Adriana Update

So our little cutie keeps growing every day! She is saying a lot of words and always surprises us with her new accomplishments. Adriana loves animals and can say all the sounds. Maybe we'll add a video of that. Anyway this is just a few... okay a lot... of pictures of Adriana.

We were out playing in our leaves with our neighbors and they took these shots.

And the rest are pictures from the last few months!

I found her like this one day as she was watching Sesame Street. You just can't get onesies over your head! Now she has mastered taking all her clothes off.

We went to a birthday party for her friend in the neighborhood who turned 2. Here are some shots of the festivities. It was a 50s theme so we tried to dress her up as such.

It started raining during the party, but Adriana loved to play in the water while getting drenched!

Adriana loves to take her Elmo chair everywhere... even to the piano!

Another favorite chair.

Now this is an ab workout!

She loves to play with blankets and especially hide in them.

That's all folks!

Trip to Monterrey, Mexico

I'm finally getting the blog done from our trip to Monterrey! It was a great trip and Adriana and I had fun seeing old friends as well as speaking Spanish all the time. I learned a lot as well as how many words I don't know, especially the slang words. Adriana added a few palabras en español to her vocabulary... such as gracias, hola y Papa. Before we went she knew how to say agua y mas tambien.



The family we stayed with have 3 girls. One is in Utah studying English and the other two became Adriana's best friends! I had to put a few pictures of our cutie to start with.

Her new best friends.

We also had fun meeting up with lots of other friends. This is Patty y Arturo. Mark worked with her husband at Cemex. The babies are only 3 months apart so they had fun together.

A hug and kiss picture!

I was able to get my old Spanish teacher back for a few more lessons.

They had us over one night for dinner and Adriana had fun playing with Diana's niece.

ADRIANA WITH HER OLD FRIENDS!

Playing at the park with Alejandro.

Adriana y Debanhi

Adriana y Melanie

Of course Aylin aka Rraarrraaa

One of the other really fun things we did was go to Bioparque de Estrella. It has lots of exotic animals as well as an open safari! It was great and Adriana loved to see all the animals in person. She has really taken a fancy to animals of all kinds and knows all the sounds.

The camel... quite aggressive about getting the food. I got knocked off the bench because he was sniffing me for food even though I didn't have any. :)

The Giraffe was much more tame and we even got to pet it. Adriana wasn't thrilled about the close proximity.

More animals...

The Guzman family with their new daughter!

We had fun playing around afterwards too.

We went to Adriana's adopted grandma's house several times also and she loved to play in all the cupboards.

At the airport saying good-bye which was very hard for all of us! We've been home for almost 3 weeks and Adriana still asks for Debanhi and Aylin every day! We have talked on the phone a few times, but can't wait to see them again!

Halloween!

This was Adriana's first time going trick-or-treating and she loved it. I don't think she was exactly sure why we were doing it all, but who really knows (or wants to) anyway. :)

Here she is in her dragon costume before we left.

Check out all that padding in the front and back!

And one after all the hard work, enjoying the reward.

We only went down a few streets, but Adriana's candy bag was getting pretty full. However, she insisted on carrying it herself, even if that meant dragging it behind her. When we got home she enjoyed answering the door with us as others came to our house. It was a great Halloween! Here is a little video of her.