Hello, England

Last week was a bit of a whirl wind. We received news on Tuesday evening that Inoke's youngest sister Talei had given birth to twins and one of the babies had passed away after only 42 hours on Earth. It was very emotional and devastating to learn of Baby Nicole's passing. Since we are able to travel so freely abroad as US Citizens, (Something that I definitely take for granted) Nadia and I hopped on a plane Wednesday and headed for London to offer our support and love to Talei and Jona as they prepared for Nicole's funeral. This was my first time to England. While we were there for a sad reason, I couldn't help but be in awe by the beauty that surrounded us. Talei lives about 3 hours north of London in New Castle, it was such a scenic drive I barely noticed the length. It was a quick trip as we are already scheduled to fly out to Fiji for Nadia's first birthday this Sunday morning, but I was so grateful to be able to be there physically and to say good bye to Baby Nicole until we meet again in the next life. Nadia absolutely adored Baby Katie. She kept kissing her and resting her cheek on her head; Katie just looked up and half smiled. It was like they were old friends reunited again. We will defiantly be going back to England again, next time we will stay longer and see the sights. For now here are a few pictures of our little trip.

Happy Birthday Princess Nadia!

I love you, I love you, I love you! You are my little angel sent straight from heaven and I am so happy to be your mommy. You bring a smile to my face every day my little princess.

Eleven and 3/4...

I have a hard time fathoming the concept that my little girl is going to be one next week! Holy smokes how is it possible? She gets sweeter by the day and has the cutest kindest little personality; she is always sharing her toys and food with you. I adore each and every moment we spend together...(even when she is screaming her head off while I am in the shower because she is going through the "you can't be out of my sight" phase). Lately we have been experimenting on new hair styles for her curly locks. I can't wait for her sides to grow into those beautiful ringlets that she is bound to have. Here are a couple pictures from this morning:

Nadia's New Trick...

Want some water with that sand?

Nadia and I took advantage of the beautiful late afternoon today and headed down to the beach. It was a little windy and the blue bubbles were all over the shore close to the water so we stayed up further inland and had some fun playing with the sand. I managed to get some cute pictures of the little princess. Still being the overly clean freak mom that I am, it was freaking me out that she kept on sucking on her sand covered fingers... uhhh, but that aside we had a great afternoon.

Favorite of late...

Most little girls like dolls and girly stuffed animals; my little girl likes cell phones. Nadia has become obsessed with cell phones of late. My cell phone doubles as the alarm clock in the morning so it is the first thing she reaches for each day. I tried to "trick" her with a cute little pink toy one, but she wouldn't have it. She knows the real deal, and is determined to get the real thing every time. I have to admit she looks so cute sitting there with the phone held up to her ear babbling on and on. It isn't quite as cute when you are trying to have a conversation on the phone and she is climbing and crawling and reaching for the phone making loud squawking noises until she gets to say "Hi" too. I'm going to have to find an old real phone for her... until then; here are a couple pictures of our little jabber box.

Ten Months

I am a little late on this post. Nadia is going to be one in 6 weeks! WOW! Where has this past year gone? That means we have six weeks until our next trip to Fiji... ahh! We are so excited to go down and celebrate her 1st birthday with lots of family. New and exciting things of late? We can stand up without holding anything for a good 15-20 seconds before sitting back down, walk along holding furniture, talk up a storm and return conversation with you in her own babble language, and my personal favorite every time she hears the song "If Your Happy and You Know It" she instantly smiles and claps her hands. It is pretty funny. Her babysitter told me the other day when Nadia was taking her nap that song came on and even in her sleep she was clapping her hands.

Here are a couple pictures from the other morning...