May. Seven Months.

I follow a few adoption blogs and I'm always super excited when there is an update and then I'm all let down when there isn't. Is that how you guys feel about this blog?! Hehe.

Stella is amazing.
She loves anything that is not a baby toy like water bottles, boxes, dog bowls.
She is inquisitive. I love watching her furrow her perfect little eyebrows when she finds something new to investigate.
She fake cries. It's kind of funny. Kind of.
She went in the pool for the first time and loves it! It was so cute watching her in the pool floaty.
She took her very first step yesterday. She should be running in no time. Good thing we've been doing cardio. Every milestone is so exciting.
She mimics us which is really neat. We will hum or make mouth noises and she does it back and thinks its hilarious.
One of the things that is so dear to me is when I go to her in the morning. She's usually standing at the edge of her crib with her pacifier, peeking out, waiting with her sleep-puffy face. When I come in she looks at me and smiles and my heart just melts. I want to squeeze her. And then I do. And its awesome.

We do have an adoption specific update...we're finalizing June 20!! Our social worker came by last week to write her final report.  In this report we are asked if we want anything specific written about Stella or our new lives for the file where it is recorded and saved forever. I wanted to really throw myself into something spectacular but Nick wanted to freestyle something. So I didn't plan anything. Which makes what we said all the more genuine and beautiful.

Stella is more blessing than we ever could have even imagined praying for. She is living, breathing, touchable, real proof that God's plan is so, so, so much better than ours could ever be.