With the holiday traveling behind us, we're settling down and becoming "real" Californians. Becoming "real" Californians involves a lot of time at the DMV, and we're grateful that part is almost over.
We did our best to assimilate ourselves into the local sports culture. Cheering on the Chargers until they got kicked out of the play offs.
Eleanor is just in it for the Salsa.
We've done many trips to the beach to bask in our 70 + degree weather while congratulating ourselves for not being stuck in the "polar vortex" back East.
Adelaide loves this rainbow jacket we
haggled for at an open-air market.
One of Eleanor's favorite new pastimes
is watching the "spashes" or "splashes"
from the crashing waves.
After school the girls love enjoying the warm evenings by visiting Granny and Poppa (Melinda's grandparents live only a mile away from their pre-school), going to the park, playing play doh on the balcony and taking long walks along the ridge of Sorrento Valley to admire the leaves, rocks, grass, animals or whatever else captures their little imaginations.
After the kids are in bed, our evenings are devoted 100% to the adoption process. We recently finished our "hague-approved" parent training coursework and have our first visit from a social worker this weekend.
The paper work seems ENDLESS but there is so much joy in it knowing that every notarized document brings us one step closer to a little child a world away, OUR child, waiting for us.
Our kids are super anxious to have a new sibling. Adelaide has a stack of books about China that she wants to read over and over. Yesterday, Melinda took the girls to the library for a local asian theater's "Year of the Horse" performance.
They really enjoyed it….
…until the brave horse puppet threw himself in
front of the young farmer to save him from
the Mongolian warrior. The puppet didn't make it.
Eleanor was pretty upset.
Adelaide liked the story of the animal race to
determine the zodiac best. They let her pet the snake.
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