Bathing Beauties in Pink Tutus...

I confess!  When I found this bathing suit for Gabriella I had to get one for Mei Mei Emily for her birthday in hopes that maybe, just maybe, the girls would be able to get together this summer and they would be able to wear them...together:)  The girls were able to and they looked just precious!!!  I loved the questions that we continued to get..."are they sisters"...we would normally say yes, foster sisters, and on some occasions we just smiled and said yes...because as far as were concerned they are...they just happen to have two sets of parents who love them to the moon and back!  The girls enjoyed playing bubbles at the pool (thank you Mary, Emily and Robert) for Gabriella's birthday gifts which were her first Disney doll as well as several other nice items:)  The girls also enjoyed swimming with their daddy's, who have happened to hit it off like they have known each other for years, swimming and singing songs, and in one of the pictures Gabriella was excited to show Emily baby turtles that were swimming under the bridge.  The girls played at the pool most of the day and we then went out for Mexican that evening; we later found out that was the first time Emily had Mexican food and she liked it!! 

Each time I look at the pictures of the girls it truly reminds me of what an awesome God we serve as it is nothing short of His divine intervention that the girls pictures were taken on the same day...just minutes apart to be placed in China's adoption program, that we received Gabriella's referral on May 4th, 2009 from our agency in Oregon while Mary and Robert received Emily's referral on May 4, 2009 from an agency in the southern United States, and that by simply sending a birthday cake to Gabriella for her second birthday, her foster parents were sweet enough to take photos of the girls and Mary posted on a Shanxi adoption blog that we both belonged to but had never met, emailed, or spoken to one another, that she may have pictures of someones little girl if they recently sent a birthday cake...and she looks to be about two.  That miracle is what God used to allow or families to meet and for the girls to be able to stay connected over 8000 miles from where their lives first began.