Pictures

I know I haven't put up any recent pictures of Kaleigh in a while. These pictures include the zoo, the discovery center here in Murfreesboro and the discovery center in Chattanooga and the Aquarium. Now that she is so mobile it is hard to get good pictures because she won't be still for very long.

No pictures this time

No pictures this time but I just have to share this week with everyone. First Kaleigh just hasn't been feeling herself since last week but it was nothing that we could really put our finger on until Tuesday when she just woke up just moody and needy. I took her to daycare and just around 1pm they called and said that she had continued to cry off and on almost all day and about 30 minutes later they called to say she was finally running a temp. So off to the doctor we go. They check her for almost everything and .................nothing! No flu no strep no ear infection nothing. She did throw up in the doctor's office and had a fever of 102.6 but I don't know if she just got herself worked up and that shot the temp up and caused her to throw up but she was extremely lethargic as well. She woke up the next day feeling better but energy level was still a little low and on Thursday she was back to herself until around noon when she fell while playing with daddy on her swing set and got her arm caught in the fall. So after a phone call from my husband to come home and look at her wrist, we decided back to the doctor's office. We just knew her wrist had at least a hairline fracture but it turns out her wrist was fine. She had "nurse maids elbow". It is a slight dislocation in the elbow that frequently happens in young kids and the doctor popped in back in and I kid you not....she was laughing and using the arm within about 30 seconds! Mommy is just wanting to know if we can just put her in a bubble for a few days until I can rest and calm my nerves down! This evening she was her usual self. Kids are truely amazing.

Easter

We had a really good Easter other than Kaleigh refused to act right during Church today. She just wanted to play and was very loud when she wasn't allowed to run free. Needless to say Brent and I took turns missing the service and letting her play some. She loved her Easter basket especially the chocolate and had fun finding the Easter eggs especially the ones that had chocolate in them! Enjoy the pictures.

Forever Family Day

Today is a day that is filled with so many memories and so many emotions. I can remember standing in that huge room waiting...and hearing a baby crying (Carmen) and just being so happy and wanting to cry so bad but not wanting to break down either. I remember that Carmen was brought in first and then so quickly they brought in another baby and called out her name, Ye Gui Chun. I think it took a moment for it to register with me and Brent that they were calling out our daughter's name because Joy our guide had to look at us to get us moving. They just handed her to me and she came so easily. No tears, didn't seem to be in shock or scared just curious about what was going on around her. She was VERY active and busy. She moved constantly and took a bottle in about 5 minutes flat. She wasn't very interested in us at the moment but was interested in all the action taking place around us. It wasn't until we got back to the hotel room that she showed any signs of sadness at all. Her little lip stuck out and started quivering and the eyes started to tear up. I just held her tight and told her mommy and daddy loved her and would never leave her. And that was it. She showed signs of stress and over stimulation by sucking her lip but fell asleep in my arms a couple of hours after we got to the hotel and I had her belly laughing that night. She was so tiny and so very very weak.

Wow! How things have changed in a year! She is very attached to both me and her daddy. She has grown so much except that she still doesn't have a head full of hair and is still a skinny little thing (you wouldn't believe how much this child eats and still stays so skinny). She now eats great and is working on the spoon and fork. She is finally walking and that has been a very recent thing. Her ankles are still very weak so she still has some balance issues but that is getting better everyday. She says mom, more, dada (sometimes). I think there are several other words that she is saying but I think only I recognize them. Trust me when I say that she makes her needs and wants known. She understands almost everything that we say to her and is a very determined little girl. If I had to use one word to describe her today it would have to be mischevious. Yes, as wonderful and sweet as she is, she is so very mischevious right now. The poor dogs are catching the worst of it.

We celebrated our first Forever Family day this morning with breakfast before I went to work and Kaleigh went to daycare. Daddy had to work late tonight so that was the only time that we could all be together. She got 4 braclets that we bought in China and she loved them. She took them off and put them back on several times.

Birthday!!!

Yes my baby is two!!!! Exciting but so sad. She is still so tiny in my eyes and it is so hard to believe that she as of tomorrow she has been with us for a year.

Birthday Party!!!!

As you can see Kaleigh had a big day on Sunday. We had a party for her on Sunday, the day before the actual big day. She had lots of fun and as you can see finally passed out as we were finishing dinner.

Chinese New Year Celebration

I remember our first CNY celebration. We were just DTC and we met another family that we were friends with and went to the local FCC CNY Celebration. I remember thinking how wonderful it would be to take Kaleigh to this after we brought her home and it was as wonderful as I thought it would be. The FCC of Middle TN does a wonderful job and had wonderful entertainment and Kaleigh is getting so much more mobile now and was all over the place. That means we didn't get a lot of good pictures of her because most are blurry because she was moving so fast. Anyway enjoy the pictures.