Saturday, March 29, 2008

Fun weekend!

The presents rolled in today - Leo continues to believe that the mailman is supposed to bring soemthing new for him everyday! Today, he got this awesome Transformers Mr. Potato Head (his first!) from his new friend, Caleb! Leo Loves to play with it! He thinks it's so funny! Leo also got packages from Aunt Ginny, Uncle Scott, Aunt Tashia, Uncle Steve and cousins Ashley and Andrew today - woh!

At the Taiwanese-American Festival today, Leo was a big hit! Strangers took his picture and gave him stuff - like this fun hand drum. He's just cute!


Here's Leo playing with the marvelous, fantabulous bubble machine he got from his cousins Ashley and Andrew - big hit!

Oh, taking care of the "lawn" is such tough work in Arizona!

Some pictures from the Taiwanese-American Festival. Leo tried his hand at Chinese Yo-Yo! Caleb was much better - you'll have to check out his mommy's blog for pictures.....




Leo opened up his presents from Aunt Tashia and Uncle Steve - some very cute clothes!!!




More pics from the festival today.

Leo in his Taiwan hat.

Nee Hao strange dressed up man thing

Leo danced alone on stage




Leo playing with his cool bowling game from Aunt Ginny! He loves to knock em' down! He is constantly walking around the house looking for his "ball" while doing the sign for ball!


Here he is taking a walk in Daddy's shoes and a walk in Mommy's shoes. Not as easy as you would think, huh little guy?

The Dragon Boat races in Tempe






We've had a great Saturday so far! We were so lucky to meet Mel, Rob and Caleb today at the Taiwanese-American Festival. Pauline and Charles came too! These two families are waiting for their little girls to come home from Taiwan!
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4 comments:

Rydley said...

Okay, you guys are having WAY WAY WAY too much FUN!!!! I wish we could have gone to that festival too!

March 30, 2008 at 7:07 PM
Unknown said...

I'm looking forward to meeting Leo!
Allen

April 1, 2008 at 11:23 AM
Shana said...

That is so awesome that you got to go to the TW American Festival. Ours is in May but no dragon boat races:( So cool!

Kevin wants to know how we get a lawn like that? Sweet!
-Shana

April 1, 2008 at 8:29 PM
Stefanie said...

Hi Katie! LOVE the picture of Leo and Alex taking care of the lawn :-) And the Taiwanese-American Festival looks so fun! I'm thinking maybe sometime in the future we should have a Blogette/Blogling reunion during that week...?

April 2, 2008 at 6:26 PM

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January 8, 2007 Attend Adoption 101 Information Session in Mesa, AZ
January 22, 2006 - Apply for preapproval from our agencyand Taiwan
January 23, 2007 - Application for USCIS (I-600A) form submitted
January 28, 2007 - 1st Homestudy meeting
January 28, 2007 - Sign adoption contract with our agency
January 29, 2007 - Approved to adopt from Taiwan
February 1, 2007 - Clearance from state of Arizona
February 6, 2007- Maricopa application to adopt is filed
February 13, 2007 - Clearance from state of Michigan, Medical clearances, and Fingerprint invitation arrive from USCIS
February 24, 2007 - Fingerprinted for USCIS
March 11, 2007- Homestudy Complete and Court Certification from Maricopa County received
April 28, 2007 - Homestudy is translated into Mandarin
July 1, 2007 - Finally receive 171-H in the mail
July 6, 2007 - Get new case manager
July 22, 2007 - Sign adendum to contract
August 8, 2007 - Our lucky day! Referral for Lin Kai-Yi, born 6-3-06
August 8, 2007 - accept referral
August 13, 2007 - Sign Child Referral Agreement
August 23, 2007 - Paperwork arrives in Tucson
August 24, 2007 - Paperwork arrives to us
August 26, 2007 - Documents notorized (How many adults does it take to use a stamp?)
August 28, 2007 - Documents certified by AZ Sec. of State
August 29, 2007 Documents sent to TECO to be authenticated
September 4, 2007 - Documents arrive in Tucson from TECO
September 6, 2007 - Documents sent to Taiwan! YEAH!
September 10, 2007 - Update day! We receive 4 pics and a video!
October 2, 2007 - Receive word from TWCA that our hearing date is October 9, 2007 (this happened extreamly fast!)
October 9, 2007 - Keep your fingers crossed for a quick 1st ruling (even better yet, keep your fingers crossed for a final ruling!)
October 11, 2007 - October updates are here!
October 19, 2007 - Receive more pictures and videos from Ray's visit to Taiwan!
November 5, 2007 - November updates are here!
December 2, 2007 - December updates are here! Can't believe there has been no news all month!
December 13, 2007 - FINALLY! Word of our First Ruling! Yippeee! It happened on Dec. 13th in Taiwan (yesterday here)
January 4, 2008 - January updates
February 4, 2008 - February updates
February 28, 2008 - Leaving for Taipei!!!
February 29, 2008 - Arrive in Taipei!
March 4, 2008 - Gotcha Day! Can you even believe it!?!?!?
March 5, 2008 - FINAL RULING FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY! (by the way, our paperwork says the final ruling was issued December 24th!)
March 6, 2008 - First AIT appointment
March 7, 2008 - VISA DAY!
March 10, 2008 - Leave for home!
March 10, 2008 - Arrive home with our boy!!!!!!!!!!!
July 5, 2008 - Find out about Wil's arrival!
March 10, 2009 - Wil Shan-Yi Shaffer is born at 3:38 am 8 lbs. 4 oz. 20 inches long