Welcome

We set up our adoption blog so you can get to know our family a little better. I started blogging back in 2007 and have kept up with it over the years. At the end of every year, we print off our blog for that year and give it to Daniel's mom for her Christmas present. She keeps all of her children's yearly journals in a notebook that we will get back one day to pass down to our kids. I try to keep it up to date as much as I can.


When we decided to start the adoption process, I decided to make an identical blog for birth mothers to read. Everything that I write about my family on our personal blog, I copy it over to my adoption blog. I understand that an adoption profile only gives limited information about us and we want you to have the opportunity to really get to know who we are and what we like to do as a family. Our adoption blog will show you who we were even before we adopted our boys. Feel free to read as much as you want or click on the links up above!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Catching Up


Here are some recent pictures of Talon. With Carter being a few weeks older and stronger, he has reached most milestones before Talon and has usually been easier to photograph. It has taken a little longer for Talon, but now that he is strong enough to hold his head up for long periods of time, I've been able to capture some good pictures of him. Talon does have Carter beat in a few areas though. Talon is the first to have a tooth come in. What started out as a little white speck had now broken all the way through. Pictures of that are very unlikely though. Anytime we try and open his mouth, he automatically sticks his tongue out.
He has the darkest brown eyes I have ever seen.

He loves his jumparoo (thanks Brian and Tay) and will happily bounce and dance in it for hours on end. Well maybe not hours, but for a long time. We have finally found something to entertain him. Before the jumparoo he would want to be held non-stop.

This was taken by my cousin-in-law (if that is a word) over Thanksgiving.

This one is not a particularly good picture, but I thought I would include it anyway. Usually the boys get spit up on their faces or their arms. On one occasion, Talon managed to spit up, roll back onto his back and then proceeded to plop his head directly in it.