Paisley loves her "Am-Ma"!

My Mom is so in love with Paisley and loves it when Paisley runs up to her and says, "Up!". Now that she says "Am-ma" Mom is really gleaming.

So today when I was trying to do taxes and paperwork, I got Paisley her blanket, bear, and pacifier, and Paisley went up to "Am-Ma" and said, "up!" and cuddled up to her. Mom said, "I didn't think it was possible to love someone so much that didn"t come from you".

Mom's come a long way from being sooooooooo against us adopting "anothers child!" She was really ANGRY with me when she learned we were adopting. At first she didn't want to talk about it at all, so for the longest time I didn't bring it up. But I'm used to sharing with my Mom so that was really hard for me. I kept asking her why she couldn't be happy for us? If I had just gotten pregnant she would have acted differently and I tried to explain this to her. She just comes from the generation where it's not talked about and not as common as today. So I would print things from the internet and give to her to read, and just mention tibits of the adoption. Once we got the picture, she was in love. I was so thrilled it happened that suddenly. I was suprised she fell in love with her picture the way she did. Now Miss Paisley is wrapped around "Am-Ma's" little finger! I'm so glad!

My social butterfly

We went to an event at Ryker's school tonight and Miss Paisley just wanted to get out of her stroller and run! Usually she wants me to hold her and doesn't let me out of her sight. Tonight the place was filled with parents and kids everywhere. She just wanted to take off walking down the hallway. And she would have no part of holding her big sisters hand. Then she was so cute when she spotted Ryker in his room by his desk and just shot forward heading in his direction. When she would walk into a new room she would wave at people and say hi! I was cracking up! Normally she is just much more clingy to me so this was a new thing. It was quite comical to watch. A friends Dad said he would take her walking down the hall. She barely looked at him but was just thrilled to be walking some more! Jeff was at the end of the hall and I was afraid he wouldn't recognize the man and think he was taking his girl! But she spotted her Daddy and wouldn't go any further. She loves to blow kisses and makes that noice to go with it. She also signs "thank you" and "please" now. She's signed "more" forever and the first night Grandma watched her through dinner she had no idea why she kept doing those motions. It's cause the girl likes to eat and ALWAYS wants "MORE"! She out grew her size 5 shoes I just bought her 2 months ago. Some tops she can wear a 24 mo, most outfits fit her in a 18 mo. She's been very healthy. She had a couple of really fussy nights and a runny nose so I was just sure she had an ear infection. I took ANOTHER trip to the DR. to find out she's great! I am going to have the whole family tested for staph because I keep breaking out with boils that tested positive for it. I'm not on my 5th one! And many rounds of antibiotics! The first one they cut open in the drs office and my poor mom could hear me from the waiting room. ( I feel like I blogged about this already) The second one had to be cut open in the operating room and I had to have a nurse come to my house daily for 2 weeks to pack the 7" hole it caused. Being the picture happy person I am, I took a discusting picture of it. So nasty. But anyway a baby from Paisley's orphanage recently tested postive for staph so that made me think I may have gotten it from her because she had a couple of boils on her head when we first got her. They went away very quicky and she's never had any problems since, thank God. I'd rather it be me going through this then any of my kids.
Her hair is now long enough to put two cute piggy tails in it! I still need to post updated pictures from Easter. I'll get there! They are cute as can be!