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, August 30, 2009

A "relaxing" weekend before school starts

明天就要开学了, 我们昨天邀请了两家好友来吃晚饭。大人孩子都玩得很高兴。安娜很喜欢朋友给的餐具玩具,玩了好长时间。
School is going to start on Monday and we invited a few friends over to have dinner on Saturday night. Anna enjoyed the toy cookware set our friend gave her and had a good time playing with it.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Sea World night








现在还是夏天,海洋世界每周六都开到夜里11点。昨天晚上,我们总算找到时间去了。 晚间的各种表演真是好看, 跟白天的大不一样。以前都是白天去去海洋世界,从来没见过这么多人。安娜最喜欢的还是在小孩游乐场玩儿。到晚上10点,我们在看杂技表演时,她实在坚持不住睡着了。我们一直玩到11点关门时,才离开。
Sea World has been having summer nights and it opens until 11pm on Saturdays. We were finally able to go last night. The night shows were fantatic and we all enjoyed our time there. I had never seen so many people there before. Anna had fun at the playground doing the kiddy rides. She fell asleep at about 10pm while we were watching a stage acrobat show. We didn't leave until it closed at 11.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

I can sing my ABC

I have to share this, she is just cute!

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Zoo







今天我们去了著名的圣地亚哥动物园。大多数动物是安娜第一次见到,以前看到的动物都是在书本上看到的。她似乎特别喜欢动物,尤其喜欢狮子和长颈鹿。在这些动物前都是流连忘返,不愿意离开。只可惜看熊猫时, 两个熊猫都在睡觉, 介绍的板报上写着:“真真(两岁熊猫的名字)每天睡觉14个小时,吃饭10个小时." 哇!一天24个小时,她除了睡觉,就是吃饭,日子过得真舒心啊。我什么时候也能这样?
Today we visited the "world famous San Diego Zoo". It's Anna first time to see most of the animals in real life. Before she only knew the animals in pictures and today she was very excited to see the real ones. She especially likes the lions and the giraffes. She didn't want to move on to the next one when we were seeing these animals. The two pandas were both sleeping when we were there and the board reads "Zhenzhen (name of the 2 year-old panda) sleeps for 14 hours and eats for 10 hours a day." Wow, all she does is sleep and eat. What a life! When can I live like that?

Monday, August 3, 2009

What's mommy doing?

今天早上, 爸爸问安娜:“妈妈怎么还不下来,在楼上干什么呢?” 安娜一边闭着眼睛把手放在脸上到处拍, 一边说“妈妈在这样。” 她是在形容我在卫生间化妆。可把爸爸乐坏了。This morning before breakfast, daddy asked Anna:"Why is mommy still upstairs? What is she doing there?". Anna looked at daddy and patted her hand all over her face and said, "She is doing something like this." I was applying the make-up when she saw me in the bathroom. It made daddy laugh very hard.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Dress up time

安娜最近喜欢试穿衣服,有一天,她来到我面前,我一看,她手提裤腰,穿着姐姐的裤子,另外一天,我上楼去卧室, 看她正专心致志的穿爸爸的裤子,正努力的把腰带系上。
Anna seems to enjoy trying on clothes recently. One day, she showed up and I noticed that she put on jiejie's pants and the other day, when I went upstairs to our closet and saw her focused on putting on daddy's pants and she was trying very hard to buckle the belt.