I GET to go!

Kylie was SOOOOOO excited that she was tall enough this year to ride on the Ferris Wheel with Momma and Daddy. Can you tell?

More Fair pictures

How much longer do we have to wait? Notice the haze in the background? All smoke bleeeck!
View from atop the ferris wheel. Kylie was so happy she was tall enough this year. But not a real pretty sight to see. So much smoke had settled in the valley you couldn't see any of the mountains. It's horrible!
Wooohooooo! Momma got to ride on the roller coaster. Daddy's legs were too long. We're in the 3rd seat in case you couldn't tell.

A GREAT big THANK YOU to Davio for Kylie's tickets to ride. It was BIG hit this year! "When can we go back?" is all she can say now.

A Day at the Fair

Wahoooooooooooooo!
Kylie in another bug. Don't know who the little girl is tho'?
Up up and away!
Just Kylie and her Daddy. Riding in the "lellow" bug. Kylie's choice of course.
The FIRST ride Kylie HAD to find. The motorcycles. Mark must be getting thru to her...she just might be a dirt bagger chick after all. Eeek!
Hold on! Well not really! Just got an action shot here :-)

New haircuts

Well here is my new haircut from Kylie's point of view. I cut off my hair to chin. And then it went Boing! it's so darn curly now! I cut it off because I was so tired of being HOT and pulling out handfuls from rats and tangles and only wearing it in pony tails or up.
And then Kylie said "Can I cut my hair like momma too?"
Whoo Hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been trying to get her to cut her hair for a long time. More for the fact she WILL NOT let me put piggy tails or anything in her hair. So what's the point of long hair???????
Voila! New hair for Miss Kylie too. Isn't it Cuuuuuute! She looks so grown up now!

A beautiful day at the reservoir

Brrrrr! This water is cold!
Swimming all by myself! And yes, the water is STILL cold!
HELP! I'm sinking in the tube!

Gotcha Gotcha Gotcha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Three years ago today in a very hot room in Nanchang China a very quiet (where did this quiet child go I ask myself some days!) little 10 mos. girl was handed to her new mommy and daddy for the first time. She just looked at us with her GREAT big brown eyes and wondered. Her momma cried and her daddy just smiled and smiled. The Munsinger family was now complete. We had our Pookie and we could go home. Hence the term "Gotcha Day"...... we Gotcha Kylie and we're never letting you go! But we still had two more weeks of paper shuffle to complete before Miss Kylie Mei Munsinger formerly known as Hui Mei Guo could become a US citizen for good. So today we honor our Pookie and call it Kylie Day and oh yah this other little event Gramma Pirrie's Birthday. This year is a milestone as it's her "medicare" birthday. All those of you old enough to know will know how old she really is :-) Happy Birthday Mom! and Happy Kylie day to the Munsingers. We love you Kylie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's been a FAST 3 years!

Here's to the three other sweeties from Kylie's Orphanage in Guixi....Kira and Sophie. We're thinking of you both today!





Kylie and her cousin Gracer aka Gracie


Playing in the backyard sprinklers. Kylie loves to wear her goggles so she can keep her eyes open.

Kylie playing basketball at sports camp last week. She LOVED it! they got to play Bball, Tball, and soccer.

Which does she like best? "All of them momma!"