First 1.5 Weeks with Aria!

Aria is doing great! She now isn't just attached to Steve and is quickly adjusting to her new home and family. She seems to enjoy her 2 brothers. Kevin absolutely adores her! And she and Kien are becoming quite a team! :) Thanksgiving marked one week after she came home, so here are some pictures from the first 1.5 weeks...

This was shortly after we arrived home from the airport.

Here's the proud big brother with his t-shirt: "I'm the BIG brother of TWINS!" :)



Aria kept stealing Kien's fries! ha!

Kevin played peek-a-boo with the babies from behind a door when they were out in the stroller one day. They both LOVED it!! :) Kevin got huge smiles out of Aria!!!

Aria laughed when Kien tried on her hat in her nursery. :)

We've started seeing her smile more and more! :)

Kien likes rubbing Aria's hair! :) (She's drinking a play baby bottle for a doll.)

Both babies went after my iPhone, and I loved the look of these 2 little faces clamoring up towards my lap to reach the iPhone!! :) We waited a very long time to have these 2 little guys!!!

Here's our pretty little princess, wearing a hair bow for the first time. :) She also loves her pink toy harp with Disney princesses on it (on the floor)! (I play the harp, so this was the perfect toy for my little girl!!)

My mom and I took all 3 kids to the mall. :) Both babies proved to be great shoppers!!

She lets Mommy hold her now!!! YAY!!!! :) :)

Here I am with my 2 babies!! Although Kevin (age 4) claims to be my 3rd baby...despite the fact he previously had claimed to be a big boy. ;)

On Wednesday night, Aria went out to eat at her first real restaurant. Both babies sat in high chairs at the end of a booth at Chili's - and they did great!! Aria is an excellent eater!! Unlike Kien. ;) But he seems to be learning from her a little bit.

Here is our family of 5 on Thanksgiving Day at the wonderful restaurant where we had a Thanksgiving buffet dinner!

Grampy came to visit over Thanksgiving and met his new granddaughter! :)

Aria wore her first dress on Thanksgiving - and some fancy new shoes!

They watched us put up the Christmas tree - and we had to put a baby gate around the entire thing to guard off two sets of little hands this year!! ;)


Grandma and Grandpa went out for a date one night, so we had our first dinner as just a family of 5. :)

This was taken on Sunday at church! Isn't she a doll??? :) She is giving more and more great smiles now!!!! :) She's becoming a very happy little girl!!!! (She colored on Kevin's magnadoodle at church after watching him do it! We were pretty amazed that she immediately knew how to color with it after watching him!)

Here we are in church with Aria, after Kevin and Kien had gone off to class / the nursery. She did great staying in church with us! :)

This week, Aria and Kien both turn 18 months old!! And next week, we celebrate 6 months since Kien's adoption!! :)