Valentine's Day~ a little late

I still have to post about our weekend but wanted to get our Valentine's festivities out there before it was Easter LOL

On Thursday, Daddy brought home some goodies for all of us. We did it early b/c we were having company all weekend. Annslee of course got flowers like Mommy and then they both got other fun stuff. Apparently Coby was very interested in Annslee opening hers.








On Friday Annslee took her Valentines to her friends at school. She took Silver*mist along for Show-n-Tell



Last week she did her Vday performance at Dance and had such fun.



It cracks me up that none of them are doing the same thing!



Mr. Steve was in town working with Daddy and so he came to her class. She LOVED having a "special guest" and when Miss Stacey said to choose one person to dance with~of course he got the nod. He is a good Southern Bap*tist so I hope he doesn't mind pics of him "dancing" ; )



What performance would be complete without flowers. Since she was getting some for Valentine's Day I opted for the chocolate variety. I think she approved!

Coby's Baptism

Yesterday was a very special day for our family and we were so blessed to share it with our friends and family. Annslee loved having the cousins in town and we've noticed that Coby is just like his big sister and loves a full noisy house : ) We did Annslee's baptism exactly three years ago b/c it is nice having a 3 day weekend for family travelling. Annslee was 16 months old and Coby is 13 months old but other than that it really was so similar and brought back great memories of three years ago.

Here is our family of four ready to leave for church



Here we were in 2006 : )



He looked so handsome in his outfit from Viet*nam



Here is Annslee by the same wall ~ gosh, she was soooo little




My sweeties together




Missy sweetly took pictures during the ceremony. He loved having the water poured on his head but didn't really know what to think when everyone put their hands on him : )


I think he was telling the preacher he wanted more water to play in : )



Here is the whole family!!



I wish I had remembered to have someone video it all because Coby talked through the whole thing! The funniest part was as the minister spoke about the importance of the children, the baptism, etc.... Coby was LOUDLY blowing rasperries and sticking his tongue out LOL

I have many more pics from the party after church and the whole weekend so stay tuned!

Some people mark up their door frames

to see how big their kids are getting~ we just let ours hang out in a cabinet : ) Annslee always had a facination with climbing in our kitchen cabinet. I loved watching her "outgrow" it. Well, actually that is kind of sad but I did think it was funny when Coby started doing it too.

I know I have pics of Annslee around Coby's age doing it but they must be on the other computer so here is one of her when she just turned two. It is Hallo*ween hence the cat shirt that she wore for three days straight!

Annslee Oct. 2006




Coby Jan. 2009



The funny thing is Coby still gets stuck in there and can't figure out a safe way of getting out. Instead he just starts saying "ma ma ma ma" LOL

When Annslee got up from her nap she looked at the pictures and thought she should give it a try~ believe it or not she can squeeze herself all the way in and shut the door : )





Coby came around the corner and caught her in there and thought it was hillarious : )

Cute Catch Up

I was just going through some pictures and thought I'd put them up before they get too old : )

Here are some more pictures from our Sunday morning



Annslee and I went out to shop and enjoy the nice weather on Sunday afternoon and she picked out some sunglasses for each of them



He didn't really want to wear them : )



I know this is mean but he somehow got stuck under the exersaucer and of course I snapped a picture before helping him out



Annslee is sending JiaLi a HUGE kiss for sending her fingerpaints and PJs!!



Mama, if you aren't going to feed me fast enough I guess I'll just eat my foot!



Over the last week Coby has started doing this new smile. He will do his normal one then arch his head back, break into a huge grin and almost close his eyes. I have tried to capture it but it isn't easy to do~ trust me, it is CUTE!! *he loves his PJs from Lauren*



I still need to post about a birthday party and Annslee's dance class~ I will eventually catch up. I have to because Gigi is coming this weekend!!

The difference two months makes~

well, two months and LOTS of love, attention, yummy food and just being part of a family. We were getting ready for church on Sunday and he was standing at the window in his diaper just looking so cute I had to snap some pictures. Later I remembered one I had taken in Vietnam that was similar. Now when I look at it, it isn't similar at all. He looks like a totally different child!

