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July 24, 2011

Calvary Chapel Of Quakertown Picnic

Today we went to the Molasses Creek Park for the Calvary Chapel of Quakertown picnic. It seemed like the entire church showed up to eat, play games and socialize.
Chase especially loved playing in the baby pool.
When it was time to clean up, Chase found the ice that was dumped and had himself an afternoon snack.
What a fun afternoon!

July 22, 2011

Chase's Adoption Finalization

Today is a big day…Chase will finally be a Gardocki! Chase arrived on October 26, 2010 and immediately became part of our family. However, as mandated by the South Korean government, we were required to wait 6+ months before the adoption became final. Today is the day!

This morning, we woke up, had breakfast and got Chase slightly dressed for the ride to the Bucks County Court House for our 9:45 am hearing.
When we arrived, we got Chase completely dressed and walked to the court house.
Inside the court house, we met other friends and family members and had to wait until our hearing began.
Chase was very excited because he got a new toy car from Luke.
We were not allowed to have cameras inside the court room, but after the hearing we were able to get a photo of the Gardocki family with the judge.
We are please to introduce you to Chase Il-Wu Gardocki.
We then celebrated the day by having brunch at the Duck Deli.
As you can see, Chase really enjoyed his meal.
He also enjoyed the ice cream treat.
Outside, Chase got to open a few gifts…he loves toy cars and trucks!
Ecstatic, we drove home and had some family photos taken.
WE LOVE YOU, CHASE!!!

Chase Adoption Tribute

Jay made a video that is posted on Youtube as a tribute to our son, Chase.  Feel free to check it out.  If you do watch the video, please be sure to leave a comment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4h3elS6yx0

July 21, 2011

Golf Anyone?

Chase loves to play with any kind of ball. Recently he got a toy golf set that he plays with all the time. He has a pretty good swing and it should not be long before something gets broken in the house.

July 11, 2011

Swimming At Grump And Mee-Maw's House

It has been pretty hot that past few days, so this afternoon Jay came home from work and we decided that were going swimming at his parent’s house. After dinner, we packed up our swim stuff and headed over to Grump and Mee-Maws house. Jay’s sister and nieces are visiting from Georgia so we all jumped in the pool. Chase loves the pool and we think that in no time, he will be swimming all by himself.
After swimming around with Chase for some time, Jay got in a water battle with his nieces.
We are still not sure who won the battle, but after that, Jay told Madalyn and Baleigh that he could throw them high up in the sky. Baleigh went first and requested not to go too high.Madalyn is much braver and wanted to be thrown up as high as Jay could get her. He did not disappoint and Madalyn was full of excitement when she came up from under the water.
Once Chase saw what was going on, he too wanted Daddy to throw him up in the air.
We are not sure how it is possible, but every day Chase seems to be more and more like his Daddy…now he is also a daredevil.

July 9, 2011

Chase's First Braves Game

This afternoon, Chase went to his first Atlanta Braves baseball game at Citizen’s Bank Park. That’s right, Jay says that as long as Chase does not care which team to cheer for, there will be no Phillies merchandise in our house.
We knew that Chase would not make it through the entire game, so we arrived at the stadium at the third inning.
When we got to our seats, Chase kept saying, “baseball.” He was also very excited and throughout the game would randomly look up and point to the Direct TV blimp that was flying overhead.
For some of the game, no one was seated in the seats in front of us so Jay and Chase were able to talk baseball strategy in the first row of upper deck.
We left at the end of the bottom of the 8th inning and even though we did not stay to see the Atlanta Braves pull out the 4-1 victory, we had a great time at our first of many baseball games.

July 2, 2011

Tractors, Tractors, Tractors

Chase loves balls. In our house he has baseballs, footballs, golf balls, ping pong balls, soccer balls, and a basketball. He loves balls so much that “ball” was one of the first words that Chase ever said. Now that it is summer time, we are finding out that Chase also loves tractors. Whenever he sees a tractor, he gets excited. If we go to Lowes or Home Depot and Chase sees the tractors on display, he wants to ride them. Whenever Jay is out mowing the yard, Chase watches out the window yelling “tractor!” Tonight when Chase saw our riding mower out of the garage, he wanted to go outside and sit on it. Baby also came outside so Amy put them both on the tractor.