New blog address

I am attempting a new blog ....  please go here to see any new posts:  http://raisinglucy.blogspot.com/   i will let you know if it doesn't work!

Busy beautiful butterfly

OK, just when I thought she had summited the cuteness mountain she finds higher peaks to climb.  Lucy is into dressing up.  My daughter ... is a girly girl!  I hope her new hobby doesn't interfere with camping this summer.  Grandma bought her butterfly wings after witnessing Lucy's Wiggle Safari video with the butterfly dancers.  The result????  Totally adorable.  Breathtakingly cute.  Stunningly beautiful.  I think that you, the readers will have to agree (even though I know that a lot of you either have or are about to have very adorable children of your own) that Lucy is all sorts of cute.   Two things:  1. I never thought I would be happy to have a girly-girl daughter and 2. I never thought I'd be writing such a blabbering blog unless I was being sarcastic (which I am not!).  So here is some photo evidence. 

Ethiopian Christmas Party Photos

Ethiopian Christmas

Will try to add photos tomorrow.  Tonight we had our 2nd annual Ethiopian Christmas party.  What a festive evening!  We had 45 guests in our small bungalow.  Saturday my dad and I cooked 4 different Ethiopian dishes.  I bought the Injera.   We had children from lots of different parts of the world join us:  India, China, S. Korea, Ethiopia, W. Africa ...   The best part!  It was baby Genevieve's 1st birthday.  Genevieve came home from China about a month ago ..  she's so beautiful,  she seems very secure with her momma and still keeps busy exploring her environment. Yeah Genevieve, welcome!!!!  Lucy is finally getting some girl-friends! 

Some new (and old) photos.  Monkey, Lioness and princess.

Poop and Pee --- tee hee hee

Well .. I feel a little odd blogging about poop and pee ... but I must tell the world... Lucy did it!  She pooped and peed in her potty chair.  I really have no investment in her potty training so early (which is why she was probably more then willing to give it a go), but today I asked her if she wanted to sit on her potty and she nodded yes ... she sat for awhile and I asked if she wanted to get up, she shook her head no,  then she did it, she pee'd, and then a minute later she pooped and then she was done!  Not even 20 months old, what a superstar.  Now if I could just get her to hold my hand while walking outside or in the mall ... 

Santa the final chapter, and finalization

So... I made the mistake of signing up Lucy and myself as Santa's helpers at the Christmas party my agency puts on for our clients.  Lucy is terrified of Santa.  Santa needed helpers, the other staff had roles and responsibilities.  We had to bring gifts to children sitting on Santa's lap.  We had almost 4 hours this ... the whole time I was unable to put Lucy down because she was scared.  Each time we approached Santa to give a gift, she clung tighter.  It was the  most I have held her since she discovered crawling and movement.  This is not a good study for immersion therapy ... doesn't work.  

We finally finalized the adoption this Friday!!!!!!!!!!  She's officially mine now and forever.  What a wonderful day.