February Fun-and We have a Crawler!

This would be USHER. And Rylee didn't budge for like 11 full minutes. He was a "surprise" at the Super Bowl halftime show, and the look on his face when he came down was priceless!

Biggie girl!

Rylee and his best buddy. Everything he does is just like cousin Connor

Ezzie got to meet Uncle Jake for the first time when he came home for my birthday and her baptism...

ANd.....Yes. It's official, i believe our life is about to get especially C-R-A-Z-Y! Ezzie is EVERYWHERE-behind chairs, wedged between furniture, attempting to go for the basement stairs-AND everything else.

So at almost 8 months she is:

*Crawling

*Eating Fruits and Veggies

*Has tried Puffs (doesnt love them)

*Pulls herself up at times

*Waves (with her left hand)

Annnnnd, she is still not sleeping through the night. Oh well-she is just sweet and we can't believe that she's almost been home with us for 3 months already!

TIME FLIES WHEN YOU'RE HAVIN' FUN!

RUNNING FOR ORPHANS!

Learn how YOU can change the life of ONE by reading below......

Ok, so those of you that don't know me-I will first tell you that I am NOT a runner. I have never liked/"enjoyed" it-however, last spring i met an amazing person, Kim (see her blog: http://www.justanotherrunningdiva.blogspot.com/ ) through my fabulous cousin Sara! Well, I always joked I could never run out to my mailbox (which is within arms reach almost, haha)-without wanting to die. Well, I got hooked up with Kim-took her Running 101 class, and now Running 102 class, and whatta know-I have decided I am going to give ALL my effort into running the Chicago Rock n Roll 1/2 martathon! It's taking a lot of hard work and determination but let's be honest-there is NO way I can back out now....BECAUSE..........

I am partnering with ORDINARY HERO and will be RUNNING FOR ORPHANS IN ETHIOPIA!!!! AND YOU CAN JOIN MY TEAM!!!! ( http://www.ordinaryheroblog.blogspot.com/ )

Seriously, you have NO idea how excited I am to be running for such an amazing organization! Even if the thought of running 13.1 miles makes me wanna hurl-I KNOW that I can do this! I know that with every step I take there is a child that is walking 10 hours just to get FRESH drinking water for their family, I know that there are thousands of children in the city of Addis Ababa that are walking without shoes. Running 13.1 miles is the LEAST i can do to raise money for these children! PLEASE can you consider donating (a link will be coming soon, and I will post the official "start donating" post as soon as I get it) and would you consider joining our team to run for Ordinary Hero and the orphans in Ethiopia!? Kelly, of OH posted a link on her latest post about it as well, please pass this to anyone you know, become a follower of my blog and get the word out!!! Thank you ORDINARY HERO for doing such amazing things!! I am blessed to be a part of it!

Feel free to shoot me an email at megmckean@yahoo.com if you would like more information on joining our team in Chicago!! Check back soon and there will be a link to donate!!!!

Social Circles.....

On Valentine's Day (not that it matters that it was V-Day or not) this year I left Facebook, and came back to Facebook all in the matter of 6 hours. I left because as of late it's consuming "too much" of me, more than it is me enjoying connecting with those we don't live close to or other adoptive families. Generally, it's me being annoyed by someones status updates-or people knowing way too much that's going on in our lives-which clearly is by "my doing" and that's my fault, but at the same time I didn't realize that everything we say or do is under the radar. In that 6 hour period i had many messages and many texts thinking that something was WAY wrong, or how to find me and get a hold of me for 31 questions, parties, etc...soooo that made me decide that it was going to be way more annoying to deal with the logistics of communicating the old fashioned way via telephone or just plain emails than it was to just deal with the world of facebook, take some smaller baby steps away from it all, and keep things a lil' more "under wraps" with our life. After all, does anyone "really" care that I had a mole removed from my butt-cheek on Valentine's Day morning and it's being sent in for testing? No, i didn't think so. : )
So instead I am going to limit myself to what FB is "used" for, stick to our lil' circle social that we love very much and carry on with our lil' family that I'm crazy in love with (how cute r my lil' Valentines?!-see below!)
Ryan and I had a lil' "date night" out-to dinner n a movie-it was great to get out and have "us" time, we laughed a lot, reflected a lot and really talked about how crazy life has gotten!

Ezzie T is ALLL OVER THE PLACE and she's not even technically crawling yet. I was doing laundry this morning, only to come back to find a soggy piece of popcorn (small small piece) stuck to the side of her cheek that clearly she was trying to get into her mouth-then later she was under our kitchen table and then at one point she was wedged between her jump-a-roo and our entertainment center grabbing at the black cable cord that was screwed into the wall-She's gonna give us a run for our money for a long time to come!

Rylee painted Daddy a picture frame for V-day and he says to me "All the best buddies can go in this frame" I said "Yeah, like me you and Ezzie" so daddy can put it on his desk at work-Rylee says "No, like me and Connor".....-I almost measure up to an 8 year old boy! : )

{I am a child of God}

Ezra was baptized into Christ on Sunday February 6th! It was a great morning at church, and we were surrounded by our whole family! My brother flew in from California, and everyone went for lunch after church service for a lil' celebration!!! We love you Ezzie T!!!


Ezzie with Pastor

Love my family!

Pastor says "Wow-she's really good"!

Our lil' Tornado....

Tornado Ezzie has made it's way around our home the last week or so! As of late she has started "army crawling" and making her way to anything she sets her eyes on....WOW, she's just so different "natured" than Rylee, she's a riot in a whole different way-

What else is Ezzie doing???.....

Starting to babble A LOT! Saying "Da Da Da Da" and clicking her tongue,everytime we're eating she puckers up her lips and licks and smacks 'em....really, doesn't get much cuter!

She loooooves eating her fruits/veggies! There really hasn't been any that she won't eat!

Rylee is THE FUNNIEST thing to her right now. He can make her giggle like nothing else.

WE have a fiesty lil' princess on our hands, wow-what a strong natured lil' girl she is-good work sister!
AND we're certain that ANY DAY she's going to start full blown CRAWLING! right now she pushes herself up to all fours and rocks...we all know what comes next...eeeeek-brace yourselves!

She was baptized on Sunday February 6th, I will post those pics as soon as I feel like going to grab my camera and downloading them.....It was a beautiful day, and was so very special!

AND- rylee still thinks she's pretty cool-he wants to get her up in the morning, he wants to see if she went "poopers", he wants her to sit by him at dinner, I'm thinking that next post I will be talking about how ANNOYING he thinks she is because certainly when she starts crawling, it's gonna go downhill from there!