This year was the First Annual Bmoko Congo Reunion. We brought together 15 families in Chicago who all have or will have families that have kids from DRC.
It was a great time, and the memories of spending time with these amazing families that look like ours will last forever.
Party in Phi's room while all the moms had their night out!
Someone found the cupcakes in the closet
How can you say "No" to this face?
She always just licks the frosting!
Exciting time with friends at the botanical gardens
We have a rock climber
And a big helper
She taught some of her friends how to go down the scary slide
Very cool telescope to watch birds
It had an amazing ropes and bridges course that the kids loved, we could not keep them off of it.
It was a big joke to climb off the steps and pretend to fall
Friends!
This is our attempt to get a picture of all the kids...not everyone cooperated
The end of June brought our first wedding since Phi came home and she was asked to be a flower girl!
She was a bit tired that day but when she got into her dress and saw all the pretty princesses (bridesmaids). During the rehearsal she was able to hold hands with Bennett, but once we got to the wedding we realized we had a problem, Bennett was carrying the pillow with the rings, so she could not hold his hand. Phi took matters into own hands (no pun intended) and grabbed his elbow and they walked down the aisle, pretty sure everyone was tearing up a bit!
It was a beautiful day, a beautiful ceremony, and a great time spent with family.
It was a bit tough getting them going, but they figured it out!
She would not drop the flowers, they belong in the basket.
Possibly one of my favorite pictures of all of us.
This update is a bit late, but things have been busy around here! We will start with Grandma Lorna coming to town. Phi can't really say Grandma so she is now called Gaya (pronounced Guy a), I am pretty sure it is a permanent thing.
We picked up a new toy and Mom and Phi had a blast with it!
Next up Gaya sent Phi a Bubble Machine, smiles ensued
Finally we went to Boston and had a blast, we ended up walking around for a while and ended up in an area that looked over the Harbor. Gaya asked Phi what she heard, Phi responded by putting her hand up to her ear and said "A BOAT!" Evenually she made us all put our hands up to our ears as well, this went on for about 30 minutes.
One of our days we went to the outlets to look for some new cute clothes for Phi to wear at the wedding (blog post coming about that). As we were walking Phi became interested in all the gutter drains that were sticking out of the buildings, she decided to investigate...
All in all it was a great visit and I cannot wait for her to come back in October!
