Adoption News

The birth mother had a great report this week.  She has remained unchanged and the baby's head is not engaged.  Good news!  I have 4 days off work this week and my time will be spent getting us all ready for the "it's time" phone call.

First baseball game of 2011

Adoption Update

The birthmother, H, is now 31 wks.  She continues to show signs of pre-term labor.  Looks like our little one will have a June birthday instead of July.  At least we hope June and NOT May.  All prayers are appreciated.

Trying out the NEW camera!!!!!

It felt like Summer!

 Today was very sunny and HOT!!!!!   It felt like a late June day.  Luke was so excited to break out the water slide for the yard.

Mother's Day Weekend

 We started the weekend off with Luke's soccer game.  He has informed us that he is not a fan of soccer!  He says it is way too much running.

 Luke loves playing goalie - and when he is paying attention to the action at his end of the field, he is actually very good at it.

 After the game, the boys had baseball practice.  Dominic is doing fantastic and Luke does well when paying attention.  Then we left for KC for the remainder of the weekend.

 On Sunday, my mom, sister, and Miss A participated in a Mother's Day walk/run.  We walk.  This year the weather was perfect (the runners said it was a little too warm) and the boys came too!  As you can tell, Luke was having nothing to do with a family picture - yes that is him in the background with his back turned to us!

Again - Luke not cooperating with getting a picture.  I keep threatening the kids that when they graduate from high school, get married, etc., these are the pictures I'm showing off - the ones when they were truly "being kids" and not cooperating!

 I did manage to snap a quick picture of Luke when he was not looking.  Here he is catching a ride on Dad's shoulders.

 This is one of my favorite pictures of the day.  Miss A wanted Grammy to hold her hand while we walked.  How sweet........

And lastly, silly Dominic.  He climbed this tree in front of Grammy's house right before we headed home.

Cloth Diapers!

I can't believe I have managed to convince Mark that we should use cloth diapers with our new LO!  I'm so excited.  We were able to see several different brands in a store, ask lots of questions, and even try them out on a doll.  I think Mark is even a "bit" excited about it too.  All our family thinks we are nuts.  But I (and now Mark) are trying to tell people that it is not cloth diapering from the 70's and 80's.  These diapers go on just like disposables - but instead of always throwing them away (with money and not to mention bad for the environment) - you just wash them.