Sooooo sweet

New way of watching movies in her bouncer seat! It's hilarious to watch...she figits so much and then settles in like this...normally during the "boring" times is when she is figiting around.

Couldn't resist some raspberry pictures too!

Sakura loves to say MaMa, she says it over and over and over. She does still say DaDa from time to time, but mostly MaMa and "BaBa" - we're not sure what that "means" yet, since we don't refer to her bottle as bottle, we say "milk". On Tuesday when Daddy got home from work, me and Sakura were in the kitchen fixing dinner, Sakura saw Daddy and immediately said DaDaDa and waved her arms like I'm over here...and I missed you -

I think Daddy's heart melted at that very moment! It was SO sweet!

Weekend Festivities

Mommy's Little Pumpkin

We had a fun weekend, nothing too exciting, except that we were all together, Daddy didn't work on Saturday so we went out shopping in the morning, and then we (Me and Sakura) went to Samantha's birthday party in the afternoon. While we were out shopping one of the stores had a little pumpkin display and I couldn't resist putting my little pumpkin amongst the other pumpkins for a photo op. We are going to head to the real pumpkin patch next weekend!

Lunch at Lutes, posing with Daddy

Lunch at Lutes, posing with Mommy

This is how I like to ride in my stroller, leaning forward pulling up on the bar....lunch at Lutes

My favorite thing at Samantha's party was making raspberries for everyone and hanging out with Nicole.....

and Ryan (look at all of Samantha's Littlest Pet Shop toys she got!)

Oh yeah, while we were shopping Daddy tried this cap on me!

Riding Sakura's way!

8 Months Old!

8 Months Old!

It's hard to believe that little Peyton Sakura is already 8 months old.

She is truly an amazing little girl, and we are SO blessed to be her parents.

At 8 months old, Sakura is now:

Crawling everywhere and pulling herself up on anything and everything.

She is very aware of "strangers" and cries when someone she isn't familiar with holds her, looks at her, or talks to her. She was terrified of my brother (Uncle Matty) when he first arrived on Friday, but by Sunday he could talk to her and she didn't scream.

She calls for "MaMa" (which actually sounds more like MeMe) when she is upset about something.

She has started waving.

She picks up "puffs" and eats them herself with her finger and thumb.

She now has 2 teeth poking through, not all the way out yet (so much for those adorable toothless grins that we love), now we'll have toothy grins :)

Friday we had our first appointment with the County Attorney to sign some documents to finalize our adoption. They are "shooting" for November 20th (National Adoption Day) as our hearing date when we will officially go to court and finalize our adoption.

The assistant County Attorney said that they would like to get as many adoptions on the calendar for that date as possible, so they're hoping that it works out for us. We should know more in a week or two. The assistant (Dee) loved Sakura and took her to see all of the other people in the office, who all ooohed and aaahed over her, it was very sweet.

Tooth #2!

Tooth #2 (bottom left side) has errupted, just barely poking up....but it's through!



Dean found me and Sakura sleeping like this the other night - it was the night we drove home from San Diego, I was exhausted and so was someone else, and obviously she likes KICKING Mommy while she's down - LOL! Dean thought it was funny and snapped some pictures while we were fast asleep.

Sleeping with Mommy

I LOVE to Stand....

Look who started standing up in her crib today?!

(Note: if you click on this picture you can REALLY see her tooth!)

This is what I found when I walked in to get Sakura from her nap....this is the first time she stood up in her crib!

"HI Mommy" accompanied by a raspberry!

This eliptical machine looks fun!

Can I pull this cord out of Mommy's work computer?

Hmmmmmm, I think I can get that cord out and Mommy will pay more attention to me!

Headed Home

We love going to visit family, but we have to admit, there's no place like home.

Almost there, just before landing in San Diego

Hanging out looking out the window at the ocean

Snacking on a bluebird foot...see Kumi just like you :)

Just a few pictures I took one morning of Sakura hanging out in the front yard in her

Halloween jammies!

We flew home yesterday and we're trying to get back into our normal routine...not as easy since Sakura is all over the place and wants to pull herself up on ANYthing she can get her hands on!

Lunch with Auntie Nancy and kids

I forgot about the "little camera" and there were some important pictures on it....

Peyton Sakura had her first taste of "not pureed" food.

Tofu and Udon noodles ~

We met Auntie Nancy, Tripp and Kira at Taro's for lunch on Friday and Auntie Nancy suggested that I give some Tofu and Udon noodles to Sakura and I did...

and she is happy that I did, as she LOVED both Udon and Tofu!

Trippy looking at his stickers

The girls at lunch - Sakura and Kira

Here are her first bites of each:

First bite of Udon noodle



First bite of Tofu

Auntie Nancy and Kira at lunch

Thank You for lunch Auntie Nancy!

Thanks for driving all the way down so we could see you again too!