Umm, Happy New Years!

Still trying to catch up on pictures and realized I didn’t post of the kids playing with sparklers on January 1st. Tracy and Kevin came over and it just so happened that we had sparklers left over from their wedding! Josiah got in on the act this time and thoroughly enjoyed himself. It was fun watching the near misses and almost pokes of fire from each of the kids…no really, it was!

Josiah with sparkler in hand! Don’t try and take it away either. He likes fire!!
Just some fun pictures of our light show. I think this is Zoe’s work with Kevin behind her.

He’s making this face because Mark was trying to move the stick further up so he wouldn’t get burned. Bad daddy!

On guard! Yes, Liam and Ace thought it’d be fun to sword fight with them.
More cool sparklers fun!
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Well Check Time

I was able to convince Dr. B and her staff to allow me to bring three kids in for their well-checks instead of the standard two. Zoe’s was for six years, Liam for three, and Josiah for his 18 month. This all went down on Friday at 8:30 in the morning…oh yeah, I got the kids up and ready by then…no matter they had a nutritious breakfast of pop tarts on the way there.

It went over okay, besides that Ace had to act out because he wasn’t getting any attention. Problem solved when I didn’t allow him to have the “reward” of a lollipop or sticker…and no I didn’t give in to the screams and utter embarrassment he caused in front of the staff or our doctor, who happens to go to church with us.

So here’s their stats:

This’ll probably be the last time I post Zoe’s stats as she’s a girl and probably would get embarrassed at some point that I put her weight online. Oh, a funny was that Dr. B asked Zoe if she knew all her letters and was learning her letter sounds. She just politely said, “yes ma’am.” and nothing more. I nicely slipped in that she was reading on a 3rd grade level and Dr. B was happy with that. I wonder if she thinks I’m exaggerating, but Zoe was leaning over her reading all her paperwork that she was writing on, so maybe not.

Anyway here go the stats now:

Zoe
wt: 75%; ht: 93%; BMI: 40% So, she’s a little underweight…go figure…look at her percentage on height!

Liam
wt: 50% (that’s stayed the same percentage from last year); Ht: 40%; BMI: 60% (not sure how that came out…if you’ve seen Liam in person you would see he’s the skinniest of all our kids and he’s a decent height. I wonder if he fidgeted when she checked his height.)

Josiah
wt: 74%; ht: 90% (I got some tall kids I guess)–He came out just fine on the ear check. She felt his spech was good. He can say about 20 to 25 words or so…that I can understand. He still won’t drink cow’s milk and barely drink’s soymilk but Dr. B said to make sure and buy the calcium fortified juice for his morning drink (my kids only drink juice and other “flavored” drinks at breakfast and on special occasions).

That’s it. Zoe was such a big help and went with Liam for the weight/height and blood pressure checks as well as his eye checks and when he got to pick out a toy.

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When Potty Training a Boy, Don’t Forget

One of the things I just didn’t think about when potty training Liam was to explain how boys need to sit on the potty when doing #2 even if they have to do #1. I’ve suspected that he has been standing first to do #1 and then sits down to go #2, however, I never really went in to watch, and he would have just argued with me that he was doing it right in the first place.

Anyway, so last week, he hollers from the bathroom that he needs help. I go in and see that there is #2 on the floor and on his hands and his legs and his pants. Yep, he had ran to the bathroom to do #1 and couldn’t hold #2 until he was done. Did I mention he also missed with #1 and it was all over the floor (near the toilet of course…because he probably turned around to see what was going on on the other side).

Needless to say, Mark did some tutoring when he got home.

Oh, and at Liam’s 3 year well check on Friday he had to tell Dr. B all about what had happened and that big boys sit down to go poopy!

I’m so proud (sniff, sniff).

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9 Weeks and Counting!

Today is 9 weeks until my due date. Not to say that Ceili Rain won’t come after my due date but it’s close enough. I’m getting excited and anxious to try and get some things done.

I feel so blessed and more in love with this little girl every day. Right now she is punching and kicking me trying to get comfortable and I absolutely love it. This has truly been an enjoyable pregnancy. I’m getting so excited as each week passes knowing that we’ll get to meet this little one soon!

I’m pretty certain that she is now head down as I feel like there is more lower down and my shirts are barely covering my lower belly (despite buying larger shirts than what I normally wear). I also have noticed that I can’t walk a ton so shopping trips are getting a little more strenuous.

All part of it and I’m truly grateful for each moment!

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Adoption News

In our mail today, we received the training dvds and more information about the country we’ve chosen. We won’t post what country until we are actually in that program and that won’t happen until our agency has approved our home study. And I have no idea when that will be.

I’m so excited and this seems just one step closer to being real!

Receiving this information/videos, etc. means that the agency accepted our application. Now, I need to bust my chops on getting all my immigration forms completed! Agghhh!

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