My Beautiful Girl

 

Bad, Bad Blogger!!

I can't believe it's been so long since I have updated my little blog. Well, I guess if you took a look at my calendar you might believe it.

Lots of changes and growth in our home to report.

In October we added a new long term foster baby to the mix. The Meatball was 3 weeks old when he arrived. He is now a incredibly chunky 5 month old with the best giggle ever. I'm just a little taken with him.
In December we brought J into the mix. He's a ginormous 7 month old who crawls everywhere and gets into things he shouldn't.

But those are just little blips of an update the big news is that our family is growing! We are adding our sweet little NyNy and our handsome Mr.C to our forever. It's so very surreal!
It's been a long time coming and there are still a few little hurdles to jump before our finalization date, but we are on the right track. I feel like I can breathe a little.
I can't begin to describe the emotion of their impending adoptions. I have loved these little people for years now. We have waited and prayed for an addition to our family for as long now as we waited for Avery. I find myself just brought to tears daily by the awesomeness of this gift I'm being given.

And since I mentioned Miss Avery. She is just as amazing as ever. We finally got her back into gymnastics and she is progressing really quickly. She did her back walkover today without a spot and her backhandspring is coming along.
School is going pretty well. She still would rather do all art, but we are finding our way through.

I can't wait until I can share pictures of all my sweeties. But that will have to wait a little longer.

September in My Sights

July is coming to a close and I find myself wishing we could just skip August altogether. Never thought I'd wish for that being the summer loving type. But this summer hasn't quite met my expectations. There have been some great moments, but mainly I have too many babies to go to the pool without help, it's been as hot as Hades, and aside from a 5 minute downpour last week there hasn't been a speck of rain.
So in September we have great things to look forward to. First, our little guy "I" who has been here the last couple months will be gone. I know that shouldn't be something to look forward to, but he is a diffucult boy and limits what we can do, because of his reactions.
Second is VACATION!! I seriously can't wait! This is the family vacation I've been waiting for since we had kids. We are heading to the Outer Banks in NC. We got this fabulous house just off the beach and we plan to have a lot of fun just relaxing, splashing in the waves, and even squeezing in a date night or 2!
And then after we get back... school starts. I'm actually excited about it. We are going a totally new route with homeschooling and I think it will be exactly what Avery needs to get excited about learning. So here's to not burning out and loving school even after October! (fingers crossed)

As for my babies. Well, we are still waiting. There will be a lot of court appointments over the next month or two. It is going to make our forever picture a lot clearer. Some things are still up in the air. With A it's pretty certain she will be a Stevens by 2013. We just really are going through the motions, and praying no one comes forward who would trump our adoption of her. And C, well that is still a big question mark that we are hoping will be answered sooner than later.

We are taking a little break after I leaves. Our hope is to focus on the 3 kids we have now and come down from the whirlwind of the revolving door of kids. We will get back to fostering once we are home from vacation and have our first week of school wrapped up. And I'm sure by then I will be more than excited to see who needs us next!