1. Grace Noel is our first child. We adopted her when she was nine months old and six months before bringing Rosalie into our family as a four-year-old.
2. Grace Noel is from the southernmost part of the central province of Hubei. Her village of one million people is surrounded by rice paddies and water buffaloes.
3. Like her little brother and big sister, Grace Noel's middle name is Chinese. It's Siyuan, and it means to remember your origin.
4. Grace Noel's favorite sport is Association football or soccer. I might have played a part in this. She also participates in track and field and recently attended a basketball camp.
5. Grace Noel is a much better middle school student than her dad. Unlike her daddy, she didn't get paddled by the principal for fistfighting.
6. Like her daddy did, Grace Noel plays the alto sax. She took piano lessons for many years when we lived in China. She can also play a mean recorder.
7. In China, I've been mistaken as Grace Noel's English teacher. People sometimes found it confusing that she spoke English so well.
8. During her fourth grade year, Grace Noel earned second place at an international school badminton tournament. A little birdie told her to play.
9. When Grace Noel was two-years-old, we rode our bikes to a nearby stadium and watched some Women's World Cup matches. The next year we rode our bikes to some Olympic soccer matches.
10. Grace Noel has lived in five apartments (all in Tianjin), one townhouse (Newburgh, Indiana), and one house (Evansville, Indiana) in her twelve years of life.
11. On her "All About Me" kindergarten poster, Grace Noel said beef tongue was her favorite food. Moo.
12. Grace Noel was recently baptized, and she's a God-given gift that I don't deserve. I'm thankful that God chose me to be her father, and I look forward to seeing what God will do in her life as she grows in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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