10 days old!!

Adalinne is 10 days old now! :) Here is a sweet picture of her just hangin' with daddy!

We still haven't heard any official word on the other family taking her back. We're still not "comfortable," but we're breathing a tiny bit easier because they HAVEN'T called to move her either. In fact, her social worker called this afternoon to tell me that she had her medical card to drop by our house, so that gives me an idea it may be longer, but certainly doesn't promise us anything either. So, no news is good news!?!?

Friends are the BEST!

Had to catch a photo of the cake baker/decorator!

Isn't this cake AMAZING!?

I couldn't believe this flower! Incredible detail!

My dearest friend, Amber, called and said she had a "dessert" for me and she wanted to come run it by for me! I couldn't believe my eyes! It looked so incredibly professional! I've DREAMED of having a cake like this! She made this entire cake from scratch and I AM SO PROUD OF HER! She's phenominal! It meant SO MUCH that someone would put that much work into treating me like royalty just for dessert, just "because." Thank you Amber!

Occupational Therapists' Fault!!

Reaching "in."

Pulling "out."

Playing his heart out.

We blame this on our Occupational Therapist, Chris and Developmental Specialist, CeCe. Ezra has therapy appointments Tuesday and another on Wednesday and the famous activities that they have Ezra do is they dump a whole container of shapes out and make him sit, squat, stand and pick up an object then "put in" to the container. He's starting to make a habit now of taking almost every last toy out of the toy box and throwing it out, then he'll get about one-tenth of them put back into the toybox, then crawl away leaving a huge mess! I think it's time for mommy to go through the toy box and eliminate the tiny small stuff and maybe leave the big airplanes, trucks, buses, etc. A whole lot easier to pick up and maintain a half way decent looking toy area when three are now playing equally!

BIG.........little

Can it be possible that they can grow THAT MUCH in just 12 short months!? WOW! We thought we'd do a side by side picture of our two substance abused babies. After seeing this picture we are PRAISING THE LORD WITH GLADNESS to see how His hand has been in all of Ezra's life of growing up and we are praying for the same miracle for our sweet Adalinne Rose!!!

No news!!!!

I know a lot of you are checking our blog for an update on whether or not our sweet Adalinne is still with us. My gut tells me something is up and I"m not sure how it will pan out, but we're still not officially notified either, so I MUST KEEP TRUSTING! So hard to do as many of you reading this know. We'll still let you all know once we hear something.

Had our week well child check yesterday and she's looking great. She's 6 lbs 12 ounces. So sweet. Today she's been awake a lot! So sweet to see her looking at you! She also today has had a really good day on "structure" with feedings, etc. I'm praying for a smoother night because of it tonight! :) These last several nights have been TOUGH! She's usually awake at least half the night.

Thanks for checking back.

Calling her Adalinne Rose!

I know several are wondering about Adalinne's stats. Here they are!

May 27, 2008

6 lbs 10 ounces

19 3/4"

We're still waiting to hear on June 4 if the other foster family has decided to go ahead and take her. Please keep praying the Lord's will be done in all this.

Diamondbacks Game!

My dear sweet boys!

Chase Field

David eating his corndog!

Ezra trying cotton candy for the first time! He loved it!

May is Foster Care Appreciation Month! As a "thank you," the state funded an all day Diamondbacks event for all foster families that wanted to participate. They provided a really fun Carnival for the kids with all kinds of games, bounce houses, prizes, raffles, etc. All free, plus they fed us lunch, hot dogs, chips, waters. We had so much fun, and the best part of the carnival was that one of the "prizes" was an adaptor for any kind of electric device including laptops, keyboards, etc. We were just last week pricing out an adaptor for the keyboard we got Laine for his "early birthday" since he's taking piano now. It didn't come with an adaptor, so we now have an adaptor instead of using batteries, and we are SO EXCITED!

After the carnival, Chase Field was open to go in and enjoy watching the players practice, etc. It was really cool. David went NUTS when he saw the great big baseball field. It was the sweetest thing ever. Laine has been to a few games last year, so he wasn't near as excited as David, but he was happy to be there nonetheless.

No worries, either, all you mommies reading this. I DIDN'T take the baby! She stayed at home with my mom!