Kris and I were married in April of 2001. We were blessed to add Alec to our family in 2002. After a few years of struggling with secondary infertility, we decided to adopt from the beautiful country of Guatemala. Our sweet daughter Mikayla Faith joined our family forever in January of 2007. We are so blessed and feel like our family is now finally complete!
As coordinator of the North East Ohio Guatemalan Adoptive Families Group, I felt it was important that we give back to a country that gave us so much! Together, our group donated the money to sponsor the follwing two students, Pedro and Ana. With our donations, these two sweet children will now be able to attend school this year. Please consider helping a child attend school! www.mayanfamilies.org
Pedro Martin
Ana Lucia
~Our Timeline~
Decided to Adopt From Guatemala 2-5-06 I-600a to USCIS Cleveland 3-7-06 First Homestudy Visit 3-7-06 Second Homestudy Visit 3-20-06 Final Homestudy Visit 4-9-06 Dossier Sent to our Agency 6-6-06 I-171H Arrived!!! 6-15-06 A Princess is Born! 6-17-06 Referral of Mikayla Faith 6-30-06 POA to Guatemala 7-17-06 DNA Authorization 8-1-06 Enter Family Court 8-14-06 DNA Test/SWI COMPLETE 8-23-06 Out of Family Court 9-1-06 Visit Trip 8-31 to 9-5 DNA Results 99.93% 9-8-06 Pre-Approval 10-6-06 IN PGN 10-11-06 PGN Kick Out 11-2-06 Re-Submitted to PGN 11-2-06 OUT OF PGN 1-2-07 Villa Nueva Birth BC 1-12-07 SUBMITTED FOR PINK 1-17-07 PINK SLIP RECEIVED 1-22-07 FLY OUT!!!! 1-27-07 Embassy Appointment 1-29-07 HOME FOREVER 1-31-07
Joe, Gina, and Christian came over this afternoon for a little while and it was a good time....as always. I didn't get too many pictures because at this age...they don't sit still very long to take them! Gone are the "sitting days." Alec was chasing Christian around the house and oh MY was Chrsitian ever laughing. It was hysterical. I don't know who was having a better time...Alec or Christian.
Literally, 20 minutes after they left...MIKAYLA CRAWLED. It started when Kris took off his work boots and she wanted them. Kris yelled at me to get the camera because she was crawling. I didn't believe him at first but ran upstairs with the camera and sure enough....she was! After the excitement of the boots wore off I knew I needed something good to get her to go at it again. What better then FOOD!? My child LOVES her food. So I grabbed the box of Cheerios and put some on the floor. It worked! The video I made is at the bottom of this post:-)
Hmmm......I am taking notes...your knees go up and one moves and then the other...
Yes...I think I may be able to do this if I concentrate!
You can do it Mikayla....you CAN!
Well...not if they are holding us I guess!
Bye Christian! Bye Mikayla! See you next time! ~SMOOCH~
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Your dad and I just watched the video! It is so hard not being there to see milestones like this, but I tell you watching this video is so wonderful. I am so glad you do this stuff so we can see! She will be crawling all around tomorrow and just caught on didn't she! She seriously does look like she is checking out Christian to see how he does it! It just cracked me up how she went for those Cheerios! I think you need to send this video to the Cheerios Company for a commercial.!!!!!!!!!!! We love you so much Mikayla! Mamaw and Papa
YEAH Mikayla...Christian is glad he could be of some help...Now it is your turn to teach him how to eat those Cheerios...Thanks for having us today at the last minute we had fun..
Oh my gosh...that video is the cutest thing in the world! I LOVED it!! She was cracking me up going after them cheerios!! So now I know my bribery tool for her to let me hold her when I come home..hmmmm...
OMG! I LOVE the video! She is so motivated with the Cheerios! I am so glad that you were able to witness it ...what a doll! Congratulations on your big accomplishment Mikayla. Now you'll be extra busy getting into stuff like Lincoln does. As soon as he started crawling the fun began!
12 comments:
Your dad and I just watched the video! It is so hard not being there to see milestones like this, but I tell you watching this video is so wonderful. I am so glad you do this stuff so we can see! She will be crawling all around tomorrow and just caught on didn't she! She seriously does look like she is checking out Christian to see how he does it! It just cracked me up how she went for those Cheerios! I think you need to send this video to the Cheerios Company for a commercial.!!!!!!!!!!!
We love you so much Mikayla!
Mamaw and Papa
YEAH Mikayla...Christian is glad he could be of some help...Now it is your turn to teach him how to eat those Cheerios...Thanks for having us today at the last minute we had fun..
GO Mikayla!! how awesome to be there to see her crawl for the first time! YAY!!! (ps. the movie you made was too cute!)
Yeah Mikayla!!! How cute is that crawling. Love the trail of Cheerios. :)
Oh my gosh...that video is the cutest thing in the world! I LOVED it!! She was cracking me up going after them cheerios!! So now I know my bribery tool for her to let me hold her when I come home..hmmmm...
OMG! I LOVE the video! She is so motivated with the Cheerios! I am so glad that you were able to witness it ...what a doll! Congratulations on your big accomplishment Mikayla. Now you'll be extra busy getting into stuff like Lincoln does. As soon as he started crawling the fun began!
Yay Mikayla! way to go!!
Go Mikayla GOOOOO! Man your Mama better keep a close eye on ya now! ;) Pretty soon you'll be running! Yaaay!
You are growing up SO fast!
Love
Melissa
Great work Mikayla! You and Christian are too cute! Love the smooching picture.
aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
i love it:)
Julia:)
Great video Mindy! Mikayla just took off and went. Food, the great motivator!
Your blog is adorable..I love it.
You have done a great job with it.
I loved the video of her crawling...too cute!
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