Adios!!

Its been fun but its time for a new family blog now that our family is complete!!!
A fellow Guat adoptive mom Jaimee did an awesome job helping to create our new blog layout. Its bright and funky and just plain fun. THANKS Jaimee!!!!
I will be updating it with new photos soon and will probably post there frequently with crazy stories that will certainly come with having 3 kids.

We got the kids pictures taken last week and those will be coming via snail mail soon to our family and friends.

Thank you to everyone who gave us so much support during Nora's journey home. Weve met alot of great people along the way and we feel so fortunate to have crossed their paths.
To our real life family and friends, sorry weve been hermits of sorts and been hiding but now that she is home and things are adjusting well, our lives will get back to normal I think. :)

So please visit us at....

www.fiestaof5.blogspot.com

We are still here

Im back at work so its busy of course. I will post new pictures soon. Im actually creating a new family blog so hopefully that will be done in the next couple of weeks.

Evan and Nora

I know I havent posted many pics of Evan and Nora and they spend the most time together as both are home all day. Its not that Evan wasnt adjusting, hes just really hard to get a good photo of. Evan was happy to share his rice with Nora and just throw it on her high chair tray and Nora was pretty darn happy to eat it.
You can see her big chompers (and tooth #7 is breaking thru now).
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Shes crawling

Shes been going backwards and sideways for a couple of weeks now. But as of last night shes doing the official forward crawl. Not too far and not too fast yet luckily for us. Shes doing much better after being sick. Had 2 rough days this week of not napping and get overtired during the day but sleeping better at night which helps. And I finally remembered to have someone take a family of 5 photo. It was impossible to get all 3 kids to look nice at the same time though. Either Evan was being goofy or Ryan wasnt looking at the camera. Heres one of a few attempts.

9 months old

Ends up she had roseola. Fever is gone and her rash is barely there anymore too. Shes back to her happy self and sleeping at night.
We put up Evan's big boy bed last night. He loves it!
Because we seem to have quite a few asking as she gets older, no she will not start talking spanish. Her first language will be english and we hope to all learn more spanish as she gets older. We do use both spanish and english with her when we can.
She does understand a few spanish words now though and Im sure shes learning english too. She knows kisses in spanish (besos) and that makes her smile and laugh. And saying dance in spanish always gets her legs and body moving. She knows the Guatemalan word for bottle (pacha or pachita)-which is different than other spanish speaking countries. She makes lots of sounds but no real words yet, shes a bit young.