MORE new pictures from Sandra

Sandra emailed me about 20 pictures of Pili at the park. She wrote that Pili is not at all afraid of swinging high and going fast down the slide. She also wrote that on June 23rd she walked by herself - she went fast and they were nervous so they hold her hand mostly. She can crawl up and down the 13 steps to their 2nd level without help. She does not get tired, according to Sandra, and will go up and down 2 or 3 times without resting.

Sandra and Veronica had this made on Willow's birthday. It is the ink prints of her hands and feet. It's sweet because I had something similar made for Lily on her birthday and I was sad to have missed it for Willow's birthday. She saved it for me so I can have it when I go pick her up.

This was taken at Willow's doctor appointment for her 1 year well-check. She weighs 20 lbs and remains healthy. This must have been just before she "made the doctor sweat"! She's resting up for the big resistance.

Sandra hopes that we will get our birth mother interview done next week. People are being released from PGN about a month after the interview. Some are getting out 2 weeks after the interview, others 2 months, but the average is about a month. Rememeber, after I'm "out" (appproved) I wait 6-8 weeks to travel and pick her up. If they hadn't started doing all these interviews, I would have probably been out a couple months ago. If things progress as they are, I can expect to travel some time this fall - I'm hoping before Christmas.