American Idiot

My brother is a drummer (a most excellent drummer) in a heavy metal band called Hollywood Lightweights. Their band was one of ten that has been selected to play in the American Idiot competition highlighting local Seattle bands by 99.9 KISW, a rock station in Seattle. I took two of my kids & a friend to watch them play at an all ages concert at Studio 7 in downtown Seattle. The music was Very loud and had I known I would of worn earplugs. It was great fun!! I love exposing my kids to different experiences, and right off the bat they were exposed to some guy relieving himself by a dumpster. I love downtown Seattle!!

I Want My Baby!!!

I want my baby, I want my baby, I want my baby, I want my baby, I want my baby, I want my baby, I WANT MY BABY!!

Okay, I feel better...well not really...Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this long labor is killing me!!!!
Oohhhhhhhhh someone knock me out and wake me up when it's time to go.

I'm trying to be patient, I'm trying to be patient...enough said.

Dress Up

Jie Ling's Aunt Liz got her the cutest dress up for her birthday on Saturday, and of course Aimee couldn't wait to have her try it all on! We had a fashion show the next day and I'm pretty sure Jie Ling thought she was hot stuff! But really, have you seen anything cuter? Even though we're really not big into the whole princess, cheerleader, helpless girl mentality, our Jie Ling really did come to us as a real live princess!! She really does love anything girly, sparkly, or pink, so to keep her princess identity from going to her head, she will be baiting her own new Barbie fishing pole by herself!!

The last picture highlights Jie Ling's picking petals abilities. I don't know how many times I have told her to not pick mommy's flowers, but she just doesn't get it! Actually she doesn't pick the flowers she just picks the petals. I can't get too upset with her though cuz she sees me picking the dead ones so I think, she thinks, she's just helping mama.

My Birthday Girl

Natural Child: Any child who is not artificial.

Real Parent: Any parent who is not imaginary.

Your Own Child: Any child who is not someone else's child.

Adopted Child: A natural child, with a real parent, who is all my own. --- Rita Laws PhD

Fishing

Mike and I took Jake and Jie Ling fishing Sunday thinking we'd only be able to have our poles in the water for a couple of hours until Jie Ling became incredibly bored and started whining, or until she became totally disinterested and started whining. She did neither. She LOVES to fish! I showed her once how to hold the pole, and how to reel in her line, and that was it. She's a pro!! I told her, "Jie Ling you're a fisherwoman!!" She answered back, "I'm fishing mama, I do it my-felf!" How can you just not love this girl to pieces? She is so cute and so much fun to be around (usually). She held her adult-sized pole with such precision you'd swear she'd done this before. It was so great just to watch her enjoy herself, getting absolutely filthy, telling her to try and not get her stumpy wet (prosthetic leg) while she walks right in the water. (I suppose she can't "feel" it getting wet, so it musn't be getting wet? ) Over Mike's objections I let her climb up a dirt embankment by herself, she made it with a little help and I snappd a picture, which is the first picture in this post. What a girl she is!!!

Since this is my online diary I wanted to keep track of all of Jie Ling's newest quirks. I have terrible STM & LTM and with almost 6 kids to keep track of I need to write this stuff down!! (STM=short term memory) you can figure out the LTM one.

* refuses to wear jeans, ever.

* any other pants/shorts come off at the front door

* hates socks, will only wear if absolutely forced

* socks come off at the front door

* hates coats/sweaters, prefers to be cold

* hates her hair fixed

* messes up and pulls out barrettes. forget any pony tails ever.

* hates blankets on bed

* throws them off the second she goes to bed

* hates pajamas

* I don't even put them on her anymore

* Loves her diapers, and does not want to sit on the potty

* loves dresses, though lately would prefer naked-ness

* demanded for me to undess her in the cereal aisle today at Safeway. Almost had a meltdown, but her clever mother asked her to help put things in the cart which worked and the clothes stayed on! YA!

* Will pretend smoke for hours, and I mean she's obsessed with this one. (101 Dalmations??)

* Tries to talk underwater calling for her fadder (father) during bathtime. She's always inhaling water scaring both of us, but it won't stop her. (Pinocchio??)

Okay looking at this list you'd think she has some sensory/tactile issues going on, or she's preparing herself for her future career as a stripper?? just kidding...

It's Officially Official...AGAIN!!

We finally completed Jie Ling's readoption on Friday!! Now she can get a WA state birth certificate, and hopefully save us and her a few headaches in the future.

Just look at our precious girl raising her right hand!! She's too much and just way too cute!