Blogging and Working...not a match made in heaven

I know, I know we owe you an update and some photos...it's been a long two weeks of working full time and even with Nanie here cooking, cleaning and loving Van, I can still barely keep up. Hats off to all the moms out there (especially Nanie!) who manage it all with ease...please share your secrets!
Van seemed pretty interested in the Olympic Opening Ceremonies tonight. He got all excited when he saw all the kids in costume and the drums but then he got just as excited when he saw the VISA commercial. So perhaps we are reading too much into his sense of heritage or he's bound for a career in advertising like his parents...who knows.
So we have a date for surgery, September 17th and we had our first evaluation for speech therapy services. Everyone seems pretty convinced that Van will be talking up a storm pretty quickly after his recovery. He's got plenty to say now with his signing and sounds and we can't wait to hear what his first real words will be. I had a dream that he spoke a full sentence as his first "word" and it was "I no want to be a good boy"...hoping that dream doesn't come true...
Now what you've all been waiting for...the cuteness...

Van gets lots of attention at the Families of the China Moon since the girls outnumber him

Mr. Silly shirt thanks to Aunt Christina

Our impromptu play date at the mall playground and food court with our twin buddies Austin and Logan

Checking out a new playground

We got to visit the backlot of the John Adams HBO series and Van found some friends-another family who had adopted from China and live in the Virginia Beach area and also work in the TV industry

Oh yippee...pre-season Redskins football...who is the happier fan?!