Last week it was the Fire Marshal inspection (only 4 things to address).
This week, it was the social worker. Debbie is very different than the social worker we had in Arizona. She spent 2 hours here and thinks she can complete our homestudy from what she received from the AZ homestudy, what I provided today and perhaps with an email or two. Can you say ADD? Yup.
What next - All paperwork is in. She'll finish the homestudy and submit it. A licensing agent will come out (I'm hoping in March since I'm not working for a week in March but it'll probably be May). All that is left is: fix the remaining 2 things from the fire marshal (including getting an electrician out here to install some new hard wired smoke detectors) and for me to take 24 hours of classes.
My point....kiddo #3 might be here in the summer.
Now, if I can only get work to calm down. Things were a little out of control this week. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I'm excited to be off from work tomorrow. G has a pediatrician appt re: her cough.
Enjoyed having Tammy and her boys (I and Z) over for dinner tonight. I can't believe it took us 6 months to get together. A bigger thing - I can't believe I left Arizona SIX months ago today! Wow, so much has changed.
That is the official status from here.
Big question - what will life be like with 3 kids? Good thing we opted not to get the dog, right? Yeah, right!
Friday, February 26, 2010
Social Worker Thursday
Friday, February 19, 2010
Teeth - Zade
Just so I don't forget (I'm working on creating a custom baby book for him since the off-the-shelf ones don't work for our family/him)....
2/13/10 - j
leaves only tooth a left.
ETA: Checked today - 2/21/10 and tooth "a" is now in. It's been in for a few days. That means - all 20 have arrived!!! Finally....
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
My Baby Girl Turned 4 today...
2.10.10 - 4 years with an amazing girl who has grown from infancy to preschooler so very quickly.
Where does the time go? It seems like she was born sometime last year....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Celebrations included:
Her first overnight/sleepover and major birthday party. 2/6-7. G, Rylee, Madison, Sophia and Zade enjoyed pinata, coin find, egg/spoon race, various blind folded games, making pizza, cake and ice cream, wearing princess/prince costumes and sleeping in the basement. The party ended after swimming time at the pool where we have a membership.
On her actual birthday, I took the day off and G, Z, Mem and I spent the day together. She opened the gifts from me including a pink scooter and opened her presents from her father that arrived by overnight FedEx. We went to a library story hour and met with our new friend, Natalia and her Mom. We then went out for lunch and ice cream cones. We ended at the Children's Museum of Maine where we played for ~ an hour. Then, on our way out of the museum, the kids got to get on a school bus for a minute or so - a first time and every exciting time for them. The driver was Horrace Benner from Rockland and it was a very special time. We headed home and G got to ride her scooter outside.
At bedtime, I asked G what she was most thankful for today. She said - "Being a family." My heart melted. Tomorrow is back to work for me but I just enjoyed this day so much!
Gianna, Sophia, Madison, Rylee
Sunday, January 31, 2010
David!!!!!!!!!!
This morning, G, Z and I were looking through photo albums (I've given up scrapbooking and have just placed the photos in albums so we can at least enjoy them). He saw a picture of Johnna's boyfriend, David. He yelled - "I want Daaaaaaaaaaaaaviiiiiiiiiiiiid!" It was so cute!
Today is a day of exhaustion. One of those that caused me to skip church as I snuggled on the couch with my little boy. Memae took G to Sunday School. She learned about Baby Moses. Little does she realize, in many ways her beginning has similarities to Moses.
We ate at Wendy's for lunch and fresh pineapple and waffles with milk for dinner = simple. I did do a little speed shopping for G's birthday party next weekend.
I can't believe it's back to work tomorrow and another week of travel followed by an overnight birthday party on the weekend. At least I have a couple of days off next week. I sure need it (and so do the kids and my Mom). I don't know what I'd do without her right now.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Z-man
When someone asks him his name he responds with "Z-man!!". I love it! It's so funny.
The thing that brought tears to my eyes this morning is:
I am working at home on a project. From another room, I could hear the music playing as the kids were working on some kind of project at the island. Z-man starts singing: Kum ba yah. Seriously, I love that he knows this song (and so many others). It's a real benefit to have them at home with my Mom where she can play (and teach) them Christian songs.
And, something I lifted from someone's facebook profile:
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” -- Albert Einstein
People ask me all the time how I do the work that I do (building/creating new things). I get to work in the imagination and make those ideas become reality. This is how God made me. Maintaining the structure in an existing organization seems boring to me.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Day 11 & My Fingers Got Dirty
Monday, January 18, 2010
Getting around to blogging
So I don't forget:
1.16.10: Z at walmart said: "I smell junk" to a lady who approached him to say "hi". She was a smoker and apparently he didn't like it. Funny what they say. This same lady saw us a few times in the store and finally said it: "Have you had them since birth?" I paused and looked at her and said "Yes." I attempted to move on and then there it came: Oh, are they biologically your children? I lied thinking she'd go away. How silly of me. Then she continued with "Oh, I thought they were adopted. They don't look anything like you." I responded with "Yeah, we get that a lot since we moved to Maine." Ugh! Guess I can't lie to get rid of these people (not a good idea anyway) since I have a nearly 4 year old who KNOWS she is adopted. People.
I told the kids if they obeyed shopping we could go "out" to eat. They were pretty good so G picked Taco Bell. We pulled up and I got Z out of the car first. He kind of freaked out and didn't want to go in. We went in. Well, after 4 bites, he freaked out. I swear he had a panick attack or something. He didn't like it when people entered the building and he just gave up on eating. Before it was over, I was rocking him in my arms like a baby. We came home. He went right to bed. I should note that he did NOT have a nap at all but still...
1.17.10: Z is 2.5 years. We had a small "half birthday" celebration with an German Apple Strudel (that he helped make but didn't like it!). He did like blowing out the single candle I put in the middle (3 times). He didn't like the homemade bean soup I made for him either. Oh well, he's 2.5 years.
Oh, Z just went into a toddler bed. I thought he was throwing a lot of toys out of his crib. Well, it was HIM climbing in and out. I realized this one day when I went to check in on him at nap time. He was standing in the middle of the floor. Well, he's now in the other bedroom and I took the front section off of the crib to make it a toddler bed. He slept on the floor the first 2 nights and now sleeps in his bed. I loves jumping on it the most! G loves her new room (switched rooms) and the fact that I painted it pink! Zade misses the front windows - he loved watching the cul de sac and all the happenings (minimal, BTW).
