Updates and waiting for visas!

Today, my dad dropped off our passport and visa applications to get our visa, at the Chinese Consulate.  They say it takes four working days (count today), so we should be able to pick them on Monday.  Good news: my dad's going, too!  Well....not for the whole trip, but for the Got'cha Day (which is Monday) and the day afterwards.  So he'll fly in on a Sunday.  My mom is happy because this makes it a lot easier later in the process and I think my dad will enjoy it, too.  My mom is now thinking we may get our LOA next Friday (not the one in two days, the one after that) and she wants to leave Thanksgiving day...but we'll see how that works out.  Some people have been getting their TA in about 3 weeks, so you never know!  =)  We have been telling Kenzie over & over (i.e. possibly a million times a day?) that mom will be leaving with Kylie on an airplane to go and pick up Karli in China, and that she will be staying here with me (Kayla) and dad and Keaton.  Being the little smarty pants she is *heh*heh* she actually comprehends this and I think she understands.  Although half the time, if you say, "Where's Karli?"  She responds with, "Her room."  (They share a bedroom.)  But she's finally getting that she's in China...pronounced "tie-nah" in Kenzie-language.  And Kenzie knows that she came from China.  Just this week, she has been talking much more fluently and in sentences more & more.  She likes watching TV a lot (she actually sat through about half of Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End...shocker :-o) and her favorite TV show is (who knew?) Curious George.  She actually has a stuffed Curious George monkey my dad bought her and she is in love with that thing, let me tell you...she even puts it in her crib and turns on her music and goes, "George night-night."  Aww!  I can't believe Keeny's almost two!!!!  Wow.  (When we got her, she had just turned 10 months old.)  On Friday, she had her first haircut...she screamed and cried.  I wasn't there, but my mom has pics and they're pretty hilarious.  :-D  She is true-born actress...the tears can come on & off like water coming out of a faucet.  I'll put some of the pictures on when I get a chance.  I haven't got a chance to update this much lately, so I need to put the pics of us on Halloween too.  Kenzie was a cowgirl (the most adorable; everyone kept commenting on her outfit, saying how cute she was), Keaton was a power ranger and Kylie was herself...like me.  The kids (by kids I mean Kenzie, Kylie, and Keaton) went to a birthday party at a place near our house called Kidz 'n Action, which is like a place strictly for kids.  They have gymnastics mats, and slides, and bars, and rings to swing on, and Kenzie was (again) the highlight of it all.  We got some cute pics of her there, as well, so I will try to have those in my next post, too.  Soooo....I guess that's it for now.