baby boy's shower

Today we celebrated the upcomming arrival of "baby boy" at my sister's baby shower. She is due in only three weeks.






Nana cam


Nana is having a pretty exciting year so far. Two grandbabies in two months!


This little boy and Hannah have the same adjusted age, but they look so different. He is growing into size five sneakers where Hannah is still wearing size two. Today we learned that Hannah doesn't like the idea of sharing her mama. While my cousin held Hannah in the chair next to me, the little boy's mommy handed him over to me. Hannah didn't like what she saw, and started to make a big fuss. She didn't want Mama to be holding another baby. I took Hannah back into my other arm and she settled back down right away. I also attempted to walk out of the room while Nana held Hannah... as I had my eyes on one of those yummy cupcakes. Hannah started screaming quickly to let me know right away it was NOT okay for me to leave the room without her, although it was fine for other family members to hold her.


My favorite photo of the day. :)


In black and white too. :)


After an afternoon at the baby shower, Hannah became velcro baby when we arrived home and had to be held by me the whole night. This is exhausting. I pulled out the wrap style baby carrier and wore her around the house. If you want to be close, baby... we'll get you close.


No smiles today. She's not in the mood. That's okay, I've still got a full supply of kisses.

And... our ATIN (adoption tax identification number) arrived today in the mail. Yippie! I've never been so happy to file our taxes! It arrived in just a little less than four weeks.

Also, We didn't get anything from the president when we received Hannah's Certificate of Citizenship in the mail. For those of you who didn't adopt in the middle of a presidential change... what exactly is it that you got that had the president's signature? Was there a letter inside with the certificate, or did it comes later? I'm kinda bummed... I was hoping to have something with President Obama's name on it with Hannah's Certificate of Citizenship.

I plan on taking some photos later this week of Hannah with her certificate and some little American flags. I brought the little flags to Taiwan thinking that we could break them out inside AIT, but didn't because they don't allow cameras inside, and the rainy day outside didn't make for a good photo op.