Meeting Our New Group -LFC
We went to an event put on by our local LFC - Latin Family Connections. It is the equivalent of FCC - Families with Children from China.
We had a great time. Everyone was so nice and friendly, oohing and aahing over Aidan's picture.
Emmy had a great time with her new Guatemalan friends. First they played on bouncy things. Then they did a craft of making tissue-paper flowers. Flowers are such a huge part of Holy Week in Guatemala and the event was centered around this. We had a speaker who told us about "Semena Santa" and the tradition of the flower carpet laid to reenact Christ's march to the cross. They had the kids lay down cut squares of tissue paper and flowers to do their own carpet. It was wild. Tissue paper was flung everywhere and Emmy was in the thick of it. I looked over at one point and she was dumping out bags of the paper cuts into big piles on the floor then throwing them in the air...not laying them out in intricate patterns and shapes like the real event.
To top it off we found that Aidan has his new birth certificate which lists us as his parents and his name is listed as Jose' plus our last name. It's getting closer!
We had a great time. Everyone was so nice and friendly, oohing and aahing over Aidan's picture.
Emmy had a great time with her new Guatemalan friends. First they played on bouncy things. Then they did a craft of making tissue-paper flowers. Flowers are such a huge part of Holy Week in Guatemala and the event was centered around this. We had a speaker who told us about "Semena Santa" and the tradition of the flower carpet laid to reenact Christ's march to the cross. They had the kids lay down cut squares of tissue paper and flowers to do their own carpet. It was wild. Tissue paper was flung everywhere and Emmy was in the thick of it. I looked over at one point and she was dumping out bags of the paper cuts into big piles on the floor then throwing them in the air...not laying them out in intricate patterns and shapes like the real event.
To top it off we found that Aidan has his new birth certificate which lists us as his parents and his name is listed as Jose' plus our last name. It's getting closer!
posted by Lisa & Dave | 11:19 PM
2 Comments:
Oh Lisa that is so exciting about the BC!! You are one step closer to bringing that baby boy of yours home. Love the pics of Emmy!
She fits in everywhere. She's one of those people who will never meet a stranger and will be in the thick of things. Wait until she has a new baby brother to boss around :~) He doesn't know what he's in for :~)
Love ya,
TaTa
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