Recent Pics

We are very into our cloth diapers these days. Lilly is potty training but she makes sure that her baby doll Megan gets her cloth diaper changed! The woman who makes all the girls soakers at Fancy Pants Fleece made a special soaker for Megan. It is so cute!

We had Christmas in March when we got all out Christmas packages from Grandma April and Grandpa Bob! We love what Lilly did with her bucket! How could she know that that is what all the Sherry's do with them?

Lilly and Melissa our Neighbor enjoyed building structures at the Port Jefferson Children's Maritime museum...Rory liked that the structures were made out of marshmallows!

Poppy sent the Girls this singing, hopping bunny for Easter! It Sings and hops all day!!

Not much is going on here. Brandon is on a business trip. The girls and I will be heading back to Florida in a few days to see Dianne and My family. I thought you might like to see some recent pictures of the girls!

Lilly's new dew!

My friend Steph who own's snapaholics.com sent us a little extra surprise in our last order. Lilly and her daughter G are from the same Orphanage in Haiti. These are the cutest hair ballies. They are flip flops, flowers, hula girls and some other tropical things. So CUTE!
Thanks Steph!

Key West!

Happy Birthday key lime pie!

We were finally feeling up to venturing out last night! e went to Mallory Square and to a cute little outdoor cafe for Rory's Birthday. We had a very nice time. People told us not to take kids to Key West because there is nothing to do. I am not sure but maybe all these people do is go to bars? We are very excited as we have a whole list of things to do with the gils. Today we are going to take a ride on the Conch Train Which Lilly is so excited about! Tomorrow the Aquarium and maybe Hemmingway's house. Just walking around the beautiful old town is great. It is so peaceful here.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AURORA GRACE!

We are finally in Key west after 4 days of travel. All of us were very sick on the trip down. But we will be foraging out tonigh to see Old Town and have a Birthday Dinner for Rory and to celebrate yesterdays anniversary of Lilly finally being with us for good!

Merry Christmas!

I have been spreading the Christmas presents out over a few days. This is Brandon's big Present! Go Rangers!
Don't worry Poppy the girl's got their first Hawk's shirts too! Lilly likes that one best!

Merry Christmas!

Lilly Loves her Uncle Randy!

Lilly at Macy's in there amazing toy area!

Rory snuggling on the train with poppy!

Hi!

We went to visit the kids I used to watch in Albany!
This is Gracie with Aurora Grace!

This is everyone! Top Left to Right Brian, Will and Erin. Middle L to R Grace Rory and Mary.
Bottom Lilly and Alexei!
I cannot get over how big they have gotten!
We had such a nice visit with them. I miss them so much.

Daddy and the girls need a rest after this past year!

We have had such a crazy year! It is looking like next year is starting off just as busy! We are leaving for Florida for a combo of work and trip related things on the 2nd and won't be home until Feb.! At least it is Florida in January! Here are a few pictures of the girls for Christmas. We are home bound this week as Rory has come down with the Chicken Pox.

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Happy Halloween!!

The girls playing with Keith Urban

Our new baby!

This is Stormy! She is our new baby kitty!
The girls are in heaven but I think Stormy is getting tired!

Pumpkin Picking!

We went pumpkin picking this week. It was really fun with the girls.

Pictures from Hawaii

The Girls playing on the Lanai at the Navy Lodge in Pearl Harbor. The USS Utah is still in the water about 100 yards to the left of this picture.

The reasons I didn't want to come home!

Lilly was having a blast dancing at Dixie's Crab shack.

Lilly and Rory loved the Lei making at the Luau.

Lilly and I tried our hand at Hula but Lilly got nervous.

Long time

Sorry i haven't updated in awhile. we went to Virginia in May and have been back and forth to the Dr ever since! The only one who has not come down with multiple illnesses is Brandon. We have been through 4 different antibiotics in this house in 3 weeks!

Everyone appears healthy now. We are going to Chicago next week and then we come home to prepare for our 3 weeks in Oahu!!! We are so excited to be taking the girls to Hawaii. There is so much we want to do!
Heidi

Haitian Schools

We have just decided to sponsor a little girl from Haitian Roots. Haitian Roots is an organization started by an adoptive mom that I know. Actually the second person I talked to after finding Lilly! It is ran by finding sponsors for children in Haiti so that they can attend school. Haiti has no public school system. The children there have to pay to go to school. The also have to buy their own books and uniforms. This program matches you with a child and for only $250 a year you can pay for their school. It also may be the only decent meal the kids get all day.
When you are living on an average of $100 a month $250 a year is a ton of money. But in America it is less than adding cream cheese to your bagel everyday.
Anyway here is the website if anyone is interested. The country of Haiti gave us our Princess Lilly so I think it is only right to help the rest of the kids out.

http://www.haitianroots.com/index.php

Heidi

Pocket diapers

I often get asked about our diapers people think it is gross or dirty or time consuming. I must admit that before I committed to this I had all these thought. Someone asked for a descriprion of what a pocket diaper was. I thought I would answer here.

A pocket diaper is a type of cloth diaper. This is mostly what we use. It has a outer PUL (waterproof but breathable) liner. Also an inside layer of Micro flees or suede cloth. There is a sot in it that you put stuffing into. They make liners for this. You stuff them and then put them on your child like a regular disposable diaper. When you change them, if it is just wet you take the liners out and place all of it in a pail or wetbag. If it is dirty you can scrape it off into the toilet or we have a diaper sprayer that attaches to the water source on the toilet. We just spray off the poop (sorry!) and then we take out the liner and place both in the pail or wetbag. I do a load of diapers every other day. I just throw it all in and do a cold rinse, then I wash with Biopac or charlies soap and maybe a spray of bio clean. Thats it they are clean and good as new. We did some searching for which diapers we liked best. I think a lot of this depends on your baby's shape and your own personal likes and dislikes. We now use all Green Acre Designs, Blueberry side snap pockets and berry Plush minkees.
It really is easy and very clean.
Heidi

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