A real gift of Love

Do you see anything different about Leeza?
She got her ears pierced yesterday! She wanted to be like her Taraz buddy, Alexa!




As expected, my family and friends love Leeza as much as we do, and she is thriving with all the love and attention. Her hair is growing so fast too! She is learning so much and I am proud to tell you she has her first word down pat..and, it's

MAMA!!!




It's a very clear Mama and I think she is also saying Bye Bye, but it's not super clear like the Mama is. :) She is a very chatty kiddo and I have a friend, Melinda, who is a speech pathologist who came over and told me Leeza is "right on" developmentally for her age. It's hard to fathom this is the child that we were not sure spoke at all that first day we met her....Love is so very very powerful!

Two of my best friends came over last night to give Leeza the most wonderful gift. Virginia is one of those "can do anything" kind of women and I met her when our boys were in preschool-when they were both 3 years old. She has the biggest heart and is one of those talented "scrapbook" kind of people. :) Her, and Jill, who I met when our boys were in kindergarten and she watched Miles when we were gone. I was so touched when they brought over this incredible gift. Can you guess what it is?




They are pretty thick scrapbooks, aren't they?
The blue one (Kaz colors) is every entry and picture in my blog before we left for Kaz, the last post being our last one at home with our luggage.


The pink scrapbook is every post and most of the pictures (until I got DSL and posted too many..LOL) once we got to Kaz and met our daughter.



I cannot even begin to imagine how much time and effort this project took-and they did comment that I WROTE A LOT! Virginia said Leeza can read that in her room when she's 13 and grounded and mad at us for something and perhaps it will remind her how very much she is wanted and loved. :)

Here are just a few pages that she did-it's phenemonal. She even found Kaz scrapbook thingies-the first 2 the store ever sold! I have not even had time to read thru all of it yet-but I will cherish this gift and I hope Leeza will too.









THANK YOU SO MUCH JILL AND VIRGINIA! You are the best!!!!!


Leeza at Sean's school after the Halloween carnival today. She loved it and was eatin up all the attention she got! All the kids in Sean's class are so cute with her-boys and girls alike! It was so cute to see Leeza with the 4 boys in carpool the other day. She was lovin it and they were awfully cute with her!!