Baby's First Meal

After much research and then more research, we fed Princess Cali for the first time tonight. She is almost 6 months old and was reaching for our plates. She did so well! When I put the spoon to her mouth and she opened her mouth to eat :) She had about 1 tbsp of food :) I don't know if any even went down her throat but she def. tasted it and had a good time.

Snow Day!!!

We are spending Christmas break in Michigan and it snowed (imagine that). This is the first time that Cali has seen or been out in the snow! My Mom has a baby sled so Cali got a sled ride. She had such a great time, smiling and enjoying the ride!!! Happy New Year everyone!

Christmas is in 12 days!!!

We finally decorated the Christmas tree today. Between my being sick and then Cali May being sick, we have not decorated :) Cali's tree has been up but the big tree did not have any ornaments on it until today. The house should be done tomorrow, just in time to clean it up for next year...hahahaha. This is Cali May hanging her first ornament!!!

I just wanted to post this adorable picture!

We bought Cali a 6ft white tree for her bedroom and put it up this evening, it doesn't have ornaments yet but she loves the lights! We have bought those, but we needed a costume change for those pics :) We will take those later on!

We have so much to be thankful this year!

Sorry I didn't post on Thanksgiving but I have been really sick. I have a sinus infection, which was hard not just being sick but being unable to snuggle with Cali May :( But I am feeling a little better today and I am getting in some snuggles. Cali May did laugh (giggle) for the first time yesterday. She has been smiling and cooing for quite awhile but this was a full out belly laugh. Thank goodness the baby monitor was on or I would have missed it. Jeremy was changing her in her room and he was blowing rasberries on her belly and it struck her as hysterical. Such a beautiful sound!!!

Thanksgiving was at Mia and Pa's house and we had a good time. Both great-grandpa's were there and were happy to see Cali. Aunt Nater stopped by to see her too! She is usually the main attraction anywhere we go now :)

We are so thankful to Theresa for picking us to be parents to such a beautiful and smart baby girl. She will never know how much she has changed our lives or how much she has made our family complete. Most of all we are thankful to God for bringing these three individuals together to form one family!!!

Love and Thanks,

The Efird's

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It's Christmas Time in the City!

Well actually it's not even Thanksgiving yet but we went and met Santa Claus today. Bass Pro has the best looking santa that I have ever seen. We pulled the Mommy and Daddy trick of handing her to Santa backward so that she never looked at who had her :) She didn't cry at all.

At her Doctors' visit on Wednesday Cali May weighed in at 14 pounds. She is also 26 inches long now. She can roll over from back to belly, and then back again. Cali also wants to sit up really bad, when you lay her on her back she does crunches and gets ugly with us when she can't get herself up into a seated position.

On Tuesday she is officially ours. Cali's birth father was able to sign the paperwork and help us to get her adoption finalized :) Pray for us as we enter the final stages of this mountain of paperwork!!!!

Halloween Pictures

What a fun Halloween we had! My Mom, Grandma, and Aunt Kathy were in town and we had a fun time hanging out with them. They flew into town around lunch time and Cali and I went to the airport to pick them up!!! When we got Cali ready for trick or treating we took about a million pictures of her :) Her pink poodle costume was so adorable on her! We took our poodle to her Mia and Pa's to trick or treat first. She got cute socks, books, and a rattle :) I never realized that you could collect presents on Halloween :) But when we went to Aunt Nater's Cali got a new shirt and a rubber ducky!!! She even trick or treated at the Grant house, where Mommy and Daddy got some candy and pretzels :)

Cali's BFF Hadley showed up in her Chicken costume and her farmer parents :) It was so cute to see the two of them dressed up on their first Halloween :)

In case we don't have enough pictures of Princess Cali, we went to Walmart and had 4 generation pictures done and Cali in her costume. I will post these when I can :)