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    Hi, my name is Jonni and I am Mommy to Sofia (5 years old) and Samantha (5 years old) and wife to John. We reside in upstate NY. Our daughters are 5 mos. apart in age and a whole lot of fun. Sofia is from Jinchang City, Gansu and she turned 11 mos. during our trip to bring her home from China in 2007. Samantha is 5 mos. older but was our 2nd adoption. She was 3 years, 4 mos. when we brought her home from China in 2009. She is from Yangzhou City, Jiangsu.

    I love blogging about our girls, photography, fonts, printables & crafts and I also have a slightly obsessive John Mayer addiction. Thank you for stopping by. :)

Category Archives: Special Days

Sofia’s First Swim Lesson

Sofia had her first swim lesson at the YMCA yesterday. We just joined about a month ago and had to enter a lottery to be accepted into the class since the classes are relatively small. I did not expect that we would get in on the first try but we did. I was so happy….

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Michele - Love the tree and the swimming babies is way too cute. Sounds like you all had a nice time at swim class.
Michele

Jewels of My Heart - tooo sweet!

Amy - I think I saw some of those baby swimming things while in China at 1 of the stores.

Shannon & Dan - I love the family tree. What a great page. I would love to see more tips, you can never learn too many of them.

kerri - Computer tips, oh yes please, I’m so challenged that I’ll take any help I can get, LOL.
Can’t wait for photos of Sofia taking her lessons, glad you got a spot in the class.
The family tree is so sweet, I love it!

And the Surprise Is…

Sorry it has been so long since the follow-up to my last post. My computer hit the skids this week and I just got it back yesterday. It made me realize how much I take my computer for granted. There were many great guesses as to what our surprise could be. The moving comments were…

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Beth and Shayna - Wow, congrats! That is so exciting for you all. And how exciting, a cruise! Lots is going on. Have a wonderful holiday!

Liene - I figured that was the surprise. Congrats to you!

Also congrats on the cruise! How much fun! Are you taking Sofia with? Sounds like the same or similar Southern Caribbean cruise that my BIL & SIL took last fall.

Pictures are really cute too!

Jen B - Hi John and Jonni!!

What a beautiful little girl. Thank you so much for the holiday card. I am so glad that we got in touch the other day even though it was under such bad circumstances. I am so happy for the both of you. Congrats again on your beautiful little girl and good luck on the persuit of another!

Jen & Alan

Mariah - So sweet! Sofia is soo lucky!! Can’t wait to see her lil sis!! Hope all is well!!

Holly - OMG that is wonderful! I know you are so excited! I love the pictures…especially the last one….it is just precious! And Congrats on John’s award! That is great news as well.

redmaryjanes - I love your surprise and am so happy for you! Of course Sofia needs a little mei mei to go through life with.
I love her pictures with Santa. Eli was terrified of him too at that age.

T & R McGrath - Oops, I meant to say Hi Sophia, John and Jonni! LOL

T & R McGrath - Hi Sofia, I am very excited for all of you.

Congatualtions!

Dale - I keep trying to vote and it says “can not process request”! So I’ll pick my own vote ( : Drumroll……….Amelia. I love that name too but won’t need a second ): Hugs, Dale

MotherMotherOcean - cool on the new kid and I love the picture.

wzgirl - I always feel so sorry for the crying babies in these XMas pics – but now I’m feeling a little sad for the Santas. It must be rough for them to have such an impression on these wee kiddos.

Beverly - Great and congrats!! Love the santa photos.

beverly

Mike, Hayley & Piper - best surprise ever!!!

oh…and the pictures with santa are priceless!

the one below is amazing!

Jonni…the bug has bitten you!

Hayley

Carol - Oh Wonderful! Wonderful!!!
Happy Tears!!! I wish I had more money right now I’d join you!!!!!!!

Congratulations on the start of your journey!!!!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

kerri - I knew it!!
Congrats, that is just beautiful new!!
The photos are adorable.

bbmomof2boys - Love the shots of Sofia with Santa! I’m so excited that you and John are going to adopt again!! Shoot – it took me a year to change Terry’s heart – I don’t think he would every agree to adopt again after we finally bring Little T home!! That candid shot of her is beautiful.

Hugs!

~Carla

Donna & Andrew - What great news! Hope you have smooth sail for your cruise & your paperchase. The last photo of Sofia is to cute.
Donna

Michelle - YAY! Congratulations! That is awesome news. The way things are going, you could have another child home before we get the first one(sigh). But seriously, happy for you!

nikki - Hey Jonni!
That is a fabulous surprise…something so wonderful to look forward to for you all!

The pics of Sofia with Santa are hilarious (sorry)…
the last picture of her is just gorgeous…I just wanna smooch on her!

Janet - How exciting! I am SO happy for you!!!!!!

PS- THat last picture is a KEEPER!

Michele - First of all Sofia is so beautiful! I love the pic :)
Why does Santa scare kids so much? I am dreading taking Lilly, I know she will have the same reaction as Sofia, it’s one of those thing you have to do though. Congrats on #2! It will be so wonderful for Sofia to have a sister. Goos luck and I hope the process moves quickly for you all!
Love,
Michele & Lilly

GGHadden - Jonni that’s great news………hey we might still get to travel together!!! :)

also, I just love that black and white picture of Sofia. Hope she is feeling better now and back to her normal cute self.

Hugs, me

jwhitacre - LOVE the pictures!!! SHe is such a beauty! Also, congrats!! HOw exciting to be going through the process again to have another little angel join the family! We have another on the way too…I’m Pregnant!! Did not expect this in a million years! :)

I hope we can get the girls together sometime…perhaps when Cecelia can join us! I promise to get Ella’s biting under control before hand! :)

Hugs and smiles, Jeannine

angie s. - Love the surprize!!!! Yea for Sophia and her Mei Mei!!!

I was just thinking of you guys when I was putting up our tree. My mom had sent me some old ornaments from when I was growing up….there was a had made needle point one of the Swan Pond in Manlius (not sure if it is still there). Brought back memories.

Our First Thanksgiving as a Family of Three

Thanksgiving is always wonderful, but having Sofia home this year made it the best ever. She had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa S. and her Uncle Kyle and Cousin Nicholas (Nicky). Today, we went to my favorite restaurant on Long Island called the Milleridge Inn. The original restaurant was started in 1672! Of…

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Beth and Shayna - Happy Thanksgiving! ANd what a cute little turkey you have in the high chair, bench and in the sink!

nikki - Love the pictures, Jonni!
So glad to see you all had such a wonderful Thanksgiving…Sofia is just a doll.

T & R McGrath - Great pictures!! Bob and I love the Mileridge Inn also!!! We would have had our wedding there but the date we wanted was not available.

Funny how much we have in common!!!

Hugs
Tracy

Janet - I LOVE the picture of Sofia on the bench, surrounded by leaves! So pretty!

Michele - How beautiful is that daughter of yours! I just love her smile, she is always so happy. Glad you all had a nice Thanksgiving!
Michele

Dale - What beautiful Thanksgiving pictures. I love the one of Sofia laughing with her T-giving bib, the ducks in the sink, and the ones with the gorgeous Fall leaves. Thanks for thinking of me and sending the e-card. I know that S. picked it out ( : How fun. Take care. Hugs, Dale (18 months tomorrow!)

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