Happy Valentine's Day

Love is in the air! We've made it to Valentine's Day 2007, and enjoying it with Zoe, who happens to be 9 months old today. The weather is beautiful now (it had been raining since we got home) so we can get our girl out in the California sunshine (fresh air! treated tap water! There's no place like home!). By now we are settling in, but so is the jet lag. Funny how the lag has a lag. Zoe is really struggling with the time change the most, I think. Here in the Western Hemisphere, day is night and night is day. Try setting your adult body clock (with your adult sense of reasoning) to that after 8 1/2 months of opposite time. Then imagine what it's like for an infant.

All things considered, she is really doing well. After her first visit with her pediatrician, we are assured her lungs are clear, and she is a robust, if petite, baby. Takes after her mother, I guess :).

February is the shortest and most packed month for us, and this one definitely wins the prize! Baby's first Valentine's day, first Chinese new year celebrations (Feb. 18), first visit with one set of grandparents, MaMa's birthday, cousin Hannah's 10th birthday (I can't believe I just wrote that, am I mistaken?), Zoe's first Adopt International (our agency) gathering, am I leaving anything out? Still, we are trying to keep everything as low-key and relaxed as possible, despite our own feelings of excitement and frantic-ness. Zoe needs her rest (and frankly, so do we!)

So, happiest of V-days to everyone from Baby Z, and her family -xxxoo