Saturday, October 30, 2010

a year ago today

wow. one year already. i can't believe it.


 it all started HERE





Even though we had a pretty rough start, I would say this past year has been absolutely blissful. Amelie is growing so fast and she is the sweetest, funniest little thing. She continues to amaze us every day by growing and learning. It's a blessing to us that we can call her our daughter and that God chose US to raise her. It's something that's so surreal, you can't even put it into words.

As of the past 2-3 weeks, Amelie has changed so much…
• She is wanting to walk so bad! Sometimes she tries even if we aren't there to catch her. All of the sudden you'll see her out of the corner of your eye and then you hear a thump. Good thing she's a good faller because she just smiles at what she just accomplished, gets up, and tries again. She's determined to walk!
• She's eating like crazy. Anything she can get her hands on, she's eating. She's totally over the baby food and all she wants now is something she can pick up and shove into her mouth. Green beans, black beans, lima beans, peas, sweet potatoes, carrots, squash, zucchini, rice, bananas, cantaloupe, berries, cheerios, etc, etc, etc.
• She's starting to understand words and I think any day now all of the signs we've been teaching her are going to kick in.
• She loves to read books and watch her 'God Made Me' and 'God Made Animals' videos. 

All-in-all, life is good and she seems to enjoy it, so I think we're doing a decent job so far!

I'm so excited about sharing these pictures we had taken a couple weeks ago. It's taken everything in me not to share them sooner, but we really wanted to show them to our families in person before we shared them online. We found an amazing photographer here in Savannah, Michelle Morris. She was SUCH a pleasure to work with and she is SO good at what she does. You can totally see that in her work. Ah-like so










To see ALL of the pictures, go HERE. Make sure you turn your volume up when you watch the video… it's simply beautiful!

I seriously can't wait to share the details about Amelie's birthday party… that's coming soon!

Lastly, Ant and I want to thank everyone who has prayed for us and supported us over the past year. We are incredibly blessed to have all of you in our lives! Thank you for loving our daughter and helping us raise her to be an amazing woman of God!

(If you can't click on the links, go to http://palamaro.blogspot.com/)





Sunday, October 17, 2010

baby steps


Amelie took her first steps this week! She took 2 the other night, but today we got about 3 on video. She is so proud of herself! She is letting go of the furniture more and more and she doesn't realize she's standing on her own until we get excited and then she gets scared. It's pretty funny!

We're only 13 days away from her 1st birthday and we're so excited! I've been busy making all kinds of goodies and costumes for the party. I can't wait to post pictures!

ALSO, we had our first professional photoshoot on Thursday with an amazing photographer. (I can't share who she is yet because she *might* have a picture up already :) She is fantastic and we've seen a sneak peek of the session, but I can't share it yet because it's going to be a surprise for some :) I can't wait to share, though!

Here's just a few pictures from the past couple of weeks…
just sittin' pretty

one of her favorite things to do… watch momo eat

watching momo eat again

smiley baby!

GiGiMa reading a book and she LOVES it!

still reading…
Until next time…