Ever changing

Wow, so much has changed since the last time I was on here. I can not believe we have already been home for over 4 months, but I can't believe we have only had Lance that long, either. He makes everything so easy for us! We have had our napping, eating, and bed time routine down for some time now and that helps tremendously. He continues to grow like a weed and change every time we turn around. He is going through many phases in 'super speed.'
Lance has gone through 2.5 sizes of shoes and up two sizes in clothes. Not to mention we love to run everywhere even if it isn't very smooth. hee hee! Lance continues to be a dare devil and is pretty rambunctious. In fact we are now having to work on sitting for longer periods of time and increasing our attention span. ha! As with everything, he is improving quickly.
Our favorite toy right now, as JM said, is the slide.
Favorite food: cottage cheese
Words he can sign: Please, help, eat, drink, sleep, milk, bath, bye bye, all done, down, more
Words we try to say: Bite, mom, da da, up, banana, and some times cookie
He can imitate parts of a lot of words now, but not necessarily know when to use them.
And...if we can't say or sign he will get his point across by showing you what he wants! It usually doesn't take a lot of guessing. He is a clever little guy.
Okay, sorry about all the bragging. I am pretty proud of our little Lance. His therapists probably wish they didn't work with me because I want to talk about him all the time. Ha!

If any of you are considering adoption...what everyone says is true...I don't think I could love him any more than I already do if he was our biological child.

I have to give a lot of credit to John Michael for being a wonderful and supportive husband and dad. He is great with Lance and me. Even more so I need to thank God for blessing us with such an awesome gift. Being a parent definitely has its good and not so good times and more guilt than anyone will probably admit, but above all it is fabulous!

Alright, I am responsible for telling you guys about the first half of the Texas trip. We were able to meet both of my sisters, our five nieces, our family's first exchange student, Cheryl and her family in Texas at my parents. It was crazy having 7 children 4 years and under in one house but fun, too. I wish I could put tons of pictures of how cute they all are, but I can't decide which ones to even start with. Needless to say, it was very nice spending time with everyone. I only wish we could have more time to do things like that. I am posting some of the pictures Cheryl took below. Enjoy...

HEEEY! Peek-a-boo!

(sorry had problems downloading to correct for red eye)
He was having a ton of fun crawling away quickly for others to chase him

He looks so big in the other pictures (which he has grown a lot) but this puts it back into perspective. This is Lance with 4 of his five female cousins and Cheryl's precious little girl in the background. The fifth was only 2 months at the time and not able to get in this picture unfortunately. Imagine this, we actually tried to have pictures taken of all 7 children together. HA! This is actually pretty good for how chaotic the setting was.