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Project 365 Day 13

January 13, 2012 Molly 3 Comments

I think Lena isn’t feeling too great today. She seems a bit tired and was pretty content to cuddle with me, while I put everything together for the previous post. She just cuddled up on my lap. So, I opened up Photo Booth.

We were totally enjoying ourselves peacefully and then Reed came up behind us and started being goofy. He was doing signs for us, like “eat”, “giraffe” and “starfish”.

Here are some of the photos we took, with Reed photo-bombing us.

Then, he went to play upstairs and we had our own silly show.

My kids are such goofballs… I love them!

Second Adoption

Pretty, just like a princess (same password)

January 13, 2012 Molly 6 Comments

Today, we got an email from a very lovely friend of ours with new photos and a link to this video. It was so nice to see this video and see that she is doing so well and having lots of fun.

Reed, Lena and I watched it together. When it was done, I asked them what they thought of their sister. Reed said, “She is pretty… just like a princess.”

I lovvvvve this photo! I just can’t wait until we’re the ones she smiles at like that.

The three of them together are going to be TROUBLE!

Everyday Life, Project 365

Adoption News, Poor Danae, and Project 365 Day 12

January 12, 2012 Molly 3 Comments

As some of you know, today was the day we thought we were going to get our court date. Unfortunately, we did not get it today and court will be a couple of weeks after we had hoped, hopefully early February. But, the reason why it’s later is because the judge wants to make sure that all of the paperwork for Helen is in order, to save us from any headaches while we’re in country. We know Helen is in great hands, so waiting a couple of extra weeks will not be too bad.

Our poor friend Danae. This girl has known us for 3 months and I treat her like my friends I’ve known for years. She and her husband helped with our dogs while we were away in November. She was also the one who found our dog sitter for us. Then, on Monday, when we had the whole runaway dog incident, I called her. She wasn’t available, but I know she would have been out there with us if she was.

And then, today, my house key disappeared. I exhausted all of the options and searched everywhere, but in the end, I had to call Danae. And she was so sweet… she made me not feel like a total dumbo for calling and bugging her. We drove over to her work and she not only gave us the key, but also Starburst. Oh, and she asked if she could give it to the kids, and not right in front of them either… major points for that!

Of course, while I talked to Danae, I forgot to tell my kids to take the wrapper off the Starburst before eating it. OOPS! One kid figured it out, one kid didn’t.

I promptly found the missing key when I got home and started unloading the groceries.

Do you see it?

I didn’t even think to check inside the grocery bags! It seems so unlikely that the key could even fall in the bag without me noticing… and fall so perfectly in there that it was way down on the bottom.

This evening the kids were bored, and I thought about a fun thing I found on pinterest. You microwave a quarter of a bar of ivory soap for 3 minutes. The kids were fascinated and loved watching it get bigger and bigger. Then, they hauled it off to the bath and turned it into snow and played with it. They lovvvvvved it.

Cut up your bar of Ivory(it MUST be Ivory). It’s very easy to do with a butter knife.

Put it in the microwave. Microwave it for 2-3 minutes. We did it for 3 and I don’t think it needed to be quite that long. It got a tiny bit burned on the bottom.

This what it looks like when it’s done. It’s not hot to touch, except on the bottom where it was touching a plate.

Everyday Life, Project 365

Project 365- Days 10 & 11

January 11, 2012 Molly 2 Comments

This was taken first thing when I got the kids up yesterday morning. They, as long as they’ve been home, would not get out of their beds until someone came and got them up. Even when their cousins visited, they’d sit up in their beds and watch their cousins get up and leave the room or run around the room and play, while they sat there. I’ve been begging them for months to get up on their own. At first it was nice and felt safe that they’d stay in their beds. But, I didn’t like the idea of them laying in bed, awake, waiting for me. And Lena is typically VERY LOUD and awake first. We talked a ton about getting up and getting a book to read, or playing in their room. We acted it out. But, they wouldn’t do it. Finally, the other day, I talked to Reed one-on-one about it and the next morning, I came up to find them each with a book in their bed. Perfect!

Today we broke out the Christmas playdough that, I think, Aunt Nicole made. It looked and smelled like a candy cane… yum!

This entertained them for TWO HOURS. It was really fantastic for all parties until we shared a meltdown over the little star cookie cutter. One kid grabbed it and cried when she had to give it back. One kid lied about it and refused to share. And one mom was just really exhausted by that point!

Everyday Life, Project 365

Project 365- Day 9

January 10, 2012 Molly 6 Comments

We had an interesting evening. We went out for a walk at one of our favorite places, the levee, and one of our dogs disappeared.

The walk started off normal enough.

Well, as normal as OUR walks are.

Just using some wire cutters. No big deal.

He has such a great imagination!

This is how it looked when we got back to the car and I realized one of our dogs was missing… I didn’t even notice because he’s not the one that goes missing… at least he wasn’t in the past.