In July, we visited our friends in St. Louis... Christy adopted Katie (Aunt Cindy is holding Katie) and Jeana adopted Alivia. We are all single moms and our daughters were born in the Tver region, seven weeks apart. We've attended the Children's Hope Reunion in July 2007 and July 2008. Soon, I'll post pics of our trip to the Caribbean.

The following pictures are from October 2007, when Grace was 26 months old. She can really ham it up for the camera! The photographer placed her hand in a certain spot and Grace held the pose as instructed! I wish she would do that for me!

I apologize for not blogging, but motherhood takes a lot of time! These pictures are from our first photo shoot in March 2007, when Grace was 19 months old. Isn't she sweet? She enjoyed herself at the time, but didn't give us big, wide smiles until later. In March, we had only been together a month and I was still the "most familiar stranger". I'm pretty sure that I'm "Mom" now... more pics coming soon!