Alexandra YueQing was adopted from Hefei, Anhui Province, China in October 1997 at the age of two. She has memories of her first family and of the Hefei Social Welfare Institute.

 Here is Alexandra at her school's Native American Day here on the pueblo. Her class danced the Navajo-Hopi dance.

(My great aunt used to paint her cheeks in circles exactly like these!)

 

AnnaKate MeiLi is from YangDong in Guangdong province. Her paperwork says she was born in October 1997, but we suspect her actual birthdate is late April or early May of 1998. She came home August 1999.

 AnnaKate is at last able to smile and giggle many times in the course of a day. Alexandra took this picture, and had to beg her many times to look at the camera and smile. She took many pictures, but this is one of the better ones.

AnnaKate DID manage to cut her own hair three times over the summer.

Here are a couple of new ones taken late one Friday afternoon in March while I was working in my classroom. Alexandra has begun creating these wonderful "ballerinas" and AnnaKate is finding many more smiles. (Of course, she's also pulling out way too much of her hair!)

   

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Last updated 04/05/01