Check out the Baby Boy

View a few pics from Tommy's Celebrating Adoption photo shoot this past weekend with a great photographer, Melissa Waller, in Monticello, Illinois.

We celebrated Easter weekend with my two sisters and their families, and one of my brothers and his family. I took almost no pics the entire weekend, so I have nothing to share here.

This coming Saturday marks the day we left for Vietnam one year ago, and next Thursday is the first anniversary of meeting Tommy. We cannot decide just how to celebrate or mark the occasion.....stay tuned.

Frequent Flyers

A few days after we returned from our trip to Florida, Tommy got his third haircut - this one is really, really short! But, he looks great!

Here he's wearing his Mr Mischief shirt -- very fitting for the little guy. This was taken on Tommy's 17 month birthday, March 13.

Early last week we received the very sad news that one of Doug's uncles had passed away, so we all flew to Boston over the weekend.









We drove to Cambridge to visit Doug's grandmother and Tommy's great grandmother - he loved her, his great aunt, and running around the house! Here he is holding a stuffed cat he found while he was nosing around -- they also had yummy cookies that he helped himself to!









A wooden goose at his great grandmother's house -- he thought it was a car.











Hanging with his cousins -- I'm not sure if he's picking Caroline's nose or giving her a cookie.....he had a great time with all of his cousins - and despite the circumstances, it was fun to see everyone.










Tommy proved to be a great traveler once again. Here he is hanging in the Fisher Price children's area at the Manchester airport - our flight was delayed an hour, but Tommy was perfectly content running around the terminal pointing at anything with wheels and hanging out in the play area.

Doug and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary on Sunday with his family, and of course, Happy St Patrick's Day a bit late!

Beach Bum

We spent our first family vacation on Captiva Island, Florida. It was a great 4 days and we wish we could have stayed longer!

Tommy was a great traveler - we're hoping he continues to be one.


















Tommy literally dug right in to the sand. He also took a big taste of some sand, but decided he didn't like it and didn't try again.
















Tommy wasn't interested in the pool - we think because the water was fairly cool. He loved the beach - absolutely loved it. He ran up and down, up and down, tried to chase birds, and watched all the other kids on the beach.













We spent Monday morning with a couple we met en route to VietNam - they live in Florida and picked us up on their boat. Tommy did great except for about 2 minutes before this picture was taken - he lost his lunch all over Mommy! Fun!










Our last night in Florida - waiting to sit down to dinner at the Mucky Duck.
















It's hard to see, but Tommy is showing his tongue - a fun new game he's learned. He seemed to enjoy the Florida lifestyle and said he wishes his grandparents lived there so he could visit more often!

Our vacation was just enough to get us through these last weeks of winter......I think!

Ready for Vacation

This is Tommy one week ago, before we left for vacation. I've been rotating toys every couple of weeks and he discovered a push-n-go Thomas the Train that he can't get enough of - this picture shows him watching the train go - I think under the couch!



















Here's his favorite toy du jour.

And this is crabby Tommy, ready to get out of the Midwest for awhile and also very mad because he's just too tall to walk under the kitchen table.