FFF- No faces allowed

One of my favorite pictures from this summer. My train conductor exploring the woods.

Join us on the date

Warning there were no children present during the following photo shoot. There must be at least one self portrait of the cute couple.Then one of me it looks like I might be changing my career to news caster. Here is my headshot. Hey that guy to the right is stealing my spotlight. Hmmm...he's kinda hot :)

I've been on a diet for a few months and I met my goal so for my reward I bought some jeans I really couldn't afford so here they are my christmas gift.

Is it a bird, a plane, a butterfly oh no it is my handsome mansome.

And someone was nice enough to take our picture he asked where we were from? It's fun to be a tourist a few miles from your own house.

I am sure thankful for a safe place for the littlest family member to stay so mommy and daddy can have some fun. We laughed really hard last night and Peter tolerated my touristy ways now on to Thanksgiving. I sure do have quite a bit to be thankful for.

Wordless Wednesday

Thankful

So adoption has been on my mind lately. It is after all national adoption month. I haven't had anything thought provoking to say to add to the dialouge going on. What I do have to add is that what if I hadn't? When Peter and I first began to discuss adoption we had lots of fear. Mostly fear of the unknown. Fear of paperwork, social workers, where would the money come from and on and on. There was something inside me that kept calling even in the very beginning of my winding road through infertility there was a voice that kept calling me back here.

So today I am so thankful for that voice that kept nagging me.....

The result of overcoming the fears and growing as a couple....

Have brought me 3.5 years of joy, pleasure, happiness and a daughter all our very own....

A daughter who wakes up from her nap in a pink frilly dress which she was not wearing pre nap

And plays with pure exuberance with her Thomas trains.
Mussed up hair, pink frilly dress, and Thomas trains = my own little piece of perfection.

This just might ruin my attempt at being a meaningful adoption post but I seriously love this goof ball. He is my heart, my partner in crime, and he makes me laugh more often than not. And I'm going on a date with him tomorrow. Hopefully he saves this move for our home only:)

I have a nut

My friend Jen told me the other day that Lily marches to her own drum. She said this because she had a bouquet of flowers and she asked Lily which one was her favorite and Lily pointed to a green leaf. It is so true, she never reacts quite how I expect her too she always keeps me on my toes. She sees the world through her own lens. Now I have a confession to make. I had a conversation with another one of my friends while waiting for Lily. My friend Meg teaches next door to me and is a really close friend. So anyways as a teacher I always have trouble with children that march to their own tune. They cause me tremendous frustration. So I told my friend Meg that I hoped I didn't get a weird one. Well wouldn't you know that that would be exactly what was delivered to me. In the cutest best way possible my girl is a weirdo and I absolutely adore every quirky little quality about her. Here are just a few we have had a three year love affair with Thomas, she likes to eat frozen pancakes, she must wear socks with her shoes no matter what kind of shoe, when we take her to bed we have to pretend she is a burrito and find what is inside, she calls all hair dog hair and when she gets her haircut she gets mad at all the dog hair on her smock :)And I now have a soft spot for all children who are square peg in the ever present round whole. I was sent a lesson in such the perfect package! And just to prove my point here is how Lily wears her new apron. She took all her clothes off stuck her apron on and said Mommy wook I'm pretty! Yep baby you could be wearing anything and look just beautiful.

Superhero on it's way!

Christmas is coming and I am now on the hunt for the perfect christmas gifts. Lily is in a Superhero phase. She is in need of a cape and a mask. If your wondering she is already equipped with a Superpower she is Superfast! So my Etsy never lets me down. One cape just imagine Super Lily. Every Superhero must protect their identity!

Thank you Nonnie our Superhero is gonna love it!

And what would a Superhero be without a trusty sidekick. Even better her creater is making her outfit red to match Lily's and making her to look like Lil too. I can't wait to see what she comes up with

How perfect is that!

FFF Black and White

My favorite Birthday picture almost black and white.

Lily went to her four year appointment yesterday. She is in the 33rd percentile which I swear last time she was in the 50th percentile, but the dr. told me last time she was in the 23rd. I thought the jump was odd at her 3 year. Either I misheard or the dr misread the chart. I'm going to go with that could not have possibly been my mistake :) Lily was a trooper at the dr. She needed 5 shots and I would like to report that she was handled it like a champ but my girl is a delicate flower. Made both Peter and I tear up as we held her down. She screamed ow ow ow why is that lady doing that to me!!! On the way home she had to call here Papa and then her Nonnie to tell them of her horrible doctors visit. And she said she couldn't walk all night because of her shots. She has a very large knot in the leg that took the brunt of the shots I do believe those little legs are sore. Today she is thankfully going to stay home with daddy.