Little Milana Lee

Okay, so even though I can't post a picture, I can post a sketch, right? This is something Sarah K made for me (she made a few more but my hubby has put me on picture detention and won't let me put them up until approval :0( Isn't it cool, though!?

So I thought I might help those who may need help with her name pronunciation (not that I'd know if you couldn't pronounce it... ha ha). Milana is Me-lawn-ah. It is a Czech (meaning grace or gracious & favor) /Russian (meaning precious dear)/Slavic/ sometimes Italian/ sometimes Hindi (meaning to meet) name. It was given not only because we think it is beautiful, fits her, and we love the meaning, but to honor my husband's family background as well (Odesa during Russian occupation). Each of our children have names that represent our family background. Milana's middle name is Lee, also my husband's as well as Lee means Plum in Mandarin. The plum blossom is the tree of Taiwan and Lee is one of the most common last names in Taiwan as well as the Fukian province in China, which is where most of the people from Taiwan eventually came from (about 400 years ago). So that is a bit about her name.

Okay, so now more about her. She is 16 months old this month and weighed 22 pounds at 12 months and was about 31 inches tall. She is doing extremely well especially for weighing 4 pounds 15 ounces at birth. She can walk holding herself up on things (of course she's probably walking right now but this is from the only info I have when she was just 12 months). She likes to dance, eat crackers, and has a hard time focusing on one thing too long (the spunky one will fit right in... now what was I saying?!;) I was trying to wait to post until we have approval but it is hard. My agency says, "nothing yet." They talk with someone in Taiwan every night at 3 am. ... so hopefully soon! Thanks everyone for your kind words and Congrats. They perked me up because I was so happy to share the news instead of focusing on approval. You all deserve sloppy cyber kisses. he ha Okay just hugs for the germ-a-phoebes. mmmmmmmaaaaahhhh