| Below is everything (newest at top) with "family+adoption+holmes" in its title or subcategories.  Today we were finally able to celebrate Gotcha Day with our now-16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. She and I both forgot on the actual day, December 10th. Her mom, Tara, remembered but Elizabeth was working late, Tara knew it would not work out, so said nothing. Elizabeth called that night from work, saying No big deal, but we forgot my Gotcha Day... read more
 My wife Tara has written up our adoption story in response to that woman (not far from us, unfortunately) who returned that boy to Russia a couple weeks ago. With the recent headline news about the Russian adoption that went very very wrong, I have been asked by many friends and family about my opinion of the situation. I've not been able to re... read more
Tara took Elizabeth to the international adoption specialist doctors today for a psychological evaluation and another physical exam. They say she is perfectly average/normal for a girl her age. Of course, that puts her well above average for a foreign orphan.We think she's better than any other girl her age, but we might be biased. The psycho... read more  Tara's female family and friends threw Elizabeth a baby shower last weekend. I was the only man there. The only reason I went was so that any other men showing up wouldn't be the only man. Oh well. I was able to get a lot on video, and Tara took pictures. Elizabeth received her Certificate of Naturalization the other day. She was alr... read more
To sum it all up: We love our daughter. Elizabeth is a wonderful, beautiful, intelligent little girl. We thank Russia for giving her to us. Otherwise, we did not enjoy Russia. In their defense, we weren't there under normal circumstances. It was not a vacation. We felt under pressure and stressed-out as we spent most of our time dealing with th... read more  Finally, some pictures of Elizabeth. They're not even the latest, but it should hold you over if you've never seen her before. ... read more
And now I'm going to bed! :) I'll blog tomorrow.... read more  The plaque, if you can't read it, says:
To My Adopted Child
I gazed upon your tiny faceand knew right from the startthat you were sent to filla special place within my heart --bedtime stories, games and laughter --Days of tears and fun--Giving joy in so many ways,your smile still brings the sun--Love entered my life foreverwhen you came to b... read more
Sounds like a movie title. Anyway, it's Thursday morning. Grey's Anatomy season premier tonight. Tara says woo-hoo!Flying halfway around the world tomorrow morning. In the meantime, I think I figured out that I can take the SD memory card out of the video camera, pop it into the still camera, and download its data to the computer that way i... read more  We fly out today. It would've been nice to have gotten one last good night's sleep, but the cat made sure that didn't happen. Stupid cat. Anyone want one? Seriously. She's very pretty; and sweet when she's not keeping you from sleeping. I'll miss the pugs while we're gone, but if one of our pet sitters happens to lose ... read more
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