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Friday, May 15, 2009

Tourists in Utah

We've been here for almost a week and a half now, and its looking like its going to be at least a few more days, so we're making the best of it by getting out and doing some touristy things.

Yesterday we went to Trolley Square, which is a historic place that used to be a bunch of barns where they kept Salt Lake City's trolleys in the early 1900s, but when they stopped using them, it was just sitting there. Then in the 70's they started restoring the barns and turned them into stores. It was very cool, the walls between stores had old fashioned things and pictures and stories of when they used the trolleys. We ate a late lunch at The Old Spaghetti Factory (mmm!) and our waitress was really nice and recommended that we go visit Park City, which is a mining town turned ski resort town that was voted one of the 20 prettiest cities of 2008 by Forbes magazine, so we'll be checking that out sometime this weekend.

We walked around the stores, there was a Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, a Pottery Barn Kids, which I had never seen before except for catalogs, and some novelty type shops. There was a high end children's apparel store called Secret Garden, but a lot of the stuff wasn't even cute, and the only thing that would fit Vivi was a $45 onesie. So we just looked around :)

Jenavieve by the flowers outside the hotel. We thought she needed some tourist pictures!

Her favorite sleeping position

Her first 'bath'. Her cord fell off yesterday!

All warm and cozy in pajamas

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Another update from Utah

To answer the question everyone has, we don't know when we can leave yet. Someone told us that Utah has a 4 day work week so if we don't hear today, I guess we'll be here until Monday at least. We're trying to make the best of it, there are a couple of touristy things we're planning on doing.

And now for some pictures!

Sleeping with daddy

Her little bear booties fit on over socks!

She has been staring really intently at our faces when she is awake

Mommy's turn for a nap!

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Stretch!

Click here for a video of Jenavieve stretching!

Small update

We're still in Utah...

Kapri and Quez left early this morning and Janelle and Ryan left this afternoon. So now its just us hanging out until we get to leave.

Jenavieve is doing really well. She's eating more, taking the full 2 oz in the bottle most of the time now, and its she's getting hungry consistently every 3 hours now instead of 3-4. She's also getting more active, she started doing this cute stretching thing today instead of being curled up in a ball all day.

She's also sleeping a little better at night and being a little more alert during the day. We had to go to Babies R Us today to pick up a few things-we only had one bib, and one preemie sleeper, and a couple of socks that fit her, so we picked up a couple more things. The preemie sleeper we found came with a hat and a bib that says princess, which is really cute, but its a lot bigger than her other preemie outfits. I guess it depends on the brand.

Last week today was when we got the call and spent the night packing and heading out here to meet our daughter-what a crazy week! We also realized yesterday that while we were filling out our application to begin the adoption process back in October, Jenavieve was already alive and growing, and we had no idea!

Here are a few pictures from today

Monday, May 11, 2009

My First Mother's Day!

We met Kapri and Quez for breakfast in the lobby, then spent some time resting since some people had spent a long day before flying and others were up all night because some beautiful little girl likes to sleep all day and be awake all night.

Then we all got dressed up to go to a park and take pictures and then go to dinner. This is Jenavieve's special mother's day outfit I picked out for her.