The MN Blaubachs

First camping trip as a family of 4

2011-09-04T12:24:00.001-07:00

Make a scarry face!!!

SQ's first canoe ride (St. Croix River)

SQ's first catch.....

Can you feel his excitement?

We spent many hours that day fishing in the St. Croix.

ZW's frist catch of the day......

1.......

2.........

3!! Tada!

ZW hooking a worm for the first time.

Only 1 hook through. Worm was flung through the air when he cast. Hook 2x's next time!

Hmmm....found this shoe on the path when biking. Whose could it be?

Here comes the owner now!!

This is just like the snake that swam past our canoe in the river.

Como Town 2011

2011-08-09T15:24:00.001-07:00

We spent the afternoon at Como Town. The boys loved it.

Why do I feel like Aladin is mocking us?? And this ride was pretty funny. I think it's top speed was .5mph and it simply went in a circle, no up and down or anything. Some magic carpet that turned out to be.

These were the s-l-o-w-e-s-t cars ever.

For a boy who doesn't like to ride rides he sure is flying high!

The good old Tilt-a-Whirl, invented in Fairbault MN in 1926. They rode it twice.

I rode it once. "Tilt-a-Hurl" You know you are getting old when the tilt-a-whirl makes you dizzy and nauseous.

WI and Chicago

2011-08-01T06:50:00.001-07:00

Busy weekend for the Blaubachs; WI wedding (Congrats Tonya and Dakota!), Grandma's 85th & visiting with ZW's cribmate in Chicago. Enjoy!

Da Burgh, summer 2011

2011-07-17T16:03:00.001-07:00

The first two are for mom - the butternut squash is taking over - "Feed Me , Seymore!"

Killing time on the plane. Unfortunately dad and ZW are a row ahead and over and missed out.

Aunt Lucy's fun backyard: feeding fish!

Finding dinner in The Strip.

And dessert........

Mark and I THINK this was our first date in Pgh........we can't remember back that far. :)

Need I say more?

Still buying dinner items.......

And the final menu? Steamed mussels, chilled shrimp, grilled tuna steaks, pepperoni bread, crawfish salad, fruit tarts, macaroons and strawberry rhubarb pie.........ahhhhh......

Aunt Eva making her Jam Near Perfect Batch. If you haven't tried it I'd suggest the blueberry lime!

Uncle Howie and his purty headband.

At Grandma's house......

Someone got a hold of mom's camera.

Aunt Becky's funhouse. Dancing, swimming, eating, visiting...

Cannonbal

Tour Ed Mine, Natrona Heights, PA. "the 3 hour tour...3 hour tour...."

"Get in their, Junior. What? Are ya too chubby?"

Burtner House. George Washington slept
Look! It's George Washington!

And Franco, of course.

Mother's Day at the Zoo

2011-05-08T14:26:00.000-07:00

Mother's Day at the MN Zoo

Look who hatched!

And the best part was that nobody complained!

Shen Qin's first Easter!

2011-05-08T06:59:00.001-07:00

We went to Grandma and Grandpa Blaubachs for Easter. Aunt Sandy visited and brought the boys her famous sugar cookies!

Getting ready to color Easter eggs.

Setting the table for Easter dinner.

Walking to the mailbox with Grandpa.

Easter egg hunt in Grandmas yard!

SQ's First Birthday

2011-05-07T15:08:00.001-07:00

Shen' Qin's birthday was not acknowledged in China for 6 years. He's turning 7 and this is his "first birthday". Zhi Wei's birthday is also this month and they wanted to celebrate together.

Check out Zhi Wei's hat - Mark had to tell him it's not a breathing apparatus.

Thor! Thanks Grandma!

You can tell they were opening with speed. This was a fast birthday party!

ZW wanted a skateboard.

I almost missed this moment. He walked out in to the garage and saw his new red bicycle. This was a "YESSSSSS!!!!!" with jumping up and down and clapping.

Grandma and Grandpa got the boys a fun scooter!

