One Year Ago

One year ago today, we received our completed home study in the mail, meaning that if a situation came along, we could move forward with the adoption!!!

We had no idea that two months later, we would be matched with J and four months after receiving our completed home study, our N would be born.


This morning, one year later, I sit here, playing on the floor with my seven month old son in the early morning hours.  It's amazing to see how God has this planned from the beginning.

Possible Glasses

Thursday night, we drove across town (40 min) to look at infant glasses.  Once we got there, we saw that they had the plastic glasses that we had already seen and lots of wire frames with the pieces that go around the ears, making them baby friendly.  I would have loved to try the wire ones on N, but the lady there wouldn't let us, telling us that those were not for him.  Well, actually, she saw me looking at them and said "No".  While I understand that the chances of them getting broken is higher and the plastic ones are recommended, I also understand that I'm his parent and that I need to make that decision.  Needless to say, we were only there for about 5 minutes.  It's sad when a place that has the potential to have what want lacks good customer service.  

The good news is that while we were there, we found out that the plastic ones come in a rectangular shape, making them look more normal, and come in brown, which go really well with his skin tone and make them blend in instead of look out of place.  

Dave called the store that we went to on Monday and they offered to order the pairs that we like (picture below).  They should take about a week to get to the store and when they come in, we'll go see what they look like.  We aren't obligated to buy them if we don't like them, which is pretty awesome.  

Uncle Chris

Our friend Chris came to visit us for a few days and we loved having him spend time with us.  N loves facial hair, so he was loving some time with Chris.  :)  

Army Crawl

N is officially doing the army crawl!!!!!!!

Pictures and video will be coming soon.

Vote for Nate

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Can't Wait

While I love N being "little", I can't wait for, or rather I look forward to, the times when I can do activities like this with N.  

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Fall Festival

We had our fall festival at church on Sunday night.  N got to wear his pirate costume and since he had to wear the patch that day, we decided to wait and let him wear it while he wore his costume.  

Every pirate needs to chew on his sword.  

During the fall festival, Dave and I had to work the popcorn and snow cone areas, so N got to walk around with various different people.  I'm so thankful that he's comfortable with other people and that we have a church family that loves him soo much.  

After it was over, N got to go in the bounce house with us.  He LOVED it!!!  I wish we had the video camera with us, because he was squealing with excitement.  

He loves his Aunt Trish!!!

N in his pirate outfit. In the one where he is looking at the camera, take a close look at his eye.  Did you notice that he's using it correctly and making it move out of the corner of his eye???  This proves that the patching is working!!!!!  

Our first Halloween as a family of three!!!