Sleepover & Snow Day!

Ummmmmmmmm, well… we had a sleepover – I mean we are having a sleepover! My brother’s two girls, Ellie and Sophie are here for the night! Ian is just beside himself with craziness  JOY! Right now they are watching Wall-e with Uncle Jim and I am hanging out with JJ – while she is being tortured with enjoying some YO GABBA GABBA!  Here are some pics from the night! If I make it through the night – I might even post in the morning! Wish for a miracle me luck!

 

 

Ohhhh the SNOW DAY part…

On Wednesday we got about another 10 feet 8ish inches of snow!  Jim was home for the day and well….me too! It was the perfect day to play with  some of those Christmas gifts that needed adults to complete  adult supervision.  Sooo, Ian picked the Grow Rocks! Yup – good ol’ grow rocks! Good times.

 

Wish me luck tonight!

Dawn

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Our weekend in review…

Well, it was not the most exciting weekend but we got alot done around the house and still managed to share a very yummy turkey dinner with all the fixin’s with my family at my parent’s house.  Sometimes these are best weekends!

Friday night, Aunt Kricket came over to visit and we got a chance to sit down and share some vino and catch up which is always nice.

JJ and Kricket sharing a good book!

 

Saturday around noonish we went up to my parents who made a very YUMMY turkey dinner! It was very good and we all ate too much but…. didn’t stop us from having dessert! Dessert of course was one of the things that I said I was bringing and then forgot — so we stopped and grabbed ice cream on the way but everyone is still making fun of us for forgetting a pie or cake! I guess that now I owe them huh?!

Saturday nite I managed to list 14 new items on ebay for auction! This is one of the ways that we are trying to fund raise for our China adoption! We have a long way to go! My goal is to list at least 5 items weekly.  I am only on week 2 though.  Good so far!

Sunday we just hung out all morning and then we did the whole divide and conquer with the kids and parents and Ian and I went up to my parents again to hang out and JJ and Jim had some home time together.  JJ did not sleep well last night so we were hoping she would get a good nap at home but all we could get was 90 minutes which is quite short for our little one!

I have a federal review of my work on 2/12 and so I am spending an extra day in the office for the next couple of weeks to prepare and we are also rolling out a new infant feeding program so lots to do but I am going to miss my time home with the muchkins!

That’s it for this weekend — kinda boring I know.  But sometimes….it’s just what we need!

Dawn

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Getting soooo big

Jim and I were looking at pics of JJ in Vietnam this morning and she was soooo teeny tiny! It’s amazing to see how big she has grown in less then a year! Jillian was placed in our arms on March 12th, 2008 and as that date nears again it’s amazing to look back.  It seems like our trip to Vietnam was just yesterday.  It’s hard to believe it’s been almost a year! I can still remember smells, sights, and details of that trip like it was yesterday and hope that always is the case.  We are planning to celebrate her “adoption day” annually and hope to never forget that magical place. 

Our children are both such amazing little people and we are soo blessed to have them both in our lives. 

okay – is it me or is Ian always half naked? Yea it’s frigid here too! The first thing he does when he comes into the house is to take off his shoes and shirt?! I just don’t get it?! Hummmm need to work on that.

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Ohhhh yes…it’s a bruise!

I just noticed that in the pics of JJ she has a HUGE bruise that is finally going away (imagine that) but it looks awful! Soooo, for those wondering – she took a spill on my parent’s kitchen floor after some wild spinning dancing.  Just in case….just in case…. you were wondering!

Dawn

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Super small…

Yummmmmmmmmmm!

So sweet!

She loves getting into super small spaces!

Jillie in her basket!

Soooooooo, Jillian does this sorta thing all the time.  She is always trying to fit herself in the sitting position into any small object with or without sides on it.  This is how she spent many minutes playing this afternoon.  The “apple basket” is where we store much of her pretend foods fromher play kitchen.  She dumped it out and then walked around the house sitting in it in different locations.  It’s so funny, especially when she tries soo hard to fit into super small spaces! I am always worried she is going to fit down the super small cat door to the basement! Silly girl!

We did have JJ’s ortho appointment today and it went very well.  While she shows signs of being very flexible (see above) they don’t think that it’s anything that would require intervention.  They are going to see her again in 6 months and we’ll see how things are looking then.  We all are walking a little taller today!

Ian has been having great days at school and his teacher stopped me in the hallway today to mention it! It’s always nice to get positive feedback especially when it concerns good behavior at school! Can’t get enough of that!  Enjoy the pics of Ian’s “easy bake” cookies!  Gotta love spending 30 minutes making 5 bite size cookies that taste like crap  a dream!

 

My boys!

We are planning a playdate this weekend with a family with 3 boys from Jim’s work  and that’s about it since it’s sooooo cold outside that we can’t even do winter activities!

Dawn

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Getting going again…

Sweet Baby J

Well, I am going to try to post weekly – just a recap of our week and random thoughts running through my head mostly.  So, this week was pretty uneventful.  Although, we did have to bring J into the MD on Friday am because her left foot is really turned inward when she is walking – it looks as though her toes are pointing towards the arch of her right foot and she was walking on the outside side of her left foot.  No pain or trouble getting around at all – but strange.  Our MD did not think too much of it – stated some of it was normal but did send us on to a specialist for this coming Thursday to be sure.  So, we’ll check it out and hopefully it’s nothing!

We woke up to about 7 inches of the white fluffy stuff outside this morning so Ian and Jim are off to hit the sledding hills with a friend! JJ is sleeping and I am about to try to squeeze in a workout before I hear her calling! I just finished uploading some pics from the Holidays and since we were not blogging then – I’ll post some here!

Halloween 2008 - scary I know!

JJ always wanting an "up-ie"

Christmas Eve 2008

Twirling!

Happy New Year!

Always together!

I just realized that this post was a little picture heavy on J but promise to capture some more of Ian too! He is at this funny stage where he wants “action pics” and loves those funny silly pics of things like him chewing up food, acting like a nut — you get the idea – “boy pics” — ah hem.

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back in action…

Whooooo Hooooo! I am back… after all my complaining that I didn’t have time to blog or upload pics etc… I am missing it.  Yep – I said it “missing it.”  I have no idea how often I will blog but I really feel like it’s a wonderful way to preserve memories of these fun times! I will admit that I am not great at finding time to sit down and scrap or complete baby books soo, this is going to be our “life book” a way to document all things edgar. 

I am trying to find my way through learning how to use wordpress – hopefully that won’t take too long!

So, thanks for checking in and enjoy. 

dawn

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