First time on he went from the garage all the way down to the street, slowly picking up speed, never waivering, not even when he jumped the curb at the end of the sidewalk. (nearest ER 20 minutes........)

Slip-n-slide Racer!

Our friend Nicole stopped over with her two kiddos.
Hunter (below) must have picked about 100 dandelions for her for mothers day!

The boys were having a watermelon foot-race eating contest.

The cake.

Happy Birthday to two awesome boys!

Florida Part 2

2011-04-03T13:46:00.001-07:00

While in Clearwater we went on a Pirate cruise. These are out of order but you get the idea. The first few photos are us after the cruise eating dinner.

And yes, as we walked through town looking like this people were saying "Aaaaargh Maty" as we passed them.

We were the only two children over the age of 10 who got mustaches and beards along with our kids.

Mom pirate getting her groove on during the pirate dance party......

The smaller pirates got water guns and attacked. Little did they know that the bigger pirate snuck down from the poop deck when their backs were turned.......

A-ha!!!!!!! Gotcha!

BIG water slide on the beach. So much fun!

This photo doesn't do its size justice. You should see how high they have to climb on the backside!

Cousins! We visited Kristen and Derek and their kiddos while we were there. They had fun in the sand together .

Yes - he fell in the hole.

"Hey dad - we're riding on a noodle!"

Night swimming. The tornado and severe storm came through and lasted from about 10:30 am until about 8pm. So after dinner SQ asked if he could finally swim. So night swimming it was!

Our photo on the wall at Crabby Bills........

The boys loved the seafood. This damage was done by one 6 year old and he was still asking for more.

This is what happens during severe storms and you are stuck inside a hotel room for hours.....

Can't wait for next spring break!

Florida 2011

2011-03-31T10:00:00.000-07:00

Florida 2011 - St. Pete's here we come. Having some drinks and food at the Sloppy Pelican while we wait for our room.

AAaaahhhhhhh......................vacation.

SQ discovers that sand sticks to you! His first time in sand.

There is no way SQ is sinking! Life vest, check. Inner tube, check.

Mom - take a picture of me swimming underwater!

Bunny ears!

Meeting Red Beard the Pirate

Collectiing sea shells.

Playing in the surf.

Crazy cake on a snowy day!

2011-02-26T12:49:00.001-08:00

The boys wanted me to bake a white cake with white icing......

ooops, mom forogt to grab plates...
(Imagine the above picture with "woah!"'s included)

Rock the Cradle at MIA, 2011

2011-02-20T14:10:00.000-08:00

No blizzard with white-out conditions were going to stop us from the disco!

Instrument petting zoo:

Crusing through the musuem.

A foreshadoing of what may lie ahead of us:

Rollerskating

2011-01-24T12:54:00.000-08:00

At first they were like jellyfish on wheels and full of smiles. After 2 hours one was done for the afternoon (you can tell which one by the look on his face) and the other still begged for more.

2010/2011 with Family from da 'burgh

2011-01-01T07:46:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Family from Pgh drove to MN to visit us for Christmas and New Years. It was a fun visit with everyone meeting SQ for the first time. Lots of Nerf, Wii, MOA shopping and food, food, food! Here's the photo montage. Enjoy!

Wii!!!!

Building Legos with Grandma

Shrimp, yum!

We went to a Hibachi grill for our family dinner. Our boys call him the Kung-Fu Chef. Lots of good food and we told them it was Grandmas birthday!

Happy Bithday Grandma!!!

Legos!

Movie marathon.......

Running!

Ironman in the house.

Your Place Stromboli. This was the restaurant we loved to eat stromboli at when we were kids. It's in Mechanicsburg, PA. Uncle DJ picked some up for us when he was out there and then froze them and brought them along. Basically this have traveled 1100 miles for us to bake and enjoy! Thank you Uncle DJ!!!! They were Deeeeelicious.

Look at all those happy faces. Stromboli!

Supermen in the house!

SQ made everyone necklaces for Christmas.

Presents!

SQ REALLY wanted Buzz for Christmas. Thanks Grandma!

Uncle DJ and Cole (SQ refers to Cole as "too tall guy") at the American Girl store. AAwwwhhhh.

Legoland.

(Anyone know what time it is??)

We believe "too tall guy" is this little guys hero.

Merry Christmas to you! 2010

2010-12-25T09:32:00.001-08:00

Mom's composter!

Night vision spy glasses

Awh......the giant wall clock the boys picked out for mom.

Blizzard 2010 and Christmas tree

2010-12-13T14:26:00.000-08:00

Checking out the lights with the snowflake diffraction grating glasses

The annual Christmas ornament from mom and dad - comics for ZW and Ironman for SQ.

I don't know if you can tell what this is. It's a foil angel taking a nose dive. We let the boys decorate the tree!

I walked in with ornaments and found ZW explaining the story of Christmas and baby Jesus to SQ. They didn't know I had walked in so I was able to listen for a minute!

SQ LOVES the gingerbread man story and has been quoting it for weeks since they read it in school. While he was swimming in the bathtub I baked and decorated gingerbread man cookies. Surprise!

ZW was happy to eat them

We usually cut down our own tree but this year the blizzard got us. 18" of snow and below zero temps so we ended up at Home Depot. The boys were getting cold while we waited for the tree to be netted and tied to the roof of our car so we stepped inside to warm up and they kept busy with the walkie talkies Grandma sent them.

My guys.

ZW picked out our tree. He had an inking and he was right on!

I liked this one.

Fun in the sun and snow!

Our daredevil.

SQ came outside to play wearing my scarf Mark brought me from Lebanon. Hmmm......

Day 2; still shoveling out. Well, the driveway had enough room for the cars until the plow came. There goes Mark....again!

ZW "king of the mountain" on the drift by our driveway.

We're getting amped for Christmas

2010-12-05T08:09:00.000-08:00

So this is SQ's first Christmas and ZW's 3rd. ZW is well aware of Santa and SQ is slowly figuring this all out. We went to the Macy's Santa's workshop display and also visited Santa. SQ's list was simple - "toys" while ZW counted his list in his fingers and kept on listing things he wanted - Santa glanced up at us and smiled as ZW kept on talking.........

Santa at the grocery store.

The real deal.

Macy's. You'll see a lot of backs of heads here.

Not very impressed.

The singing Christmas trees. They could really carry a tune. Had to take a quick pic since this area was crowded - lopped of 1/2 of SQ's head.

Oops. forgot about this pic being here. We heard the cats really howl and 'scream' and didn't know what the ruckus was. Mark went to look and saw the neighbors cat saying hello to Bob and Sebastian through our window. At first they were all huddled by each other touching noses through the window but we weren't fast enough with the camera to capture that one.

SQ's First Turkey Day - ZW showing him the ropes!

2010-11-29T13:39:00.000-08:00

We went to WI for Thanksgiving to visit the Blaubach family. It was a busy time! We visited with many family members including Uncle Leroy & Aunt June and Uncle Earl who stopped over for a visit. Holly and Scott had all of Mark's siblings over for dinner - a full house! We all had a great time visiting. The photos below are in random order and you may need to stand on your head to view some but here they are!

Happy Turkey Day!

(photo of Grandma B. taken by SQ)

Seconds!

And ice cream.......

How many Blubach's does it take to work the dvd player? (even Homer is feeling the pain!)

One for each!

Jamie and Nick stopped by, too!
The Grafton Christmas Parade is becoming our tradition.

SQ has loved the Gingerbread Man ever since his Kindergarten teacher read them the story

These soldiers held this pose to re-enact the memorial. It was pretty neat looking up close.
And ZW's favorite....the Nutcracker!

Let the 'firsts" begin!

2010-11-23T06:41:00.000-08:00

Shen Qin went to the movie theatre for his first time. He wasn't impressed.
After the movie we walked through the mall. The Christmas train was freely moving throughout the first floor. Mark and I spent about a minute saying loudly "Shen Qin, don't chase the train!" So we had to buy tickets for a ride.

Shen Qin's first time playing in the snow! They each built a snowman. ZW on your left, SQ on your right (the Asian looking snowman, of course)

Guangzhou!

