The Road Less Traveled

I took the road less traveled by. And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

Monday, July 28, 2008








This scrunched up face is the new one she gives me as soon as she sees me get out the camera and she is saying cheese, so we call this her cheese face!!!

She has been acting so silly lately and cracking me up. I just love her personality.

In other stuff, my mom and I are going to try and make Cami a couple simple dresses. My mom sews very well, me..... Not so well but, I want to get better so I can do some cute things for my girl. In another post I will take some pictures of the cute material that I picked out for Cami's dresses.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Sorry no new pictures.....

My sweet little girl has had a stomach bug for the last few days, with this bug she has had a very upset tummy. I felt so bad for her, my biggest concern is that she would not eat. She was drinking fine but, would not eat and for a little girl who does not have an extra ounce to spare that really upset me. I took her to the doctor yesterday, her doctor said she looked fine and was well hydrated and that when she feels like eating she will....

She took Cami's weight and at 21 months old she is 19.3 lbs, she has only put on about 1 lbs in 3 months. I know she eats good (some days better than others) but, she is so active I know she burns a ton of calories!!! I am hoping she is 20 lbs by her 2nd birthday.

Did I say 2nd birthday..... That is coming up so soon, hard for me to believe. I swear we just had her 1st birthday. I am at a loss at what to do for her birthday. Being October, it's hard telling what the weather will be like. I guess we could do a bounce house but I am not sure.... I don't know what to get her either.

We are going up to Ike@ this weekend so I am going to check out their big girl beds and maybe we will get her that for her birthday, I have not decided yet.

I am eyeing 2 classes to sign her up for this fall. One is a mommy and me dance class, I think if we do that she and I will choose to do the thriller dance for our routine..... I say that because her current dance moves remind me of that video. And there is also a class at the local Montessori school that I want to try out.

Monday, July 14, 2008








We have been on zoo kick lately, this last weekend we drove over to Ft. Wayne Indiana and went to the children's zoo, it was great. Cami loves animals and we have a zoo pass to our local zoo that gets us into zoo's all over the country for free or 50% off. We are planning on going over to Toledo Ohio to their zoo some time soon.

Her favorite part is the petting zoo goats! The goats at our local zoo are older and fat, so they just lay around, not to active. At the Ft. Wayne zoo they were all babies and very active, she did not know what to think of them, so she had her daddy pick her up.

Tomorrow my not so little baby will be 21 months old!!! I am having a hard time realizing that in fact Cami has been home over 1 year and will soon be 2 years old. I love watching her grow and blossom, every single day she changes, it is so amazing to me to watch this.

Cami cracks me up, we call her our "All American Princess" because she LOVES to watch baseball (I mean is she sees anything on TV with baseball she screams baseball and run for the TV) and she loves rock n' roll and country music!!! I mean baseball, Bruce Springs@een and Kenny #hesney how much more All American do you get.

In other news, I have read over the information packet for our China adoption and it's kind of funny because once your have done 1 dossier a second one does not seem to bad!!! I looked it over and said oh no big deal!!!! My only concern is dealing with USCIS, last time it took forever to get our I-171H because they kept loosing our paperwork...... If anyone knows how long Chicago USCIS I-171H turn around time is please let me know, I think last time it took almost 4 months for us to get it.

I turn 30 in December so sometime after the first of the year when I feel motivated I will get the adoption ball rolling!!! My personal goal is to have it ready to go by September 2009. We are planning a D!sney trip for the end of September (2009) for our anniversary and Cami's 3rd birthday so I want it to be DTC by then.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008







I hope everyone had a nice 4th weekend, okay I am a bit late but, I have pictures!!!!!

I was off all last week!!!! I enjoyed myself, got some yard work done and spent some quality time with my mini me! Jon took a 4 day weekend so we got to do some fun things as a family.

We went up to an outlet mall not to far from us and put a serious hurting on the H@nnah @nderson store for next summer. I love paying $5 for things that are normally $45!!! I bought Cami 3T for next summer in tops hard telling what size she will in a year, I think some of her shorts will fit her next year because she is so tiny in the waist and butt.

Cami loved all the fireworks, she calls them boom booms. Our house is in a great spot to see a couple different fireworks shows. I am not a fan of fireworks, I don't like loud noises.... So when we took Cami to see a fireworks show a few weeks ago at a baseball game I kept trying to cover her ears and she finally looked up at me and said "no mama boom booms good" and took my hands off her ears..... My girl is getting big.

Her vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds lately.... She is putting whole sentences together and sometimes adding some "choice" words here and there..... Tonight at dinner she started to eat and then all the sudden goes" dammit it hot"!!!! I almost fell over. We keep a straight face in front of her but, we both wanted to laugh. We both try very hard not to swear around her but, sometimes it's hard.....

In some exciting news for me it looks like I am going to be cutting back to part time at work, currently I work Monday-Thursday and every other Friday morning but, my new schedule looks like it will be Tuesday-Thursday and my every other Friday morning!!! I am excited that now Cami and I will be able to find some sort of mommy and me classes to take. I am eyeing a dance class because Cami LOVES music and dancing.