First Thanksgiving

Reading the paper with Daddy trying to find the best Black Friday sales!

Well this was our first Thanksgiving with Kaleigh and it was wonderful. It is hard to imagine that a year ago we still didn't know who she was. Two weeks later we saw her pictures for the first time. I can truely say that we had so much to be thankful for this year. The most important thing is God making our family a true family. I will admit that being a mom is not always easy and Kaleigh hasn't caught up as fast as we had hoped but I wouldn't change a thing. She is a wonderful, happy, determined little girl who has brought us so much happiness. Only another mom could understand how exciting it is to walk into a room and see her face light up just because she has seem me. I will say that cooking dinner would not have been easy without Brent this year. He really spent a lot of time keeping Kaleigh occupied so that I could cook. He gave her, her first tootsie roll pop. It was peppermint and she loved it and got it everywhere. Anyway enjoy the pictures! Can't wait to celebrate Christmas with our little one this year!!

First boo boo

My curious active little one decided to try to catch the water as it was going down the drain after her bath and stuck her thumb under the drain stop and got it caught. She ended up with a cut across the top of ther thumb and it peeled back a small thin layer of skin. She only cried for a minute but it bleed enough that it required her first bandaid. She spent the next 30 minutes trying to get the bandaid off she we took it off as soon as the bleeding was over.

More pictures from Halloween

Halloween

This was Kaleigh's first Halloween and to be honest as you can tell by the pictures she didn't like being in a costume or being in the stroller. We didn't get a lot of pictures but these span over about 3 days. Some are of her carving a pumpkin with daddy, the cow costume is from daycare and the ladybug was from tonight. Trust me she had more fun than it looks like. She only wanted to crawl around the neighbors driveway and garage and once all of the kids arrived it was just to dangerous for her and then she was mad because she was in the stroller.

More Gatlinburg/ Aquarium

More pictures. The green hat, we had to buy to keep Kaleigh from shoplifting! She saw it and grabbed it and nothing else would do. The ledge she is sitting on was in the cabin and she loved crawling on it. I however did not love for her to crawl on it which meant that the stairs were completely off limit unless mommy or daddy was right there.

Gatlinburg

Well, we took Kaleigh to the beach and now we have taken her to the mountains! She had a great time, especially with breakfast and dinner. The child that would not take anything other than her bottle in China knows how to eat now. Enjoy the pictures. It was rainy and overcast most of the time so the pictures are not as great as they could have been with some sunshine!

Misc Pictures

I just wanted to add some new photos of our little bit. She is getting so big yet she is still so tiny. There is a picture here of her and her daddy on their way to her first Preds game. She seemed to enjoy all the noise. We also ended up sitting next to a lady who has a daughter from the province next to Kaleigh's. Some times it really is a small world.