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Jenavieve with one of her best friends, Katie.

4 months!

Our little Vivi is 4 months old today! She has been eating like crazy and sleeping really well, and being a lot more active. She is able to work her hands a lot better now and enjoys grabbing something and feeling it and pulling it toward her. She has also started licking things (maybe that is what comes after losing the tongue-thrust reflex?) and wants to lick anything that comes near her mouth-including the fingers of everyone she meets.

She has started really teething now, she has been chomping hard on everything and her hand is always in her mouth. Luckily that almond oil and willow bark stuff really works!

To celebrate Vivi's 4 months, and to show how she has grown, here are a few of her bear pictures.

2 days

1 month

2 months

3 months

4 months!

Canning tomatoes

We canned tomatoes at my mom's house last week, which was very fun for Jenavieve, as the room was filled with bowls, pots, and jars of her favorite color.

"If you think I'm cute, you should see my mom"

3 month pictures

Ok the month flew by, we were out of town a lot in the beginning, and then had scheduling issues, but we finally got Jenavieve into Portrait Innovations for her 3 month pictures. They turned out sooo cute, it was so hard to narrow down the ones we actually got prints of!

We got a cd with all of the pictures, you can see them here.

I need to get back into blogging, I went back to work this week and I didn't get around to posting the latest pictures.


*posted by Jasmine on Eric's computer...I don't know how to change who wrote it :)

More hair experiments

Just one ponytail, with a beaded hair tie. Her hair is just barely long enough for this one, but it looked pretty cute!

She's already mastered hamming it up for the camera :)

Ducky

Positive Adoption Language

Here is a link to the post I made in March about positive adoption language in case you need to brush up.  One of my missions is to educate people on proper adoption language. It may not seem like a big deal to you, but asking me if we've heard from Vivi's 'real' mom lately is not only incorrect, but also offensive. A person's REAL mom is the mom who is up with them all night, rocks them to sleep, tends to them when they are sick. I am Vivi's mom, Eric is Vivi's dad. Kapri is Vivi's birthmom. This is not only important when talking directly to us, but also when talking to others. Now that you are the aunt/uncle/cousin/friend of an adoptive parent, you are all ambassadors for adoption, and it is your responsibility to make sure you are using positive adoption language when talking about us, or about adoption in general. The more people we educate, the less ignorance there will be about adoption. :)

Dedication

Vivi's dedication at church was on Sunday. We didn't invite anyone because we didn't plan it until just a few days before, since our pastor is leaving at the end of this month. We really wanted him to do it because he was with us through the whole adoption process and we didn't want to wait to find someone else to do it, since last time it took 2 years to find a new pastor.

It was a nice little service, and she did so well! She let pastor hold her and just looked out at the congregation the whole time.

Pig tails!

Jenavieve's hair is long enough for pigtails!