BFFs and Finalization!

 Wow! I have been very negligent in posting lately! I'm very sorry about that! I know you Lola fans are missing your Lola news and pics. She is dong wonderfully! right now, her BFF Kate is visiting from Colorado! We had a fun photo shoot yesterday and today. I missed out on the one yesterday, but the girls were in good spirits...today, not so much! But boy are they cute in their little overalls and matching hats! Kate's mom and dad, Russ and Rebecca, came to Phoenix for a visit and to see the U2 concert. Right now, they are at the U2 concert.

On Sunday, A friend of ours had a shower for Russ and Rebecca. It was great to see a lot of people from our small group and church that we hadn't seen in a while. Lola met some new friends and snuggled up to some.

 Here she is with our friend Jayme, this is pretty much where she stayed the entire time.

Since my last post, we hit the 3 month mark, so I have to post the Chu-Chu 3 month pic as well as Nada's Lamb pic. She is getting so big! Rebecca and I were laughing because as we discuss what the girls are doing right now, we frequently use the phrase "when Lola/Kate was little"...as if they aren't still little pea pods! What we REALLY mean is "when Lola/Kate was SO itty bitty nothing fit, and she was SO itty bitty that she really didn't do much but sleep/eat/poop!" They are doing so much more now! holding heads up, laughing, cooing. I really didn't know that babies actually said two different things: Wah and goo. They do. And Lola does both. Frequently. I love it!

At three months here is what has changed. We are now eating 6 oz a feeding (for the most part.) That was up from 4oz almost over night. Speaking of overnight...she is now sleeping through the night. I started to feel guilty about the fact that I had the overnight shift--which meant I didn't have to get up in the morning with her when we started skipping the overnight feeding. We have now gone to switching mornings so only one of us has to get up every other day. We have begun to drool. A lot. A LOT. The kid is a fountain. The words "prodigious drooler" have new meaning for me. She is the Beethoven of droolers. I used to be able to get away with washing her clothes every other wear, but no longer. She pretty much gives them a bath herself. No, she isn't teething, which is one thing she isn't doing crazy early! From all the research I've done (because this freaked me out a little) the excess drool is preparing her for more substantial food. Phew!

She already looks funny standing up almost on her own! This is her favorite position! She likes to have her feet in your lap while she stands and looks around. The book says that this should happen at 7 months. We've been doing it since just before 2, but not to this degree. Since she can't stand on her own, it makes life interesting when you are doing anything else!

This week, we have slept somewhere OTHER than the bouncy seat! I was so happy that she made it through the night in the bassinet! Of course we still won't go to (and stay) asleep without being swaddled, but that's OK, we just wrap it up, and the eyes close! We have a little Pavlovian thing going on with that swaddle! Having those 8-9 hours a night is wonderful!

Next weekend is Gam-pa's 80th birthday, so we are going to head down there to see him and Gam-ma! Lola is very excited about this, especially since we don't need the bouncy to sleep anymore.

The biggest news we have and the news we are so unbelievably excited about is that we have a court date!! Lola will officially be ours on November 21, National Adoption Day. I did some research on that, and in 2008, Maricopa County finalized more adoptions than any place else in the country. Apparently, it's a big media event and is televised. We can hardly wait and are looking for what to call that each year when we celebrate it. For sure, we will have something big to give thanks for that Thursday!