Showing posts with label international adoption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international adoption. Show all posts

Monday, April 16, 2007

Yoga Crawl

That's what we call AP's newest crawling adaptation. She has gone from the army crawl to the big girl crawl to this...
the downward dog crawl! (it's a yoga pose for those that don't know) It is quite entertaining to watch. She has also learned a new trick from her daddy...





PEEK-A-BOO!

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Happy Birthday AP

What a busy birthday she had! We were invited over for a little playgroup in the morning. C had a lot of fun with the boys there. AP held her own quite well. Mrs. T was so nice, she had cupcakes there for AP's birthday. AP really liked the icing. This is her "I really like this" smile.
Then we went home to finish cleaning up the house and decorating for her little party. It was a little bit sad for me to think about her first year being gone and we got to share so little of it. Anyway, we had a great time with family at the party. AP really liked getting her own birthday cake.........until it became an icing trainwreck!

She didn't care too much about presents, so big brother stepped in to help out.


Isn't his shirt cute? It says "I'm the Big Brother". Thanks Aunt Heather.

On Tuesday we had AP's 1 year pictures and C's 4 year pictures made. Here are my favorites. I bought the CD, so I think it gives me the right to share the pics online (I hope). If not, don't call and turn me in.Have you ever seen anything so cute? We are truly blessed.








Thursday, April 5, 2007

She Drinks!

This is a huge step at our house. Drinking has been a battle with our girl. For the last few weeks it was Capri-Suns only, much to the dismay of nutritionists everywhere. Every few days I would try a new kind of cup or a different drink with no luck. Tuesday night I tried the same pink cup that I have tried at least ten other times, but for some reason she just drank. and drank. and drank. Now she won't stop. So no need to worry anymore about her calcium intake, believe me she is getting it.



The doc from Vandy called this morning after breakfast. I was a little worried to hear the actual doc on the other end, I thought for a second that the doc only calls when the news is not too good, otherwise it would be a nurse on the other end of the line. But, I guess he's just a nice guy b/c all of her labwork so far has been negative, woohoo! The only things that haven't come back yet are the syphillis and the stool tests (that's another story not appropriate to post here, but it it is one of those things that earns your Mom badge). We go today to get her TB test read. She has the same scar from the TB vaccine that her brother had, so I am hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.

This pic is one I took this week to make her birthday party invites. We are only having a small family gathering, so I thought I'd post it so everyone else can see just how cute it is!

Monday, April 2, 2007

Beautiful Easter Christmas Tree

At C's request, we now have an Easter Christmas tree. This was what he requested after seeing other trees in the neighborhood with eggs hanging on them. Here was our feeble attempt.









We had an Easter Egg hunt for the kiddos in our small group last night. C dominated and took home most of the candy. He had already perched somewhere and was unwrapping chocolate before the other kids even finished. He loves his chocolate.



AP and her little friend had fun eating grass and chewing on the wrappers of candy that they wished they could eat. They were really cute doing it, though.





AP had her big appt at the International Adoption Clinic at Vandy today. So far, so good. We won't have any of the results of the bloodwork back for a while, but he was very pleased with her development. We were actually scheduled to stay and meet with the OT, but doc didn't even feel like she needed it. He says she is really close to being on target, at least as far as development goes. She really put on a show for him...she talked non-stop, did her big girl crawl, pulled up, and even did what looked like a little dance move. She has 2 Mongolian spots, I had thought that was what they were, but wanted to make sure. For those who don't know, that is just a type of birthmark and should go away by age 2 or so. They look like bruises, though, so it can be kind of scary if you don't know what they are. She is still a petite little pumkinhead, but we are proud to report that she is on the chart at least. Her weight was between 1 and 3 % and her head and length were just over 3 %...way to grow, AP! To say that she was mad about having her blood drawn was an understatement. She screamed, stopped breathing, started sweating, then just gave up and went to sleep. It must have taken a toll on her b/c she is now taking a marathon afternoon nap.

Monday, March 26, 2007

My New Addiction

Through the process of our last adoption, I have discovered and quickly have become addicted to blogging. I guess it is somewhat related to my other addiction...reality TV. Don't ask where I find time now with 2 little ones, but I'm find myself checking in on blogs that I have been following and I don't even know these people! So, if you can't beat em, join em...so now i have a blog.