Friday, February 15, 2008

Our FOUR blessings!

What beautiful kids huh???
Zackery, yes, he's tall and he does look just like me...hope that's a good thing!!! :)
Our cute Cameron...that's all that needs to be said.
Look at that smile....I wonder if he will grow out of that?? He's so cute.
Our little China gift...so beautiful and look at those teeth!! :)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Misc. pictures

Well, even though I said that this was going to be more of a family site, I can't seem to capture the boys doing anything, so..here are some of Olivia for now. She LOVES guys hats. If you have one on, she is going to take it off and try to put it on her head then back on your head. Well, I forgot about the 50 million I bought for her, really I bought about 10 for $1.00 before she came, and so I showed her that she has hats and she goes in her room all the time and gets them, carries them around the house and then puts them on all day. I love it!! She does look Chinese with hats on :)
The latest thing is walking home from church. She HAS to do this every time we leave now. On Sunday mornings, whichever boy is taking her to the nursery, which she goes to without crying and does wonderful now, let's her walk and holds her hand. (I will get a picture of that one day!!) Well, the other night, Anthony and I were walking her home and she heard Anthony making the grass, well really the acorns, crunch under his feet. WELL, this is the latest thing that she HAS to do. She knows exactly where they are and stops to stomp on them to make the noise they make when daddy walks on them!! SOOOOO funny. She just smiles so big when she does this. She is also doing better at steps. She still won't go down them without help. She holds her hand out and goes, "Uhh" when she wants help. Well now she holds the rail and a hand, sooo sweet. The boys love this stage!! I love my kids. Oh and by the way, she is almost sleeping all the way through the night now...only waking up once and holding the bottle herself and putting herself to sleep. It kinda hurts my feelings that she would rather hold the bottle and lay in the crib, but I do get my time initially putting her to bed. I do get to rock her and she holds her bottle, but she LOVES her bed!!! YEAH!! I will have more later, but that's all for now.
This really isn't a great picture of Olivia, but I wanted to get the fact that she is keeping hats on now.
Aunt Joy and Olivia at the Valentine's banquet.
She loves Aunt Joy's jewelry. She wears big things and Olivia always has to mess with it..I don't think she minds :)
Daddy walking with her home from Church.
She even holds on to the railing when she walks down stairs.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Time together...yet separate!! :)

We are all so busy! With the boys getting older, they go their own way alot, Anthony in school and with the full-time pastorate,me doing mommy things,taking tests and things like that, we just can't get together and take many pictures, so these are the only ones so far that I have. I am going to try to do better, but....we will see!!
Zack and his "Favorite sister" as he says!
Believe it or not, she is comforting Chase. Chase is the only one that can act like he is crying and she comes up and hugs him. She always hugs his head and we couldn't figure out why...well the other day Chase came up to me and I hugged him and realized that because of his height, I hug his head alot!! She has seen me hug him that way and that's why she does that!! Sooo funny!!
Cameron with her in her first "Snow" in Nashville. It didn't last long, but it was snow!
Me and my China baby at the Chinese New Year celebration this year. It was a wonderful time seeing all those beautiful Chinese babies.
Daddy with Olivia right before bedtime! She has daddy wrapped!!! :)

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Our wonderful family


Anthony and I thought that we needed to shift the focus from Olivia to the whole family now. She has been with us for 5 months and the experience we have cannot be put into words but we now want to focus on the fact that we are just a family. Although we have an adopted baby girl from China, we also have 3 wonderful biological boys and we want to shift the focus, so we started this blog. I don't think the pictures and things are going to change, but the name did and it makes it more a family thing...so hope you enjoy this blog as well...hey the comments have stopped to, what's up with that???? I like to read what you have to say, so leave comments for us!!