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Fave Foto Friday-Family Picture

Choosing just one picture to be my favorite family picture was impossible for me. Our family has changed so much in the past four years that I couldn't possibly figure out one picture to use. So, I chose more than one to show all of the stages of our family.

This is our family on May 30, 2008. These were our first family pictures with Ben. I love that she so perfectly captured the sheer joy and adoration we all feel about baby Ben!

This picture is of our family last March. We had these done to include in our family profile when we decided to pursue domestic adoption. A friend who is a photographer did them for us.

This picture is of that all to short week when we were a family of three with our daughter, Ariana, in Guatemala last December. In January, just 4 days after I last held her, she passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. She will always be such an important part of who we are, so we had to include her in our family pictures post.

This picture is of my family before my older sister and niece died. Back then, Gayle was the only one of us sisters who had kids. The two bigger boys are my nephews that I am raising, the smaller ones belong to my sister's fiance, who is in the center of the back row.

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Wordless Wednesday

Old news I forgot to share....

Benito got his first tooth back on October 21st! It was so funny, because at his 10:00AM pediatrician appointment, she looked in his mouth and said, "No teeth yet. His gums do look a little swollen, though." Then, at 2:00PM when I was getting ready to give him a bottle, I noticed that he had something white in his mouth. I thought he had gotten hold of a piece of paper or something, so I stuck my finger in his mouth to get it out. Lo and behold, sometime between 10 AM and 2 PM, that little tooth had popped right through! I would love to post a picture, but he is pretty shy about showing anyone and I haven't been able to get a picture that you can see it in yet. My little guy is growing and changing so fast these days that I can barely keep up!

Fave Foto Friday

The picture above is of my older sister, Gayle, and me, taken back in (gulp) 1976.

This picture is my sweet niece, Belle, and my precious baby Ben, taken this week.

Notice any similarities? I kept looking at the picture I took of Belle and Ben and feeling like it was dejavu. Then I was looking through some old photo albums and saw this picture of my sister and I. I thought it was great how we are in almost the same pose and she has blond hair just like Belle and I have black hair just like Ben. Isn't that crazy?

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Look who's getting soooo BIG!

Ben can officially sit up as of yesterday! He hadn't shown much interest in trying before because every time I would sit him up he would start grabbing his toes and fall over face first. But, yesterday at a friend's house while he was too busy watching her daughter crawl around I finally got him to sit up. Now he wants to do it all the time. In fact, once today he actually sat up for almost 5 minutes straight. I'm so excited for him, but it also makes me sad because he is growing up too fast!

Yummy, yummy squash!!

Today Ben got to try squash for the first time. Since rice cereal and green beans have not been all that much of a hit with him, I assumed he wouldn't be too excited about the squash either. Boy was I wrong! This boy ate every single bite of the squash and kept going "mmm" between bites. I had never heard him make that sound before, but I always say "mmm, yummy" to him when I give him bites, so I guess he figured it out once he had something that really was yummy to him. He actually even cried when the squash was all gone! I guess maybe I should have taken my aunt up on the offer of fresh squash from her garden this fall!