This past weekend, Ryan and I had the opportunity to get together with another adoptive family -- Beth, Alan, and Brady -- who we've gotten to know through blogging and a Yahoo Group of families who adopted through our agency's Taiwan program. We are also both at a similar point in our current adoption processes, so we'll probably be bringing home our second children around the same time in 2009 or 2010 (and maybe even traveling together!) We met for dinner at Romano's Macaroni Grill on Sunday evening. I can confirm that Brady (who is 20 months old) is every bit as cute, sweet, and smiley in person as he looks in the pictures on his blog and below! During dinner, Brady showed off his animal sounds (he does a great coyote impression), while Ryan spent most of the meal eating ketchup from the end of his straw.

Here are some pictures of the boys together (taken after the all-chocolate birthday cake, as you can see from Ryan's shirt in the second picture).




Ryan listening to the waiters sing "Happy Birthday" in Italian. He's holding his Thomas and Friends Halloween DVD, a birthday present from Brady.



Blowing out the candle: