Funny

Sometimes I let Morgan play with my iPhone... And she leaves little
clues as to what she's been doing! She found the camera and took a
picture of her foot!! lol

Yes we did!

We braved walmart the day of an impending snow storm AND we made it
out unscathed! The kids were so patient and tolerated waiting! I am
one happy and proud momma :)

Jack "writes" his name!

We have a two hour delay this morning because of snow...Jack is anxious to get to school so to pass the time he wanted to play "drawing" and write his name!

In this video you can hear him say "Write ah name!" and I think he gets a few letters...normally he's been able to say "J, A, C" which is amazing -- and so close!  He can recognize the letters of his name in uppercase letters as well.  It's the little things when added together really show his amazing progress this school year!

Here is the short video clip (he hardly ever stays still either, lol) enjoy and hope you all have a great week!




Edited to add Jack is playing with the Scribble and Write from Leapfrog

Morgan's a BIG GIRL!

Haiti Earthquake Recovery Fund

I have been watching the news through tears the past 48 hours.  It's a helpless feeling watching such devastation. I am encouraging everyone to donate to help the people of Haiti.

Please visit the link below and under gift designation choose: Haiti - Earthquake Recovery

CLICK HERE TO DONATE

Thank you!
If you can financially help the children in Haiti, Bethany Christian Services has set up a fund for earthquake recovery in Haiti. We will work with our partners on the ground in Haiti to use your donations to help ensure that children in Haiti are cared for and kept safe.


Please visit www.bethany.org/donate to donate to the Haiti-Earthquake Recovery fund.

Casts off after one week ( post Botox)

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrYN6pv4E40&feature=youtube_gdata

Sent from my iPhone

Feeling the Excitement!

The past few days have brought tremendous news for many, many families waiting for referrals from our adoption agency!  There were 10 or more families matched with children (based on the waiting families just on our agency's adoption message board -- which obviously isn't every family working with our agency).  This is a HUGE number.  Recently there has been a lull in referrals where weeks would go by without any matches and then just one or two would occur.  We have kept our excitement in check and knew that we had many, many, many longs months to go before it was our "turn" to receive a referral.  This large group of referrals just made us jump up on the waiting list faster than I've seen in the past year!  There was at least one family's DTE (dossier to Ethiopia) date really close to ours.  The quoted time frame is still around 15 months from the time your paperwork (dossier) gets to Ethiopia.  Our paperwork went on August 7th, 2009.  Based on that -- we still have 10 months to wait.  Based on what went on yesterday...we could potentially receive a referral much, much sooner!

Up until yesterday I hadn't thought actively about the wait.  I was "fine" just going about our busy days...now I can't peel my eyes away from the message board and I admit, my hopes are waaaaaay up!!!  I said to Jason last night a few days ago getting a referral seemed like some far off day...kind of like thinking of Jack's 10th birthday or Morgan going to Kindergarten.  I know those things will happen in the future but I certainly don't think about it every day!

So we don't know anything...we do know that our social worker is absolutely fantastic about sending program updates and information.  I just started reading another book she suggested a few weeks ago.  So we wait...how long?  We still don't know!

For those interested in reading more about the work our agency is doing for families in Ethiopia you can do so here: ETHIOPIA

Pee Pee on the P-O-T-T-Y!!

Major milestone moment here today!  Miss Morgan Leigh decided today was the day she'd finally pee on the potty.  We'd been trying on and off with zero success over the past 6 months or so.  She'd just sit and make a "Pssssssst" sound with her mouth...we put it on the back burner over the holidays and this morning while I was running her bath water I decided to try again.  I wasn't expecting anything so I was very surprised when she hopped off and there was actually PEE in the POTTY, lol!  So it's officially on...potty training has begun!

Morgan Funnies

Because I don't ever want to forget the conversations with my kids :)

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Me: Morgan we are going to take DADDY'S car today.
Morgan: But I don't see daddy
Me: He's at work, we traded cars today
Morgan: Oh, I see snow
Morgan: Where's yellow binky?
Me: in Mommy's car, daddy's car doesn't have any binkies
Morgan: What about another binky?
Morgan: Get it from cribby?
Me: okay

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Morgan to Jack "You can't get ball now, HA HA HA HA" in an evil voice!!

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We were explaining Santa to Morgan and reminding her she should be a big girl and listen to mommy and daddy.

Me: And he has presents he puts under the tree for big girls and boys
Me: We wake up in the morning and there are presents to open!
Morgan: What color Santa's car??
Went on to explain the sleigh and reindeer through laughter!
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Morgan told me a story. "Dora Explorer...open the piñata....pull the string...cookies come out...yummy cookies, open the piñata"

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"Mommy I eat rectangle Cheerios" (Frosted Mini Wheats)

Happy Thanksgiving!!