Saturday, March 28, 2009

i'm celebrating...


this morning, i celebrated because i found the very classic memory game at a rummage sale, and i picked it up for 50 cents! theo and i spent the entire afternoon learning and playing and memorizing and giggling... and i snapped some photos of it all. i celebrated, again, after having an "ah-ha!" moment with my nikon!

i went to the grocery store this afternoon and ran into a woman who had FOUR boys with her... she must have seen me counting them, reading the question in my mind, because she said to me, "yes... and i have another one at home." i replied, "five boys?!" and she said, defeatedly, "yes. five. boys. imagine my grocery bill!" today, i am celebrating because i only *have* three. how does she feed all FIVE?!?

i'm also celebrating because, this evening, emmett INSISTED on carrying around our little photo album full of rubin's photos. i was sitting on the living room floor, and he crawled into my lap with it in his hands. he opened it up, pointed at rubin, and said, "brother, mama!!"

that, alone, is reason enough to celebrate.

what are you celebrating? tell krista, and perhaps you'll win something wacky.

4 comments:

Norbyah said...

what sweet boys you have...rubin is a lucky boy to have two loving brothers eagerly anticipating his arrival. two cute posts to enjoy in the span of 24 hours. thank you. so much to celebrate! please take photos of the lovely tulips and daffodils coming up too. i miss spring...and you.

xo

Anonymous said...

GREAT reasons to celebrate!
My mother in law has 4 boys - no idea how she did it!!

Christine @ 12,450miles said...

So sweet about Emmett!!

dana said...

what a little love that boy of yours is!!

Our Adoption Timeline

  • December 23, 2009- Adoption Finalized.
  • May 7th, 2009- Family circle complete in Madison.
  • May 6th, 2009- Mama's got Rubin in Seoul.
  • May 4th, 2009- meet Rubin
  • April 23rd, 2009- Visa Interview
  • April 22nd, 2009- TRAVEL CALL!!
  • April 14th, 2009- Packet 3
  • April 7th, 2009- NVC out
  • April 1st 2009 (no foolin')- I171 received
  • March 9th, 2009- I171H received
  • February 27th, 2009- progress report from SWS
  • February 24th, 2009- Fingerprinted at USIS
  • February 19, 2009-Rubin's legals arrive in state.
  • February 16, 2009- mailed referral acceptance.
  • February 12, 2009- received referral paperwork.
  • January 29, 2009- verbally accepted referral
  • January 27, 2009- received unofficial referral.
  • January 20, 2009- I600A received and filed with the Dept. of Homeland Security
  • January 16, 2009- submitted I600A
  • January 12, 2009- homestudy document complete.
  • January 12, 2009-received Foster Home Licensing
  • December 22, 2008- A.I.A.A. director approves application, establishes our file, and requests our homestudy documents from J.D.
  • December 5, 2008- submitted Foster Licensing application.
  • November 25, 2008- A.I.A.A. accepted official application.
  • November 15, 2008- submitted formal application to A.I.A.A.
  • November 13, 2008- final homestudy meeting.
  • November 12, 2008- autobiographies completed.
  • October 30, 2008- second homestudy meeting.
  • October 22, 2008- received formal application from A.I.A.A.
  • October 14, 2008- first homestudy meeting.
  • October 1, 2008- submitted pre-application to Americans for International Adoption and Aid
  • September 25, 2008- submitted application packet to Adoption Advocates, Inc.
  • September 18, 2008- first meeting with social worker (J.D.)
  • August 2008- decided to adopt

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