Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

From our family to yours, hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving! This year is extra special because not only do Stewart and I have another beautiful daughter, but Maya has a little sister. Things with us are busy as we are trying to adjust to our new "normal" life.

"Big sister Maya hold baby Brooklyn"

Sunday, November 15, 2009

The time has come.....

to introduce you to our newest daughter Brooklyn Nicole. Brooklyn was born on October 4, 09 in Philadelphia. Five days after she was born, we all three traveled back to Philly to meet her. It was love at first sight! She weighed 7lbs 2 oz's and 19 inches long. She was born with brown hair and brown eyes. We were told before we flew out to meet her, that the paperwork was going to take a few weeks to complete. There was no way possible for us to stay for weeks, but we went for a few days. We had such a wonderful time meeting and bonding with Baby B. It was very hard to fly home without our newest daughter, but it was what we had to do. The next few weeks were difficult, but we stayed focused in getting our home ready and preparing Maya for when we got the call to come and get her.
Here are pictures of our first visit with Brooklyn in the hospital...

Mommy holding Baby B for the first time.

Daddy in seventh heaven! This was his first time holding Brooklyn.

I was able to give Brooklyn a bath. (Mommy couldn't stop crying). As Maya said, "mommy has happy tears!"

Mommy and Brooklyn had "quiet bonding" time. This was one of our favorite pictures.

Daddy enjoyed feeding baby B.

Brooklyn couldn't take her eyes off of daddy.


The next batch of pictures will be when I went to pick up Brooklyn. Stay tuned.....

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

If you haven't heard yet........

we have adopted another baby. Yep, that's right. Maya is going to be a BIG sister! Baby girl Brooklyn was born on October 4, 09 and we saw her in the hospital a few days later. She was born in Philly and the paperwork has taken so long! We just got the "all clear" last Friday, and our new baby girl will be joining our family early next week. We are all so excited and can't wait! It has been a VERY LONG 3 weeks!

Maya showing off one of her new shirts that her Auntie Jen bought.

If you couldn't read what the shirt said, here is a close-up.

"Baby Brooklyn coming to Maya's house!"

We will keep you posted......