2010-11-14T20:04:00.000-08:00

Flying from Hong Kong to Guangzhou.

See that hole near the top? The Buddhists say that if you toss a coin in you will have good luck. Both boys tossed and SQ's went straight in!

Visiting the Buddhist Temple.

Family blessing by the Buddhist monk.

He HAD to have this hat.......Jou jou DJ.

Visiting he local market.....

Scorpions. The gal explained to me that if you place one in a bottle of cold warer it will pee and the toxins will be naturally removed. Then you can use the scorpion for medicial purpose without fear of being stung. Good to know.

Some local were selling on a street corner. I snapped a picture and was yelled at harshly by them......black market goods?

Spent about 30 hours here. Aaaahhhhhhh....................

Safari

This one is fro Grandma E!!!

Tuckered out. Can you find all 3 Blaubach boys?

Wo shi shao baoba.........

Our favorite spot.

On safari. Photo by SQ. Notice ZW asleep on Marks back? Nice.

The infamous White Swan red couch. Many many kiddos adopted have their photos taken on this couch.

I was wondering where this was.

High tech eye exam courtesy of China.

Next stop U.S.A.!

Anshan City & Shen Yang - completing the first leg of the adoption and play time!

2010-10-13T14:22:00.000-07:00

Shen Qin was born in Anshan City and lived there until he was 6. The adoption took place in Shen Yang, Liaoning Province, China. His province is directly south of ZW's province, Heiliaonjiang.

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Imperial Palace - Shen Yang (out of order - more of this later)

This is our guide (white t-shirt) and our taxi driver (plaid t-shirt). They were great!

This is about 2 hours after we adopted Shen Qin. We went to a nearby park to play, watch ping-pong and have a cold drink.

Here we are driving to Anshan City where SQ was born. This is also where we will have his passport photo taken. His caretaker and orphanage Director joined us. Along the way we stopped for lunch. The food was incredible! I think I gained a pot belly on this trip!

The following pictures are of Anshan City - SQ's hometown. The one thing his caretaker asked us was if he would have fresh air in America.

This is a picture of the train station where he was found on May 10, 2004 wrapped in a cotton blanket.

Mark had to have taken this. All I know is the boys had to "go". So the three of them went off in to the bushes. Dad must have turned his back to give the privacy and taken this photo.

The Ultraman stash!

Exactly. This bubble-blowing dog lasted under 2 minutes.

Touring Shen Yang.

There were 12 emperors. We took a photo by each. Here is one - you get the idea. It was pretty cool to see this old architecture and it's history tucked in among the new city buildings.

Oh my gosh - more delicious food!! There were 6 of us and our guide ordered enough for an army.

Imperial Palace - like a mini-version of the Forbidden City.
It's a turtle headstone in honor of an emperor.......

Next up - Guangzhou and then to America. Coming soon!

Adoption Day!

2010-10-13T10:44:00.000-07:00

Ok, this is a bit misleading. I intentionally left out some photos. The first 10 minutes were emotional. Shen Qin saw us from across the room and he pushed his way back in to the hallway where his caretaker and orphanage Director tried to coax him back in. He came in very sad and scared. I saw the picture as I was going through these and decided it was such an emotional moment for him / them / us that I decided not to post it. What you see here is a somewhat happy kid when really what we had for the first day was a mixed emotion little boy.

Zhi Wei was super - he began to play with Shen Qin immediately and that was the ice breaker. From that inital moment they have been acting like true brothers! Even a few hours later they were kung-fuing each other and giggling and playing. Yeah ZW!!!

Shen Qin's red handprint - his official signature of adoption.

His caretaker is in the black shirt. She was very attached to him. We spent wto days with them signing papers and eating a lot of good food. When it was time for her to say goodbye it was emotional. She had to say her goodbye and then quickly walk away as she began to tear up. She did not look back as we left.

Warming up to this strange lady he's suppose to call "mama".

Shen Qin took this!

