shiftfocus Musings and Motivations

First tooth gone

We have a winner! Connor was our first child to lose a tooth! It all started about a week ago, Connor and Andrew were playing hard running around and Connor smacked into Andrew, hitting...

Technology

This is an oldie but goody. This is Amanda and I on our trip to China to pick up Jenna. I actually am trying out some new free software – Picasa – which has...

Oyasumi Nasai

It’s getting close to bed time… actually, Amanda is on her way to bed. I thought I’d write to say hello. I know that if you are reading this you are looking for pictures....

Catching up

Let me give a little recap of life…– Carli seems to continue to do very well with the transition to her new life here. When she first came she wasn’t the most balanced walker....

Carli-ism 1

Whenever Carli has to go to the bathroom she says “mamala” and point to her bottom. We say, “potty” and start walking to the bathroom. She runs in ahead of us laughing and goes...

Home

I told you this post would take a while. For one, we’ve just been getting things settled and trying to gear up for life again. However, the main reason is I just don’t want...

The journey continues…

Well, we have now completed our family and this is the start of a hopefully regular update on life with the Walches. If you want to see the journey of how we got our...

Goodbye Guangzhou

Yes, this is it, and the post will be short because it is late and we have to still pack!!! We did our ceremonial pictures on the red couch with Mattie. We had dinner...

Market walk

As I mentioned, today was a shopping day. We walked from our hotel to the wholesale jade and pearl market and a shopping mall. Along the way we walked through one of the oldest...

Happy days

Well, I have great great news to report… Carli Crying Countdown is retired, hopefully forever. I know you all have been in suspense, so I’ll report on this and then move on to other...