Beautiful Dream - Our Kaelynn Rose

Hello Everyone

I'm so sorry it has taken me so long to get to this...I have SOOO much to catch up on - The move to our new apartment, meeting new friends, Kaelynn's speech therapy starting, Easter, a trip to see Grammy & Grosenfader, etc....Now if I can just find the time!!!

Everyone is good here, we are finally getting settled in. We are loving having a playground just downstairs - and another even cooler one just a 10 minute walk away! Kaelynn has discovered a GREAT love of Carousels -and the Irvine Spectrum has a wonderful one so we try to go often. The apartment is painted, and "mostly" unpacked!! Now we need to tackle the garage...ummm...read that as temporary storage!! Now we just need to purge, organize, and decorate!! More about the apartment will follow in another post!

Miss Kaelynn has started her speech therapy and her therapist, Christian, comes 2x a week - they have a good time, now that Christian has figured out how to work with Miss Kae and get her to participate (for the most part) the hardest part is that we see her for an hour at 8am on Tues/Thurs and Kae is not used to being awake - let alone active and ready to learn - much before 8 or 8:30!!

We have also connected with a wonderful group of adoptive parents here in Orange County and they are amazing! Truly wonderful people and we have enjoyed an Easter Egg Hunt, a Lunch Playdate, a Strawberry Farm Tour & Picking Day and there is much more to come - I think some of the families will become great friends - with a potential for playmates for Kaelynn!!

Easter was awesome! Kaelynn got to participate in two egg hunts - one with the adoptive moms group, and a private one just for her on Easter. She really got the hang of it this year and it was so funny to watch her. Then she discovered that the eggs open up and she gets stuff from inside them - another totally amusing thing to watch! After the egg hunt we changed out of our nice clothes and planted some seeds for herbs out on our porch. Kaelynn had a blast playing in the dirt/mud and helping Daddy to plant all of the herbs. She has been very excited to see the shoots poking up through the dirt on the one pot of herbs over the last week or so too! The other pot has not been so productive - but at least one worked!!! Can't wait to see which ones we got - since we forgot to label them...OOPS! :)

Right before Grammy (MiMi) Munson's birthday we went to Arizona for a visit. Grosenfader had hurt his knee and we were originally going to help out, but by the time we got there he was well on his way to recovery, so it was mostly just a fun visit - lots of playtime, videos, and fun! We even got to meet our milk donor and her husband and daughters for the very first time! The girls had a BLAST playing together and it was so neat to finally meet such wonderful, giving people, in person - plus they brought us more milk!!! Grammy & Mommy started to work on a couple of Minnie Mouse outfits for Miss Kae, and Grosenfader and Kae had fun playing with Kaelynn's toys and reading books - Grosenfader even ended up with his own toy chest to put Kae's toy gifts into - she's VERY good at sharing!

I'm sure there is a lot more to share, but I will leave it at this for now....I will upload some of the recent pictures as soon as I can find enough time to gather them all!!

Much Love to all - Thanks for checking in!

Chandra, Paul, and Kaelynn Rose Soo Jin