More pics...I know, I know late again

Believe it or not, these pictures were taken back in March and we just recently got around to picking some out.  So without further adieu :)

Extra, Extra!

Here's a great article on the Davis family's adoption of Nyah.  Well, I guess it's only PART of the article.  I'd post the rest of it but I'm pretty sure there are copyright laws preventing me from doing so.  Congrats again Jim and Dixie!  What a lovely family.

Davis Family Article

Summer Fun!

Alright so I know we haven't been the best bloggers lately. Before we had Marley we read lot's of adoption blogs and hated it when families would get home with their little ones and their new posts got farther and farther apart. Now we totally understand why! You see, just a few weeks ago, Marley figured out how to pull all the way up on her feet. Yup, that's right, we're officially the parents of a full-blown puller-upper and soon to be parents of a full-blown stands-on-our-owner too! Needless to say, large portions of our evenings are spent chasing Miss M around and around, taking things out of her mouth, and trying to convey the meaning of "no,no" to her. And you know what?!?! We wouldn't trade it for anything in the world!
     A couple of weeks ago we attended the CHI Reunion in St. Louis. It was such a blast FINALLY getting to meet several of the wonderful people who's blogs we have followed for the past few years. Finally got to meet the Salyers and Hyman families and lovely Ru and (other) Miss Marley :) It was awesome to finally be able to connect face-to-face with these wonderful families. We can't wait to see them again some day!
     While in St. Louis we met up with the Davis' (who just arrived home with their little Nyah about 2 months ago) and to our surprise had adjoining rooms. We had a blast hanging with these guys. There boys, Davin and Delton are a hoot and Nyah was just amazing. We spent Saturday with the Davis clan hanging at the reunion and then we were off to the zoo for the afternoon. It was the perfect weekend! We are truely blessed to have a fellow Ethiopian adoptive family like the Davis' living so close here in rural NW Missouri!
     Other than the reunion, it's been the normal summer stuff here. Marley has officially become a pool rat this summer! We love, love, LOVE kicking, screaming and splashing in the pool (and tub). This last weekend we had both sides of the family over for our first ever weenie roast at our new fire ring we just built. Lot's of weiners, smores, and games. Until next time, more pics!

All ready to meet my Ethiopian gal-pals in St. Louis!

Momma & Marley at the reunion

Finally meeting Missy and Elisa!  Good to see Alida again too!

Marley meets Marley!

Breakfast in bed at the Mariott

Daddy and Marley at the Mariott pool

Momma and Marley doing kissy-faces

Havin' a blast in the tub

Tellin' Aunt Brenda a reeeeeally big campfire story at the weenie roast

Daddy hanging with Marley and Abby at the roast

"Purple Cat, Purple Cat, what do you see?"

For some reason Marley's newest passion is Purple Cat in the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear".  Her reactions are priceless everytime finds him.  :)

P.S. Disregard the messy room! For some reason, our house looks like this a lot more often :) Will post more updates soon!

Father's Day Fun

Our first Father's Day!

She is getting sooooo big!

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 :)