3 Months Old

All smiles! Sweet girl is 3 months old (Jan 22nd) and happy as can be. You weigh 11 pounds, 14 ounces and are 22.6 inches tall. What a change between month 2 and 3. We're finally on a nice routine that includes sleeping 6 (sometimes 8) hours in a row at night! and then another 3 or 4!! (going to sleep to your Rock-a-bye Baby cd's has helped a ton!) You don't seem to very interested in daytime naps- there is way too much else to see. Lucky for us the nights spent by the kitchen fan have dwindled down and you now spend your evenings practicing your vowel sounds and perfecting those dimples. Your eyes are wide open at all times (still blueish/grey), very often without blinking and now that you can hold your head up straight you love to look around and see the world. You spent Christmas in Tennessee and New Years in Bilbao- our traveling little girl. You had your first cold, but stayed so happy the whole time. 3 months old suits you well sweet girl.

Nochevieja en Bilbao

We landed from the US, napped 3 hours and headed straight to Bilbao to ring in the New Year. Bless her sweet soul, she was such a trooper. We celebrated New Years nice and cozy in our PJ's, eating our 12 grapes at the strike of midnight and seeing all the crazy neighbors shooting fireworks from their apartment windows!

Lovin' those hands these days



Los Reyes came early (tradition is to leave out your shoe during the night and the 3 Kings bring your gift)



Looks like 2013 is shaping up to be a great year! We're loving it so far!!

in closing.....

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight

Nashville, Friends and Rock n' Roll

Bless this sweet girl's heart, we drug her all over the state! but no Christmas is complete without a trip to the Odom's. My photographer, Christy, captured this trip perfectly!!

Christmas in Tennessee

2 months old, both passports in hand, we venture off to the USA to meet our friends and family. Nothing like being home for Christmas and what a special one this was with sweet Carolina with us. I enjoyed every second- but boy did it fly by! We love our friends and family so much and can't wait to get back and hopefully see those of you we didn't get to see this trip (Migioias, Thorpes, Chamberlains, Hernandez and all my Pata's!!) Kellye-O, where's our annual pic to share?!

Richards cousins get together

 

Cousin Addie taking care of´the baby

a visit from Jack, Lynn and Lee (home from Mongolia), our adopted god family

w/ Mommy and Daddy (that still sounds weird...)

It's not Christmas without our annual Christmas Eve at The Bowman's- did I mention they had BBQ!! :-)
 (Carolina meeting the twins, Greer and Brynn, Gretchen and Aunt Peggy)

C and Aunt Tammy

Babaw and his Plaid babies



Addie left her note for Santa and signed Carolina's name too (love her!)



at Peace

The Richards in their Christmas PJ's

Daddy and Addie holding last year's picture (hope I can remember to keep capturing this)

Carolina in the pajamas she wore 1st day in the hospital (courtesy of Grammie and Babaw) and G in her "replacement" pj's (courtesy of Carolina)

2 Months Old

Eyes wide open! 2 months have passed (on Dec 22) and oh what fun you have been. You are focusing so much and have the biggest (blueish grey) eyes. You´re throwing your arms around and still kicking up a storm. You weigh 10.14 pounds and are 21.25 inches tall. Your first smile came on Skype talking to Babaw- you love Skype actually and we talk to our families all the time to watch you grow. Lots of little noises you´re making, but we can´t tell if it´s spanish or english. =) Funny enough, I find myself speaking to you alot in spanish when we´re at home due to all the spanish baby talk I hear from daddy, his family and friends. Gotta change that! but you will definately be a bi-lingual baby. We go out every day for walks and coffees and playdates and shopping- this has been a busy social month for you. You love being out of the house. Perfect angel during the day...... a bit fussy at night but that´s starting to change. Naps only occur when you´re in the car and stroller, but you´re only waking once during the night- so fair enough! You took your first trip to Bilbao this month, watched Daddy run a marathon and had your 1st airplane ride!!! With both passports in hand you were off to the US to meet all your family and friends who were dying to meet you.You slept more on that plane ride than you do at home- sweet precious angel! At this point everyone in Spain says you look like me, everyone in the US thinks you look like your daddy. Either way- you are as precious as can be.

2 months old

Santa Claus European Style

So this is our 2012 picture with Santa. It's the closest formal picture we could get with Santa Claus, but we were just so happy to find one in Spain. Papa Noel that is. Here in Spain, Santa Claus is just on the rise. The Three Kings are much more important and bring the kids their gifts on January 6th. Carolina seemed to be very intrigued. And in true European fashion he walks around the mall rather than sitting. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!