6 Months Old

Elsa is now 6 months old. When Titus was 6 months, he got his photo's taken at the BioPark, and now so has Elsa! I hope you enjoy them, not professionally done, but we had fun taking them :)

New Background

As you can see, our background has changed. Our old one disappeared, so we needed to find a new one, and this is what we decided on. Why a world map you ask?



Well we thought it was fitting since we have officially applied to our international adoption agency. Soon we will be starting a whole new set of paper and information gathering. But this is the first step of many towards our future children. We have chosen for our children to come from Ethiopia. After that it is completely in God's hands to hand pick our next children. We are excited to continue on this crazy journey. God's grace is sufficient for any struggle we encounter. We are excited. I hope you will join us in our excitement and journey!

Another Hair Donation

I got bored, or just ready for a change, and cut my hair! I cut a whole 10 inches off, and sent it to Locks of Love. I have done this for other people before, but never for myself. Its kinda fun, and gives a good feeling. Now I have a cute short trendy haircut, that I really like. Its easy and fun, just what a mommy of two little ones needs.

*Before*

*10 Inches!!*



*All Gone!*
I mean,
*After*

Elsa~ "mommy, did you cut your hair to match mine?"

Elsa's first meal

It's that time again. Time to start introducing food to our little one. Rice cereal, mmmm. right? well let's take a look.

Looks like we are ready



What's That? looks good!



Titus is joining us and trying to teach us how this whole eating thing works best.



yumm



Maybe?



Daddy feeding us



Elsa really liked the spoon, still not sure about what was on the spoon, but progress is good



Titus likes Elsa joining him for lunch



Still not sure about this stuff mom



And then we played in it, and then as you could imagine, we needed a bath. All in all we enjoyed ourselves. Learning new things everyday!!

Playtime Craziness

Here we are running amuck before bedtime. We love being chased and being "scared" by Mommy and Daddy. Even Elsa can get in on the fun. I can't wait until she is crawling and can chase Titus too!

The Aquarium and Botanical Gardens

If you've been around Titus recently you'd know that Finding Nemo is his FAVORITE movie, or "show" as he would call it. He loves fish and asks to feed the fish we have in our pond probably 5 times a day. (We won't disclose how many times he asks to watch Nemo on an average day.) With this extreme interest in "fishies", we decided a trip to the aquarium was in order.

We saw lots of fish,


and stingrays,


and shiny fish,


and lumpy fish,


and scary fish,


(maybe a little too scary)


But all in all, we liked the aquarium.


(Elsa liked the "fishies" too!)


We had lots of fun watching the "fishies" swim by and even learned a new word or two listening to the other kids talk. We saw "sharks" and "turtles" and quickly learned how to say their names too.


After the aquarium, we walked through the botanical gardens and saw lots of pretty plants, trees and flowers.



There was so much to see. There is even a "historic" farm to walk around. Titus found one chicken prowling around and chased her for a while. The chicken was not amused.








They had a couple of "bug" exhibits and Titus and I went down to explore. Mommy told Elsa what the boys were up to and she was not happy. Was she scared of the giant hissing cockroaches or upset that Daddy didn't take her down to pet the scorpions and tarantulas? I guess we'll have to wait a few more months for her to tell us.




Such a fun day!!

4th of July Fun

Playing some catch-up here, but I'm sure you would all like to seen how we had loads of fun over the 4th of July weekend. We went to a friend's house whose cul-de-sac was having a block party "Carnival Style". There was inflatable jumpers, cotton candy, face painting, pie-eating and lots of good food, and of course fireworks. Titus really enjoyed himself all night, but especially liked the jumpy pit.



There was a very nice fireworks display after dark and Titus and Elsa both stayed up to watch the show. Titus was completely enamored with the lights and sounds of the fireworks. I figured he might get a little scared, but he was just fascinated by them. He didn't speak or clap at them; and he didn't turn away for one second either. We really enjoyed ourselves and enjoyed staying up late as a family on the holiday.

Celebrating 5 Years

We are celebrating 5 years of marriage. Such a blessed event. We have lived in two homes, had two kids, and still have the same dog. We look forward to so many more years of blessings.

(Then)

*and kisses*

(Now)

We celebrated our 5th anniversary by going out on a special date. No fancy restaurants or fancy clothes, but a date like when we were...well...dating. This meant just having fun and going where ever our heart lead us. We first went to Hinkle Family Fun Center and played in the arcade. Skeeball and a Dance Dance Revolution were the favorites by far. (By the way, DDR is really exhausting and embarrassing when there are a bunch of 12 year olds watching you!) We then soaked in a movie, caught a Fish and Chips dinner, then went to Lowes. (Yep, you know you are married and live in a fixer-upper house when your dates take you to a home improvement store.) After all this, it was getting late, I mean really late...like 8:30pm! So we came back home just in time to put Elsa down for the night (Titus was already snoozing), said goodbye to our wonderful babysitters and spent the rest of the evening together.

And since all good baby blog posts have pictures of the babies, here is Titus being a sweetheart to his baby sister Elsa.

P.S. Jones says hi too!