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12/07/04

Just adding a few photos of our cat Ping because they are so funny. Here they are:

10/23/04

Time for another update. For those of you who may not know, we are heading back to China to adopt a sister for Lily. We are so excited. We started the paper work a few months ago, so will keep you posted of our progress. We found out that they increased the amount of space the site can hold by 5 times, so we've  uploaded a bunch of photos and a few video clips as well in the April to October 2004 gallery.


04/04/04

It has been some time since the last update as we have been busy buying, fixing up, moving, and touching up our new home. We especially want to thank Rose and Shawn for all there help in this endeavor - we couldn't have done it without their help. Lily is doing great and enjoying life to the fullest. She gives us joy everyday. Since it has been so long since the last update we must add a huge gallery. We promise the next update will not take so long. The 40 new images are in the September 2003 to March 2004 gallery.

 

08/17/03

Lily is really starting to develop some personality. She is assertive yet very compassionate. She loves to have fun. She is getting a grip on speaking now, and is speaking small sentences. Lily can repeat the alphabet, count (but she counts better in Chinese), and she knows a few colors. She knows some opposites, cold - hot, up - down, big - little. And man is she tough and strong. Check out the latest pictures in the June to August Gallery.

 

06/03/03

It's been a few months since we've done an update, so we just added a huge gallery of 45 pictures. From March to May
2003
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03/02/03

Added a few more pictures from the last month in the Feb 2003 gallery.

02/26/03 -

A bunch of great photos in the Xmas - Jan 2003 gallery update. Highlights include a visit to cousins down south and the Chinese New Year celebration. Carol and I really love our digital camera, we keep the good, print the best, then delete the rest.

12/29/02 - Back by popular demand the getting Lily clip (12 MB). Sorry, this is clip is to big, I had to remove it from the server for now.

11/26/02 - Added a bunch of pictures using our new digital camera.

Lily has been walking for 2 or 3 weeks now, and doing quite well at it. She is learning quick. She can say a few words such as: Mama, dada, cat, duck, bye-bye, doll, tree, and no-no. This is pretty good when you consider she heard no or little English prior to mid August. I've placed the new pictures under galleries under Lily & Vegas Nov 2002.

One cool thing I can do with the new camera is take panoramic pictures like the one below. See the 2MB full size image by clicking on the thumbnail below.

This update is for Xiangyi - 10/26/02

Lily took her first step last weekend. Yesterday, just 5 days after her first step, she took five steps in a row. She is standing up by herself a lot now. I guess it won't be long until we are chasing her around. She is a real entertainer as well. When we say "Make a silly face" she makes this silly face. She gets great joy out of doing this in front of others, even strangers out in public. Also, we added the Lily at home 2 gallery. I also changed the format of the getting Lily clip from Real Media to MPEG.
 

   

Added a video clip & pictures from Lily At Home  10/3/02.

A very nice one of Lily on a wagon She loves the Hamock
Let's see that smile This is a clip of when we first actually received Lily.

 

Lily Getting Comfortable

Now that we have had Lily home for a month she is still doing well. She is starting to pick up words like mama, duck and hello. At least she is trying to say them, as they don’t always sound to clear. She is really getting around now. She is cruising the furniture and can crawl really fast when she wants to. It Looks like she will be walking soon.  

Lily Settling in

It is hard to believe, but it has been almost a month since we first got our precious Lily. She is doing well and settling in just fine in our new home. We’ve turned our living room into a playroom by putting gates up on the exit to the stairs and the exit to the Kitchen. She is a very curious baby. She examines anything she can very carefully. She seems to be a quick learner, but she is not speaking quite yet. Her babbling is getting complicated though.

Lily is Home!

We have returned home from China on 8/23/2002. With our Daughter Lily in hand. The flight home went pretty smoothly. We had a bulkhead seats which allowed us to place Lily on the floor in front of us and let her sleep. And sleep she did. I would guess she slept about half of the 14+ hour leg from Hong Kong to Chicago. We thank those who met us at the airport; we were shocked to see such a big crowed waiting for us. Still in zombie mode due to jetlag.

Greg, Carol and Lily.

Aug. 20 in Guangzhou China. Click on image for larger size

Looking for the Travel Journal? I moved it to the Travel Journal page.

Added remote update script 8/6/2002

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