Happy Halloween ! ! !

OK, 10 days between posts is too long, I know!

Ana and I did take a trip to Chicago for 4 days. I had a conference to attend and we stayed with some friends of ours. We had a blast! Ana stayed with Kim during the day and they had fun at Target, Wal-Mart, the park and McDonald's. She also ended up with new mittens (3 pair) and a toboggan (winter hat for those of you who think I talking about a sled). Ana did wonderful on the "airpane" and thought it was a blast!

Here are some photos of one of Ana's Halloween outfits. She actually has blinking black sock with kitty-cats on them, of which she says, "Meoooooow" every time she sees them light up. Anyway, the blinking kitty sock are in the dirty clothes, so we went with yellow ones. Also, just so you know. The first photo she is saying "Cheese!" not growling like a monster!

Photos from Weekend in Scottsburg

First Post

Well, I'm going to give this a try again. I don't plan to be able to post daily, but hopefully at least weekly. I have found it difficutl to keep up with this, along with many other things now that I've started back to work. Right now I am able to work at night and Ana is able to stay with Papa (Keith). Then we have a friend from chuch "on call" for the following morning in case I get off late or get no sleep. We've not had to "call her in" in the past few weeks, but Ana did go over and play with her grand daughter today which was a nice little break.

Ana also received her flu shot today. She will need another one in 1 month since this is the first one she has ever received. She also received the first of 3 injections for Hepatitis B. Her Hep B titer was the only one which came back negative when we checked her blood levels. This is good news because it means she probably received the reported immunizations while in Guatemala.

We recently went to Grandma and Papaw's (my Mom and Dad) for the weekend so Ana could meet more family, most who had not met her since she got home from Guatemala. We had a wonderful weekend with Grandma and Papaw, cousins and other extended family. It was a busy weekend with a surprise birthday party for Uncle Steve, a wedding of my cousin Brooke and then an Open House for everyone to meet Ana. It was so nice to see so many people. Many people I hadn't seen in 10 years in some cases. Since this is the first time I've posted on this website I hope to be able to figure out how to post photos, but I won't make any promises.

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Have a great day!
Tana