Family Day reflections...

Hi everyone--

We just had such a wonderful, relaxing family day! We loved hanging out at COSI, savoring time in the little kid area and realizing that our days in this exhibit are nearing an end... (Kids over kindergarten age aren't allowed in the exhibit...) The girls really enjoyed Chuckie Cheese as well, and Ellie-Kate was just fearless around Chuckie this time-- very cool! She used almost all of her tokens on the basketball hoops, and she earned lots of tickets with her expertise :)

During lunch, though, we were talking, and Ellie-Kate once again expressed her desire for a baby brother. I said that we were too old to go back to China, and Ellie-Kate said that I could just have another baby in my tummy, just like her. Roger and I just looked at each other... We really thought that she understood that we adopted her from China, but we realized that she didn't truly grasp what that meant. She knows that she's from China and that we all flew over to get her, but she obviously didn't get that she wasn't in my tummy on route to China or that someone else was involved. We're praying that the conversation that we so evidently need to have with her will go smoothly and that she'll really be able to understand a very complicated situation for a little five year old... Kind of a bittersweet realization to an otherwise extremely good day.

Need to head off for bed now! More very soon :)

Christie