One month home

I cannot believe we have already been home with our little guy for a month. I have to admit jumping into parenthood with a toddler is not easy. It gets better and better everyday. We continue to build our bond as a family of three. I want to start keeping a list of the big/little things as our little guy grows.


Food-
Loves: bread, animal crackers, oatmeal, hash browns, eggs, pasta
Dislikes: meat, Jello, peaches, pears, corn


Toys-
Loves: Cars (beep beeps), balls


New words he says-
Kitty kitty kitty (diddle diddle dee)
Doggy
Diaper (biaper)
Caca (his nose, hair, dirty diaper or messy hands)
Bye (in a sweet innocent voice)
Mommy
Daddy


New words he understands-
Mommy & daddy
Kiss
Bath (he loves the bath)
Coat
Shoes
Food
Get you (when mommy or daddy is chasing him)
Milk
More
Open & close


Other-
He loves to dance
He loves music (he has two favorite music videos from Madagascar Escape to Africa)
He loves to watch his friends (a video Caleb made on our trip to pick him up.)
He loves to be in the car
He loves to laugh (he has the cutest giggle in the world.)
He has a new molar

We are so in love with this little guy. He has changed our lives forever and we could not be more happy and excited for what our future holds. I am head over heels in love with his smile and his dashing good looks.

Happy Thanksgiving

We have so much to be thankful for this year. 

The fact that our little guy is home is truly amazing. 

Ohhh...how can you not love him???

We are home and we are a family of 3

It has taken me a week or so to get our blog updated. Caleb and I left for Ethiopia on Friday October 21st to go get our little guy. We landed on Sunday the 23rd. That day we went to the care center and had a birthday party for one of the the little girls. We spent a couple of hours with our little guy and the rest of the waiting children. It was great to see all of the little kids and some new faces. Monday we went with the other family that was there to pick up there kids. We sat in the van while they had their embassy interview. After that we went back to the care center and spent more time with all of the kids. We took some video and measurements of the kids. We wanted to get these to the parents. Who would think something so small would mean so much? We had our Embassy interview on Tuesday the 25th. This will be our Gotcha day. This is the day that we got to keep him with us forever. We had to say goodbye to the nannies. They all seemed to really love our little guy. We pretty much spent the rest of the week at the guest house hanging out. We met some pretty special people who were also staying at the house. There were so many people there doing different service projects. Wednesday night we did get out of the house and go to the Hilton for dinner. We all were dying for American food. We packed up and headed home on Saturday the 29th. We landed in Utah on the 30th. After 28hours of flying/airport time we had had enough. There was a huge group of people waiting or us at the airport. Having our friends and family there to see our new little family meant the world to me. Here are a few pics from our trip.

(Gotta love the girlie warm up suit he is sporting.)

*** next post will be about our first week home.