Aleigha at 15 months!

WHAT?! TWO blog updates in ONE DAY??!!! I must be crazy this weekend! haha We took Aleigha to Ewing Manor in Bloomington today so Jeff could take a few snapshots in her Easter dress that we bought her in China. She wasn't very cooperative but you couldn't tell by looking at these pictures!

This is what she looked like in the other 50 photos that Jeff took!

a lot of stuff.....

i can't believe it's been two weeks since I've updated this! I'm just so exhausted by the end of the day that I haven't been able to download any pics and everyone knows that you can't blog without pics!! :) So this will be a monster blog post with pics!
I actually have to go back in time to our China trip first. I was finally able to download some pictures from Jeff's camera (since I was banned while in China after the camera meltdown!)

Here is downtown Guangzhou. it reminded us of Times Square in New York!

Here are a few pics of the Chinese Acrobatic Show. It was amazing! If only I wasn't so tired by the time we got there but Jeff took enough pictures to remember every act! :)


Here are some pics from the Olympic Village in Beijing.... this is the "Watercube" where the swimming events took place. (This was Jeff's favorite part of the trip -except getting Aleigha!)
This is the "Bird's Nest" where the Opening Ceremonies took place...


Here we are inside the Bird's Nest...



Here are some pictures we took on the infamous "Red Couch" at the White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou. Every family who adopts from China knows about this couch and takes pictures of their babies on it. (even if they don't want to!! ) This first picture is with our guide, Zhou...

Aleigha DESPISED the red couch and let everyone know about it! Here she is with Lily - who didn't mind sitting there at all. Lily is also wearing the same dress that Aleigha wore for Easter.


Here's Aleigha two minutes after we took her off of that couch!

Now back to more recent pictures. Here is Grayson decorating Easter Eggs...

This picture is of Grayson and Aleigha with their cousins, Calvin and Kaitlin, after their Easter Egg hunt at Grandma Bittner's house...

I tried getting a good picture of Aleigha with her Easter dress but she wouldn't sit still long enough! She did love her bunny ears though. :)

Grayson had a good time pulling Aleigha around Gma Bittner's house...

Then he wanted her to pull him!! :)

Here's Aleigha with a new bath towel. It's a pink flower! Toooo cute!!

That's all I have for now.... Aleigha is waking up from her nap now! gotta go....

the weekend before Easter

We had a very busy weekend! On Saturday, we had State Farm's breakfast with the Easter Bunny at ISU, then an Easter Egg Hunt at church, then Grayson had a soccer game.

Here are some pictures from yesterday. Aleigha did NOT like the Easter Bunny!!!!!!

This is State Farm's Easter bunny...

Here are our friends, Hannah and Erin, who had breakfast with us before seeing the Easter Bunny.

This is our church's Easter Bunny. This was as close as Aleigha got to the bunny!

Grayson is getting a bunny painted on his face at church....

Thanks to Kathy Rodeen for giving Aleigha such a beautiful dress and cardigan. She received many compliments on her cute outfit!

Thursday....

Today Stacey and I drove to Amy's house in Paxton to visit. We brought Beckett, Eden and Aleigha. Amy had all three girls home- Maisy, Trixie and Hallee. Amy is still on maternity leave with Hallee. All of the kids were so good and got along all day. We had Monicals for lunch - YUM.

Week off..

I'm enjoying my week off with Aleigha. We're definitely keeping busy with visitors and errands. She's being a good girl - as usual. :) Still can't walk on her own but she wants to walk soooo bad! She is also fascinated by going up the stairs and she fell off the 1st step onto our hardwood floor and got a bump/bruise on her forehead. It definitely didn't slow her down though.

I took a video today of her walking with her walking toy. I put two videos on here because I couldn't decide which one I liked best.




Here is a picture I took of Prince and Chewy today - they are just too weird for me. Prince was sleeping and Chewy just pushed himself next to him and he sat there for a while. Prince never moved. He must have been in a deep sleep!

I have a cat that thinks he's a dog and a dog that thinks he's a cat. ?????? These pictures make me laugh every time I look at them because Prince could care less and Chewy is like "Look at me, aren't we cute?!" LOL

This week has been flying by! I'm trying to enjoy every second of it. Next week my mother-in-law and mom are taking turns watching Aleigha then she'll go to CeAnn's the following Mon-Wed and my mom will watch her Thursday and Friday. We're just going to ease her into the schedule change. I think she'll really like being able to play with other girls though.

Nap time is about over so I better get going...

Let's Eat!

I let Aleigha try to use a spoon today for the 1st time.... Too cute! (notice the piggy in the corner) haha

Grayson has been into jump-roping for a few weeks now. I took this photo today.

Then he came inside to talk to Aunt Shana....
:)

swinging....

I was a pretty nice weekend so we spent some time in the back yard. Aleigha loves to swing and so does Grayson!