One Year Ago....

we started our paperwork for this adoption one year ago today!

Amelia's One Hundred Good Wishes Quilt

A few weeks ago I discovered that I had a bin full of one hundred good wishes fabric pieces from when I swapped for Amelia that I apparently had forgotten about. I have been working on a lantern quilt for her with 100 asian-themed fabrics that I collected for her, so I must have put the others aside and then forgotten that they were there (after all, I did collect them back in 2003). Anyway, when I counted them, I found that I had just over 100 more assorted quilt squares! (I must have been swapping like crazy!). All of the wishes are in a scrapbook that Amelia loves to look through, but for some reason I stored those fabric squares and didn't remember that they were there. Anyway, I am so proud to say that I put 100 of them into a quilt top for Amelia last week and it looks awesome. I will take a picture of it and post it when I can. I am planning to add the few leftover squares to the backing so that they all get used in the quilt. Now I just need to find the time to quilt it!

Back to the drawing board with names....

Well, we are right back where we started with names for our mei mei. We were all pretty satisfied with the name Elena, but then discovered that yet another family member named their daughter Elena. There are now Elena's on both my and Brian's side of the family, and I can't see adding another one to the mix. Brian has vetoed the name Eliza Clare (after my great-grandmother). The only thing we have agreed on is this - we both like the nickname Evie (ee-vee). There are only a handful of names that can use the nickname Evie, and most of them either are way too popular right now or they are names we don't like. We are considering Genevieve.

If anyone has any suggestions for names that aren't too popular (with or without the nickname Evie), please share them. We need the help!