Just a little bit of normalcy…
Reed himself a paper hat on Tuesday.
My girl and I, before we got the news yesterday. I love this girl. She has spent a lot of time giving me hugs. I decided she gives the world’s bestest hugs.
I baked cookies last night. I put most of them away, but then I forgot the last batch. I woke up this morning to this note. Nina is one of our dogs and she is a known cookie lover.
Just a quick photo.
Today was exhausting. One kid was exhausting for a reasonable reason and the other was testing today.
The bad part about blogging a photo every day is that you realize when your kid wears the same shirt two days in a row. But apparently Aaron washed it, so we’re all good.
Today was a fun day. We went to the bank this morning and got some papers notarized. Hopefully the last stuff we’ll need to get notarized for awhile, except for some paperwork to leave with Aaron’s family while we are out of the country. Hopefully the last adoption-related paperwork. Yay for that!
Danae and Kyle came over for dinner tonight and Danae brought sugar cookie dough. The plan was to roll out the dough and cut them out with cookie cutters. That didn’t go so well, so we just made them into little circles.
Trying to scoop them out.
Decorating cookies is hard work… you need to focus.
It was a lot of fun and we have a lot of colorful, yummy cookies to show for it. Thanks, Danae and Kyle!
The last couple of days have been mostly around the house, just hanging out. It is COLD here. Well, 30 degrees feels really cold after 65. But, the high for Sunday is 51.
I took these pictures yesterday morning when I first went into their room to get them out of bed. Lena was climbing on top of Reed and clearly thought that she was in trouble! I brought the camera in, because I knew she was up to some kind of mischief. At first, I heard “WEEEEEEEED! WEEEEED!” And then I heard “Wooo woo woo woo woo woo!”
Yeah, Lena, of course you are sleeping.
This is for Aunt Rachel! They love doing these little puzzles.
This is my picture for the day… Lena eating dinner. Sometimes I feel like all we do is stand around wishing she’d move faster. Tonight was and hour and a half for dinner… because she took a half hour potty break in the middle of it. We’ve learned to just let her take her time, because asking her to speed things up just usually ends in frustration and tears all around.
I’m sorry I haven’t posted. I had a bunch of Etsy orders to fill, but I am all caught up now. I did remember to take pictures, though.
But, I didn’t take this one. Danae was off work for MLK day on Monday and we went for a walk together. Reed is playing an instrument here. As always, we enjoyed her company. And I was grateful for the literal hand (or back) carrying Reed back to the car.
Danae gave them these cute little placemats. They love them. They are super cute. Reed’s is cats and dogs and Lena’s is matryoshka dolls. I can finally spell matryoshka, without google’s help. Yay, me!
What can a year of being home do?
12/26/10, 1/18/11.
Do you see how much they’ve grown?!? How much happier and healthier they look?
Looking at that, and knowing my kids, I think we’re going to have two big kids and one little squirt. Reed and “Helen” both have a larger bone structure– huge hands and feet. Miss Lena is so tiny, all around tiny. She and “Helen” are actually the same height right now, but “Helen” has weighs 5lbs (18%!) more. And “Helen’s” medical needs explain why her growth has been a bit stunted in the past.
When I walked in to take those photos, they were goofing off. I actually thought Lena was hurt or sick, because she was quietly curled up in Reed’s bed, blankets and everything. Until I saw this face…
Laughing hard… she melts me.
I don’t think Lena is feeling too great today. So, when we went out for a quick walk, I gave her the choice, of carrier or walking. She picked the carrier. I wasn’t sure how this would work for us with layers on, but it actually worked very well. It wasn’t necessarily the most comfortable way to wear the carrier, but I would do it again and could do it for a long walk. Lena just cuddled up to me. I asked her if she was sleeping and she said “YUP!”
Here is the goofball, “whistling.”
a moose in moscow 