Global warming is over

Elly could not stop laughing about this hat I put on her!

Elizabeth acts as sled dog for Lewis while Frances and Ana make snow angels.

Frances stops to vogue while acting as a sled dog for Ana.

Good excuse for cake

I was organizing some photo files the other day and saw this picture of Frances' HALF birthday. Yep, we celebrate anything that brings cake to the table! 8 1/2 - my baby!

But Lewie wants to be a monster truck driver

MARTIN: OK, why? What's the big deal with Chinese children? Enlighten me, please, help me out.

ZAHN: You understand this better than anybody. Why don't we see more Americans adopting black foster children?

MARTIN: That's my point. What's the big deal with Chinese children? Why the infatuation?

ZAHN: You think it's something with the color of their skin? Is that what you're driving at?

MARTIN: Maybe they think they can adopt a smart kid that is going to grow up to be a doctor? I don't know. They need to realize that's called training, not just inherent, it will happen when they're born.

Angel, help me out.

MALDONADO: Absolutely. This is something I've been looking into for a long time. Americans have this love affair with girls from China. There is this belief, this perception, irrational as it might be that if you adopt a little girl from China, she's going to be intelligent, she's going to be more lovable.

MARTIN: Like the porcelain doll.

MALDONADO: We definitely see that idea of the beautiful Chinese little girl, as compared to do, they really want to adopt a black boy.

Happy New Year!

We kicked 2006 out the door! Come on in 2007!