Terrific Twos!

We have now entered the terrific twos. As my friend Emily said in her recent blog it seems once you have children time flies super fast. I love this little angel, for as much as my children take after their Dad, with their dark hair and olive skin (which I truly love) this little girl is a mini me. She is blonde (for now), blue eyed, blanket carrying, highly opinionated girl. She calls her blanket (which her Grandma Babs made) dinky or deedee, I had a blanket (made by my fathers mother Grandma Holman) which I called Bobbey and also loved to pieces, literally. She wakes up carrying it, she finds it for comfort and for joy and makes sure she has it when she falls asleep. If one of her brothers or sister's is sad she will hand them her blanket as a complete gesture of charity and love. She rarely is seen with out it. She will take it in the car and when we run into a store she knows she can't take it with her so she will say bye "dinky." When she returns with complete delight she will yell "deedee!" Because she is the youngest of five she knows how to speak up for herself, and speak up she does! I love this little lady with all my heart and am so thankful she she is in our family. We recently took family pictures and Jen Howe, our family photographer, had each of us hold a letter so that the seven of us spelled FOREVER and our little Adrianna was in charge of the last letter R. She did such a great job. She held that letter like her blankets life was on the line. It is this determination that describes her. She is fun, loving, determined and beautiful we love you so very much, my little dutch girl.

My little angel girl

amongst the cousin throng

Look how excited she is!

Aj loves getting new clothes, what a girl :)