3rd week in june

we celebrated Zoe's birthday with a cake at Shari's house.Zoe loved being sung to and blowing out the candles but the cake ? not so much. She received some wonderful presents Kelli made a gorgeous card. Kelli Zoe ,me and desmond went to pick strawberries. You may notice kelli worked some magic with her photoshop and made my butt magically disappear.. now if it were that easy in real life.

Zoe had her 6 months check at the cardiologist and they did an ultrasound. The news was definately not what I was expecting. Up until now we had been told she would need no treatment .. but things change.. The Dr told me that Zoe will need open heart surgery to close the hole. The hole is small but as it tries to close it is sucking in part of the valves and this will lead to bigger problems. We can wait awhile ,its not an immediate issue and she is doing very well. She goes to her pediatrician on monday for her 4 yr check up.

second week in June

the second week in June we were invited to visit With a family that had adopted in Nov LingLing from Zoe's fostercare center. The girls lived together for almost a year. The family is from VA but were up visiting family in central NY. They would be about 30 mins from my sisters house so we decided to visit with Michelle and Rick. We met up with the Family and its was nice to the girls together. Zoe was not too friendly. She told us before that Ling Ling no like me.We found out that Zoe thought they we were giving her to LingLing(noelle)family. I guess even after 6 mos she still has some confusion.

Catching up.

I can not believe how fast June has gone by. Several things to update. Zoe had her first dental cleaning and NO cavities. pretty amazing considering she's been in a orphange and all the sweets they allow them.
The first week in June we attended the Dragonboat Festival at Riverside Park In rochester. I forced the teen boys to come,no one would help me with the "boat"for the float but once they saw how put together most of them were I am hoping to have help next year. it was great to see all the kids and having Zoe with us this year. They had a parade around and Zoe's boat won most colorful,its good to have glitter.I thouught they were giving awards to everyone but they only gave out 5. Really Zoe didnt have a clue so she would not have been upset. She refused to pose for pictures ,thats her in the middle looking up at the ceiling. She said there were too many cameras. all those parent clicking away. She let her dragon wear the medal. what a sweetie. when I say that to her she says back "you called me sweetie mommy" then"your my sweetie mommy" She is very cute except ... she was hightailing it across the park to the playground and I told her to stop she turned around and looked at me .. I swear i heard her hiss.. thats her trying to recreate the look.
It was a very hot day. we all had fun although Zoe would not talk or play with any of the kids

zoes guitar

Zoe singing and playing her new guitar on the very first day...I was quite impressed by her natural talent.. She is singing about a bathing suit and going to the beach...