15 Months Old

A 15 month old 

That does not like bows or shoes

That loves playing peek-a-boo

That loves her brothers and believe me they adore her!

That loves people and has developed some impressive verbal skills.  You wave, smile, or make faces to everyone in the grocery store. You melt hearts at first sight.

Your words you can say are:

mama, dada, bye, book, baby, ball, bite, puppy, duck, meow, nana, pop, ba ba (bottle) and you try to say your brothers names, thank you, and hello.

When we ask you questions you shake your head yes or no. You definitely know what you want.

You love books!

You are walking everywhere now. There is no stopping you! You are now a busy and beautiful toddler!

Ella's One Year Pictures

Since I had portraits made of the boys at one year and each hanging in the living room we had to have one of Ella too. I also had pictures with the boys at three months with me in white. So thanks to Amy Woosley we got our pictures!!!!!!!!!! Also, a special thanks to two great friends who surprised me and when we got there Amy told me our photo session had already been paid for as a gift. WoooooHooooo!

Here is what you really want to see.

Oh those precious little hands! I don't ever want to forget them. 

Chosen

My heart is full of joy today because I am so thankful to have three beautiful children to hold in my arms and for a my mom who taught me how to be a mother. Thank you mom!  Even though there is so much joy there is always a little sadness in remembrance of our daughter Cambell Grace but she is the reason I am the mom I am today.

 A new thought this year is a mother in Korea that made a very hard decision to give a better life to her daughter. I pray that she has peace in her heart that her daughter is happy. I am thankful she allowed me to be Ella's mother. I am sure she thinks of her little girl a lot. Also, I am sure her foster mother misses her as well. Even though these women are halfway around the world they will always hold a special place in our hearts and I will forever be grateful.

The most overwhelming part of Mother's Day for me is that God chose me to be the mother of His four amazing children. These babies totally belong to Him and he can take them as quickly as he gave them to us. I try to not take a day for granted but sometimes it's tough. Being a mom is the hardest job I have ever had and some days are pretty trying but I love every minute of it and it is so rewarding!

Today was also Ella's baby dedication. We know she is God's child but we are honored that He chose us to be her parents. We promised today that we would raise her to know the Lord and live in a christian home. That is one huge responsibility. May God grant us the wisdom and knowledge we need to do this.

It was so nice to have both sides of our family with us today.  I wish I had a picture of all the family that was here for the special occasion. I am sure Nat's dad was watching from above so proud of his new granddaughter.

The two gentleman with us is our pastor Steve and our children's minister Bruce. Steve has been there with us for each of our children. I have similar photos with my boys so I told him we had to get just one more.

How great is the love the Father lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.

1 John 3:1-3

God loves us and adopted us as His children. 

Ella Marie Su-mi, we are so thankful for you and love you so much! 

Not flesh of my flesh,

Nor bone of my bone,

But still miraculously my own.

Never forget for a single minute, 

You did not grow under my heart- 

But in it.

How Awesome Is This!!!!!!!

A friend stopped by tonight to visit and she made Ella the most beautiful quilt! This is a new talent for her and she did an awesome job on it. This is such a special gift for Ella. I was in awe when I opened it up to see the story unfold. I love it so much! It means a lot to us that she put so much thought and time into it. It matches her room perfectly. It will forever be cherished. Ella even curled up with it in her crib tonight and went right to sleep.

We have been so blessed to have a lot of pictures and videos of Ella from her first year of life that we missed out on. In those pictures she is almost always on a quilt. They slept on a mattress on the floor with a quilt. Ella loved her new gift tonight. Check it out for yourself.

I will post my friends website when she gets it finished if your interested.

THANK YOU!!!!

Happy Easter!

Since I am off work with our little princess I have not missed a thing with the boys this easter. I usually do not get to go to their egg hunts at school and Mrs. Vivian's. It was fun watching them with their friends.

Nathaniel's class won the buckets of hope contest and they got to go to the park for lunch and their egg hunt. He was saying the egg hunt would be boring but check out his face.....he doesn't look bored to me!

Pop was also able to come! He and Ella had some bonding time.

We went to my parents this weekend. It was Ella's first time to spend the night at Nana and Pop's. She did perfectly. The boys were super excited about our night egg hunt with flashlights, headlamps, and glow necklaces. This is the thing they look the most forward to at easter.

Since Ella was not big enough to run with the boys for the egg hunt she got her own special basket.

Nathaniel found his basket early and I was not able to get his picture. But they loved what the Easter Bunny brought them.

We went to church with Nat's family. It was special that we were all able to be there together. It was the first holiday without Nat's dad. 

We went to Nat's sisters for lunch. 

Our niece and nephew planned an indoor egg hunt in the basement since it was raining. The boys have always looked up to there big cousins. Ella loves Leah because she is her mini mama. They are sweet together.