This is Zhen Zhen’s first Christmas, and Harper’s 3rd Christmas. Of course, its Tucker’s 9th one. They were all excited of course and up at the crack of dawn to see what Santa Claus brought them.
Oddly enough, Zhen Zhen think’s Santa Claus comes to China too, she is just wondering who at [...]
The kids wanted to cut a Christmas Tree this year instead of just buying one at Lowes. KC Wildlands, a local conservation organization, hosts a christmas tree harvest every year out at Lake Jacomo. It helps to restore native glades by thinning out invasive Red Cedars. The problem is that a cedar [...]
Today we got Tucker a bull snake at the KC Reptile Show. Tucker has been wanting a new snake ever since his corn snake escaped a year ago, so he chose to get one in exchange for his good test grades. We did not know when we purchased a bull snake that they [...]
We took the kids out to the Burr Oak Woods conservation area out in Blue Springs today. Tucker loves going because there is a large area of huge limestone outcrops and boulders to climb on. Harper is cool with it because it only involves about a mile and a half of hiking. Once [...]
I have not been as diligent in updating our blog the last few days because we have really been getting sick of China and I did not know if I could be very objective when writing about our time here anymore. At any rate, last Tuesday we did the street food thing in Guangzhou. [...]
On Friday we finally traveled from Nanchang to Guangzhou. We were in Nanchang almost a week, and that’s a long time to be in Nanchang. Especially if you have spent time there before. The flight from Nanchang to Guangzhou was Zhen Zhen’s first flight. She was super excited about it. We [...]
We have had Zhen Zhen for 3 days now. It’s gone fairly well so far, she still gets sad sometimes but much less so than the first day we got her. Communication has been our biggest challenge. Right now I think we are in a war of wills. [...]
At 1:30 today we met our new daughter down in the hotel lobby. Her orphanage is about 2 hours from here, and the director and her nannies drove her out to us today. I don’t know how to describe what its like to meet your new 8 year old Chinese daughter for the first time. [...]
Tucker ran his first 5k today. He has been training for it a few weeks now. This race was sponsored by the Kansas City Trail Nerds, a local trail running group. The race was out at Wyandotte County Lake Park. The park doesn’t look like one would expect Kansas to look like. [...]
Harper had her 6th Birthday today. We thought we would have had travel approval by now and thus would have been in China so we did not have a big party. Instead, we just had dinner, cake, and presents at our house. Harper picked ribs for dinner (and probably ate half a [...]