Thursday, January 1, 2009

Christmas morning and Yi-Yi Woes

Mommy, Leo and Shane on New Year's Eve Daddy getting Leo in his Christmas Jammies


Christmas morning before the chaos hit!







Leo enjoying his present





Here are some highlights of our Christmas morning - It took Leo about 3 hours to open all of his presents - he moved at snail's pace! He just wanted to enjoy every one! He was a very gracious boy!


Yi-Yi woes........ Some background information you will need to know:


Leo is very attached to his pacifier, "Yi-Yi" He is only allowed to have it in the car and in bed, but lately he has been sneaking around and going to get it when we aren't looking. Grandma and Leo bought Baby Wil some Yi-Yi's for Christmas too. Well, December 29th was a sad day for yi-yi, in the morning, I discovered a tear in his "bed yi-yi" so we cut it off. "Yi-Yi is broken!" All throughout the day, we were asked by our clever two year old several solutions to the problem


-Mommy, fix it with glue?


-Daddy, fix it with a hammer!


-Leo will fix it with a wrench! After trying his toy wrench, he decided that wasn't enough and requested that daddy retrieve a "big, huge wrench" from the garage. He wasn't surprised when that didn't work either.


Finally, here is a transcript from the best "Yi-Yi" conversation Leo and I have had so far.


Leo: Mommy, buy new yi-yi?


Me: Sorry Leo, they don't sell yi-yi's to mommies, daddies, or big boys...only babies!


Leo: hmmmm.....Leo buy baby Wil Yi-yi's Christmas!


Me: Those are for baby Wil! (I hope I hope I hope that baby Wil doesn't want a yi-yi!)


Leo: Baby Wil no come out, Leo's Yi-yis!


Me: No!


So far, we've had two nights without yi-yi. Leo did it, but not until 10:30 pm one night and 11:30 the next night! Oh, wish us luck!




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4 comments:

Beth said...

Good job Leo on not using the yi yi!!! Such a cute conversation about fixing his broken yi yi!.

Hope you're feeling good!!!

January 1, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Unknown said...

I love you hair. I have never seen it so long before.

January 4, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Rydley said...

Oh he's so smart! Yes, fix it with a hammer! Too cute. Good luck with that process!!

January 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Shana said...

RIP yi-yi

January 14, 2009 at 9:14 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