A Clear Sign
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Sinclair's 2nd Birthday!
We were tickled pink (and green) to celebrate Sinclair's second birthday!
Friday, October 23, 2009
Moon Festival 2009
This year's Mid-Autumn Moon Festival was our first gathering in our new home. Our patio was strung with lights and Chinese lanterns. We invited several families with children from China, one of which are some of our new neighbors, the Worrells! We also had one family from our church's adoption fellowship group, the Barretts, and the Landinos who were in our travel group in China. We all wore traditional Chinese dress and brought moon cakes, Chinese pastries, and other desserts to share. We sat and talked of China and our various adoption experiences and the kids had fun playing. It was a lovely time.
Monday, October 5, 2009
One Year A Smith!
September 1st marked our one-year adoption anniversary. It is such a special memory to celebrate. What a great adventure adoption has been. To celebrate, we weren't able to do too much, because we moved into a new home exactly on September 1st. We had some close friends over for Chinese food and we put Sinclair in a ladybug dress, but that was about it. On the other hand, moving into a new home has been a great thing for our family, and I find it interesting that the dates coincided. We have been blessed to be able to move into a 1900 square-foot one-story home with a HUGE backyard. There are trees, and grass and bugs and lizards. We previously lived in a 1400 square foot townhome, so this feels like a palace. Sinclair loves it here. She likes to run in the grass, jump on the trampoline, and get dirty. God gave our family a wonderfully amazing gift to celebrate Adoption Day.
Monday, July 6, 2009
First Independence Day
Sinclair enjoyed her first 4th of July! We relaxed most of the day, trying to let her get as much of a nap in as possible so she could stay up late for the fireworks. Every year, we go to a huge fireworks display in Veterans Park. This year we met some friends from church there and reserved our spots on the lawn. We brought KFC and some fruit for dinner and hung out with the crowds. There is always a band playing on stage and booths to play and eat at. Brevin was in Tennessee visiting Matt's dad for the holiday, but nevertheless we all had our own flag tee in different colors to wear for the occasion. Sinclair ran around with the other toddlers, chasing bubbles, etc. We always see a lot of people we know from the community and so it's a great time even while we are all waiting for sundown. Sinclair absolutely loved the fireworks! She oohed and ahhed and clapped and jumped up and down. It was so cute. She really is getting very expressive and animated. She had a blast!
Friday, June 5, 2009
18 months old
This was taken when Sinclair was exactly 18 months old. It just took me awhile to post it!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Sinclair's Dedication video--Finally!
Watch below or go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU_85G8WJsA
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Sinclair's First Easter
Sinclair had a great time. It was so funny to watch her try to figure out what to do at the egg hunt. She could barely reach for the eggs, and then she didn't want to put them in her basket. She wanted to play with them--shake them and throw them. She had no idea there was candy inside of them.
The Easter services at church were quite different than a normal Sunday for us. Madison was in the service as she and some of her junior high group were going to be prayed over before leaving for a service trip over Easter break. Anita was dancing in the services, so Daddy had to bring the family. Mommy laid out all of the children's clothing, so Daddy knew what to do. Sinclair began calling out "Ma, ma!!" when she saw Anita on stage and Matt almost had to take her out of the service. Afterwards, we were in such a hurry to get over to Marie Callendar's before a huge lunch rush that we didn't take any pictures in all of our special Easter outfits. Sinclair looked adorable in a beautiful lavendar dress, but we'll have to get pictures of her in it on another day.
