Picture time!!

So this is the story of the day!! Finally after 14 months of wishing for hair I decided that hair was not coming so with a gift certificate from Adam's family Tori and I went and purchased 5 bows and a headband.... And I am ECSTATIC so finally see my little girl with a bow of her head!!!! I had to capture that moment for sure!! She looks so girly and sweet!!! :)


Eating her PB&J man
Chopping up the christmas tree
Standing over the air vent

Telling Papa she loves him!
Her prissy face
The Day she learned to say Cheese!

Rocking in her cradle.... She's a little too big
Sweet cradle made by Papa, and blanket made by great grandmommy
Bubble bath!!

One more thing!!

Adam has a hernia and is getting surgery on Thursday! It's outpatient but he will be out of work for a while and it's always scary to have any kind of surgery, so just keep him in your prayers!!! Thanks so much! I know he appreciates it

My baby just keeps growing up!

Sorry for the lack of pictures today! I'm on a computer that doesn't have any new pictures on it so I promise I will post a nwe post of just pictures sometime soon after this one. Just wanted to let everyone know that we have a wonderful christmas and new years! Tori was sick the whole time we were in NC so it was a hard trip, but fun never-the-less. She was so cute playing with all her new toys and everyone else's for that matter! She slept through the Christmas Eve Candlelight serivce which was such an answer to prayer! I was so afraid that since she was sick she wasn't going to even let me sit down! So the day after christmas I took her to the doctor in NC, who has taken care of me many a time while down there(Even gave me stitches twice!!), and he was wonderful. She had an ear infection so a round of antibiotics later and she is back to her cute normal self!! New Years was fun, but I kept falling asleep haha. I took nighttime medicine around 10, not smart if ya wanna stay up till 12!! But I made it just in time to get my kiss and go to bed!! I finished up Tori's baby book Saturday... So bittersweet!!!! I put a lot of pictures in and wrote as many things I could think of until I ran out of room, then I went back and read everything from day one... Just made me realize how much I want another one!!! Maybe in about 6 or 7 months we'll start thinking about it :)

So for those of you who don't know here's an update on what ms. Tori is doing with herself these days. WOW is she busy!! She is so cute playing with her toys and her baby dolls especially!! Her Papa made her a cradle for hr baby dolls for christmas and she loves to put her baby in it and sing "La-la, La-la" while she rocks it. She says please in sign language which is rubbing your belly in a circular motion, which for her has become a cute way to get anything she wants. She just rubs her belly any time she wants food or a toy or something she can't have and I melt!!! It's so cute. This vacation was really good for Adam too he got to really bond with her in a way that his job hasn't let him in the past. She runs around the house looking for him screaming "DADA" until he answers. She's very verbal for her age. I'm so impressed with some of the words she says and the things she does! She understands so much more than I give her credit for!!! A couple weeks ago I put this cute little orange t-shirt my dad brought her from Washington and it has a monkey on it. As soon as I put it on her she pointed to the monkey and said "Ah-ah-ah!!" now I know i've told her what th monkey says but she had never said it before!! I'm just so amazed by her everyday. Yesterday she had a dress on and she stood over the vent to make her dress blow up... That was a cute little photo-op. Her favorite thing is her bath and she will just please, please, please to get in it! Then once the water gets running she tries so hard to get that leg up and over before I even have her clothes off. Many of these things I have pictures of and I will get them up soon!!! We miss everyone in NC and OH and I hopre everyone's holiday was as wonderful as ours!!!! 

