Kayli's Excellent Adventure

For me to write this Blog entry could possibly be nothing short of a 450 page book, so I won't bore you with the gory details and try to some up a rather action packed month.

We had the opportunity to go on a mission tour with our youth choir. There were a lot of firsts for our little girl. She had gotten to ride on a bus before so she was a veteran traveler already. She got to see 4 concerts, see the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina (which probably did not surprise her since there were similar sites of rundown buildings in China), she got to go to her first Atlanta Braves game and see the youth choir sing the national anthem (the Braves also won on a very cold day in April), she got to go to her first Disney store, and Build-A-Bear workshop where she built a bunny which was given Kayli's Chinese name (Cha Ji), she got to meet her Uncle Mike, Aunt Traci, and her cousins: Cheyenne and Alexis, she got to go to Pigeon Forge and experience the madness of a massive tourist trap, she got to experience her first hike at Chimney Rock (she didn't do much hiking though) and she got to go swimming a few times. It seems like she has enjoyed nearly everything. She has also made some developmental leaps: she now climbs, crawls, talks (she knows who her Da da is), and she is growing like crazy. Kayli is always making us laugh and surprises us daily with things that she understands and does.

Kayli is going to have the opportunity along with Michelle, Mimi, Poppy, and me to go on a whirlwind trip to Texas and Oklahoma to meet some more of the family. We are looking forward to this trip and are very excited to show off Kayli to more of her new relatives.

I plan to put up some new pictures on the website. They do however take a little time to edit and get down to a reasonable size for them to load quickly.