Happy Birthday Little Man!

I can't believe my boy is '2'. What a day we are going to have. Which I'm sure will include sugar, sugar and more sugar :) But that's OK, it's a big day! I'll try and post pictures soon. (just like I still need to do for Christmas) All morning it's been "happy bertday, happy bertday" as he bounces and skips around the house. It is sooo cute.

Happy Birthday Little Man, We LOVE YOU!

1year already

Well it's been 1 year with Dreyden in our arms (12/19) - and how things have changed - how far we've ALL come.

I know I am way behind on pictures and updates, I'll try and do more of that soon!

Diwali Festival

This Saturday was the most exciting time for Ahlyana. Her first dance performance. Her and two other girls performed to Jai Ho (the 4th came down with the H1N1). There were many other groups performing, as well as some solo's. Music and a delicious dinner followed. The best Indian food we've had in quite some time. (As you may remember we don't have Indian restaurants that are easily accessible for us) Both Ahly and Dreyden found a new favorite, besides mango ice cream. Vegetable noodles - they were great..... nothing we had ever had before. I will have to search the web for this recipe. The evening was full of color and joy, all the women dressed at their very best, OK so the guys were too, but the women were beautiful!! I was lucky enough to have my Mom and Stepdad make it this year. Here are a few pictures of the festivities - hopefully a video of her routine will be coming shortly!

A very excited little girl.

Her first trophy - just for participating!

And of course the family

Movie

I just came across this movie called "The Waiting City". Here's the trailer http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/the-waiting-city/trailer

It's about an Australian couple who goes to Calcutta to pick up their adopted child. Only to find more red tape causing them to stay in India. It doesn't appears that it's really about adoption but more of how the process puts a toll on the couples marriage. I haven't seen any rating on this or even know if we can see it in the US now. I do know it will be available on Netflix at some point. Thought this may be of some interest to some of us. I know I plan on seeing it, I just hope hope it does both the adoption process and country justice.

India Festival!

Our local community had their annual Festival of India. It was great, as always. There is a group of us Indian Adoptive Families- that get together and discuss this and that. Most of them are Dillon Families! We try to get together and celebrate the holidays as much as possible. Hopefully, our lives will be a little calmer that we can get to them this coming year. Holi fest is one I am especially looking forward too :) During our meeting the kids got together and were given bracelets. As is done in the in Indian Celebration of Raksha Bandhan. (the celebration of the love between brothers and sisters) It was wonderful to see them tie bracelets on one another, since we feel as though they are an extended families of sorts. Ahly was actually comfortable enough to have Henna done so we both were lucky enough to have that done by a very talented lady.
Here are a few pictures of that day.

In two weeks the Indian community is celebrating Diwali. This year Ahly will be dancing with 3 other girls as part of their show. So in case I don't post before that, you can definitely look forward to some video shortly after the 24th.

Oh and by the way, we had 3 inches of snow yesterday! Yes, we are in Wisconsin but October 12th is even a little ridiculous for us!