'Tis So Sweet: Five Weeks, a Home Visit, and Car Trouble

Friday, November 21, 2014

Five weeks with our new guy have nearly come and gone. These days are just flying by...even when a single day may seem long sometimes. Which goes right back to the saying: "The days may be long, but the years are short." Oh how true!

Balled up is how he has preferred to be since the day we brought him home. Ha!

We have had a fairly uneventful week since it actually SNOWED on Sunday! It accumulated at least 2 inches or more where we live, so the babies and I stayed inside. We did lots of snuggling, some movie watching, and "pwayed" with toys. Smith mainly stuck with snuggling or swinging. Oh, and avoiding injury from all the loving his big sister lays on him. Poor thing. It'll just make him tougher in the long run. She just can't keep her hands or lips or toys off the boy!

Picnic time!

Loves watching Frozen!

Looking a lot like Mary during this holiday season. Whatever makes him comfortable!

I want to take a minute to talk about the big sister for a second. Y'all. This age. 28 months now. Is the funniest and most tiring age to date. The girl is nonstop! Nonstop giggles. Nonstop running. Nonstop performing. Nonstop singing. Nonstop playing. Recently nonstop climbing.

Such a ham!

And in the midst of the nonstop TERRIFIC TWOS! Proof below...

Little Miss Attitude.

I love her to pieces and laugh and stare in awe more than I ever have in my life. Love her.

Today we had our first post-placement home visit. When you adopt through Bethany, the legal adoption finalization isn't completed for six months. During that time, we will have three post-placement visits. Today, at three months, and at six months. It is very low key. They just catch up on life and talk to us about his health, routine, etc. And our first visit was today. At 3:00.

Russ had an "academic day" where he should have been studying, but alas our day went a little haywire. Russ went to get his tag renewed this morning. For those of you who don't already know about my tag renewal experience, it takes multiple days and lots of paperwork to get a tag here in Missouri. It was the craziest experience! Russ learned from my experience and has been working on it all over the last couple weeks. When he got back, I decided I had time to take Millie Janalee to the optic shop to check on her glasses. Her neutral (white/clear) pair of glasses had become pink on the frame around the lenses. Apparently, the pink dye from the cleaning cloth rubbed off on them. Of course, it was the first time they had ever had this happen and we needed to order new glasses. And they don't carry the brand I love anymore, so I wasn't too happy with our replacements. But we ordered them and headed back out into the freezing cold parking garage to head home. We both were buckled in and ready when I turned the key.

And nothing. Less than one hour from our home visit and I was stuck in St. Louis (we actually live in a town outside of St. Louis) in a cold car with a two-year old. I called Russ, and he loaded up Smith to come to rescue us. He tried to push the car out of the parking spot alone so he could jump me off, but was unsuccessful. We had to be home for our home visit, so we just left the car and loaded into Russ's car.

The home visit went great.

Tonight, we took a Friday night family field trip back to the parking garage to jump it off. The garage was much less crowded and we were able to park right next to it to jump it off. Yay for husbands!

We ended our evening with french fries for Millie Janalee's upper, a peppermint milkshake for Mama's supper, Chipotle for Daddy's supper, and a bottle for Smith. Then a belated five week photo shoot. Smith feels about like his daddy does when it comes to photo shoots. He's not the biggest fan. Maybe it's just a boy thing. Or maybe it's a father/son thing. Either way, it is my goal in life to make the men in my life smile for pictures.