I was remembering today when our Yahoo group put together our referral video. You can see the video on my previous post.
Cathy
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
2005 February Love Bugs
| This movie has the referral pictures of the 2005 February Love Bugs. Families who are adopting from China | |
Friday, November 10, 2006
Our One Year Anniversary As A Family!
Wednesday, November 8, 2006 was the one year anniversary of us becoming a family. It is hard to believe that a year has past since our lives changed forever and this amazing child came into our lives. Everyday we thank God for this gift. Lizzie has been fun, a learning experience and definitely a challenge! Since the day we got her, we have been on a fast track!
When we first received Lizzie, she was 14 months old. She could barely stand by herself. By the time we came home from China on November 18, 2005, she was walking while holding on to furniture; by Thanksgiving, she could take very short steps; by Christmas -- she was completely mobile! Now, she moves faster then us! As for eating, that has never been a problem. She definitely needed to be fed by us one year ago and was still on a bottle. By New Year, 2006, she was feeding herself and was completely off the bottle. She now prefers a specific sippy cup with something she calls "Mommy Juice" in it. Mommy juice is Fruit-2-0! I made the mistake one day of asking her if she wanted some of mommy's juice and the name stuck!
In November 2005 she was only wearing a size 6-9 months clothes. The pictures of her from China make her look huge, but she was very tiny. She is now in 24 months to 2T sized clothes. She went from weighing 17 pounds to almost 27 pounds in a year! She was about 24 inches tall then, now she is almost 37" tall. So she is tall and skinny...lucky her!
Her language skills are truly amazing. By the time we left China, she was saying Mommmy & Daddy. Now we can have full conversations. She can count to 11 and knows her ABCs up to around "L". She is as smart as a whip and has a stubborn streak: we are definitely in the "terrible twos" now! Everything we do now with her is a struggle. We now try to give her a choice, do you want this or that. This is working...for now... until she figures it out. She puts on her own shoes and socks and is almost at the point of dressing herself. She has decided that she does not like the bath anymore, so on bath nights, the screaming begins! She stands in her little tub, stiff as a board, clutching the shampoo bottle until her evil parents are finished washing her! Hopefully this phase does last too long!
Our previously spotless house is now toy central. Everywhere toys and God help us Christmas is coming!! We have started weeding out the toys and sending them to Goodwill. She doesn't play with even a quarter of them!
Well, that is our Lizzie update. I am going to be posting some pictures for you to see how she has changed! Enjoy!!
When we first received Lizzie, she was 14 months old. She could barely stand by herself. By the time we came home from China on November 18, 2005, she was walking while holding on to furniture; by Thanksgiving, she could take very short steps; by Christmas -- she was completely mobile! Now, she moves faster then us! As for eating, that has never been a problem. She definitely needed to be fed by us one year ago and was still on a bottle. By New Year, 2006, she was feeding herself and was completely off the bottle. She now prefers a specific sippy cup with something she calls "Mommy Juice" in it. Mommy juice is Fruit-2-0! I made the mistake one day of asking her if she wanted some of mommy's juice and the name stuck!
In November 2005 she was only wearing a size 6-9 months clothes. The pictures of her from China make her look huge, but she was very tiny. She is now in 24 months to 2T sized clothes. She went from weighing 17 pounds to almost 27 pounds in a year! She was about 24 inches tall then, now she is almost 37" tall. So she is tall and skinny...lucky her!
Her language skills are truly amazing. By the time we left China, she was saying Mommmy & Daddy. Now we can have full conversations. She can count to 11 and knows her ABCs up to around "L". She is as smart as a whip and has a stubborn streak: we are definitely in the "terrible twos" now! Everything we do now with her is a struggle. We now try to give her a choice, do you want this or that. This is working...for now... until she figures it out. She puts on her own shoes and socks and is almost at the point of dressing herself. She has decided that she does not like the bath anymore, so on bath nights, the screaming begins! She stands in her little tub, stiff as a board, clutching the shampoo bottle until her evil parents are finished washing her! Hopefully this phase does last too long!
Our previously spotless house is now toy central. Everywhere toys and God help us Christmas is coming!! We have started weeding out the toys and sending them to Goodwill. She doesn't play with even a quarter of them!
Well, that is our Lizzie update. I am going to be posting some pictures for you to see how she has changed! Enjoy!!
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