A year in review........
or the many faces of Peyton...
or watch ME grow...
or the ones that didn't make the cut...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WE LOVE YOU PEYTON ELIJAH..YOUR WORTH MORE GOLD

 

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEYTON!!!!

We have made it and you are officially one year old.  You are walking and eating all table food and saying your first words.  To celebrate the special day,  Nanny and Poppy came to visit from New York.  You were baptized with your big brother, Peter and we had a special party with family to celebrate your big day. You are a special gift from God we are so blessed to be choosen to be your parents. Here are the pictures from the big birthday weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 20th - First swim, First words, First steps

Our baby is growing up fast.  Father's Day weekend was full of firsts.  Peyton had his first swim in a pool and he LOVED it.  Just see the look  on his face.  He is also beginning to take steps- he's up to eight- he'll be running in no time.  And on Father's Day when daddy came on to pick him he looked right at him and said "DaDa."  He's been babbling mama and dada but this was the first time he used them as words.  What a perfect way to begin Father's Day!!

What a week!!!!

Last week was a crazy, fun week.  We had end of the year picnics and field day and of course kindergarten and preschool graduation.  Peter is now a preschool graduate and is ready for kindergarten and Isabella is a kindergarten graduate and is excited for 1st grade,  We are so proud of them and how much they have learned and grown this year.

Peter and his friend at his graduation play, Noah

Peter as a panther

Peter and Mrs. Kuhlman

Peter and Mrs. Henderson

Our Happy Graduate

Izzy and her teacher

Izzy with her diploma

Izzy reciting her poem

Happy 11 months little man!!!

Our baby is eleven months old.  What's new?  Well we're standing pretty well  without holding on, so you know what will be coming next.  We also hold our own bottle all the time and have very little patience for the cradle hold, cuddly bottle time, we'd much rather be moving and looking around.  We are definately a baby on the move!!! We love you little man.

Our very Happy baby

standing and ready to go

Peyton 11 months old

Our Trip to New York and the beginning of summer....

As the weather gets nicer and the days get longer we are getting really excited for school to be over.  With trips to the park and playing in the springler we are having our first tastes of summer. But before we can officially say good bye to this school year we have some end of the year business to  take care of such as kindergarten and preschool graduation, end of the year picnics and field days.  Of course despite the busyness of this time of year we were able to take a few days off to visit our family in New York. While Peyton and Ilana stayed home with Pap and Grandma, the four older kids traveled with us to Valhalla New York.  We visited Sleepy Hollow and Philippsburgh Manor.  We celebrated our cousins first Holy Communion and had a barbecue with Daddy's family.  It was a fun and relaxing weekend and we returned to Pennsylvania ready for the craziness that is the end of the school year.

Peyton and Daddy in their Yankee gear; preparing for our trip

Pap and Ilana; the youngest two had fun at Grandma and Paps but we  missed them

Peyton getting ready for summer

Ella, Patrick, Peter and Isabella watching the colonists make medicine

Ella, Patrick, Peter and Isabella at Phillipsburg Manor

The boys at Christopher and Caroline's First Holy Communion

The girls at the Communion Party

2 years already - May 12 2010

2 years ago this date were in Ethiopia meeting a beautiful brown eyed boy with a gorgeous smile.  What a week that was.  We were altogether as a family of seven on May 16th.  The last 2 years have been very eventful especially with the addition of our little "surprise"  But with all its up and downs I would never change a thing.  I am so proud of the boy Mr.Peter Eyob has become.  Loving and compassionate and very energetic, we are so glad God choose us to be his family.

                                                      Eyob and Peyton