Happy Birthday Tailee

Here is a video of us singing Happy Birthday to you for the first time:)

Happy 1st Birthday Tai Tai

Happy 1st Birthday, Tai Tai....We love you so much!...I can't believe how fast this last year has gone. You are such sweet loving little girl and I look forward every day to pick you up out of your crib...You aren't walking yet but you are so close...You will try and take a few steps but then you crawl...You do do this cute little scoot while kneeling on one leg...You are a binky girl...you love your binky! You also have a blanket that is your favorite and you will not sleep without it....You are very clingy and love your mom and dad...You always want to be near us. You have a favorite drawer in the kitchen where we keep all of our towels and you love to get into that drawer and throw the towels around.....You laugh all the time and it is the cutest laugh. I love your spunky little attitude. If you don't like something, we know it:)...You will wave "hi" and "bye"...You love to eat...you can eat so much:)...You click your tongue...We take you swimming a lot and you love the water...we can even put you under the water and you don't get scared. You are such a joy in our life Baby Tai Tai...I can't imagine not having you...I love you so so much!

Halloween 2010

This year for Halloween your sister wanted to be Princess Tiana, from "The Princess and the Frog"...so you of course were the frog...and what a cute frog you were:)...Caden was an oompa loompa and I made the outfit all myself...oh and I made your whole outfit myself as well:)

Family Pictures 2010

We have been meaning to get these family pictures done all year and we finally did it...You were so good and smiled so well...Everyone thought that you were sooooo cute:)

Finalization Day!

Tai,

A few days ago we headed back to Kansas City, MO to finalize your adoption. Eventhough we have had you for the last 6 months and you have been part of the family since the day we heard you were coming to our family, it still wasn't official. These last 6 months have gone by so fast. I can't believe how fast you are growing up and just what a beautiful girl you are becoming. Well I shouldn't say I can't believe it, your birthmother was very pretty as well, so of course you would be:). You have the most happiest disposition. We flew out to Missouri and you were sooooo good on all of the flights. You didn't cry even once. Then we had to do a lot of driving and again you were as content as can be. I just feel so lucky every day for having you in my life, but if you were a hard baby I'd still love you just the same:). I added some pictures of the last few weeks that I took when we all went four wheeling, and the others are all from our trip to Kansas City. We flew in on Thursday and went to your Uncle Bob's house. They were all so amazed to see how you had grown in the last 6 months and they raved on how pretty you were. Then on Friday we woke up and drove to Liberty, MO where we went to court and officially made you a Followell. There was another girl who was 10 years old who was also officially being adopted that day. Her name was Ariet and she was very beautiful and she was so happy that day to belong to a forever family. Next we went to Ruby Tuesdays and celebrated your finalization, just before we flew back home. It was a quick weekend but very VERY special. We love you Tailee:)

April Happenings

Tai,

We had so much going on in April. We had to travel every weekend. You are the best little traveler. Once we are in the car you sleep almost the entire way. There is never a peep out of you. We love taking you places. In April we went to Denver to Casa Bonita and to the Denver Museum of Natural History. We spent the day with Nana and Grandpa Followell and the rest of daddy's family. It was a lot of fun and everyone just thought you were so beautiful. We really can't go anywhere without being told how stunningly beautiful you are. Here are some

pictures of the weekend and one when we went bowling as a family. We love you so much, Tai Tai!

She's ours:) Spread the word

Tai,
So when we went to Missouri to get you, as you remember, we weren't sure if we were actually going to be coming home with you. I spent many tearful hours on the phone with your Muuma. After we finally went in to meet with the judge because the adoption had been approved to continue, I wrote a text to Muuma. She sent it to me the other day, because she thought it would be special for me to have, and it was. It said, "She's ours:) Spread the word". I thought you too might think that was special to have.