17 months

Baby girl is growing so fast!  Last week I tried to get some pictures taken.  I quickly learned that it will take at least two to get the best pictures. One to keep her attention and occupied, and the other to snap the picture.
At 17 months, baby girl is making animal sounds (like Mooooo and Quack) and counting to three.  She signs please, more, and all done and LOVES to immitate her big brothers and sisters.  The other night we were voting on what movie we should watch by raising hands when we announced the movie and our baby girl joined right in.  Winking has also been something she has found fun to try!


photo by Ravissant Photography

We are still so grateful that she is a part of our family.  McKinley's Forever Day is tomorrow.  To celebrate, we took our little forever family to dinner and are hoping to do some other fun things that the kids suggested to remind them about our special day.

Update:  We ended up visiting the temple to celebrate our special one year anniversary of that wonderful day.

Egg hunting

Since we weren't able to connect with our little one's birth mom this weekend, I figured I would post pictures of what the weekend looked like with our little one year old egg hunter.

Easter

This year we took the kids to the Easter Egg hunt in town and then stood in line to visit with the Easter bunny. 

Our little Em was kind of confused at the first egg hunt of the weekend, but once she figured out she could keep the eggs and that there were treats inside, she LOVED it.

She got to a point where she would just pick up the egg and then open it while the other kids ran wildly around snatching up eggs.

Hunting for eggs with candy drool on her jammies from the first egg she found before church Easter morning.