We're all doing fine here except for the colds that have been hanging around for over a week now. We had our first post placment meeting with the social worker. She watched Chloe and asked us lots of questions. She write a long report which will be sent to our agency, translated into Russian and snt to Russia. We do another one when Chloe's been home for 11 months, then another at 2 years and the final one when she's been home for 3 years. She'll be 4 1/2. It seems like that is a long way off, but I know it will be here before we know it.We've been very busy getting the house ready to put on the market. I showed the kids the pictures of the house on the website that I put together and Wyatt said, "That doesn't look like our house." So, I went to the next page of pictures and he still insisted that it didn't look like our house. So, I finally asked what looks different. He waves his hand over the picture and says, "Look, it's all clean. That's not what it looks like." I had to laugh because he is exactly right.
Jake was asked recently how he know that God is a man. He quickly replied "God's a man's name." Hehe. You know, Doug, Bob, God... MAN names. 
This is a perfect example of the boys loving Chloe. She's saying, "No, Wyatt, Jakey, NO." She likes them to play with he and be close by and they like to snuggle, touch and cuddle her like she's a puppy.
We started the weekend by decorating eggs. It was just the kids and I since Justin was out of town for the day. Chloe decided that she should lob the hard boiled eggs across the table. This was very unlike her, but she was bound and determined that she should do it, so after 3 eggs she was done. Jake was very sad that three of his broke and he had little funerals for them. Wyatt just really, really liked the feel of them and has broken several since decorating them. I think next year we'll paint rocks. Haha.
On Saturday we visited with the the Phillips family and Chloe got to play with Justin's cousin's baby who is 8 months younger. Here they are in their first face to face meeting.
Justin's Grandpa Pete got to meet Chloe for the first time. Here's all three kids with their only living great grandpa. These 3 three lucky kids have 8 grandparents, 4 great grandmas and 1 great grandpa. Wow!
This morning they were very excited about their Easter baskets and enjoyed hunting for eggs.
Here's the best picture of Chloe's outfit. It was so much fun to get her all dressed up. The boys were very good sports about dressing up. It's not their favorite thing.
They were also very good in church this morning. Everytime the congregation is told to please stand, Chloe would say, "Kay." very loudly and hop to her feet, it was so funny.
This week was also a very big week for the Bucys. Jay and Erica had their baby on the 4th. I'll be posting all the info as soon as they email me a picture.
That night we took the whole family to the Rainforest Cafe. This is another place that really freaked Wyatt out at that age. Chloe thought it was awesome and they all had a ball.
Here are some questions that Jake has asked me this week:
There's no reason for this picture other than... have you ever seen cuter pajamas??? 
This weekend was Joe's 2nd birthday party. For those who don't know, Joey is my sister's youngest son who is just 3 months older than Chloe. This is the birthday cake I made him. The last cake I made was in January and It was very hard because Chloe wanted me to hold and play with her and not do anything else. This one was much easier. Justin was working on remodeling our bathroom the whole day and Chloe played outside with the boys who were having a ball with the hose. Yesterday was a record warm day with a high of 79 degrees!
Here I am with all 5 cousins at the party. Tony will be 5 in June so the three big ones are like three little stair steps, 7,6 and almost 5.
I love this one of the two of them wishing they could go down the stairs like the big boys.
Here's Chloe is Jake's lap watching Joey open presents.
Well, one nice day spent outside has cured her of that misconception and she looooves to be outside. She can climb up the play place like a champ
and loves to go down the slide. She waits for someone to catch her since she flew down and plunked on the ground hard a couple times. 
She also loves to swing 
and will get the boys to help her if I'm not right there... so I reeeeally have to be right there because they think putting her on the two man swing with them and pumping until they are horizontal with the top of the swing set is a super idea. Yikes! 
All this climbing has given her a great new skill that she's been practicing on the boys bunk beds. Justin took off the ladder so she couldn't get up and it took a day for her to figure out that she could just go up the back just like the boys. Oy! I don't have a picture of this because I just snatch her right down from there. She gets very mad and tells me, "Mo, mo, mo!" She's very careful and coordinated and isn't all crazy or wild when doing any of this, but it really freaks me out. I can't really remember when the boys started being able to do that stuff but I know when they were 21 months there was no big play set in the back yard and no bunk beds. Also, she is so tiny that it is really freaky to see her just effortlessly go up and down that play set. You can tell how careful she really is when you see her sit down about a foot away from the small step from the patio to the grass. She then carefully scoots to the edge before standing on the grass. I'm sure she could just step down, but I love that she's careful.
I was amazed when I got to Pat's to see that Chloe had her bow in her hair. Pat said when her husband got home from work Chloe asked for her bow back and then went over to show him how cute she looked. He is a very nice Grandpa-ish man and she knew she was in store for another round of, "Oh, don't you look so cute." Pat marveled at the fact that at only 2o months she knew that if Vivi had a bow then she should wear one also. I better start a fashion fund for that girl. Yesterday she wore jeans and a little pink springy top. I asked her if she wanted a bow and she looked down at the outfit and said, "No." I think she gets the idea that when she's all dressed up she wears a bow and she didn't really think yesterday's outfit fit the bill.
It is so cute the way little girls will find each other and then parade around hand in hand.
