A special book arrived on our doorstep this week. I had been working on it for a long time... and finally buckled down and finished it right before Christmas. It's a lifebook. A lifebook tells the story of an adopted child's life before joining his/her family. There are lots of online articles and ideas for creating a lifebook, and I spent a lot of time trying to decide what to include and where to begin.
Almost a year later (ahem), I finally decided to just get started and write something! So here's the finished product.
And here's Daddy, Sarah, and Logan reading the book.
This is Daddy telling the story about how Sarah enjoyed throwing (and breaking) porcelain serving spoons in restaurants in China. Oh, the memories.. she was a very busy toddler and quite a handful at mealtimes. (Now she's a busy and determined preschooler! ;)
While in China, I didn't find her behavior very funny (I was mortified-- I just knew everyone was staring at the crazy Americans who couldn't control their very determined toddler), but now it makes for some pretty entertaining stories (fyi-- the "throwing of the spoons story" isn't actually in the book-- but Daddy is a storyteller and likes to embellish. ;)
Right now Sarah's not incredibly interested in the book. She likes the picture of our family and the pictures of her Chinese foster family. But I think it will be a good starting point for conversations as she gets older and begins to wonder more about her life and her story.
And little Miss Sarah has been feeling a bit under the weather. Here she is, asleep on a pile of warm laundry on the floor! I knew something wasn't quite right when she started laying around on the couch in the middle of the day. Sarah is almost always in motion, so to see her resting on the couch is very unusual. 