Travel & An Shan City, Liaoning Province, China

2010-10-12T11:04:00.000-07:00

The three Blaubachs after a 19 hour flight.

And who better to be greated by than Ultraman! (yes, we DID buy one about 2 inches shorter than this one with lights and sound and everything.........only in China)

Waiting to board the plane to Shanghai where we will sleep one night then travel the next morning to An Shan City.

Lost in translation in the airport:

An Shan City - we will meet Shen Qin the next morning.........but for this evening:

Heading underneath An Shan City to the underground shopping district - if you get lost easily do not enter!

No false advertising here!

And of course when you re-surface:

Jackie Chan hair products

No explanation needed if you know any chinese boys.

Get some sleep because tomorrow is the big day!!! 3 will become 4!

China Here We Come!

2010-10-12T10:54:00.000-07:00

Getting ready to head out the door - Aug. 27th 2010

Where is that taxi????

Finally!

To America from China or is it from China to America?

2010-10-04T14:36:00.001-07:00

ORCHARD FUN WITH FRIENDS

Mom loves a good game of tetherball.

Dad has it made.

Shen Qin loves Spiderman and decorated his room all by himself with wall clings form Grandma E! Thanks Grandma!!

Shopping around for Halloween costumes

Fun Brothers

Getting ready for the first day of school - style baby, style.

Our plane to America!

Hong Kong Food
Train to Hong Kong Where we would catch our flight to America (yep, these are out of order!

This blog is like a movie in reverse. Pictures from China to be posted soon!

May 2010

2010-05-09T08:49:00.000-07:00

We're back! It's been since October 2009 but fear not.
Happy Birthday today to An Shen Qin who waits for us ever so patiently in An Shan City, Liaoning, China. An Shen Qin turn 6 today!
So here we have our Artist, Zhi Wei Daniel Blaubach creating his larger than life superhero in our driveway. Below this you will find Zhi Wei and his very very good friend Alaina attending the premier of Mulan at the Children's Theatre and being interviewed by Radio Disney, then Zhi Wei and Alaina together for Zhi Wei's birthday dinner and last but not least Zhi Wei's birthday party with friends. He turns 9 in a couple of weeks.

Mulan!

Birthday dinner

Mom baking the birthday cake for ZW.

Nobody sees the back of the cake any way, right??

Popping balloons with your buns.

Making soda.

Present from mom and dad

Grandma and grandpa B. sent this Lego house. ZW, JY and Alaina spent a few hours builidng.

Weekends and Halloween

2009-10-31T16:14:00.000-07:00

Both were very excited because Grandma sent them money in a Halloween card.

Bob checking out the goods.

Trick or Treat!

JY's first Halloween!

ZW's first leaf pile!

Class Party

You throw wet cotton balls at the ghost until it is filled in.

Happy 23rd birthday, dad! Yep, it's a tater-tot cassero, I mean "cake". Every Minnesotans dream.
Time to carve those pumpkins.

We're serious.

Jue Ying and Amy baked homemade pumpkin pie from scratch. (notice ZW here)

This is what Bob did while we baked our pie.
(And now notice ZW) Hmmm....we worked and he enjoyed every bite!

Bob has been gaining weight and needs to exercise so he went on an adventure in our yard.

Sebastian stayed very close to the house. Not so adventurous.

I'm not sure what this is about.

Preparing our Halloween costumes. JY is dressed as a witch but she wanted to take our picture.

We're at it again!

2009-10-29T18:26:00.001-07:00

Amy found An Shenqin (pronounced shen sheen) on October 9th, 2009. We had the necessary paperwork to "hold him" in on Oct. 15th, 2009. We received approval from the CCAA on October 27th, 2009.

We told Zhi Wei tonight about his brother. He laughed and smiled and said he's very happy. Then he said "mom, I'm so proud of you because when the Chinese people called and asked if you wanted another kid, you said yes!" (wish it were that easy!)
His American name is Levi Shenqin Blaubach. He will be home with us as early as April but maybe a bit later. We'll keep you posted.

2009-10-20T07:32:00.000-07:00

Home from surgery. ZW came home that same day.

