Birthdays and Preschool

Saturday was a big day at our house. We celebrated Will's 4th birthday with Mimi, Arlie, Daddy John, Jee, Grammy, Boopa, Bunk, Ninnie & Poppie. (Don't laugh at the grandparents' names. They are what they are.) The weather was perfect, which has never happened at one of Will's parties, and we had lots of cake and ice cream. What else could you want? Will loved every single present, screaming, "That's just what I wanted!" and "Wow! Cool!" everytime he opened something.

Will's Cake...Is it just me or have we seen this somewhere before....

Today, Will started Preschool. Yesterday, he adamantly refused to ever go to preschool, but today he didn't protest. Tim took him to breakfast and dropped him off. I think it helped Will to know that Daddy was right there in the same building if he needed him. When I picked him up, Miss Ginger said that Will was a "social butterfly" and during music he was a dancing machine. Evidently he has gotten over his fear of school:) And, I got a whole 2 1/2 hours by myself!

Yesterday we sent off our applications for our Chinese visas. It always makes me nervous to do something like that. It is scary to send your passports across the country and put your adoption in someone else's hands. We are waiting for three very important things right now - 1) Our new I-797C, which is a US document that says we can go get our daughter. It is overdue, should have arrived last week. 2) Our TA (travel approval from the Chinese), which could come at any time, but we need it here in the next 10 days or so. 3) Our Chinese visas. They need a week or so to process these, and we only sent them yesterday. Please pray for us to receive these very important docs quickly so that we can travel in September! Once we have these things, we can get our appointment at the US consulate and book our plane tickets!