Re-Adoption Day!

Today was the long awaited day we entered a US court room to complete Jadyn's re-adoption. We haven't been in a big hurry to do this as we were pretty burnt out on paperwork since coming home from China.

it was early morning and the sun was rising, not a good time for a picture!

The process today was needed to get Jadyn issued a US birth Certificate, it will show her as being born in Jiangsu China, but show Ames & I as her parents. She will need this once she enters school.

We are pretty happy as we represented ourselves in court, saving close to a thousand dollars in attorney fee's. On that note, if you are needing to re-adopted in the US, let me know. It's pretty easy once you have the correct forms.

We had a female Judge and she was happy to interact with Jadyn, of course Jadyn loved it and even raised her right hand while we were being sworn in!
The Judge gave Jadyn a teddy bear at the end of the process.

It was fast and painless, we are happy to have it done. We now await her birth certificate to come in the mail.


Ames and I are leaving for Maui tomorrow to celebrate our anniversary, that's what were calling this trip anyway. Thank you Auntie Kim & cousin for taking care of our kids!

Tomorrow also marks the one year anniversary of Jadyn's second and final heart surgery! It's crazy how fast times flies!

July 16, 2010

Although Jadyn became a United States citizen almost 2 years ago, she will now have a birth certificate to prove it.

It's crazy how this process works as she already has a US passport and Social security number.

Wishing you a Fun, Safe and.......

Happy



4th.



of



July!!

We love Summer

Roasting hot dogs and S'mores in your back yard with your best friend = Summer!

Mom finally blows up the pool and lets you wear your new swimsuit that you have asked more than a 100 times to wear = Summer!





yes I know, she's a Diva!

Our Girl

If you are here visiting from Kelly's Korner Blog, Thank you!

I linked my blog to her special needs families entry, and wanted to give you an easy to read version of our daughters SN.

We adopted Jadyn from Jaingsu China in August 2009. She was 2 yrs. 4 months old and weighed a tiny 21 pounds.

Jadyn was born with Transposition of the Great Arteries, a large VSD and Pulmonary Stenosis. We consulted with 2 pediatric cardiologist's and was told she would need 2 open heart surgeries to correct the defect. Also that she would have a single ventricle her entire life.

She had open heart surgery 1 month to the day after we brought her home from China. She was in the hospital for a short 72 hours.

She went in the hospital with oxygen saturation's at 77%, she was blue and had very little energy. She came out of surgery pink and with her oxygen sats. around 84%. She had so much more energy.

She would need one more surgery once she hit 32-34 pounds, that was 11 months later.

Jadyn had her final corrective surgery in July of 2010, this surgery put her oxygen saturation's at 96-99% made her as pink as you and I and gave her the energy of any other 3 yr old.

She was in the hospital for 8 days.

It has been almost a year now since her last surgery, she is doing great.

She visits the cardiologist every 6 months for a check up and takes a baby aspirin daily. She also takes a low dose of high blood pressure medication, not because she has high blood pressure but because they want her BP very low, it's less work for her heart that way.

She has no restrictions, but she is still a Single Ventricle child.


Checking into the hospital for her first surgery


Jadyn today

I am more than happy to answer any questions you may have on our experience with a SN heart child.

Falls

We took a day trip last weekend, just to get out of town for a while.


I love waterfalls and have been anxious to see Snowqualime Falls for a long time now.

The hiking trail is closed until 2013, but they have a great viewing area.

The pictures don't show just how big it is. It was beautiful.


To make the trip even better we stopped at the outlet Mall on the way.

It was a fun day!


Jadyn loved seeing the "big water"

4 going on 16

Jadyn got a play make-up kit for her birthday, it's one of those little junkie things she picked out with the tickets she won playing games at Chuck E Chee$e.

She loves it.

I have been known to hide it from her from time to time.

Because......

I find her in the bathroom like this.

Blue is her eye color of choice.


I think next Halloween she should be a character from the movie Avatar. Except that, her lip choice is purple and lots of it!!

It's a lot of work getting this all off her face.

I'm a little worried for what I have to look forward to, in say, 12 years!

she will walk out of the bathroom and ask her brothers "Do I look beautiful?" you can only imagine their response! Garrison has been seen following her around with a rag, telling her "you have too much on" it's pretty funny.

Bubbles!

Jadyn's favorite bubble pipe

Yes, she's aiming for me!




There they go!!


She's not so impressed with this one, the bubbles were too small


"wow, those are big Mom"

The bubbles got even better when big brother got home from school


Because chasing them is just as fun!

Oregon Coast

We had a great time at the beach, it's been so long since we have stayed in a hotel there. It was a fun Mothers day weekend.

Jadyn & Jeron love the beach



Playing on the beach


Swimming in the hotel pool!



Walking down the Historic Bay front to go see these guys.....



Sea Lions.

Something I learned about my husband this weekend, he can bark just like a California Sea Lion. So well in fact, that they actually lift their lazy heads and looked up at him.
The kids were pretty impressed with their Dad!

2 years ago today....

We saw a picture of our daughter for the very first time!
This picture will forever be special to me.
I studied it for hours, noticing the old bent up crib she called her bed, her long fingers that wrapped the rails, the sweet little smirk on her face. The split pants that showed her diaper.

I can't believe it's already been 2 years

Catch-up!

We have had a very busy couple of weeks. I'll try and catch up my blog with one post!

Jadyn loved Easter this year, we spent it in Portland with her new Niece and Nephew.

Please meet- BraeLynn & Zander, born 4-19-11


This is our Beautiful Granddaughter, BraeLynn or as Jadyn calls her "the girl one"

The Easter Bunny came to visit and he knew just what Jadyn would love!



Her beloved Tangled doll!


She will be enjoying Easter candy for a long time. (thanks Popa & Grandma)

Jadyn also had her 6 month cardiologist check-up.



We are happy to report her heart looks GREAT!

She's made such strides since her original heart tests and surgery, she no longer fears Doctors and is a little ham the entire time we are there!

I, on the other hand am tired of Doctor's visits!
Between going to the hospital where my daughter gave birth, Jadyn's cardio appt. and a trip to the ER with G for "another" hockey injury and the follow-up appt's. for him. (I am happy to report it's a mild case of whiplash/sprained neck with numbness to hands and feet. He's sore but fine!) As of now his 11 years of playing hockey are over according to him.

I was pretty impressed, they did a cat-scan through his gear, nothing was cut off!
We will try and stay out of Medical buildings for a while!

Next weekend were heading to the Oregon Coast for my birthday and Mothers day! We are all pretty excited, it's been a long time since we were there!

More signs of Spring!

Pretty purple tulips and my pretty girl


Jadyn & Quinten taking a little break from shopping!