Miss A in the Infant Seat

I received the infant seat last week.  I'm in love.  Miss A was a gracious model (and cooperative this day).  While she is about 1/2 inch too tall for the seat, she still fits great through the shoulders and leg room.  I'm so glad.  This will be a great seat for our new baby.  It is designed wonderfully for preemies/low birth weight babies, and growing infants.  I'm pretty sure we can get 2 winters out of this seat.

For those wondering, it is the Safety 1st OnBoard 35 Air SE.

A Marriage Test

Mark and I successfully completed another test to our marriage!  We managed to install the boys' basketball goal without a single argument!  Dominic is loving it.  I'm just glad he wants to be out there even in the 40 degree weather.  This week we are supposed to be approaching the mid-50s and 60's.  Thank goodness.

We received an email that our home study is complete and finalized.  That is a huge step in our adoption process that is now behind us.

First Pictures

Here is HE or SHE......

Car Seat Craziness

I couldn't resist a great deal I found on the infant seat I wanted.  The car seat arrived yesterday....just feeding my car seat fix!

But we did have Miss A over the weekend so I had Luke's Marathon installed rear facing.  He wanted to try it out and allowed me to take pictures.  Believe it or not, he still fits in the seat by height but exceeds the rear facing weight limit of the seat.  Here is my handsome model:

And just for comparison, here is Luke in his regular seat - the Britax Frontier.

Luke loves and begs to rear face in the vehicles. He says it is more comfortable than forward facing.  But he still remembers rear facing not too long ago.  I didn't know about extend rear facing with Dominic.  He said he wanted to ride rear facing too and attempted to pretzel himself into the seat.  It was so funny to watch him.  He managed to get in the seat but is too tall for it - not to mention well exceeds the weight limit.  He wouldn't let me take a picture of him sitting in the seat.

Nashville Pictures

Adoption Update

I'm happy to report that all is going well.  H seems to be feeling a tad better these days - still tired but I don't think she is as sick.  She is being monitored closely for signs of pre-term labor and IUGR that she has had in the past.  So far all is looking great.  We are still prayerful for a healthy 37+wker.

We are waiting for our home study final report.  I'm anxious to check that big hurdle off the list.  We should get it soon.

We are working on baby names these days.  This is difficult for us because we have such a large family and do not want to use a name that is already taken.  Plus, Mark is very tradtional with names - especially boy names - making this even tougher.  Then add in Dominic and Luke who are both being very opinionated about their future sibling's name.  Picking a girl's name was easy.  We have had a girl's name choosen since I was pregnant with Dominic.  If the baby is a girl, her name will be Delaney Nicole.  Now back to the boys.  After all my suggestions (and some helpful ones from friends/family) we have 2 first names that we are working on.  Isaac or Gabriel (Gabe).  I like Matthew, Andrew, and William for both.  So we are still on the name search.

I also ordered the car seat.  I was going to wait another couple of months, but I was just "window shopping" on-line last week and found the car seat for a great deal.  I couldn't pass it up.  It should be here next week and that will give me plenty of time to figure out our car seat puzzle in Mark's Camry.

Welcome March

We had a great trip to Nashville last weekend.  We all had a good time and I will post pictures later.  The most exciting thing that happened was that we were in a tornado on Thursday night after we got to the resort.  The alarms went off and they wanted everyone to move into the stairwells or the lowest levels.  We found out the next day that the tornado was about a half mile away from us.

Other exciting news is that I'm getting my "bumpy legs" (as the boys refer to them) all fixed up this spring.  I have had a consult with a vein doctor and we are just waiting for the approval from my insurance company.  Originally, the doctor thought he could get both legs done in 2 sessions.  But after my full ultrasound of my legs, he thinks it will take at least 3 if not 4 sessions to completely treat/remove all the veins that are causing problems.  This is because my bad veins literally wrap themselves around my legs from front to back and he said he will have to work on just the fronts one week then work on the backs of my legs the next week.  I'm very excited about this procedure.  Mainly for the health reasons - the pain and swelling of my legs - but the best side effect is the appearance of my legs will improve greatly.

Luke is still not 100%.  He spiked a fever again the other night and still has a horrible cough and runny nose.  Dominic and I are both fighting colds too.

I'm really hoping that spring weather is just around the corner!