Check out the rock star on the couch. Jue Ying built ZW a knights castle while he rested.
Two days after surgery we went out for ice cream and to a pumpkin patch - what a trooper!

Profile!!! Yeah!!! We think our handsome son looks even more amazing.

This will be JY's first Halloween. She picked out her own pumpkin to carve.

ZW and dad looked at many before deciding.

Stay tuned for carving..........

FUn wiTh a FrEsnAL LeNsE

2009-09-23T15:02:00.000-07:00

Labor Day weekend, 2009

2009-09-07T09:18:00.000-07:00

We had a great weekend up north . We stopped in Duluth to watch the ships roll in from Lake Superior then headed to a friends cabin on Lake Superior for a weekend full of: boating, parades, canoeing, sailing, skipping stones, tractor rides, being buried in sand, swinging, camping on the shore of Superior, bonfires with friends, s'mores and of course, more tractor rides.

STATE FAIR

2009-08-31T08:18:00.000-07:00

MN State Fair, 2009. ZW's first fair. We ate our way through the fair and saw many different animals. We watched a cow give birth which raised MANY questions.

I love his face on this one although you can barely see it behind this womans head.

That's the largest boar this year. I think it was over 1200 lbs.

SHTANKY was the word ZW used in the pig barn.

There was a girl sitting to this boys right and her chicken had some issues. See the boys leg?

ZW really liked this bunny.

After watching the cow give birth then watching a cow being milked, ZW wasn't sure he wanted to drink milk anymore. Too much cow information all at once. But here are ZW and dad getting a glass of fresh from the cow milk.

Astronaut scarecrow, Neil Armstrong

Ice cream

French Fries
Fun House

Cheese Curds!

Corn Dog!

Corn dogs sure make ZW happy.

Home and School

2009-08-25T06:02:00.000-07:00

Well we're finally here. We moved on a Friday, Jue Ying arrived on Sunday, school started for her on Monday and for Zhi Wei on Tuesday. Whew! The pictures of our new home are not in any particular order but you get the idea.

Our good friend / neighbor came by to say goodbye before we left.

Jue Ying arrives from China! She will be staying with us for a year.

She made us some soup with bamboo and some other ingredients.

Her first day of school in America.

We collected locsut shells off of the trees in our front yard. We love having a yard!

Sebastians favorite spot - Bob can't reach him.

Mark loves having the thermometer right outside of our windows.

Our living room.

Backyard - you probably didn't need me to tell you that.

3 seasons porch

family room

Yep, it's our kitchen

First day of 2nd grade!

No, he's not taking laundry to school. It's swim stuff but mom needs to buy a smaller mesh bag.

There are bedrooms, a laundry room and bathrooms, too. Just couldn't get good pictures of them but they are the usual stuff you see. :)

Lake MI 2009

2009-08-15T06:03:00.000-07:00

2009-07-30T19:27:00.000-07:00

On the count of three. One...Two...

Three!

Yes, the Coach was giving a lesson. Can you see the enthusiasm from the kids? Ahem...anyone out there listening?

Yao Blaubach

Baseball Camp and stuff

2009-07-27T18:19:00.001-07:00

Some fun with sidewalk paint.

No explanation needed.

Bob & Sebastian hanging out.

ZW fell asleep on the stairs waiting for dad to come home from the airport.

Baseball camp

Hits ball to the outfield. Runs to first......

On to second, rounds third and it's a home run! yeah!

Obstacle Course ZW Style

2009-07-14T15:36:00.000-07:00

I was cleaning the garage and when I came in I found ZW constructing his own obstacle course.

The start is back by the wall where he is. He even used wooden train tracks - a straight one and a curved one- to make a small hockey stick to hit the superball with through the course.

So you start by going under the bridge and over thr train bridge.

Bob sitting at the end of the course. Many army men and brick walls were knocked down by the furball.

After the bridge you go through the curve. You can go on either side of Mrs. Potatoe Head.

