Journey to Our Daughter Anna: First Father's Day

Introducing our daughter......

Name: Sun Huai Ping (孙怀平), now Anna M. D.
Birthday: 02/01/2006 (2006年2月1日)
Located: Hangzhou Children's Welfare Institute (浙江省杭州儿童福利院)
http://journeytomyanna.blogspot.com/2008/09/we-got-daughter_5054.html

Timeline
05/05/2008: Applied with Adoption Agency #1
08/25/2008: Switched to Adoption Agency #2
09/17/2008: Referral! - Connected with little Anna
09/18/2008: LOI; 09/23/2008: PA; 10/23/2008: I-800A approved;
10/31/2008: DTC; 11/07/2008: LID!!!
02/09/2009: LOA!!!!!; 03/16/2009: TA ;
03/23/2009: Gotcha Day; 04/01/2009: CA; 04/03/2009: Home

China Adoption Acronyms:
LID - Log in Date; DTC - Dossier to China
SN - special needs; NSN - non special needs
LOI - Letter of Intent (used in the SN process)
LOA - Letter of Acceptance, the document that allows you to officially accept a referral;
TA - Travel Approval; CA -Consulate Appointment

Sunday, June 21, 2009

First Father's Day

An "I love dad" mug made in a ceramics store, and Anna's card for daddy

安娜在她的幼儿园作了一张“父亲节快乐！”的卡片。我看见这张卡片告诉她是给爸爸的。她马上说：“不给，是我的。”我知道她还不明白父亲节的意思，于是跟她解释，后来终于明白了，很高兴得把卡片给了爸爸。今天早上一起来，我就让她跟爸爸说“爸爸节日快乐！”。
Anna made a "Happy Father's Day" card at her preschool. When she brought the card home on Friday and I told her the card is for daddy. She immediately said: "No, mine". I explained to her about what Father's Day meant and she finally got it ,and was happy to give the card to daddy. This morning, she said: "Happy BABA Day" to daddy, and I know she understands it.