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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Our baby is two!! Oh my gosh, we can't believe it. We celebrated Elena's birthday on Sunday (actual day was Saturday). We had a lovely party with our immediate family. Elena is doing great. She had been constantly sick for awhile there. Apparently she has cold-induced asthma, but I think our pediatrician has us on a good plan of attack if she has another episode. She's also on Singular daily and she has shown huge improvements with that. I was so sad to see her sick all the time. We are also switching daycare centers and I have a feeling that will be a good thing.

Elena is growing up so fast. I think developmentally she is behind in her speech; however, I'm not worried about it quite yet. She has her two year wellness check-up this week and I'll run it past doc. Hearing check perhaps?? She says a lot of words, but for only a certain period of time and is not building her vocab. Her latest is "Oh Bill" which we are assuming is "Oh Boy." It's hilarious! We keep asking her who this "Bill" character is. She makes us laugh every single day. She is also counting now, but only knows to say one. So as we are walking up the stairs, she says one . . . one . . . one . . . Hopefully "two" will sink in soon!

Elena is finding interest in a lot of new things. Daddy bought her a kitchen for her birthday and she LOVES it! We know that she plays on one at school and loves the one at church. They've come a long way with those little kitchen sets! She also loves dolls now and feeds them their bottles. It's adorable. I just love seeing her develop. She's just now starting to wear 24 month clothes, but barely. She can still fit into her 18 months from last fall. And she can now fit into her Chicago Bears cheer leading outfit (very important)!

We had our very first family vacation in August. Sean's parents invited us to the Smoky Mountains with them where they rented an incredibly beautiful cabin. It was lovely! Unfortunately, we ended up in the ER with Elena (asthma/touch of Pneumonia) our next to last day there. We had an awesome time anyway; we just had to keep Elena calm and in her stroller. Pics are below.

Summer is over, which I'm very bummed about. It went so fast. I like this time of year as well though. I hope that everyone had a great summer! We had a couple of really great adoption group events. Please visit our group's blog: http://circleoffamilies.blogspot.com/ . Our group has been opened up to all adoptive families now, not just Guatemalan. It's so wonderful. We missed the latest event because Elena had strep. Better not to share the love that day! If anyone who reads my blog is interested in joining, please let me know!

I hope that everyone is doing well! I'm still working a lot and still really bad at blogging and keeping in good touch with my e-friends. :( SORRY!! I think about you all! Blessing!