Don't be fooled by the wide turn. The sumo wrestler blows his fan while the robot walks toward the ball, the cute pink bunny does flips in your path and the dinosaur walks ferociously in the path of the ball. Not to forget Bob, of course, who chases the ball.

And the finale is getting underneath the Star Wars 'thing', through the army men and in to the bucket.

THE END.

Bob and Sebastain after a long day.

Friends

2009-07-13T09:28:00.000-07:00

ZW had a good friend over and we went to a St. Paul Saints game.

Snackin' on popcorn and peanuts.

See the hot pink thing on top of the guys shoulder? Well, that was Muddona the Pig runnning around the corner to the locker room. ZW and Alaina were chasing after her to shake her hand. Missed her by a split second.

Dancing their way out of the stadium.

(This one s my favorite!)

Flying & the 4th of July

2009-07-10T05:15:00.000-07:00

Zhi Wei has been in gymnastics for quite awhile now. This spring he kept telling me he wished he could fly. Well, as I was looking for another gymnastics class for him I came across this summer camp-Superhero Gymnastics for boys ages 6-10. Perfect! it was his birthday present. He loves it. Yesterday was the flying day. A boys dream come true!

Mom's friend sent us a box of clothes (thanks!). In the box was this Star Wars costume which he really liked.

Dad being funny at grandma and grandpa Blaubachs. We were there for the 4th this year. It was a lot of fun. We visisted the Blaubach's (Scott and Holly and family) and Zhi Wei was able to play with his cousins. He loved it. We had a lot of fun celebrating Lina's first birthday and eating a lot of good food. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures. You'll have to visit Carrie's blog to see the pictures!

Zhi Wei with a seed stuck on his nose. Didn't you do that as a kid?

Grandp playing baseball with Zhi Wei

Zhi Wei explaining to grandma and grandpa how to play.

Zhi Wei playing with grandma.

Grandma playing baseball!

Sorry these videos are sideways. I'm not savvy enough to flip them. Flight one, the first try. The idea was to get your stance and get ready to take off.

Flight two, the coach lifts you higher and faster. Watch what happens on flight two. That wasn't part of the plan but it sure was fun!

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Ha! Ya'll thought I forgot about bloggin'....

2009-06-28T18:56:00.000-07:00

Our handsome son.

Happy father's Day!! Zhi Wei found this cake at DQ ..... pretty fitting, huh?

The newest addition to the Blaubach Family. Welcome Bob!

Gotcha!

2009-01-17T18:44:00.000-08:00

I saw you meet your child today
You kissed your baby joyfully
And as you walked away with her
I played pretend you'd chosen me.

I'm happy for the baby,yet
Inside I’m aching miserably
I want to plead as you go by,
``Does no-one want a child of three?"

I saw you meet your child today
In love with her before you met
And as I watched you take her out
I knew it wasn't my turn yet.

I recognize you from last year!
I knew I'd seen your face before!
But you came for a second babe.
Does no-one want a child of four?

I saw you meet your child today
But this time there was something new
A nurse came in and took MY hand
And then she gave my hand to you.

Can this be true?
I'm almost six!
And there are infants here you see?
But then you kissed me and I knew
The child you chose this time was me!

-Debbie Bodie

Huang Zhi Wei, DOB May 22, 2001
Zhi Wei Daniel Blaubach, Gotcha Day January 21, 2008, Adoption Day January 22, 2008

Wow! It's been an awesome year!

Christmas Continued

2009-01-02T08:08:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year!!!

Mya and Great Grandpa Blaubach

Zhi Wie helping feed Lina her dinner

At the Blaubachs

Merry Christmas Grandma!!

Showing Grandpa how to play Didgi

We were playing Jenga and Zhi Wei flicked a piece....it landed smack dab in my potatoes! Yep, it even made a squishy plop sound.

Christmas milkshakes-n-hats

Christmas 2008

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Christmas EveWe opened one giftA pinball machine from Grandma!A Christmas Story from Grandma, too!Getting cookies ready for Santa
Christmas morning - an assortment from Santa and various relatives, too!

Stay tuned for pictures from the Blaubach bash...coming soon!!