Lots to celebrate!

I just found this and realized it never posted back in May. 

We have several things to celebrate and blog about so i will try to get through this first part....

Tai's "Gotcha" day!  One year ago we were driving home with our son. What a wonderful surprise! We found out about him a week before we brought him home.  Our little family was complete.  Thank you God for your blessings!

Last friday on May 11th was Tai's first birthday.  Wow! I can't believe how fast he is growing. Just in the last few weeks he has started talking more and um...walking! He started officially walking while we were at my parents house in Pipe Creek on May 5th.  And now he is a walking dude. It is so cute and he gets so excited when he starts walking. So excited that he knocks himself over.  Abigail thinks it is pretty cool too; she says "Momma, Tai's walking." as he approaches her.  He is only 2 pounds lighter than her so he is about be able to tackle her completely! Also, last weekend we celebrated Tai's and m nephews birthdays.  They are 17 years apart! We got to eat cake and blowout candles on Sunday may 6th and Tai ate angelfood cake and icing.  Really sweet and really messy too!
 Anyway, this week he has been busy with his walking and on Friday (his birthday) Jerry's mom and my parents came for a visit.  It was great to have the Gparents here at the same time.  We didn't do  a huge celebration until Saturday.

Yesterday, may 12th....we invited Tai's birthmom and family here to celebrate Tai's bday.  We met them at their hotel and it was great to see them. We hadn't seen them since Tai's 6 month visit. Unfortunately, Tai's BGrandfather couldn't make it but BUncle came to meet Tai and us.It was great to meet him because it now completes BMom's family support system.

Sorry...we've been slacking

Wow, time really flies when you have two toddlers.  So much has happened since our last post.  2 kiddos birthday parties.  And probably way to much to post about.  We have a water skier in Abigail and Tai would have but he has tubes in his ears which are not supposed to get wet - much less be dunked in lake water.  Tai started walking 2 weeks before his birthday and is now just running everywhere. 

Skip forward to the present, Abigail is just a sponge.  She soaks up everything and brings tears to my eyes when she starts singing songs she's heard on K-Love.  She has such a precious little heart.  The stage of "why" is starting though.  At the zoo on Saturday, an elderly lady was in a wheelchair and Abigail just had to ask why she was in a chair several times and very loudly.  It's cute though because she does it with a concerned voice, like she wishes she could help.  Somewhere she picked up the idea that she could give me nicknames, most of the time when I leave from lunch to go back to work she says "Byebye bunny rabbit".  I don't know why but she giggles after she says it and it makes me laugh everytime.

Tai is just bonkers.  He's so fun and all over the place most of the time.  There is no "that looks like it could be in my way, let me go around it" in his mind.  He just barrels right on thru what ever is in his path.  He loves to play ball.  He throws more with his left hand but can actually throw pretty well with both.  He's talking more, says "Go-Go" when he wants something.  He asks "Peas" for please and still uses several sign-language words.  The funny thing is that one of his first words was DaDa and now he is saying MaMa and won't say DaDa at all.

They love to play together and do have the occasional wrestling match that quickly becomes a "Tai bit me" situation.  Abigail is deep in the midst of potty training, diapers only at nap and bedtime.  She's getting so big.

There's a lot more to write about but I thought I would keep it short this time in hopes that I can be inspired to write more soon.

May the peace of Christ's love be with you this Thanksgiving season.

Jerry