Welcome Home Zoe!

Here it is! The first official picture of all 4 kids together! Everyone was VERY EXCITED! Zoe was literally hopping up and down in her seat as we pulled into the driveway and she caught sight of the swingset and backyard. We had her family photo book out that we had sent her last summer and I was pointing to the pictures of the house to tell her we were almost home. She was so pumped to see it for real! The other 3 ran out the back door to see her and then they all ran through the whole house! Of course, the other 3 wanted to show her everything immediately, but we had to stop them for a brief moment to snap this photo in front of the sign the kids made with our friend Jen while we were gone. AWESOME!!! I'm going to try to edit the video of the event and load a small taste of the first meeting! We are a full day into it now and other than regular sibling issues about sharing, things really are going well. Zoe understands a lot of what we say, but still responds in Chinese of course. English words pop out of her unexpectedly at times and we get really excited about that. She is still calling Jared, Shelby and Ryan by the Chinese names for Big Brother, Little Sister (she is 3 mos older than Shelby) and Little Brother. Which is fine, as they are learning to answer to that. And it is only fair, since she has to learn to respond to Zoe instead of her Chinese Name, Tzu-Ying (which sounds kind of like Zuey said really fast).

SISTERS!!! Aren't they cute!?!