8 months a family!!!

Sorry for the lack in posting lately, classes started friday so ive been busy getting my schedule fixed, getting school supplies, etc.
Yesterday we celebrated 8 months since Chloe day! Its hard to believe its been 8 whole months since Chloe was handed to us, 8 months of amazing fun filled days with this precious child! I know i say this alot but its truly amazing the strides Chloe has made since day 1, just having the ability to trust us to supply her needs never ceases to amaze me. This has been the most amazing journey and i am forever grateful to have the opportunity to love this sweet girl.
I love comparing each month's picture to the previous ones just to see how much Chloe has grown so this month i added one of the referral pictures we recieved to this slide show.

Here are a few more pictures from our little 8 month photoshoot....

6 months!!

Yesterday marked the 6th month since we first held Chloe in our arms and we fell in love with this child that was meant to be apart of our family. 6 glorious months ago our lives were transformed forever with the addition of this precious child who God had planned for us all along and like i've said countless times, i thank Him everyday for her because I know in my heart that she has changed not only my life but the lives of the many people that she meets. She continues to be my inspiration every single day and I am so very lucky to have her apart of my life.

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You may have noticed Chloe is holding a little pink bible in the 6 month picture above, well that bible is Chloe's first bible that was given to her about 2 months ago by a very dear friend of my nana's who sadly passed away yesterday morning so I decided to take some pictures of Chloe with it. She loved Chloe so much and lit up everytime she got to see our sweet girl and gave her that precious baby bible personalized with Chloes name on the front and a special little message on the inside for Chloe. She lived right beside my nana & pops so we would walk Chloe up to see her a lot and say "heres your baby!" and she would smile and play with her and even got to feed Chloe her bottle a few times, she will be missed.

BTW A few of you asked about the program I use to do my collages, it is called Lumapix and I found it via Donna at Double Happiness. It is a really good program and best of all its easy to do, i recommend it to all!!

Better late than never

Sorry its took me soooo long to post this but between going to the beach, trying to get all of my computer files back in order and so on i just now got the pics put together. I promise this month i will get it together and post it sooner. So here it is finally, our 5 month since Chloe Day monthly collage!

Beach Bums

What a terrific weekend at the beach. Chloe had an absolute blast and enjoyed every second of her first beach trip. As for me, im a little red around the shoulders (ouch) but ready to go back..lol.We were all amazed at how well Chloe took to all the new things going on around her, like the 3 hr car ride, the sand, ocean, odd surroundings, etc and much to our surprise she seemed to go with the flow throughout the entire trip. She couldn't get enough of the sand and played until she was all played out. It was such a joy to see her taking in everything around her and just having fun being a kid. I have tons of pics and lots of stories to go along with them, but blogger is not letting me post them for some weird reason, it keeps on giving me an error message, so check back soon for beach pics and lots of fun stories!

Chloe's first professional pictures...

Chloe got her picture taken almost a month ago and they turned out great! She wore 2 outfits, a chinese outfit we bought in Guangzhou and a dress from Gymboree. We wanted to do a more classic close up one with her chinese outfit on and it is our favorite! Enjoy!

This one is so elegant to me, I love the way the photographer captured her gazing off to the distant with a little smirk on her face..hehe.

Here are the other 2 more casual ones, I just love love her smile in this one, she looks so happy!

This one shows her personality the best! I love her body language in this one, its like shes thinking "dahling im fabulous"!

Shes came such a long way since her referral pictures, its like looking at a different child. Im thinking about doing a collage of pictures starting with her referral pictures to show everyone just how far she has come. Im also going to be redesigning my blog again using these pictures as a header probably, so be on the look out for that!

Apple of My Eye

Not much new to report here on the Chloe front, except Miss CM has realized that food is her best friend and just LOVES to eat (just like me!) she will eat, or at least try almost anything we put in front of her, yet she still has not reached the 20 lb. mark, apparently she has a fast metabolism (again, just like me!). Since there really isint much to say on this post i think im going to take the time to list a few things that Chloe loves at 16 months, because i LOVE looking back at things to see how much Chloe has changed:

~She loves Baby Einstein videos, especially Baby Mozart & Baby Noah

~For breakfast rice cereal with apples and Cherrios

~Her favorite dinner food is Mac & Cheese & Sugar free JellO vanilla pudding!

~For snack she LOVES Gerber Graduates sweet potato & strawberry/apple puffs & their arrowroot cookies and cheese crackers

~One of her new favorite snacks are these organic snack bars

~She still LOVES her warm milk bottles before nap and bedtime, and will drink water from her NuBy sippy cup

~our girl just LOVES bathtime

~She loves animals and makes the sweetest "ooohhh" noices and pokes her lips out when she wants to give them huggies and kisses..hehe SO sweet!

~She loves to go bye bye and be on the go

~Her washcloth must be close at hand at all times

~She still sucks her left middle finger & ring finger when shes sleepy

~she will dance to ANYTHING, including church hymns..very funny

~Loves toys of course, but has her favorite which include: this, this, and this

~Cell phones are still top on her list of things she loves to play with

~she loves to dig through purses and take everything out (she even has her own little purse)

~She's a people person and loves to observe people, she especially loves men..lol..its odd because sometimes we may not even know him and she will just reach her arms right up for him to pick her up..hilerious!

Here are a few pics for POD (Pics Of tha Day) from yesterday...

"say what?! we're going to T@rget?! YAY!!

All smiles in T@rget again (told ya we love this store)

So cute in her new jammies from sissy..they have apples on them