Halloween 2006

Here is a picture of Aleaya last Halloween, she was the cutest little lady bug!!! This year she is going to be a Zebra-I will post pictures later tonight after we get home.

This one is for you Marcy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

container of 2t clothes for later

supplies for China

clothes for China

PJ's-you can never have to many PJ's right??????????? well, atleast in my head!!

more shirts

pants and things

shirts and some jackets

first off, My name is Erika Callahan and I am a shopaholic-;) I am embarrassed to show Skeeters closet-but here it is-made sure I took pictures of his drawers also so that you could get the full on effect!!! Maybe next I will show you Aleaya's closet so that you can really see I have issues :) LOL, also the containers are full of supplies and clothes for China...........couldn't help but show the other container full of 2t things for later...........

NO POO POO this week

So we haven't gone poo -poo in the big girl chair all week............sigh....or even pee-pee for that matter..........bigger sigh..........

Guess What???

Guess who went poo-poo on the big girl chair.?? yep, twice so far!! She was at Omma's house the other day and she put her on the big girl potty and left her alone to read her book, a little later she hears Aleaya yelling "Omma, it's working" so my Mom ran to see what was up and she had gone poo-poo..........it worked...how cute is that?? she also went poo-poo on Sunday in the potty chair-but a half hour later she went poo some more in her pull-ups...oh well, this is a start-guess she wasn't finished yet ;)

tyler's Room

This is Shae's room-We used the same decoration's we had for Aleaya's first bedroom- I know it is pretty boyish for a little girl-but I picked this out long ago and still love it!!! I couldn't bring myself to show the closet. You would die if you saw how many clothes this boy already has. Retail therapy is addicting!!!!

UPDATE-we named our little boy Tyler not Shae

Aleaya's Room

We finally finished the kid's rooms!! I can't believe Aleaya has a toddler bed. (I have been putting this off FOREVER) She is using this for naps now and still sleeping in the crib overnight in Skeeter's room. We still need some more decorations but Aleaya finally has a girly girl room.

Pumpkin Patch

We went to the pumpkin patch yesterday. Aleaya had a blast. We bought 4 pumpkins, 2 little ones and 2 big ones to carve. Unfortunately, someone stole three of them out of our yard last night. We only have one little one left that Aleaya had been carrying around the house.
I find it hard to believe some one stole our pumpkins.........JERKS!!!!!!

Finally a LID-

We finally have a LID...............I am so disappointed and frustrated. Our DTC date was 8/6/07 and our LID is 9/3/07 Almost a month............sigh...So I had a good cry and then started thinking about the bright side of things....okay, the PROS- so we wont be in China for Christmas so I will get to spend Christmas with my favorite girl...(I couldn't seem to talk Matt into letting Aleaya go to China with us) , My sister will be home for Christmas this year and I get to spend time with her, I will get to meet lots of great people IRL that I have met on the CHI adoption board and their wonderful children.....more time for my foot to feel better and more PTO(paid time off) to accumulate..................the cons I WANT MY SON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

baking a cake

Aleaya and I baked our first cake together. She was so excited, of course, she was even more excited when she was able to lick the beaters. Don't worry everyone, we didn't use eggs so she isn't going to get salmonella. :) This was a Weight Watchers Pineapple cake recipe that you use a can of Fresca instead of eggs and oil. This may sound weird but it is YUMMY.

Our Scotty-It's been 6 months

It has been 6 month's since our Scotty passed away. 6 months since that horrible phone call telling us he was gone. He passed away April 4Th, 2007. He was a SN little boy we were in the process of adopting from China. He passed away at the Orphanage from Pneumonia before we were able to bring him home. I know that he is in heaven now, I feel at peace with that, although it is sometimes hard for me to fathom the reason he was taken from us before we had a chance to hold him. It took Matt months and months to say "yes" to a second adoption. He had his heart set on another girl, I had my heart set on Scotty the moment I saw his beautiful face!!! I showed Matt the picture of Scotty and he was smitten too. May our little angel know how much he is still loved, he will always be in our hearts!!!