Playing blog catch-up: Gotcha Day revisited

I finally got some pictures off the camera, so I'll try to share a few on the blog today.

First, here is a look back at Gotcha Day.

Our Gotcha Day "tradition" is a small gift, and William's choice for dinner: home cooked or pick a restaurant. Last year it was a meal at home (read about that here). This year, he chose dinner at Ippolito's, and dessert at Rita's. His gift included a children's book about adoption, and a stuffed Stitch (from Lilo & Stitch).

After dinner, we got out William's blog book and wrote in it. (When I was putting the blog into blurb, I added pages in the back for gotcha days, including a place to put a description of the day's events, a picture, height, weight, and things like favorite food, movie, song, color.)

There are a couple of pictures we try to take each year. One revisits one of my favorites from our time in Ukraine: Zack & William leaving the orphanage.

The other is one we took in the van on our way from Mariupol to Donetsk to complete all of the paperwork before heading to Kyiv. We had prepared a little backpack for William, and in it was a stuffed lamb that my mom had bought for him.