Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Eliana's Homecoming!!!

I had a great week in Nashville with my family (everyone except Tia Leah....we missed her dearly!!!), visiting the newest Wheeler addition! Here are a few pictures from the week with little Eliana. She is the sweetest little thing, and I can't wait to be with her again. I miss her so much!!!! 


Her room is so beautiful! Lindsey did a great job. They are looking forward to the day when she actually sleeps in that bed! :)

Another angle... I just love everything in her room!

This was right when they came through to greet everyone. Here she's meeting Polly for the first time. It appears they have a love/hate relationship. Eliana likes Polly a whole lot more than Polly likes her! 

How cute is her little smile!

Eliana's boyfriend, Andrew, came to welcome her at the airport. Andrew and his mom lived in the house with Lindsey and Eliana in Guatemala. He was THRILLED to see her! 
It was precious!

She fell right to sleep in the car from the airport to her new house!

Here's a little preview of Halloween... She's going to be a goldfish!

She loved moving the chair out and getting into the corner... She doesn't sit still! 

Eliana and Aunt Laloy (the name Annalise gave me has stayed strong!)

She loves her little chair... and how cute is her dress?!?!?! She's 15 months, and the dress is a 3-6 month size! SHE'S TINY!!!!! 

On another fun note, I got to skype with Annalise tonight. She talked to me for about 15 minutes, which sure beats our 1 minute on the phone. The first thing she said was, "Laloy, how's your baby doing?" How precious is that?!?!? I assured her that the baby was doing just fine, and then we talked all about her ballet class and first day at school. It was SO good to finally see her sweet little face. I do miss her terribly!!! But thankfully, I'll see her in 2 weeks!

3 comments:

The Heinrichs said...

You have one beautiful niece! And look how cute the new mommy to be is looking! Looks like the homecoming was lots of fun...if only we lived a bit closer we would have been there too!

And Eliana's room is to die for!!! I watched as it was being put together...what great taste! It would totally fit in our house...as for Auri's room...it looks like an Easter egg exploded...so not me! But after adoption experience one ---we decided to "design on a dime" for real it was not much more!

Ashley Robbins said...

Lauren, Eliana is precious! And..side note...you look beautiful! There is one pic i can see the baby (well, your belly). SO CUTE! I hope you got my message last night...call me soon! love you!

Rebekah said...

Lauren, I thought about you guys all last week! I am so glad it was a wonderful week! I can only imagine how excited you all are! I love the pic of your expression when Lindsey and Eliana are getting off the plane...it was on Lindsey's blog...and it was priceless!!!! So wonderful! Eliana's room is seriously one of the most beautiful nurseries I have ever seen! I love all of the fun furniture (especially the chair!) I hope you are doing well! We need to get together soon!