Tagged: Carli Yuan

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...

Running with the bulls!

Ok, not really, but I had a great time thinking so. I went out for a run this morning. I’ve been looking forward to this – to be able to run around and see...

Hello Guangzhou!

There was a welcome familiarity as we drove into the driveway of the White Swan – we spent two weeks here in 2004 when we adopted Jenna. Even though I was excited about coming...

So long Harbin

Well, today was our last day, and it was sort of bittersweet. We’re all ready to move on, and we had a really good day, but it is also the end of a chapter...