Journey to Our Daughter Anna: My brother turns 16

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 28, 2009

My brother turns 16

-----Yay, my brother is 16! -----------------------------------------------------“A"is for Anna

---- Our family's favorite dish, peanuts with anchovies-------

安娜这个星期和哥哥一起过了16岁生日。上个周末爷爷奶奶请我们全家在一家中餐馆吃饭，生日当天，我们又去了Pat and Oscar's 吃了晚饭，一是给哥哥过生日，同时也为了给我们当地“领养中国孩子家庭基金会" 捐款。今天，哥哥请了几个好朋友到家里来玩游戏。安娜自己一边玩儿，一边看哥哥们玩儿，安娜最喜欢的玩具是小磁铁棒，可以搭各种形状，她经常自己没完没了地搭着玩儿。

Anna enjoyed several occasions celebrating gege's 16th birthday. Grandma and grandpa took all of us to a nice Chinese restaurant last weekend. On his birthday, the 25th, we went to Pat and Oscar's to have dinner, also as part of a fundraiser for our local FCC (Families with Children from China). Today, gege invited a few of his friends over to play games. Anna was playing with her own toys while watching the boys. Her most favorite toy is definitely the Supermag magnetic sticks, which she plays with all the time.