So In Love

I just wanted to write a little bit about how my life has been this far as a mother. I am so in love with this little girl it's crazy-love. She is so amazing and each day that my Heavenly Father has given me with her I feel so blessed. Faith is truly a blessing from heaven. I am the luckiest mother in the whole world.

People are always asking Lindsay and I how we like being parents and how things are going for us? Things seriously couldn't be better!! Lindsay and I have wanted to be parents for the longest time and we never went into this whole thing blind or thinking it would be easy or not that bad. We knew (because of all of our family and friends) that being parents can be really hard and stressful at times. We knew there would be a lot of ups and downs but we have tried to be open minded, listen to everyones advice and prepare ourselves. You can never be prepared for parenting but I think that because we have really wanted this and did what we could to prepare we truly, truly love every minute. Even through the worst of times when she's screaming for food or waking in the middle of the night I feel so blessed to be her mother. We are the luckiest parents (did I say that already?).

Faith continues to amaze me. She progresses so well and each month she is learning and achieving so much. I tell Lindsay all the time how I wish she would stay little and be mama's little girl forever. I look forward to our little projects together (cooking, creating art, adventures, etc.) in the future and being able to take Faith out on Mommy-Daughter dates and play together when she gets a little bit older but I absolutely love holding her and rocking her to sleep or just cuddling on the living room floor with her. I love my little cuddle-bug. I don't want her to grow-up.......

I took Faith in for her 9 month check-up last week. She weighs 15 lbs 14 oz. and is 28" in length. She is 75% in height (taking after her mom) but just a wee 10% in weight (at least she hits the charts). The doctor said she look as healthy as can be and he is so happy to see she has put on a pound and a half since we brought her home. He said "what ever you are doing, keep doing it because she looks great". She was a very good girl for the doctor and it was a nice day.

Faith's first word was "mama" and just last week she said "papa" for the first time. She loves her dad and even though it took a few months of big time mama's girl actions she now grins from ear to ear when dad comes home from work. She won't take her eye's off of him and if we are in the living room talking or watching TV she will crawl right over to him and prefers to sit on his lap now. Just yesterday (Monday, June 4th) after breakfast I put Faith down in the living room to play for a little bit and she went straight over to the couch, lifted herself up and grabbed dad's baseball cap. She looked at me and said "papa" three times. IT WAS SO DARN CUTE! The funny thing is when she hears the lawn mower she knows it's dad and wants to watch out the window or go out and be with him (you wouldn't think he works in the yard to much would you?).

Faith can play "patty cake" and "peak-a-boo". She loves it when mom sings "Itsy- bitsy spider" or "Bringing home a baby bumble bee". We listen to music during the day and she now loves to bounce up and down and dance around the room with mom. She can wave "bye-bye" and tonight she seemed to be getting the "high-five" thing down, we shall see tomorrow if it really stuck. She will crawl really fast when I come up behind her and say "mama's gana get you, daddy's gana get you". She trys to get away from us and when I sing "follow the leader" and crawl around she will follow me. One of the many things that makes Faith laugh is when dad is in the shower and sticks his face up against the glass, as she is on the other side of course, and she laughs and laughs and thinks it's so funny! I know, that may have been too much information but what you won't do to make a little one smile.

Faith is becoming more and more familiar with her family and I have noticed her reaching for Grandma Bott when we go over to see her or her aunts Vicki and Sonia. Just the littlest things make me so proud.

I can sit and watch Faith for hours. Watching her little brain tick as she plays with toys, feels new textures, see something new and so forth. She is so curious and has the cutest facial expressions ever. I love when she gets excited as well she makes a little gasping like cooing noise.

Faith is such an angel and I love her so much! I love being home with her. She is so precious and I wouldn't change a thing in my life at this time. I am so happy and so grateful to have her in my life. There are times we are playing and I totally forget that she looks different or is adopted. There are so many similarities between us all it's eyre and she just becomes my little girl, my baby girl who decided in heaven that she was going to come to this earth, join our family and be our little one. She may look different and I may not be her biological mother but I believe I would feel no different if I had her myself. It is amazing how Heavenly Father has opened my heart and my mind and has brought SO MUCH joy and happiness into my world in such a way. I don't know how I could love another little one any greater then I do her.

I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love being a mother and wouldn't go back or trade it for one second. She is my world!