Journey to Our Daughter Anna: Hiking at Penasquitos Canyon

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 8, 2010

Hiking at Penasquitos Canyon

我们去附近的山谷里远足，来回一共有六英里。姐姐的两个好朋友也跟着去了，孩子们玩儿得真高兴，在小河里看到了龙虾，后来又在河边爬石头趟水，玩儿得都不想回来了。安娜表现特别好，一路都是自己走下来的。

最近安娜一直在学写字，26个字母大小写都会了，数字也都能默写下来了。

We went hiking at Penasquitos Canyon Reserve. We took a 6 mile hike to the waterfall. Two of Leah's friends went with us and the girls had so much fun. We saw cray fish in a creek and the girls enjoyed climbing the rocks and walking in water. Anna walked all the way by herself, which really impressed us.

Anna has been learning to write alphabet and numbers and now she can write all the uppercase and lower case letters, and can also memorize all the numbers.