12/6/2008 Saigon, Vietnam



2/8/2009 HOME!



I honestly have a hard time looking at some of the pictures from Vietnam. He just looks so unhealthy and sad. We are blessed beyond measure to have him home with us and he is thriving!!

Daddy Daughter Dance

A while back I got an email about an upcoming Daddy/Daughter dance at the local community center. To be honest, I thought it would probably be pretty lame but hey, it was something for them to do and a good opportunity for her to have some special time with Daddy.

Seriously, she just looks so grown up!





They had to practice their "dip" before they left



I was soooo wrong about how lame it would be : ) Daddy said it was packed and so much fun. The DJs had it so organized and there were lots of dance contests. Also, corsages were sold and Annslee of course chose pink and purple.



Daddy took the camera along and it looks like she had a BLAST. Oh, and she WON the Disco Dance contest : )



Just added this so you could see my girl hanging will all the girls while the Daddys watch from the sidelines~ this was during the "air guitar" contest.



So glad they had a good time! They didn't get home until around 9:30 and she was wired so didn't go to sleep until way too late. She was giddy telling me all about her night with Daddy.

A glimpse of our day

Coby still wants to be held or at least hold onto me all day. While doing laundry I remembered a really good way to entertain a one year old. Of course I grabbed the camera instead of getting something else done while he was otherwise occupied : )

My favorite thing is when he is in another room and one of us walks in and he notices. He gets the biggest smile like "oh, there you are!" (cute pjs courtesy of Michelle)





Who is that handsome boy? I think I will give him a kiss : )




After school Annslee decided to "play school" with her as the teacher of course. (yes, she changed into a skirt that didn't match LOL)



I don't know what her student Coby did but I am glad I wasn't at the receiving end of this look! (please excuse the dirty face)



Sutton gave him this super cute onsie and I wanted a pic of him in it. Since Annslee was wearing black and white I thought it was the perfect opportunity. Coby was not as enthusiastic about it ~ this was the closest to a smile we got but really he is arching his back and trying to escape : )

Jealous, Bananas, Playtime and a Basket Case!

I noticed his eyelashes the first time I saw him. Poor Annslee has such short ones and she will be so jealous of his~ hey, I am too! I didn't realize how hard it is to take a picture of them and this one isn't great but you get the idea : )



I finally just handed him a whole banana yesterday and he was thrilled! He of course wanted to take bites that were too big. Annslee was happy to "coach" him. Daddy and I reminded her that she used to take huge bites too!



This is picture of Annslee at exactly the same age eating a banana. This was at her orphanage during our visit. They gave us bananas and the BEST tangerines we've ever had!*sorry the pic is taken from my old site and I can't resize it*



This is the little face he makes often..it is so stinkin cute!



Annslee has to do three make-up classes because we missed all the December classes while in Viet*nam. Last night after class was open gym so we stayed for that. Coby had a great time and was all over the place!






Annslee and Daddy played hide-n-seek with him and he found them!!



She cracks me up ALL the time!!

Super Sunday

Last night we hosted our Sunday School Super Bowl party and it was fun, loud, crazy, wild and we all were wishing the Super Bowl was on a Saturday as we had to get up early this morning : )






Annslee heard the National Ant*hem starting and immediately stood and put her hand over her heart like she always does. Paige and Lauren decided to do the same : )




Here are some of the girls playing in Annslee's room. We had a little issue as they kept locking the boys out. I had to remind her that everyone can play and not to lock them out. I also assured her that if she let them in they wouldn't stay long as they wouldn't want to play with anything in there anyway.



Here are some of the boys (Lincoln was pretending to be shy) I have to admit Annslee may have been right about keeping them out. After letting this crew in they messed up her room in minutes...upside down chairs, things thrown all over, etc... Crazy boys!



Our class sweetly threw us a surprise "baby shower" too and Coby got some great things. Annslee got a couple of gifts too : )



Yeah, we are real party animals!! We ended the evening with a Prin*cess story



We had 13 adults and 13 kids ~ man to man defense~ but I swear it still felt like we were outnumbered LOL