Adoption Day 2015

[przed]

As it turns out, I didn't make it to tonight's Taekwando class. Tomorrow is the anniversary of us adopting Rosalind, so tonight we took ourselves to Mongolian Grill to celebrate.

This is the only picture we managed to get with all of our eyes more or less open.


For comparison, here's a pic of Ros as a toddler. It's hard to believe she was ever that tiny. (For the record, we still have the fuzzy green chair, though it's nearly too small for her now, and she more frequently sits in it tipped on its back and upsidedown.)


We usually get Ros a gift for Adoption Day. This year she gets to pick out her own Birkenstock flip flops, which she has been bugging me about for at least a year. I think we have the only eight-year-old who'd rather have shoes than toys.

In other news, whilst poking around my LJ to look for old pics of Ros, I found this comment in the wake of draycevixen pointing me to halotolerant's TG fic:


I have a sudden desire for a time machine so I can show 2009!Zed just how much TT slash 2015!Zed has written. ::cackles hysterically::

Comments

[przed.livejournal.com]

She's growing up so fast!

I think celebrating Adoption Day is a standard thing in the Chinese adoption community. It probably helps that you tend to travel to China with a group of other families so it gives you a point of connection with them. (We're going for dinner with one of the other families in our travel group next week.)

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes--I got Demelza the day she was born and we went to the courthouse 8 months later. Adoption day (to me) is just her birthday, which is next week.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Ros was nine months old when we got her, so her birthday doesn't match up with adoption day. There's all sorts of ways of creating family!

[przed.livejournal.com]

BTW, an early Happy Birthday to Demelza!