ONE SIDE, EAT ON THE OTHER! )

November 9th, 2008

Sorry I haven't posted for awhile...I've been busy putting away Halloween things, getting out Thanksgiving things, parent conferences, Dr. follow-up appointments and preparing documents for Dawson's readoption. I'm hoping this is going to happen in December. Here are a few pictures from our Guatemalan play group event on Friday. We went to The Little Gym. Dawson really loves to climb and balance. Have you ever heard of a Guatemalan gymnast???

GREAT BALANCE DAWSON

PLAYING WITH SCARVES

GREAT LANDING!

ENJOYING SNACK WITH SOME GUATEMALANFRIENDS