Okay, I've kind of let the whole monthly theme slide. Instead of writing in the evenings I've been working on a "digital scrapbook" project for Kai and Shen. The idea is to make sort of a little story book about their adoption for each one of them.

We have a number of little photo albums for each one of them that are out all the time, but they're not really put together in any formal way. We have the blogs for both of them, and video for Kai (Shen's is coming), but they don't have regular access to these. So the idea is to give them a little book they can look at when ever they want. These aren't going to be traditional baby-books, or the kind of formal "life-book" we will eventually make for them, but something simpler they can carry around and enjoy now.

It's amazing what you can get printed now. I'm looking at Shutterfly's options for printing scrapbooks, because I like the "full-bleed" option. I'm using a new program called iScrapbook that makes it pretty easy to put together simple layouts.

This is the cover for Kai's book. Shen's will be identical as that seems the best solution to much of the sibling rivalry we're currently experiencing. I am doing 20 8"x8" pages (10 double sided pages) for each of them, and have 16 done in Kai's book so far. Again, Shen book will be basically identical, so once I get the first one done, I will just have to change the pictures and a few other minor things. Kai has picked up that I am working on this, but I am trying not to let him see it. I want it to be a surprise for Christmas.