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| Valentine's day and Jailyn asked if Santa brought these gifts and she said "Awesome!" |
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| I love swimming lessons in my Elmo Suit. |
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| 2 1/2 years old Valentine's pictures. |
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| Our beautiful daughter is growing up so fast. |
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| Adelyn's first Valentine's Day! |
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| Our Sweet grand daughter born January 31, 2013 6lbs 4 oz 1:35am Adelyn Jean McSparron |
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| Aunt Jailyn holding baby Adelyn |
Happy New Year 2013! Life has been amazing and super busy for the Thornbury household! So much to share and catch up on the past three months! Best part is Jailyn is the sweetest, smartest and cutest little girl ever. She had a fabulous holiday (loving Elf on the shelf and video we watched many times everyday and was spoiled rotten yet she was so polite and appreciative of every gift with an "Oh Boy and thank you"). The terrific twos arrived over the holidays and she wants her way and is talking so much and we are potty training! Big deal a couple of weeks ago Jailyn Poopy in the Potty with much celebrating and had to call and tell everyone! She pees in the potty yet still goes in her diaper. She tends to be more dry in her diapers and feel she will potty train herself very soon with help from us. She is in a growth spurt now 36 inches tall and almost 27-28 lbs. She is still little however long torso, fingers and feet. It will be time for new shoes soon size 8 shoe.
We are very happy to be back on schedule in the new year and loving it! Still doing Gymnastics and Gymboree and Swim lessons on Saturday. She loves it and nursery school at Church (she comes home with artwork and singing Jesus Loves me and they do puppets and loves them.) So thrilled the Christian Church around the corner has so much for little kids while mom and dad can goto church in peace. Mike has taken her to mass a few times and she is pretty good. When mom takes her not as good. She is always so good for everyone else and pushes her limits with momma. We have a discipline routine (the think it over chair aka the naughty you are in trouble chair - which is working) after a challenging over stimulated holiday of misbehaving. I never thought I would want to beat my child and found out I am completely normal to feel this way. I jumped into my discipline books and how to help a child who has been abandoned with discipline. She wants it her way but knows mommy is in charge and when she does not listen we take action. Ah parenthood.... Still sleep issues but better....night terrors Christmas eve and Christmas day (over-stimulation the culprit and having three big Christmases at our home and so many presents... do you blame her?) The holidays are hard for kids and their parents. Jailyn is growing up so fast and she is so cute and happy. I stand in awe of her and this little person we have who wants her independence (let me do it or I do it mommy) and is so smart and big stuff now. She is making sentences and told me the other day that does not make me happy. Love she is letting us know her feelings. It is so special to be her parents and not to mention challenging with little miss strong willed. We love her so much and love all the newness and joy her little spirit adds to our family everyday. Blessed beyond our wildest dreams. She is Miss creature of habit and thrives in her daily routine. She loves her friends at her activities and just loves people in general. We are raising a kind, confident, outgoing, positive energy giving little girl with a high self esteem of who she is. Many people talk to her about being from China while out and starting to equip her to respond. She knows she flew on a big airplane in mommy's arms when she was a little girl and starting to incorporate the children's books about the bundles of joy that come to America from China with their Forever Family. She always watches her Nihao kai'lan videos and loves singing the song...I am going to China, going to China I feel so happy! Someday I plan to travel back with her to China and not sure Mike would ever make that trip again. My dream is to become a National Sales Director in Mary Kay and have the honor to train the Chinese consultants and take Jailyn with me and share our story of how God had our plan to adopt a little girl from China with me having the flexibility of running my Mary Kay business.
So recap of December, January and February to date............so much has happened and not alot of down time for us. Mike had rotater cuff shoulder surgery late November and it went very well which kept him in town and home most of the month of December. He is healing and impatient to get his complete range of motion back and the therapy makes him so tired and can be painful. So glad he had the surgery and now he is anxious to get back golfing. Scott and Wan (Scott's girlfriend from Thailand) came home for 9 days at the holidays to celebrate his 29th birthday and Christmas. It was so special to have the whole family home. The last two weeks of December were such a blurr with lots of fun and celebrating and total exhaustion by the time new years rolled around. Not to mention designing our home and kitchen right before the holidays. Thank you God we have an interior decorator helping us and great contractors however it is so overwhelming designing and building a custom home. We are busy people anyway and add a busy 2 1/2 year old, work (run businesses) and build a house in the mix and you have two very overwhelmed people. And getting ready to be first time grandparents too. It was a special time with Katie pregnant at the holidays and knowing next year we will have a little granddaughter. January went so very fast getting back to the norm so to speak with meetings, meetings and decisions and decisions about the house. Back to work (Mike traveling alot for work) and having Katie's baby shower Jan 13. Jailyn had so much opening all the presents with Katie. I was blessed to host with Katie's friends running the shower festivities and fun. It is going to be so fun that Jailyn will be Aunt Jailyn to Katie's little girl. Jailyn can show her the ropes kind of like a cousin or big sis. We are thrilled the baby will get all of Jailyn's cute clothes as hand me downs. So glad all those cute clothes will go to good use. Mike and I fall into bed exhausted and trying to find at least a date night a month for us. Our home will be gorgeous and it is under roof and the cold weather has held up finishing the decorative brick cobblestone on the outside and the interior is almost ready to goto dry wall. I believe we can be in by summer whether it be June, July or August. So ready to purge and pitch so much and I love the feeling of out with the old stuff we have not used or want to send to Good will and to purchase new furniture... We are not clutter people however so much can be purged. That is another big ole stressor and change I am not looking forward to with Jailyn. She will be about 3 years old and understand a bit more of what is going on yet change brings on fears and a new home can triggers the night terrors and fears of being left and abandoned. We are over the hump yet Jailyn just does not want to goto sleep and sometimes I end up in bed with her a night or two but sleeping so much more in our bed.
Now since I have been blogging yet not posting for a couple months, I can share we are now officially grandparents to Adelyn Jean McSparron born 1:35am January 31. Call us Grandpa Mike and Grandma Linette and little Aunt Jailyn. Adelyn arrived much earlier than expected. Katie's due date was Feb 8 however Adelyn was breech and was scheduled for a Csection on Feb 1. Adelyn had different plans. Katie's water broke about 11:15pm January 30 and started going into labor and made it to the hospital at midnight and had an emergency csection at 1:30am on January 31. Everyone did great and Adelyn was very little 6 lb 4 oz and 20 inches long. She is so cute and Katie and Billy are learning the ropes of Parenthood. Jailyn got to meet Adelyn a week after she was born and Jailyn loved her and said she knew the baby liked her. So amidst a wild and crazy holiday and start to the new year we are so very blessed with lots of love, joy and happiness and best part the arrival of our first grandchild. We became parents 20 months ago and now grandparents. Does it get any better than that???? Of course God has big plans for us...We can't wait for all the hard work and decisions to come together as we move forward to building our dream home that we can share with our friends and family and call our new home sweet home finally. Hope to move in June or July.
So until our next post...God bless and thanks for sharing in our journey.
We love you and know the best is yet to come!
Linette