Some days need recording

So for a couple of days now Adam has had a semi-bad toothache and then last night it was like a bomb exploded in his mouth. His mouth hurt so bad you wold have thought he was dying! So Anita and I call every dentist in the phonebook along with both ERs in Jackson trying to find anyone that will just give him some relief. NOT ONE dentist in Jackson, has an emergency service that takes anyone other than their own patients so we were out of luck there and what'd'ya'know this weekend there is no on-call dentist at the ER... So we go ILLEGALLY get prescription drugs from my mother from her root canal which he promptly takes and throws up about 10 minutes later.... sorry for the gruesome details... THEN he takes 3 ibueprofen and we talk to a pharmascist who tells us get some extra strength toothache medicine and a hot, wet compress on it... He uses about 30 q-tips dipped in medicine then settles down on the couch with a hot compress.... Finally he starts feeling better the poor thing and can eat something, once he eats a small slice of cold pizza he goes to bed with the hot compress on his mouth.... Tooth pains are the WORST!!! I think if he had anything to compare to labor pain this would be his example... All this to say he went to the dentist today and he has to have a tooth pulled and 2 fillings, plus the put him on antibiotic for the INFECTION in his gums... Which is why he was in so much pain he thought he was dying last night... :( POOR ADAM!!! 

On top of all of this our dog has an infected toe-nail and I am attempting to drop another feeding with Tori.... Our wallets aren't doing to well either ha... We need prayer this week!!! Wooo... it's about time for a vacation....

 

Ohio family: See you guys in a week!!! 

Carolina family: See you in a month!!! 

YAY FOR COLD WEATHER!!!!!! I CANNOT WAIT FOR HOT CHOCOLATE AND SITTING BY THE FIREPLACE :)

Tori's birthday

All of the babies and mommys

Andi

Brayden

Carlee Hayes

Olivia

Molly

Me,Tori, Molly, and Jen Howell

Molly was adopted from Korea about 2 weeks ago!!! She's adjusting so well and we love her already!!! It was so sweet to watch them play together for the first time!!

Duck Theme :)

The pink cake

Table

It was soooo fun!! I don't have time to comment on all the pictures but I will let you know who the people are if you dont already know. The party couldn't have been better. She had a great time and she had a lot of friends come over!! There is one picture of her laying on the floor with my sister Maggie, she kept leaving the room all night trying to go put her hands in the cat's drinking water... so I went to catch her thinking she was about to try yet again and I found her laying on the floor next to Maggie jsut kicking her legs. It was just so cute!! She loves the happy birthday song. Everytime we sang it she knew that all eyes were on her and she ate it up!! Her birthday was such a success and I loved every minute of it! Thanks everyone for coming to the party and all the sweet gifts!!!!!

So my baby turned one yesterday... Wow what a day!!! She has so many toys I don't know where to put them all, not to mention Christmas is right around the corner.... She had such a good time though!! I had a few tears the night before, I cannot believe she is one!! I relived the whole day I kept telling Adam well it's 8:00 am this time last year I was getting an epidural!! Haha I don't have much to say, because I have so many pictures!! So here is our day in order:

At my house we always got breakfast in bed so of course Tori had to get the same. She enjoyed her first orange sweet roll quite a lot. Then we opened a few presents...
Her little people farm: She is soooo ccute when she moos!!!
Then Adam and I took her to Muse park to feed the ducks... We had sooo much fun!!! Later on this week I will try to get the video of her sliding up here! She was so precious!! She just kept pointing and saying "Duck, duck, duck!!"

Adam did look too happy about this picture haha

5 bites for me 1 for the ducks.....

Daddy that one is getting a little bit too close!!

My pretty little one year old

There were 2 big geese mixed in there too

She got excited

They came really close to us

So then we had a party at our house for the family and everyone came over and brought gifts... First we opened presents which is such an ordeal for a one year old.... Here's just 2 pictures from that....

Nana making sure I don't fall off the box... She climbed up there all by herself haha

Gigi and Tori with her new Bitty Baby!! She loves that baby doll!!

So on to the cake! It was so cute to watch her eat that blue and yellow cake!!!

We were all singing Happy Birthday to her. She thought it was pretty funny
Woah mom this is cool!!
Silly blue face
Clapping for herself
NUM!!!

A picture of my masterpeice: her #1 duck cake

Our Family

I had to add this one... This was this morning she sat under the table with her baby doll.

So all in all it was an eventful, wonderful, and exhausting day!! I forgot to pick up the balloons and my camera died twice, but all in all it was perfect. She is such a precious blessing!!!! I cannot believe it has been a year! I will post again next week after her party Saturday!!!