Nighty-night

I have always loved watching my babies sleep. So completely and utterly peaceful with no worries or cares in the world.

Ahnya loves her thumb and all soft blankies. Doesn't this make you want to cuddle up with her?

My Three Sweeties

The girls and I have been enjoying our days together and definately feel like Ahnya has always been here. Gabriella and Jocelyn are so good and loving to their baby sister! They include her in their play, tea parties, and dress up as well! Ahnya is entertained and very stimulated by all the activity.

Some more milestones that Ms. Ahnya has achieved is now starting to eat "people" food, which totally freaks out her momma! Also, holding her bottle, drinking out of sippy cups, waving at everyone and anything she sees (literally waving at toys, the tv, her room, too!), really really crawling everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyday I'm overwhelmed by how blessed I am by having this beautiful family and the gift of adoption.

Beautiful Summer Days

Each of the girls picked out a tree to plant in the back yard last week! Jocelyn picked a snowball crab tree!

And, not surprisingly Gabriella picked the same tree as her sister! The trees will grow to be beautiful and will bloom and remind us spring is coming each year!Ahnya is growing and changing DAILY! She loves her bath! Loves to stick her little face in the bubbles too! She's quiet a charmer and always trying to do things to make us laugh!

So many things have happened in the last two weeks since I posted. Ahnya is crawling pretty good. Mostly scooting now-but is up on all fours from time to time and then decides scooting is easier and faster! She can pull herself up on furniture now and walk by holding! This makes momma nervous but she wants to GO!!! I swear she put on 5 pounds last week...because she was hungry ALL the time! Now when she lays on her back and tries to sit up-she can't! Poor baby is stuffed and very happy! Ahnya also decided she likes people food! So last week she had wild rice soup and some grilled cheese sandwich from her sisters plate! The blow-outs in the diaper have been bad as she's teething terribly...but still in pretty good spirits!

Saying Good Bye

Our family is very saddened by our decision to sell our lake home. It's too hard right now taking care of two homes with 2 little girls and a new baby. Ahnya's eating and sleeping habits are all mixed up with the transitions of going back and forth. I can't keep up going back and forth and keeping everything organized. Life is just too busy right now. So we're sad and saying good bye to lake Minnewaska. Maybe next year will be easier and we'll look for another place that suits our families needs. We love the lake and hope to be able to find another property down the road. Here's a couple pics of our last night at the lake on Monday, July 6th. Good bye lake!

Happy 4th of July!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My three babes!

Tyus got a little Bass and nice hat uncle Kevin!

Jocelyn in Tyus relaxing

Here's some pics of our fun and HOT 4th weekend together with family. We were at mom and dad's cabin on Pelican much of the time. Also spent time on Minnewaska seeing Grandma Peg and Grandpa Bob!

Faces of Ahnya

Look at those cheeks!!! She's a dolly and she's loving summer!!!

Great Auntie Nancy

Great-Auntie Nancy came to visit at the end of June!

The girls always love seeing Nancy. They call her Nancy-Poo!

Thanks for coming to visit and spoiling all three girls!!!