Everybody Loves a Freebie

Two fellow bloggers are having some summer fun by holding giveaways on their blogs. Check them out for some fun!

Sig's blog is private, but you can e-mail her at SA3@aol.com and ask to be invited to read her blog and enter her contest! She has 3 drawings tonight and will be having more over the next 6 weeks. While you are there, you can check out her beautiful little one, Abby, also born in Guatemala like my little Bug. She is adorable and a beautiful addition to her family!

Another giveaway queen is Tricia at http://ourguatemalanbaby.blogspot.com. She is busy packing to bring home her precious Sofia from Guatemala who is OUT of PGN!! Please stop by to say congratulations and follow along on her journey to bring her Princess home!

I promise to update some posts this weekend!! I had some dental work done yesterday and am still a bit loopy from the anaesthetic and anxiety that I have from having dental work done. It didn't help my anxiety any by having the anaesthetic accidentally hit my optic nerve... I lost most vision in my left eye for about 30 minutes which really freaked me out! Don't mess with my lasik corrected eyes!! And... I have to go back in 3 weeks for them to put on a my new permanent crown!! I think I will have to take some ativan before I go back the next time

Happy Fourth of July!!

Just had to share some pictures of my little firecracker!! We spent the day at the pool and Mommy forgot to take out her camera! Luckily, her Godmother, Auntie Susan, did. Here she is in her little patriotic suit!!



And, she refuses to go past the first step both in the baby pool and the big pool. However, Mr. Magic (aka Sophie's Godfather "Uncle Gilly") was able to take her all the way into the shallow end of the big pool. The caveat was that she could not make eye contact with me, so I stayed hidden from view so that she could see that it is not so bad to be in the water. She just loves her Uncle Gilly!!



Happy Fourth of July!!

Sarah and Sophie~Bug

My Beautiful Baby - 25 3/4 months old

I took little Miss Bug out to Picture People last Thursday for two purposes... the first one I will post later as it is really fun and I need to upload a couple more pictures to make it work. The second reason was to get Passport style pictures taken so that I can apply for her new Certificate of Citizenship in her forever name. Here is the winner (sorry for the Zazzle watermark... I should have gone to Portrait Innovations and walked out with a CD, but I HAD to use my coupon - LOL):


Of course, my once mild mannered little Bug has really come out of her shell and really made the photographer work! She was everywhere and into EVERYTHING!!


I am not a huge fan of props... and these blocks were hard to pry away, but she managed to make it cute.






Here she was begging for the choo choo prop to sit on... don't you know that she got her wish, I just had the photographer shoot close-ups to cut out the train!


Little Miss Sparkle... she was really working it!!




This one was Morgan and Grant's favorite


If she weren't so darn cute, I know the photographer would have asked us to come back another time...




Are we done yet, Mommy?? Actually, she was cracking up hysterically and laughing into the floor (where does she come up with this stuff?)


Raise the roof!! Woo hoo!




Some days I look in those gorgeous brown eyes and I feel like the luckiest mom on the planet to have been chosen to be her mommy!!

One more shot of those eye lashes

Beach Babe

Although we just returned from vacation, I will post a dose of my Sophie~Bug hanging out in her Splash Pool in the front yard from a couple weeks ago until I get all my photos downloaded onto my computer. Notice the boo boo on her lip... she fell off the step on our sidewalk onto her face. Not very graceful!

This is the greatest, mom!!


I love my dolphin!


Is this a leak?? I better check it out!!


Maybe I will grow up to be a mermaid, mommy!


This is the coolest pool ever! I can play in it all by myself without floaties!!


Aloha!!

Pearly Whites, Puppy Love and "They're Off"

The most amazing thing happened this week... my little Bug, who is not a big fan of having me brush her teeth (even though she loves to try to brush her teeth herself) had her first dentist appointment. I was expecting hysterics and zero cooperation, but was hoping for the best, as I took all three kids at the same time and thought she might watch them and see what it was all about. Low and behold, she stood up on the stool and allowed the hygienist to paint her teeth blue, brush her teeth and ALL!! Then, marched right over to the dental chair, protested a tiny bit when the dentist came in with his scary looking magnifying glasses, then laid down to watch Monsters Inc in the ceiling (way cool... they did not have that when I was a kid), opened her mouth and allowed them to count, clean, polish and paint fluoride on her teeth. I was absolutel floored at how well she cooperated!! I almost wanted to cry she looked so cute laying there with her mouth open!!



What a big girl!


Check out my pearly whites!!


Sophie is warming up to the puppy... she was a bit jealous of his cuteness and attention for the first few days. We are learning to be gentle with him just like she is with the other doggies.

Mommy, is this how you hold him gently??


Giggle, giggle, Tucker is tickly!!


Check out those gorgeous lashes!! No mascara needed for her someday!!


Today, we went to Churchill Downs to celebrate a friend of mine, G's baby girl "E" coming home!! I cannot believe that I have never taken Morgan and Grant to the track before... quite a way to go for the first time as we were in the Jockey Suites on the top floor of the clubhouse... beautiful!! We did not win any money, but had a fun time trying!!

The day was absolutely beautiful!

This has to be the winning ticket, Mommy!!


And they're off!!


This was the turf race named in honor of Baby E's Homecoming!! Lucky number 7 won!!


Rats Mommy... this ticket on the ground must mean we didn't bet on Number 7!!


Here we are in front of the Twin Spires! It was such a fun day!


Love and FROG!!

Sarah

New Member of the Family

I know... two posts in one day... how scary is that??

Yesterday, we went to an adoption picnic for our home study agency. While we were there, an adorable and ever so polite little ten year old Guatemalan boy and his single mom joined us at our picnic blanket. This little boy was carrying a little 4 month old Imperial Shih Tzu puppy that looks so much like our little Cavalier, Cricket, who passed away this past February. In talking to the mom, they were looking for a family to adopt this little guy. I must have had SUCKER written right across my forehead, because two hours later, we were driving home with this adorable and tiny little fur ball that we are calling Tucker. Isn't he the absolute cutest??





I don't know if you can tell how tiny he is... but I would guess under 2 pounds at 4 months old. He is supposed to get to about 6 pounds when he is full grown.



My kids are on top of the world and are deliriously in love with this little guy. I am thinking that I am certifiably nuts... 3 kids, 3 dogs, an aquarium full of fish and 4 fire-belly toads. Welcome to our Zoo!!

Sarah

THANK YOU SBP!!!

Two weeks ago, Sophie~Bug received a wonderful gift in the mail from our Secret Blogger Pal, Shannon H (Emily's Mommy)!! We were out of town and it took me too long to say THANK YOU for the ever so cute bathing suit!! We just joined a pool this summer and Sophie will love wearing her new suit to go swimming!! You are awesome, Shannon!!

Here is my little swimsuit model...




You mean this was a present for ME???



Thank you Miss Shannon!! I love my new suit!!!



Love, Sophie~Bug