Getting to know you...getting to know all about you!

Y'all my heart is so full tonight with gratitude and joy that I feel it might explode.  Our daughter is beautiful - inside and out.  She's funny, smart (so smart!), and incredibly sweet.  She exudes love and happiness.  It just seeps from her pores.  Her smile lights up a room and lights up my heart.

As I type, I'm relegated to the hotel lobby where I just finished Skyping with the boys, Grammy and Grampa.  Right after I finished, I got a text from Andrew saying that I needed to stay put.  He'd given Sadie a bath and she was snuggled into him sucking her fingers and drifting off to sleep.  He wanted the time to bond and snuggle and cuddle.  This man - I adore him.

I could give you a play by play of the past two days, but I don't want to bore you.  So, I'll give you some snippets and lots of pictures (which I know is what you really want to see, anyway).  

Sadie loves sitting by the door to our balcony while she plays.  We've been keeping the door open most of the time to let in fresh air and she loves watching the cars pass by.

Yesterday afternoon, we made the mistake of letting her take a 3 hour nap.  Because of this, it took her FOREVER to get to sleep last night.  Finally, at 9:30pm, she gave in while lying on our bed.  We wanted her to get good and asleep before we transferred her to her crib.  After about 10 minutes, though, she rolled over, sat up and then dove head first off the bed.  Fortunately, Andrew was right there to break her fall, but that woke her up completely.  She didn't fall asleep for good until 11pm.  Thankfully, she went on to sleep through the night and woke up at 8:15 this morning happy as a clam!

This is what she looks like when she is mesmorized by a show on the ipad.  So far, we've learned that she loves anything with music (Baby Genius being the favorite) and Peppa Pig.

Cheese!

This "Juice in the Box" cup is AWESOME!  She isn't a drinker and we are really struggling to get liquid in her.  This is the only cup she'll use.  She won't touch a bottle, which I'm actually thankful for - we won't have to break her of it later.

The jammies she wore last night say it all.  Andrew said I jinxed us when I put those on her.  Good thing I don't believe in that sort of thing, or these might be burned ;).

A new day to dress girly and watch the cars pass by!

We discovered today that Sadie LOVES the Tula carrier!  We took her on two walks in it and both times she started out the walks with sunglasses on, waving and blowing kisses at all the trolleys passing by.  Both times, she also fell asleep.  I am so thankful she likes it and am hoping (and praying!) that it will be a great thing on the plane ride home!  However, let me tell you, I am not cut out to walk 4 miles in this thing!  I'm am going to be hurting tomorrow!  Hello, Advil!

Now that I'm looking at this picture, I'm wondering if that back support should be down farther?  Tula people - help a girl out and tell me if it needs to be fixed!  Also, any suggestions on how to not make her face lay on the clip thing?  I had to use a sock for a cushion!

After she slept, we bought our girl some lemon gelato and she smiled, giggled and waved to all the people walking by our outside table.  Then we headed down to the park.  She ran around, chased the pigeons, and fussed at us whenever we steered her in a different direction than the one she preferred.

We had the opportunity to witness her make a new friend.  She went up to this little fellow, gave him a hug, talked to him and handed him his toy.  She is so friendly!  I can't wait for her to meet the boys and to see them interact!

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She wore the crazy pigeons out!!

More Peppa the Pig!

She ate the best dinner tonight - better than we've ever seen her eat.  I think she's finally relaxing a little bit.  Afterward she was WIDE OPEN!  We were dying laughing!  I think she was so happy to have a belly full and to just feel good!

  

Waiting to Skype with her brothers!

Zonked out on Daddy!  

So, that's been our days.  It's been a blessed time of bonding for all of us!  Andrew and I have gotten a bit stir crazy at times and we are itching to get home to our family, but we are also trying to enjoy the one on one time that we have with her now.  God has been so good to us!  We thank you all for your love and your prayers.  I truly believe that she is doing so well because we have prayer warriors pleading with the Lord on her behalf.  With all of our hearts, we thank you, and we give God ALL of the glory!