Happy New Year

I wish you and yours a VERY Happy 2009!

Mother of the Year? Me? Really?

For some strange reason last week William decided to watch Blues Clues again...something that he has not done in quite some while.  Will loves TV and the computer....and Youtube naturally gives you that combination.  Today, while I was getting dressed, he asked me if he could use my computer.  Of course I said yes....A little while later I walked in on him watching this!  And apparantly he had seen it before because he said, "mom, you have to see it when Blue shoots herself, it is Sooooo funny"....disturbed?  yep!  Mother of the Year? Not So Much...

WOW~

William.....12-10-2003....12-10-2008...GOTCHA!

has been home 5 years TODAY at 4:55PM!  In adoption it is commonly referred to as his "gotcha" day.  This was a picture of us at the airport....look at that sweet, sweet boy!  I cannot believe it has been 5 years.  Where did the time go?  I am so very grateful to have him in my life, well in all of OUR lives.  He is simply a sweet, hugging, Wii playing, LOVING, drawing, laughing, goofy, movie memorizing,  picture taking, compassioniate, tooth knocker outter, did i mention LOVING...kid you will ever meet.  He is a constant reminder of unconditional love, what it is and how AWESOME it is.  

It is often surreal to think that this little boy was born so far away that I first saw on this website  is now here with us, happy and HEALTHY making our lives better every day.  I am so thankful to his birthmother for giving us this precious gift.  I hope to meet her face to face one day and express my gratitude to her. I am sure she thinks about him often and wonders where he is and how he is doing.  In one word...GREAT!  I am very thankful to Harry and Bertha Holt for having the foresight into International adoptions and fighting against sometimes seemingly impossible odds and ignorance.  I am very grateful to the staff at Seoul National Childrens Hospital.Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for taking care of my sick little boy and patching his little heart, you patched more than one that day :)

There could not have been a better fit to our family.  EVER!! He fits in perfectly with his sisters....and is oddly enough a combination of both of them.  (all the GOOD qualities of course:) I often claim that it must be through Osmosis but I suppose someone greater than us maybe knows what he is doing!  

I love you very much Will, you are the single best Christmas present ever to be received and it will NEVER be topped again!

Art Conspiracy 4...

Nothing like posting an event AFTER the event took place....good grief!  Anyhoo, I had the priviledge of working an event this past Saturday in Dallas called the ArtConspiracy.  It was FABULOUS!  These people worked tirelessly to raise money for Preservation Link.  The program enables kids in South Dallas a chance to use video and photography to document and explore their community...They had 150 artists create original works of art and held live auctions the night of the event.  Beautiful, beautiful artwork! There were 3 bands....Mount Righteous, Aton and Chamelon Chamber...Unsure how many people were there, but the 40,000 square food warehouse sure seemed crowded at times!  lots and lots of fun and I am very honoroned to have been a part of it...

stole this from my neice.....

Eve was not taken out of Adam’s head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled by him, but she was taken out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

The model....

William did a photoshoot for Sams Club.  In ran in the Thanksgiving "black friday" add!  He was not too impressed but his oldest sister, Emily was sure jealous.  She gets the "oh blonde hair, blue eyes...NOT so much".  It seems "they" need boys and ethnic/dark haired kiddos.  So an asian boy, right on.  I was oblivious to all that, but now see that companies are trying to seem more rounded...odd the things you don't notice until it is brought to your attention.  Anyhoo, he is darn cute isn't he....his sisters too....even with thier blonde hair and blue eyes!