Happy Four Month Anniversary!!

Our Four Month Anniversary!

Yesterday afternoon, you and i recieved flowers!!!! I'll take a photo of them later today when they open up so you'll have a photo of your first flower bouqet....until i read the card from your Daddy, i had no idea why we were getting flowers! Yesterday was our 4th Anniversary of being home here in Nashville and your Daddy remembered by sending us my favorite flowers: Peruvian Lilies. These flowers are grown from the high mountains of the Andes in South America. The way that they are shipped, they need 8-12 hours in water and flower food to come to 'life' so i'll be sure to capture how beautiful they are.

The past four months have flown by, Emma. It is scary to me how fast they have flown by! Thanksgiving is in 9 days, i think, and then we'll be coming up on Christmas. I thought about yesterday how this is when your Daddy and i thought that we would be bringing you home; we were so taken by surprise when we got the call in late June that our adoption was done and we could go pick you up! We feel so blessed that we were able to bring you home at such a young age so we wouldn't miss out on your learning to roll over, crawl, stand.....

You are napping, but i'm going to check on you....you had a rough night last night when i put you down to sleep. Let's just say that you were not happy and screamed.....and screamed. No tears, but you were screaming. I went in a few times and so wanted to each one of those times to rock you to sleep. You were so tired; you kept rubbing your eyes and yawning thru the screaming! I finally gave in and picked you up and rocked you till you were even sleepier....and layed you back down. I got 3/4 of the way back down the stairs when you noticed that i wasn't there and you once again let me know that you weren't happy! I finally sat on the stairs by your room and waited till you fell asleep and then i went to back in to check on you. You were cuddled up with the pink elephant, sleeping soundly.

Love you to the moon and back...........

Mommy