LX is 3!

Can you believe he is 3??? We simply cannot.  Lucas is the coolest guy.  He loves telling jokes and calls himself "the joke man." He is getting sillier by the day.  He is also learning so much. He now can play board games; memory is his favorite.  He likes to do "workbooks" for fun, lol. He knows all of his letters and he can recognize most of them by sight. He is asking really good questions and is quite the conversationalist. He loves to know why about everything, and his memory is amazing. He is especially good at location memory. He was able to tell Dave's dad how to drive to his day care! 

For his birthday this year, we did a few neat things.  We took him to an airplane museum where you can go in the old war planes. He was in heaven. He is really into all modes of transportation, but especially planes and helicopters. On his birthday, he was invited to a school friend's birthday party so we did that.  Both sets of grandparents came to see him also. His Mickey Mouse party was today at a local park. We had our families and about 6 of his friends there. He picked out the cupcakes, and he was SO excited about eating them. He was so excited about all of his presents too. He said "cupcakes" were his favorite part of the party.

Lucas, you are one in a million. I am so lucky to be your mommy.

We have a daughter!

This post is nearly 4 months late, but we have a daughter!  She is the absolute joy of our day and the perfect addition to our family.  We learned about her, and one week later we brought her home.

We got THE CALL on a Wednesday.  We set up a phone call with her sweet birth mom for Friday.  We met both of her birth parents on Saturday. She was born at 5:55 am on Sunday.  It happened so fast that there was barely time to think or process any of it.  It wasn't until we were home (heck, sometimes I still can't believe that she is here) that it started to set in.

Here is our sweet girl, Cecilia Kate: