Home for nine months today!

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Here is Maya Lily at ballet today. Thanks Ra-Ra!

Best Friends

Maya Lily and Grace Ann are best friends--they have so much fun together. It is so fun to watch them play together.

Valentine's Day Party

Maya Lily hosted a Valentine's Day party for her friends from ballet class. Grace, Elizabeth, Colleen, Brianna, Cheyenne, Gaby, Macy and Jessica came over for lunch. The girls spent the afternoon playing with their princess dolls and dancing to Disney tunes.
It was so much fun!

Chinese New Year at the Ming Court

Fireworks

We celebrated Chinese New Year with the Families with Children from China-Central Florida group on Saturday. We went to the Ming Court restaurant in Orlando. It was so great seeing all the little kids dressed in their Chinese outfits. Maya was the youngest of all the children. She got a cute China bear and necklace and got to do "fireworks" by jumping on bubble wrap.

Chinese New Year at EPCOT

Maya celebrated Chinese New Year at EPCOT. She met Mulan and was so excited to have her picture taken with her. Maya brought along her baby Mulan doll--Mulan was very impressed.

Future olympian!

Maya has been taking gymnastics for the past two weeks--who knows maybe someday she will be on the US Olympic team!

Nana Birdie's birthday

We celebrated Nana Birdie's birthday at the Grand Floridian and enjoyed afternoon tea.

Disney Pals

Maya Lily and Grace are true Disney pals. At least once a week Rachel and I bring the girls to one of the parks for a play date--yeah we're spoiled!

Chef Mickey's again!

Maya has been to Chef Mickey's four times! She loves seeing the characters.
Here she is with Nonnie Dunn and Nana Birdie.

Maya at the Villa Borghese

She had a blast running through the grass at the villa Borghese. Every time she saw a statue laying down--she said "Na-night" like they were sleeping. Too cute.

A diva in Roma

Maya in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel Grand--she was too cute with her diva shades on.

Eating gelato in Roma

Maya enjoyed eating gelato in Roma!

New pictures of our sweet girl

The diva in Roma!

8 months since Gotcha Day!

I still can't believe that it has been only eight months since Maya Lily was placed in our arms. She is truly an amazing human being! She has grown so much and has learned more than I could have ever expected.
We are so grateful for this precious gift and love her more than words could ever say. I tell her all the time how smart and beautiful she is.
Maya has brought us so much joy in such a short amount of time.

Nonnie Dunn is here for a visit. She and Maya Lily have had a great time bonding.

Maya's photo shoot with Jim Straka

Maya had her first photo shoot with Jim Straka--a dear friend of ours--who is launching his own photography business.
If you would like to see 72 of the cutest pictures ever--go www.jstrakaphoto.com. click on client. see the one that says the dunns--type in the password: Lily. then click on gallery 2.
Gallery 1 is of her baptism in case you want to see those as well.

Christmas photos

These were taken on Christmas Eve. We went to Chef Mickey's for dinner.
Maya had a blast with the characters.

Happy 2008-hope it's great!

The highlight of 2007 was of course the arrival of Maya Lily! There was also the births of Finn in February, Cassie in July and Luke in September. Taking Maya to Rome was also very special. We had a blast. Photos to follow!
There was also a lot of sadness in the past year. We lost many of our loved ones including Pal, Papa Jimmy, Ella, Karren, Steve, and Papa Fountain.
However, 2008 looks very promising!
Maya will be 2 in March. We will celebrate our 1st anniversary of Gotcha Day in May with several Lianjiang families. My brother Jason and his girlfriend Narelle are expecting their first baby in May.

It's freezing cold in Florida today--40 degrees--yikes--where are my winter clothes--no flip flops today.

Here's to a healthy, happy 2008 to all!
The Dunns

Maya is 21 months old today

I could just cry! My little one is getting so big so fast! She is still our baby though.
We are so amazed at how far she has come in the past seven months.
This morning she ate a bowl of cereal--with my help--for breakfast. She loves Special K with vanilla soy--no Fruit Loops for this kid!

Making Christmas cookies

Maya donned an apron to help us make Christmas cookies. She really enjoyed the frosting!