a year ago today

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

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 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/)