OUR THAILAND TRIP IN PICTURES.

1) so happy to be with my little lady in the warm air.

2) my most treasured picture of dash & rorie.

3) grandma's toys are such novelties.

4) building a grill with uncle sam-mee.

5) not interested in anything else but auntie gracie's noodles.

6) we all are partial to rides in the golf cart.

7) noodles for days. just the way we like it.

8) fresh grilled street corn.

9) our fried rice guy has memorized our order.

10) hydrating papa.

11) deciding on her purchases at the weekend market.

12) new ACDC shirt and browsing for more.

13) little miss blue eyes.

14) she adores them.

15) leaving the market with papa. exploring everything she can get her hands on.

16) "where's andy?"

17) always wanting to play chinese checkers.

18) big cat and rorie jamming in the morning sun.

19) christmas eve men.

20) merry christmas, jack-jack.

21) our favorite ornament of all time.

22) the beautiful mess that is christmas morning.

23) morning muay thai with papa on the beach of cha am.

24) our beach beauty.

25) peek-a-boo!

26) i may or may not have jumped for joy when finding this roti man.

27) a young thai man gave rorie his phone with cartoons on it to watch during dinner. only in thailand.

28) little miss is starting to feel a little under the weather.

29) we tried to go see elephants. but little miss was getting more and more ill at every step.
30) she held on for as long as possible. our little trooper.
31) this rorie was around for a while. i think it's looking up today… more than a week later.

BACK.

We are back in Chicago now. At the end of our trip I felt excited to go "home". I have never thought of Chicago as my home and have always looked forward to the time that I would be leaving it. As a family, we are still looking forward. Aaron and I both know we do not want to raise our family in the city. We do not want to set down our roots here. He wants trees and I want family. So our eyes are set on New England. Where exactly? Well, that's up in the air. We have been praying a lot about it and we are continuing to.

Rorie went to her second wedding and it was a success. I had to stand in the back by the sound guys with her in the Ergo feeding her a bottle. She drank her bottle as the bridal party walked down to their places, burped while scripture was read, and napped while they said their vows.

I am still so proud of her. She has been such a trooper through out her whole 5.5 months of life. She has overcome so much already. I am amazed at what a smiley happy baby she is.

I am also proud of myself. We made the decision to cloth diaper when we found out about Rorie. For many reasons. I have a blog post about cloth diapers in the works where I'll explain everything. I'm proud because I successfully kept my daughter in cloth diapers for a whole week long  vacation. We visited 3 states. 3 houses. And I had to figure out 3 different washers. And I did it. We never bought disposable diapers. It's a big thing!

More on that. More on our life. Next...