Here are a few photos of our Chenzhou (her birth town) girl dressed in a traditional Mandarin dress that was given to us by our adoption agency. (She also had to put on the requisite princess tiara and jewelry to complete the ensemble.)
Just days after celebrating Sarah Mei's birthday, we were surprised with a snow day. It snowed about 2 inches, enough to make snow angels and sled in, and it was also enough for the local schools to close (including the school where Phil is the principal.) We were looking forward to a relaxed day by the fire; however plans changed!
The 3 girls (Torie was at college) headed out to our neighbor's house to go sledding. A 1/2 hour after their departure we got a phone call saying that Sarah Mei was hurt and we needed to come get her. While Michaela (13) and Sarah Mei were sledding down the driveway, they lost control of the sled and went head-first into a tree. Michaela was fine, but Sarah Mei broke her nose...yikes! After spending several hours in the ER, we were released with instructions for giving her pain relievers, keeping ice on her face (have you ever tried that with a wiggling 3 year old?) and following up with a plastic surgeon next week. She was a trooper at the hospital but her face is pitiful!!
We returned home, after our ER odyssey, and just minutes later AnnaGrace (our stoic, I stepped on a nail but it doesn't really hurt, child) said ouch and held her wrist. I asked her what was wrong, and she told us that she had fallen on the ice earlier (before the sledding episode) and hurt her wrist. Wait a minute...if AnnaGrace says something hurts...it HURTS. We looked at her swollen wrist, called the orthopedist office and Phil made the trek back out. Yes, you guessed it, her wrist was broken...
It won't be a snow day we'll soon forget!!
