Just so blessed and the best 1st Thanksgiving with Jailyn!

 Jailyn's First Thanksgiving happy as can be and looking cute in her Purple Dress with a Big Smile!

 Tired Baby girl after having Two Thanksgiving festivities!

Playing with Grandma Comley!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!!!!  We have been so touched by the out pouring of love and support on our journey to Jailyn and it just keeps getting better and better.  We are so thankful for all our family and friends.  We are blessed beyond our wildest dreams.  Hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving and celebrate the blessings!

We received the nicest most meaningful gift from our incredible attorney, Sue Gilkey at Rosenacker Law Office (who rocks if you ever need an attorney).   Sue was on board with us through our endless paperwork journey from the beginning to now.  We met with her this past week and Sue surprised us with a gift.  She took all our photos off our blog and made a DVD montage of our journey.  Every time I watch it I cry.  You know it has been like a dream these past 5 months with Jailyn and so special.  All the challenges we faced and face just make life with our new baby girl even sweeter and more special.   I love the photos to music and it touches my heart all the way down deep in my soul.  Truly our happiness has been found in the journey.   Thank YOU Sue and everyone at Rosenacker Law Office for the DVD and being on our journey with us.  

I love Thanksgiving because Mike and I met on Thanksgiving 14 years ago and it has been a special holiday for us over the years celebrating the night we met.    However our first Thanksgiving with Jailyn was perfect.  We still have a whole weekend full of family fun still to come.  Last night we spent some time with our neighbors and she was a big hit with them and quite entertaining,  Jailyn is so social and loves people and so happy to be included in all the fun we have.   Today was action packed lunch at my brother's home with my family and then home for family nap time and then to Mike's Dad.  Tomorrow we go to Tewes Turkey farm for our Turkey for our Thanksgiving dinner at our home with Katie and Billy on Saturday and will get the house decorated for Christmas.  Saturday Jailyn will goto her first Breakfast with Santa at St.I's.  Sunday will be shopping and Mike is headed to the Bengals game with clients.

I love the long Thanksgiving weekend and we have plenty of time to begin Christmas preparations. I can't wait to celebrate with Jailyn her first Christmas and see the holidays through her eyes and her smile that lights up her world and ours too.  So blessed and so excited as the holidays approach......

With love and Thanksgiving for all the blessings,

Linette

16 months old today and 5 Blessed months with Jailyn!

Wow I sit and marvel at Jailyn and tears come to my eyes she is 16 months old and has been with us now 5 months.  She is beautiful, happy, healthy and brings so much love and joy to our home.  It has been a few weeks since my last post.  I went out of town for 28 hours and it rocked Jailyn's world.  Daddy and Jailyn did great together however Jailyn regressed a bit with the fear she had lost her mommy and was clingy and always wanted to be held and was not lovey dovey for the first 24 hours when I returned .  It took three days and we are back to normal.  She does amazingly well with her sitter and family on the nights I work.  They love her like family and we could not be happier to be blessed with Colleen and her family helping us.  Mike and I are still adjusting as the life we knew with the freedoms and independence we had is no more.  It is all about Jailyn and we will slip a few dates in here and there.  I started reading a book about the connected child about bonding and attachment.  Jailyn is a sensitive child and very anxious (still hates having  her diaper changed) and I believe that stems from the neglect of being left in her cradle and who know why the diaper changing is such an issue.  We believe they may have started potty training her since she tends to sing when she pees and that is something the Chinese people do to train the babies to pee on command.    So we will see if singing on the potty will work for us.  I am enjoying the shopping for my baby girl everything is so cute and with the holidays coming Jailyn will be stylin and pretty darn cute.  Her personality bubbles over and is just a happy girl with the biggest smile that melts our hearts.  Looking forward to all the fun the holidays have instore for us and giving our child the best 1st Christmas ever.
Blessed and so thankful to be Jailyn's mommy,
Linette

Halloween and Fall Fun Fest Pumpkin carving

Jeremy(Alyssa's Dad)  with our little Chinese Princesses

Daddy and Jailyn with her first Pumpkin Daddy carved for her!

Our little Princess!

Lynelle (Alyssa's mommy) with the girls.

The family pumpkins!!!!

Trick or Treat in her stroller!

Jailyn with our silly neighbors Connie and Joe Cullen.

Mommy and Jailyn

Just so tired after Trick or Treat in my Sherpa Princess Chair!

After Trick or Treat she plopped in front of the TV.

Our little princess playing with her glowing wand!

Well as you can see my blog has a simple new look.  Unfortunately there was an error in my design elements and all the images went away.  It is what it is however all the contents from 2008 to now are stored and now we will go with this simple look.   As I continue to update our lives with Jailyn as she grows up and all the fun events we share in this life together.  Checkout our fun Halloween and Pumpkin carving photos!!!  Our first Halloween was special for Jailyn and Mommy.  She melted my heart and we video taped the process of getting ready and afterwards too.  She totally knew what she was about to do since she had watched Ni Hao Kai-lan trick or treat over and over on her Halloween Video.   She got so much candy from the neighbors and she blew kisses to everyone as we left each house.  We love it!

Happy Fall Y'all!
Linette