Happy Halloween!

Unguard, hand over the Princess... Oh, Thank You my brave brother, the Knight.

Awwwh.. The Wench, Captain Kirk, The Knight and The Beautiful Princess.

(...really these are costumes.)

The cousins join the fun, to raid the neighborhood of treats. Yummy.
Introducing: Scary Sherry, The Beautiful Bride & Jango Fett.

MEI Girls, Theme Song.

Hannah was humming a tune in the kitchen this evening.
I said, "Oh honey, that is Farajaka.(sp?) Let me sing it with you, like this..."
~
Me: "Farajaka, Farajaka, dor may vu, dor may vu..."

Hannah: "No Mommy, Hannah sings in China, Like This."

Hannah: "Farajaka, Farajaka, dor Mei Ru, dor Mei Na, dor Mei Feng, dor Mei Ke, dor Mei Xiang..."

** The names above are some of Hannah's best friends that were adopted from the same orphanage this summer at the same age, and the families are all still maintaining a close friendship. The internet is such an amazing thing and I am thankful that we have the means to locate friends from Hannah's past and will be able to maintain friendships, for our girls and us mom's too.

Oh my, she is hilarious and too cute. Her song was too funny, and I think she was serious!!!! LOL!

One Fish, Two Fish!

Jacob and Hannah have both passed,

Level I Swimming Lessons!

Let it snow, Let it snow...

Hannah saw and touched her "first" snow this morning! We went outside before school. It was cold... 26 degrees and pretty windy.

Boots!
Coat!
Careful, Icy.

Here I am! Whoa, look at this!Brrr...Cold!

100 words!

It is official,

Hannah knows all 100 words in this book! We had bought this book and took it to China with us, as a communication tool. Three months later, she knows them all. Good Job Hannah!

3 Month Anniversary

Today has been 3 months since we've adopted Hannah, and Robyn with Maddie and Sharon with Marissa & their respective families too!
If you know us, you know Hannah has a "pack" of friends that have been adopted from the same orphanage in China at the same time (or very close to the same time) and the girls are the same age. The friends are still in touch here in America. Two of the other girls share the same adoption day as Hannah. It is a special day for Hannah and her friends to share the same anniversary day, with their forever families.
We did not have any official type of celebration today. You know we must be settling in as a happy & lovely family, because it was such a typical day here.
Work and school as usual at the Hunsufamily household. School for the kids was extra fun; it was Track & Field Day! The students got to play outside on the playground all day. They did things like the 3 legged race, egg toss, tug~o~war, gunny sack races, tire races and relays, all kinds of sportsmanship type activities. Whelp, just loads of fun, ALL DAY at school. The classes even ate lunch outdoors, BBQ style; hamburgers, beans, corn on the cob, fruit and milk... Yummy! It did cost one dollar extra today, but I am sure the kids thought it was worth it!
After school... a quick snack, followed swiftly by 3 to 4 pages of homework, then off to swimming lessons for an hour... then back home to shower... clean rooms... & watch a short movie with daddy, (while mommy went to work out at Villa)... then we ate dinner after I returned home.
Now we have all put on our PJ's, brushed our teeth and we are winding down for the evening.
Whew, we must be family, it sure feels like it; Happy, Loving & Exhausting... LOL!

Swimming Lessons!

Uh Oh, I knew I should have told the instructor she doesn't speak English...

Oh no, Focus Hannah! :o) ...she can't help it, she knows mommy is watching and loving every minute of it. AS HANNAH WOULD SAY..."Listen to the speaker."

Hannah said, she learned that phrase in her first grade class. Hhmm??... I wonder why.

Ooopps sorry class, she is still all giggles... but Jacob, he will listen.

{He has really been wanting to swim, so he had no choice. :o)}

The class clown, Hannah FoFannah ...just like daddy, no other way to explain it. Humor is a Hunsufamily trait.

Good job! Hold on, you are in the deep end now.

Oh good, back to the shallow end with lots of kicking.

Whelp, all is well, that ends well. They both did great!

"Look Ma, NO TRAINING WHEELS"!

Cool, now just hold off on the "LOOK MA, NO HANDS".

Mommy's not ready for that one. Yikes!

Chinese Dance

Hannah on her way to dance.
And, well Jacob... that's what brothers do! :o)

Before you can dance, you must stretch...
Hannah is not always sure what's going on,...

but she watches others and does the same.

(She is folding her blue ribbon into a flower.)

All that hard work of folding the ribbon paid off,.. during the ribbon dance.

Now she understands the ...WHY?... I think she's having fun!

Hannah really likes the dance choreography part. (We can hardly wait for the end of the semester performances.)

Fun and Friends at Dance

Hannah had a great time, she also made some new friends.
Anna
Rebekkah
Hanna