Sick baby

We've had a rough couple of days. I've never seen so much snot in my life! It's so sad to see her not feel well. As hard as it's been to have her so clingy to me over the past couple of days, it's also such an awesome feeling to be able to give her some sort of comfort during such an uncomfortable time. Comfort that only a mother can provide.

Here are a few random pictures of happier days earlier in the week...

Love those eye lashes!

Getting ready to go to a party.

Dinner at The Korea House. Mmmmm.

Playing with Tucker.

And this is what I do when I need a couple of minutes to myself during the day, I refer to it as the coat-rack babysitter.  (ha, ha you know I'm kidding, right?)

Oh, poop!

Poppy goes pee-pee on the potty! A couple of posts ago, I mentioned we were having diaper dilemmas. The dilemma was that any type of diaper we tried was leaking. Apparently it was because she was holding her pee, and going all at once. So after being tired of getting peed on all day and having to do multiple outfit changes, I decided to get out her potty and stick her on it. The very first time I put her on it, she went! So now for the past 2 weeks, she has been going pee 4x a day. But we're not really "potty training", it's more of just me knowing when she is about to go pee and sticking her on the potty (while she plays with my empty make-up containers). Then yesterday while I was rinsing out her little potty, she was wandering around the bathroom leaving little brown nuggets everywhere! Gross, I know. But then today, she went number 1 and number 2 in her potty!!! The look on her face was priceless. She looked down at what was in the potty and acted like it was gonna come out and bite her. She jumped off the potty and gave me the sign for "all done". It was hysterical. Sorry if that's too much information, but I said that now we're password protected I don't have to worry about what I say here! Anyways, this is such a weird situation because she knows what to do on the potty, but she's still not communicating with us (other than grunting when she sees food, and a few sign language signs we've shown her) so it's impossible to ask her is she has to go potty. Maybe I should learn the sign for potty and try using that? Oh, I was so not prepared for this so soon.

What can I say, this girl loves to accessorize.

First of all, I want to give a shout-out to Jenna at Serendipity Designs for designing my blog.  If you're looking for a blog makeover, check her out - she did an awesome job!!!

We decided to head down to the waterfront for dinner tonight.  They have a beautiful garden with hundreds and hundreds of different types of flowers (and each one is labeled!).  Poppy was in her glory running up and down the aisles of flowers with her squeaky shoes.  She was like a little celebrity because everyone was asking about her shoes.  It was too funny.





 





She just loves to play with dirt, and eventually it always ends up in her mouth.

Moving Day

I've been wanting to move my blog over to wordpress for a while now, but I'm so comfortable with blogger that I've been putting it off. Now with having Miss P home, we're looking for a little more privacy, so I've decided to take the plunge. After much debate, I've decided to only share the password with real life friends and family, and maybe some of my regular blogging buddies. When I started this blog over a year ago, it was all about keeping friends and family up-to-date with the adoption process and meeting others in the adoption community. Now that we are a family of three, this blog has turned into a little scrapbook of our lives, our semi-private lives. I want to be able to post pictures and details without having to think about who or how many people are reading it.

So if you are interested in following along, shoot me an email or leave a comment. You can find us at http://pursuitofpoppy.wordpress.com

This was Marc's first week back to work since Poppy's arrival. Wow. Being a stay-at-home-mom is hard work! I love every minute of it, but I am exhausted! And I thought it was hard to find time to blog over the last couple of weeks, but now I feel like it's impossible! But I do want to continue journaling our life as a family, so I am going to try to set some time aside at least once a week to post some pictures and details.

I am so in love with those cheeks.

How cute is this outfit? And check out the socks that came with it!

Marc and Poppy love to brush their teeth together every night before bedtime.

And Poppy always makes sure Daddy gets those teeth clean!

This was Marc's first week back to work since Poppy's arrival. Wow. Being a stay-at-home-mom is hard work! I love every minute of it, but I am exhausted! And I thought it was hard to find time to blog over the last couple of weeks, but now I feel like it's impossible! But I do want to continue journaling our life as a family, so I am going to try to set some time aside at least once a week to post some pictures and details.

I am so in love with those cheeks.

How cute is this outfit? And check out the socks that came with it!

Marc and Poppy love to brush their teeth together every night before bedtime.

And Poppy always makes sure Daddy gets those teeth clean!

Action packed!

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but our days and nights have been action packed! Between a visit to the pediatricians, diaper dilemmas, tons of visitors, teething, swimming, shopping and a few sleepless nights, Poppy is still being quite a trooper. She's been home for 3 weeks now and we continue to be amazed by this little girl every single day.

Poppy loves going for walks all over our neighborhood.

Lookin' super cute in my parents garden.

Mmmm. Sharing ice-cream (now on a daily basis).

Hanging out with her cousin, Amelia.

This was Poppy's first encounter with a pool. Based on her dis-taste towards bath time, we figured she would hate the pool. But we were wrong!

Our little diva.

Guess who loves the water!

Action packed!

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but our days and nights have been action packed! Between a visit to the pediatricians, diaper dilemmas, tons of visitors, teething, swimming, shopping and a few sleepless nights, Poppy is still being quite a trooper. She's been home for 3 weeks now and we continue to be amazed by this little girl every single day.

Poppy loves going for walks all over our neighborhood.

Lookin' super cute in my parents garden.

Mmmm. Sharing ice-cream (now on a daily basis).

Hanging out with her cousin, Amelia.

This was Poppy's first encounter with a pool. Based on her dis-taste towards bath time, we figured she would hate the pool. But we were wrong!

Our little diva.

Guess who loves the water!