Our China Adoption Journey for Jailyn as God reveals Dreams Coming True: 1 year since Referral, Meeting my big brother & Happy Easter!

Our kids together at last celebrating Easter together!

Happy April and time is flying by......HAPPY EASTER FROM JAILYN!

Jailyn is 21 months now and been with us 10 months. What blessing we have received and love being her forever family. Another month has gone by and so much is happening in our lives. Mike has been traveling alot in March and April is full of events. We are reaching more milestones. April 1 brought our one year anniversary since referral day which was a big ole deal! It is kind of hard to believe we had just received her photo this time last year and were on the mad dash to get everything together to goto China last year. Wow we have come so far. Referral day was the day we received Jailyn's picture 4/1/2011 and we saw our baby girl's face for the very first time. We celebrated with a Balloon Bouquet for Jailyn. She loves balloons! She can spend lots of time playing with her balloons. She is growing so much about 24 lbs now and 33 inches tall. We have been released from the International Adoption Center at Children's Hospital and she is progressing on schedule. She is a normal child and caught up for her age and finally all shots are now up to date. Jailyn had 3 more shots, blood work and another TB test. Now that she is older the mum mum cookies just do not calm her down when she has her shots. She was mad and can you blame her. Woohoo we are done with shots for a while. We have been requested to have her eyes checked and will do that in June as Asian children tend to need glasses more often than not. It is more common due to the shape of their eyes. She had her first visit to the dentist which was not a good experience however something needed to make sure her teeth were in good health. Some children from China have had such poor prenatal care their teeth can have issues. She has 16 teeth and due for four more to come in over the next 6 months. She has a bit of an under bite however the dentist was not concerned.

Jailyn has officially had her first boo boos falling down on her knees on the concrete. We had a week of summer which sped up our spring and have gone for lots of walks (if you can call them walks more like let's explore and stop and pick up rocks). She ran and fell and scraped her knees. She still points to her healed boo boos on her knees. We are introducing a princess potty as she imitates going to the bathroom on her potty however does not get it to actually go potty when I place her on the potty without a diaper. It is still early however I believe it will not be long.

Now the best part of it all is that Scott is home after 2 1/2 years of being in Japan and he officially met Jailyn last week. Jailyn just loves her big brother, Scott. She knows both Katie and Scott are her siblings. Jailyn repeats everything we say and is just so smart and climbing on everything. She still loves Gymboree, going to the nursery at church and loves life. She is more bonded than ever with less night terrors. She had a cold over the Easter weekend and has shared it with mommy and we are finally starting to get over it a week later. It was so special for Easter to have our kids together for the first time. And to get to celebrate Easter as a family. We will Baptize Jailyn April 21 and Katie and Scott will be the God Parents. That will be a special time for us and a day of praise and thanksgiving that this day is finally here as we dedicate our baby to being raised as a christian and baptized in to her faith.

So I will post lots of photos and am at least trying to update once a month. I will have her 21 month photos taken this week in her Easter/Baptism outfit and something cute for spring.

God bless and thanks for sharing our life with us!
Linette