As the days keeping ticking away (single digits...can you believe it?), things keep getting busier. There is so much to get done before we leave next Friday. Today was our final annual meeting with our adoption agency for a post-placement report for Juneau. After that we headed over to Melody's house for a full afternoon (and evening) of playing.
Yes, Nova is talking on a cell-phone while she poses for this picture...there must be some of her mommy in there after all.
God bless Aunt Beth for including cooking making as one of the activities for the day. Tim and I just kept our distance. I don't know how well these 3 look like they can cook up goodies but it is clear that they can cook up a whole bunch of mischief.
Chef Juneau
Everbody took a turn with the rolling pin.
Cookie decorating time
This whole plan for the girls to spend the evening with Melody was hatched so that I could attend our end of the year get together for our 4 graduating PhD students.
Jen, Rachel, Rachele and Kaori - I love you all and will miss you more than you'll know!
When I got back to Tim and Beth's at 10:30, the 3 little girls were all peacefully sleeping together in Melody's bed...ABSOLUTELY NOT!One little girl was nearly asleep but was being kept awake by the one little girl who was being the major instigator for keeping everyone awake and the 3rd little girl was realizing how much crazier her life would be if she had to try to go to sleep with another person in her bed every night.
Figuring out which "little girl" is which should be pretty easy if you've ever met Nova, Juneau and Melody (okay, that pretty much covers the answer in order).
The highlight of the day was during dinner when Emilie was finally able to get back in communication after arriving in Kyrgyzstan. After sitting back down at dinner after talking to Emilie tonight and hearing that she was finally out of a combat zone, I felt like a big weight had finally been lifted after 6 months. In just a short time she will be on her way back to U.S. soil and is scheduled to arrive in Columbus, Georgia on Sunday morning, just before noon. A wonderful way to celebrate Mother's Day! If only we could be there to welcome her off the plane but we will leave that to others to hug her for us.
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