Easter

We've had a wonderful Easter weekend.  We dyed eggs and hunted eggs.   Xing Xing had a really good time.  She is a very good egg hunter.  She picked up on finding eggs very quickly.  Xing Xing wanted to find more.  She was very happy to find money in her eggs.  She loves the Disney movie Cars, so we got her a Cars basket and we used Cars Easter egg dye that had stickers.

She has been saving for a fish.  So here's some pictures of her fish.  She has three fish and they are all named Aixing.  She enjoys feeding them. 

She goes to the cleft lip clinic on April 15, so we will post results on April 16.  It will be a very long day.  There will be 10 doctors  who will be examining her.  Her exam is from 8:30-11:00 and then the team meets from 11-12 and then we reconvene to hear the results. We will be there the majority of the day.  

We are in the process of doing of our readoption.  This enables us to get an American birth certificate.  At this time, she has no official American documents (Louisiana gave us an immigrant ss card, so we have to change it anyway)  So, we've decided to shorten her name.  We never use Rose, just Aixing or Coral Xing.  Coral Rose is a beautiful name but Coral Rose Lai Fu Xing is too long and Coral Xing Rose didn't flow.  It was important to us to use use her Chinese name as we love the meaning of it (Xing means happiness or star or prosperity). Her nanny named her Xing b/c she wanted her to have happiness daily and she brings us happiness daily.  So, we have named her Coral Xing Libi.  I had wanted her to have a part of us or a family member name and never could find the right name.  Someone close to me suggested Libi recently  (and said if they had known they were to combine Lisa/Bill they could have easily done that).  Libi also means "my heart".  She is from our hearts.  So, Coral is for Hawaii b/c if we hadn't lived there we wouldn't have her; Xing is her Chinese name, and Libi is for us since we couldn't give her any of our genes.  Her nickname will still be Aixing (eye-sheeng) or Xing Xing (sheeng sheeng).  We hope everyone will be respectful of  our decision.