Wednesday, January 16, 2008
He is a fountain of blog material
Not too much going on here. Just some funny pics and videos we thought we should definitely post. Enjoy!
1)This is from Lance on his trampoline and the sun was shining out of the clouds provided an awesome background. I caught him mid-stride here.
2)We started looking at some clips we had from earlier this year and Lance was very fascinated.
3)I got this cool little aTm lighted fan for Christmas and Lance was seeing how it felt on his tongue. Ha. Btw, this picture was taken while he was on his little potty. He is taking major strides in the "poo poo in the potty" department over the last 7 days. Great signs of what will come.
4)This is from tonight. We left a Christmas gift of Lance's in Texas and it we got it in the mail today. He loves the drums. Thanks NaNa for sending the package!!
Monday, January 7, 2008
Videos! Something old, something new
One of Lance's many crazy moments. Rookie helped make this a very funny clip.
Surprisingly, Lance knows his boundaries and almost always stays away from the springs. He's getting more and more comfortable. He was kinda worn down in this clip.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Captions to pictures below
I tried to edit the last post to add captions to the pictures, but somehow it is not working at this time...so I will put them in this post. :o)
The first picture is of Lance in his skunk costume at therapy on Halloween. It was adorable. I wish you could have seen him walking around with the skunk tail. hee hee!
The second picture is when Lance started noticing each individual light on the Christmas tree. He makes his sound that means 'light' as he points to each one. It is really sweet.
Third...Lance and two of his cousins on Christmas morning when he received his rocking horse on springs. He has been having a ball with that for sure!
Fourth...He fell in love with a teddy bear that plays music at Target one day. Santa found out and put it in his stocking. This is him sharing with daddy. When the music plays he 'rocks it to sleep.'
Fifth...Lance's second time he bit into an apple. That day he decided to try every apple in the bowl. ha! He especially loves red apples.
The first picture is of Lance in his skunk costume at therapy on Halloween. It was adorable. I wish you could have seen him walking around with the skunk tail. hee hee!
The second picture is when Lance started noticing each individual light on the Christmas tree. He makes his sound that means 'light' as he points to each one. It is really sweet.
Third...Lance and two of his cousins on Christmas morning when he received his rocking horse on springs. He has been having a ball with that for sure!
Fourth...He fell in love with a teddy bear that plays music at Target one day. Santa found out and put it in his stocking. This is him sharing with daddy. When the music plays he 'rocks it to sleep.'
Fifth...Lance's second time he bit into an apple. That day he decided to try every apple in the bowl. ha! He especially loves red apples.
Monday, December 31, 2007
It's a new year!
Hellllllooo!
Okay, where should we start...Halloween, Christmas? Sorry it has been so long guys! Since the last time we posted Lance has been an adorable skunk for Halloween (the cutest skunk I have ever seen.) We visited a few homes, but kept it pretty simple. We had Thanksgiving here in town at our cousin's home and then Oma and Opa were able to visit. Then the long awaited first Christmas. Lance has enjoyed the carols and lights everywhere. Other than that, he never really payed much attention. He wasn't even too excited about opening presents. This year he was just a little confused about what all the commotion was about. It was still fun having him there to share it with, though. Next year it will be great to see his excitement about the holidays and traditions. It should only get better. :o) We have been extremely blessed this year to be able to bring him home and share all of our lives with him. He has grown so much over the last 7 months.
Lance is now saying about 15 words consistently (even if no one but his family can understand them. hee hee) He can say: up, down, out, off, mama, dada, hi, bye, night night, help, more, banana, cracker, go, uh oh, quack, woof woof, please and maybe more that I can not think of right now. He is now wearing size 2T clothes and 7-8 shoe size!!!! What a growth curve! Our son is one amazing little boy. He is also quite comical. He keeps us laughing all the time. He is into everything except toys. Ha! Today he decided to climb to the top of the couch and reach as far as he could to grap the pendulum from the clock. Whew! You have to be ready all the time. We love that he is being a typical boy, though.
Some things Lance has overcome are being extremely scared of loud noises such as diesel trucks and motorcycles...he now ignores them or looks at us to make sure it is okay, spitting food out of his mouth...now he will give us what he does not want, he listens more each day, can bite crisp foods...now bites into an apple without it being cut, fear of being in crowds or around people he does not know...will run to poeple with open arms. Hmmm, so many other things that I can not put into words at this time. He is amazing. God is amazing for blessing him so much!
Happy New Years! It will be fun to see what this year holds!
Love you all,
John Michael, Karen, and Lance (Mattie and Rookie Woof! Woof!)
Okay, where should we start...Halloween, Christmas? Sorry it has been so long guys! Since the last time we posted Lance has been an adorable skunk for Halloween (the cutest skunk I have ever seen.) We visited a few homes, but kept it pretty simple. We had Thanksgiving here in town at our cousin's home and then Oma and Opa were able to visit. Then the long awaited first Christmas. Lance has enjoyed the carols and lights everywhere. Other than that, he never really payed much attention. He wasn't even too excited about opening presents. This year he was just a little confused about what all the commotion was about. It was still fun having him there to share it with, though. Next year it will be great to see his excitement about the holidays and traditions. It should only get better. :o) We have been extremely blessed this year to be able to bring him home and share all of our lives with him. He has grown so much over the last 7 months.
Lance is now saying about 15 words consistently (even if no one but his family can understand them. hee hee) He can say: up, down, out, off, mama, dada, hi, bye, night night, help, more, banana, cracker, go, uh oh, quack, woof woof, please and maybe more that I can not think of right now. He is now wearing size 2T clothes and 7-8 shoe size!!!! What a growth curve! Our son is one amazing little boy. He is also quite comical. He keeps us laughing all the time. He is into everything except toys. Ha! Today he decided to climb to the top of the couch and reach as far as he could to grap the pendulum from the clock. Whew! You have to be ready all the time. We love that he is being a typical boy, though.
Some things Lance has overcome are being extremely scared of loud noises such as diesel trucks and motorcycles...he now ignores them or looks at us to make sure it is okay, spitting food out of his mouth...now he will give us what he does not want, he listens more each day, can bite crisp foods...now bites into an apple without it being cut, fear of being in crowds or around people he does not know...will run to poeple with open arms. Hmmm, so many other things that I can not put into words at this time. He is amazing. God is amazing for blessing him so much!
Happy New Years! It will be fun to see what this year holds!
Love you all,
John Michael, Karen, and Lance (Mattie and Rookie Woof! Woof!)
Monday, October 1, 2007
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...
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.
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