Look Mama, Chinese people!

Yep, nothing better than sitting in a Chinese restaurant and having your daughter blurt this out in that quiet pre-school voice! Today, Libby asked for noodles, so we stopped at the restaurant near our house. She never commented on the Chinese waitresses or busboys, but when a family came in, Mom, Dad and two teenage boys, she took it upon herself to let me know Chinese people were there. Two non-Chinese men were walking by at that moment and got a good laugh out of it. I had to call Eric to tell him. As funny as it was, and it was, it showed us that she is now putting those puzzle pieces together. We have always talked about her being born in China and that she is Chinese. We have always also talked about her being adopted (One book put it this way, if you were old enough to remember being told, you were too old) as part of her life story and weave it into conversations. However, she is now of an age where she is looking around and adding things up. She tells me that she is happy I have brown eyes, like her. I think our discussions about Maisy, and her being in China, also has Libby thinking. Sometimes I wish I could go into her head and see what she is processing.

On a different note, Libby wanted to make Dada a heart for his birthday. We met friends Michelle and Malia at Paint Your Plate last week to do so. I had hoped for a simple heart shaped plate, which they did not have. Dada will be getting a heart shaped jewelry box instead :)

We did not get into our pre-k school as we had hoped. Ironically, it is our neighborhood school, so it is guaranteed for kindergarten. The competition for this pre-k is fierce as it is a good program, is 5 mornings a week, and free. We are 3rd on the list, which would appear great, and yet they did not give us a lot of hope that we would get in because it so coveted. I am going to remain cautiously optimistic while checking out other options.

We met my nephew, his wife and their two children on Sunday at the Children's Museum. They live in Hibbing and had never been there before. Seeing if from fresh eyes helps remember how wowed I was the first time I went there. We still love it to pieces, but it is nice to appreciate how fortunate we are to have it so close by. Shout out to nephew and family to come for a visit this summer!

All in all, life is good as we begin the countdown to summer, and our journey to our next daughter.