A Day Out with Thomas 2008

Hi,

Mommy and Daddy surprised us yet again with a Day Out With Thomas yesterday afternoon. We arrived at 12:30 pm and ate lunch first. Now the weatherman said that it was only going to rain after 4 pm. BUT they were wrong...

It was drizzling when we arrived and through lunch. We met up with friends of ours and had the 2 pm train ride. With the coaches, you could choose where to sit or stand. If you wanted to sit you sat in the enclosed coaches. If you wanted to stand you stood in the open air coaches.

We took a 25 minute train ride which was wonderful. It was Bella's first train ride and she didn't complain except that she was up in the chunei (the baby carrier I have). We loved the ride. Katie looked like she was an old pro riding the rails. She stood up and mostly refused to hold onto anything. Daddy and Mommy commented that she must have been an regular rider on the Seoul subway!!

After that we did the hay bale maze, pictures with Sir Topham Hatt (well except for Ryan), played in the Imagination Station with the various items in there, had pictures taken with Thomas. Mommy will post pictures on here when she gets a chance.

When Mommy asked us in the car ride on the way back home what we liked most about the day, I responded that I liked riding on Thomas the best. With Katie she said that she liked giving Angie (the friend of ours who came to the Day Out With Thomas with the rest of her family) hugs.

~Ryan and Katie

Mourning Geese???

Okay now somebody who will remain nameless is asking us if we have seen Mourning Geese? We are sorry to report that we don't see Mourning Geese but Mourning Ducks who still say Quack Quack Quack.

~Ryan and Katie

Pictures of Our Sister and her Tol

Here are a few of the pictures of Bella in her Hanbok on her birthday and of her Tol Celebration:























~Ryan and Katie

WE HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE!!!!!

We have a name for our baby sister. We like to introduce Isabella Grace Ryanne. We are calling her Bella. We are keeping her Korean name as well.

Mommy and Daddy were trying to decide between two names and finally decided on this one. The middle names were already picked. We like this name over the other name that they were thinking about.

We need to go since Bella is playing with our toys.

~Ryan and Katie

Siblings....

We are happy to have each other here to interact with, to play with, to talk to and more. We are generally happy that Mommy and Daddy adopted both of us.

Some days we can be difficult and gang up on Mommy and then Daddy when he comes home from work. But at the end of the day, we are happy to have each other. We are very helpful and love to play with each other and with Mommy and Daddy. We are happy to be a family.

We look forward to meeting our sister and to helping her out. We are already fighting over who is getting the blankie or the toy or who is going to feed her or get a diaper for Mommy or Daddy.

And for those of you see us and ask our Mommy and Daddy if we are a family: YES WE ARE A FAMILY

Things Moving Along to Get Our Sister

Mommy and Daddy took us to see the clerk at our Town Hall yesterday afternoon. Daddy got out of work early to get his physical and when he got home we all got into Mommy's car and went to Town Hall. We played in the office while Mommy and Daddy signed some documents and got some stuff notarized.

We're almost done getting most of the application and affidavit paperwork done to submit it into Parsons. Hopefully the rest of the paperwork will get done by the end of this week. Mommy hopes to submit everything into Parsons either Friday or Monday of next week.

After this we wait for other paperwork so that we can head into USCIS and hand in our I-600 form. Then we wait until the phone call. At that point, we'll hear Mommy screaming with delight that our sister is able to travel home to us.

~Ryan and Katie