May updates....

EAC Reunion on Memorial Day Weekend:

Here is Aleigha with 3 of her China "sisters" from our travel group.















Grayson, Melissa, Layna - swimming in the hotel pool



Grayson had a 1st grade poetry reading last week. He did a great job! They all memorized a poem individually and then together they recited about 5 more. It was very cute. :) I can't believe that 1st grade is over!!!



Here are 3 of Grayson's best friends in his class.



Aleigha at Tipton Park last weekend:





Jeff is digging up a corner of our yard for the little plastic slide and water table for the kids. He found this really long root while digging and Grayson has been using it as a whip to play Indiana Jones!

Light Saber dual

This was our Sunday afternoon....

Grayson Updates

Grayson received a gold medal for participating in State Farm's Pee Wee II Bowling League. He was so excited because it was just like an Olympic medal. He wore it around last night and took it to school today to show his friends.

Every day after school, Grayson wants to ride his scooter. He's getting really good at it!

Aleigha Update: She had her 15 month check up today along with 4 shots! At 18 months, she'll get 3 more and then at 24 months, she'll get 2 more and then she will finally be caught up with her vaccinations.

She has definitely grown and is now in the 50th percentile for ht and wt on the US growth chart. She is 30 inches long and 22.8 lbs. She gained about 2.5 lbs and grew 1.5 inches since last visit.

The past two nights she has fallen asleep in the car after I pick her up from CeAnn's house so I've been laying her down in the living room (see below) so she doesn't sleep too long and not want to go back to bed!

Too cute...

Aleigha just got over her 1st head cold. Thank goodness for warm air vicks vaporizors! It really helped her sleep. She's back to normal now and walking all over the place. She loves being outside and she still LOVES to eat and is still a great sleeper.

If anyone knows how to turn my videos 90 degrees, please send me an email. I'm downloading them from my Canon SD camera and I don't even take the videos up and down. They just started doing this????? I can turn them on the microsoft movie maker but they don't save like that unless you are in the movie maker. :(

summer clothes

Aleigha has so many cute summer outfits that it's hard for me to decide what she is going to wear each morning! Such a dilemma. :) She is also walking all the time now and very fast!

Here is Grayson protecting Aleigha from the enemies! HA!

Here is a sideways video that I can't figure out how to make it turn 90 degrees. I've been working on it for an hour now so I give up. You'll just have to tilt your head to watch it. :)

She's walking!

Aleigha has been taking a few steps every night this week and getting stronger and stronger!

Baptism and Mom's bday dinner

Aleigha was baptized today and she was such a good baby. She laughed and smiled the whole service (except the part where the pastor drenched her head by accident!) :) She was over it in a minute though. My Aunt Jackie and Uncle Paul are her Godparents and stood up with us during the baptism. I wish someone would have taped it because I couldn't see Aleigha's face since I was holding her but saw everyone smiling and laughing at her. Her Baptism outfit was made for her in China by a woman in Nanchang that we met through our tour guide.

Look how much fun Grayson is having in this picture!! ;)

Did you notice Grayson in the back entertaining himself???? Pastor Elyse was holding Aleigha.

After church, we had a cookout at our house. I think we had around 15 people and the food was really good. Jeff made Aleigha's baptism cake! It was BEAUTIFUL!! He was up until 1am making it the night before.

Aleigha in her baptism outfit before we changed her for the afternoon...

Johnny and Aleigha "playing" with the same toy..... Isn't Johnny's outfit so cute?!

Here's Aleigha after she opened her gifts...

Then Johnny and Aleigha played in the water and sand table and got soaked!
After her outfit got soaked, we thought this would be easier... :)
What a cool baby - hangin' out in her swing..

Last night, we ate at the Ribeye in Champaign to celebrate my Mom's birthday. We all LOVE the Ribeye. It was very good food!

For some reason, Grayson wanted Mom to read him an "after-dinner" book at the table. It was a book she gave him when he was a baby and we just found it because she gave Aleigha the same book. :)

We had a very busy weekend and we are all very tired! Now we have to get ready for Monday...