1 Year!

The kids first look at Ian June 2010

Todd holding Ian for the first time

Ian's main caretaker

Adoption Day November 30, 2010

 Ian figuring out what life is like with siblings

Our first Christmas family picture December 2010

 Celebrating with Ian November 30, 2011

Putting up the Christmas tree 2011

Wednesday we celebrated Ian adoption day a whole year ago.  We can't believe it has already been a year.  Ian has had many firsts over the last 12 months.  We are thankful to have him in our family and we celebrated with Mexican food and a cookie cake.  Ian loves to eat food and when I asked him what he wanted to eat he told me, "taco/pizza/hamburger!"  We ate Mexican food since I know he misses Taco Bueno badly.  When we were in America we would be driving in the car and he would see Taco Bueno and point and yell, "FOOD"! 

We showed him the video the Shanghai Children's Welfare Institute gave us and showed him his picture book of his first months with us.  In the year we have had him he has gained only a few pounds, but his feet have grown 21/2  sizes and he has grown over 4 inches in height.