Seaweed and Reindeer

Showing off his artwork

Fa la la la la.....

With James being half Korean of course he grew up eating alot of Asian food, so anytime Taylor stays with James' parents he eats rice, sometimes kimche and also seaweed. James' mom sent us home some seaweed until we can get to an Asian market and Taylor likes taking some sticky rice with a little soy sauce mixed in and putting it inside a little piece of seaweed and then he makes all sorts of yummy noises while eating it. We cut one piece of seaweed into 9 pieces and at a meal he can eat all 9 pieces with rice!!

Taylor has fully recovered, but the bad news I didn't mention before is he will have to have another urological surgery in about 6 months. Not the news we were expecting or wanted to here, but after that, hopefully Taylor will be finished with surgeries...he's had his fair share. The last picture of Taylor he is holding a Christmas ornament that looks like a little hymnal, so he gets it off the tree and then sings...... too cute!

Forever Family Day

The first picture we saw of Taylor

Taylor in China 12/2006

Taylor at home 12/2007

One year today and recovery!

It's hard to believe but we got to meet our precious Taylor one year ago today!! His official 'forever family' day is the 5th but today marks one year that we have had Taylor with us!! We just feel like we are the luckiest parents in the world to have this little guy be our son. He is the sweetest, kindest, funniest and not to mention cutest little guy! I am not sure how much we will be celebrating as Taylor had surgery yesterday. It was definately a rough day for Taylor. His surgery was for a urological issue and the poor thing has 4 incisions. Today he is much improved over yesterday but very sore and very slow moving. We were at the hospital for 9.5 hours and then drove 1.5 hours home. Then last night Taylor didn't sleep well and so me and him stayed in the living room and I think we were awake every 20-30 minutes trying to get him more comfortable. Today he is definately showing improvements. He's our tough little man!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

choo choo!

I saw this little foamie train at Wal-mart last night. I waited til Taylor went to bed before going. He's had a little cold and with his surgery being on Monday I have tried to keep him in. He's having a outpt urological surgery by the way. So he loves trains and I knew this would be a good diversion for the day.

Through the eyes of a child...

James and I had been married for 14 years before becoming parents and when it came to holidays we had really become fuddy duddy's. Birthdays weren't that big of a deal any more, we had even not put up a tree for a couple years at Christmas and as far as shopping for Christmas, it was a chore and sometimes we waited til the weekend or day before Christmas before shopping...which kind of made it fun! Anyway my point is when you have kids all of those things become fun again!! All of our birthdays were fun this year. I never used to make sure we had a cake with candles, but Taylor loves blowing out candles, not only his own, and he loves cake and presents. Valentines Day, Easter, Halloween and now Christmas all have been special this year. They are all fun and cherished and we are so thankful to feel this way. It's like being a kid again when you get to see things through the eyes of your child!

Strike

The tiniest bowling shoes.

He wasn't too sure about this Santa guy, but luckily

Santa's helper was able to snap a quick picture of

just Santa and Taylor.

Don't you just love having productive days!! This morning we gave Taylor a haircut then got him all dressed up and went out in the yard to try to catch some cute pics for a Christmas card (with success). I then got some housework done and while Taylor was napping got the pics downloaded and ordered our Christmas postcards, with the new adorable pictures. I also got in 30 minutes of cardio (newly committed to fitting that in), and then we went bowling and out to eat. This was Taylor's first bowling trip and he had fun. After eating we went by the mall and it was Santa's first day at the mall and there was no one there (small mall in a small town) so we walked right up and had Taylor's first picture with Santa. Last year we didn't get home from China until December 15th and we didn't venture out much before Christmas, so no Santa pic from last year.