CHI Reunion

We sent in our RSVP last week for the Bi-annual CHI Reunion in St. Louis July 10th and booked our room at the Marriott West for Friday night.  Thought I would check to see if anyone else was going.  Hope to see you there!

9 Month post!

Ok, ok...I know she's been 9 months old for about a week now but here's how things are going so far.  Since our "8 Month Post" Marley has since started going to a baby sitter 4 days a week.  She has really handled it well...better than Momman anyway :)  She had a checkup at the doctor a couple of weeks ago and weighed in at a whopping 18 lbs 4 ounces.  That's almost 5 pounds since we've gotten her!  She is getting to be such a big girl and has an awesome personality.  We're not quite crawling yet but we have finally just started to figure out the army crawl and going forward.  She mostly gets to where she wants to be by doing these little half-circles.  She's also getting to that stage where she only wants to be everywhere she's not supposed to be :)  Maaaaan do we have our hands full when she finally figures this crawling thing out!  We now have 2 whole toofers and we are in love with "The Office" theme song.  We really, really, reeeeeally love the Dell Computers "Lollipop" commercial...to the point that we squack and squeel when it first comes on.  As if we needed any more reasons to dislike Wal-Mart, our daughter is now in love with that Darrell guy in their Roll-Back commercials.  Damn you Wal-Mart!

She is so, so happy and we are very blessed that we were chosen to raise such a beatiful baby girl.  She is truely the light of our lives and we can't imagine life without her. 

For all of you adopting parents still going through the process:  hang in there.  It WILL happen!  There WILL come a day when your holding your new little one and you look back on the process and realize that that long, long wait that once took you to the bring of maddness is just a faint memory.  It WILL happen!  Until next time, here's a couple more silly pics just taken yesterday of our little goofball.

Hilarious!

2 whole toofers!

Alright, Alright, enough with the camera already!

Better late than never...

Finally getting around to posting some pics of Marley's Easter photo session.  At the time these were taken she was about 6 1/2 months old and had been home for 2 weeks.  My how our little girl has grown since then.

Two of our all-time faves:

Getting her pic. with Cousin Abby

The bunny was just a little hungry :)

New Onesie!

Just got our new onesie today from fellow adoptive parent, Erin Sager.  You can check out there blog HERE and You can get your own HERE!

   

8 months old!

This post is a little late but Marley has turned 8 months old! She continues to be the best baby and is learning new things daily. At 8 months Marley can :

• play patty cake or clap (which I love)
• she is rolling all over the place from front to back and back to front
• she has one tooth and working on several more
• she has become a major mama's girl!
• she will hold her arms out for Kris and I
• she continues to be a good sleeper but due to the teething issue i do get up with her a few times a night
• she loves to be outside and likes to take walks or swing
• she loves to eat and loves any fruit
• she loves music and loves the theme to "The Office"
• she also shakes her head no for fun
• she has learned that if she screams, she get's whatever she wants (uh-oh)

This last weekend we went to Kansas City, we did some shopping on Saturday then stayed at a hotel. Marley got to experience her first time in a swimming pool and she loved it. Then Sunday we went to the Royal's game with my sister Brenda and her husband David and children Jenna and Jarrett and Kris' brother Ryan and his wife Krissy. We had fun but it was hot, we had to come up with creative ways to keep Marley cool, needless to say we did not stay for the whole game.

Marley continues to be such a joy in our lives, she has been with us for 2 1/2 months and we have loved every minute of it! I am amazed every day how very blessed we have been to have her as our daughter. We look forward to a fun summer and making wonderful memories!

Lovin' that pool!

Baby's first Royals game

When you live in Missouri, you find all sorts of creative ways to stay cool!

Daddy gave me my first baby-hawk

1st tooth!!!

Look reeeeeal close....It's there!

Congrats to the Davis family!!!

Jim & Dixie found out they passed court today and will be traveling very soon to pick up their little one.  We had the honor of meeting Nyah while we were in Ethiopia in March.  She is such a doll!  You can check out the Davis' family blog by clicking HERE.  Congrats guys!!!

Here is Marley's reaction when we told her the good news!

Da-Da-Da....the PROOF!!!

Momma has finally started to accept it :)