Happy "Gotcha Day!"

A year ago today, we met our beautiful little daughter for the very first time! I remember that day as if it was only yesterday. This morning, I sat Mya on our bed and let her watch the video of the moment we met. As always, she was completely enthralled by what she was watching. Somehow she knows what an important event it was, you can see it on her face. We gave her a little purse from Vietnam to commemorate the occasion, and she insisted on carrying it everywhere with her this morning. Always the "girlie girl," she adores her purses, shoes, jewelry, and nail polish so I knew the purse would be a big hit!
We love you My!!

Late! (again)

At the beach with Daddy

Totally enjoying her chocolate pudding!

I did it again! I totally missed posting on Mya's 20 month "birthday". Apparently I won't be winning the blogger of the year award after all!

It is so amazing to think that we have had our little ball of fire for almost a year now. On the one hand, it seems like just yesterday that we travelled to Vietnam to meet her, but on the other hand, it feels like she has always been with us. She is growing up so fast. I wish that I could stop time and keep her our little baby forever, but somehow I don't think she is going to go for that!

19 months!

We traveled to the Oregon Coast with some friends and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Mya wasn't very excited about playing with (or touching) the sand, but after a while, I couldn't keep her out of it! She had a great time digging with her brother and was pretty good at throwing sand as well. It was really nice to get away from our home improvement projects and spend time relaxing with family and friends.

Happy 19 months My My!!

18 months!

Mya is such a hard subject to take a picture of. Most of the ones I have of her are a total blur. This little girl is always on the move! It seems that the only good picture I can get of her is when her cousin Brooke catches her. Thank you Brooke!! Now that we are all out for summer vacation, I have made it my mission to get some good pictures of our little miss before she grows up any faster.
Happy 18 months my sweet girl!!

17 months and busy, busy, busy!

Mya has been quite busy the last few months happily exploring her world and causing trouble along the way. This girl gets into everything! Her favorite naughty things to do are as follows: get into mommy's makeup powder, put the kitty's food in his water dish, throw kitty litter, try and confiscate the knives from the dishwasher, mess up the tv remote, somehow manage to get into the kid proofed entertainment center, rearrange the dvds, flush things down the toilet, and poop in the tub! By the end of the day we are all exhausted, but happy. Mya keeps life interesting!!

Bad Mama!!

I am such a bad mother! I totally missed posting on Mya's 16 month "birthday". I am going to have to blame it on the fact that I was so busy taking care of my sweet little girl that I had completely forgot. Our poor Mya had a bad reaction to a shot she got on Thursday and was miserable all weekend. When Mya is miserable, she likes to make sure everyone else is feeling that way as well! It is hard to believe that such a tiny little girl can have such a huge set of lungs!! Thank goodness she is almost back to her old sweet self today!