Tuesday, May 12, 2009
An apparantly long overdue update!
Okay all you Bridge staff members (Kylee and Gabe) that are giving us a hard time - this update is for you. (Not that you don't see the kids regularly and know what is going on anyway!)
A lot has happened since Easter. We have definitely had our share of ups and downs and some rough spots during this adjustment phase. However I am going to use this update to focus on the good.
Jenavi has gotten very involved with her softball team. She has been playing on a team with her friend Emily. She has become quite the good little first basewoman. Her new nickname is "Hoover" because she sucks up all the balls that come anywhere near her. Her team has had two games and she has made some great plays and gotten several outs for her team. She has been practicing pitching and is doing well with that too. She hopes to get to pitch a little bit in one of the games soon.
Laci is little miss personality and seems to win hearts everywhere she goes. If you are near her don't be surprised if you end up carrying her around. She is good at getting people to do that for her. She is doing well in school and enjoys learning. As a matter of fact she loves her teacher so much that she told me she wants Ms. Crenshaw to be her mommy.
Yulissa has had the toughest adjustment period but we have had a good week so far. Saturday we had a mother/daughter day where just the two of us went shopping together. She loved getting to pickout a new outfit with all the accessories courtesy of a gift card from her new cousins, aunt and uncle. We also stopped at coldstone creamery for icecream on the way home. She had peanutbutter cup perfection ice cream and decided she wants a cake made out of that for her birthday.
Johnny is still all boy. He loves climbing trees (and falling out of them), throwing the football and getting dirty. We have learned that you can get him out of most bad moods by being goofy with him and chasing and tickling him. He can hardly resist it. School is a struggle for him but with the help of his teachers we are focusing on trying to get him to enjoy school so he won't dread it for next year.
Laci and Yulissa are starting gymnastics lessons tonight. Laci, aka pogo-stick Laci, is in heaven on the trampoline. We went to open gym night last Friday and that girl couldn't stop bouncing. Yulissa already flips all over the place and shows some real interest in it. We hope it will be good structure for her and help build her self-esteem. It should be fun!
I had a great first Mother's Day. The kids all made me cards with coupons to help with chores in them. Some of the coupons I got were for taking a walk with me and Charlie our dog, helping give Charlie a bath, vacuuming, cuddling, etc. Jenavi gave me a charm bracelet she made. I also got to pick out some great jewelery from the sale at church. The kids gave me a bouquet of flowers and then we went to Lowes and picked out flowers to plant. Grandma and Grandpa came over for a little bit to play in the yard and then we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner.
Before church on Mother's Day Johnny was driving me nuts by refusing to clean up his room and the toys he left downstairs. Before we left I looked at him and said something about "Didn't I tell you 20 times to clean that up???" Well later when we got home from church I think Johnny was getting the concept of Mother's Day a little better. He came up to me and said "Mom you know I think I am going to go clean up those things you told me 20 times about!" It cracked me up!
Well, thats all for now. No more complaining Kylee and Gabe!!
A lot has happened since Easter. We have definitely had our share of ups and downs and some rough spots during this adjustment phase. However I am going to use this update to focus on the good.
Jenavi has gotten very involved with her softball team. She has been playing on a team with her friend Emily. She has become quite the good little first basewoman. Her new nickname is "Hoover" because she sucks up all the balls that come anywhere near her. Her team has had two games and she has made some great plays and gotten several outs for her team. She has been practicing pitching and is doing well with that too. She hopes to get to pitch a little bit in one of the games soon.
Laci is little miss personality and seems to win hearts everywhere she goes. If you are near her don't be surprised if you end up carrying her around. She is good at getting people to do that for her. She is doing well in school and enjoys learning. As a matter of fact she loves her teacher so much that she told me she wants Ms. Crenshaw to be her mommy.
Yulissa has had the toughest adjustment period but we have had a good week so far. Saturday we had a mother/daughter day where just the two of us went shopping together. She loved getting to pickout a new outfit with all the accessories courtesy of a gift card from her new cousins, aunt and uncle. We also stopped at coldstone creamery for icecream on the way home. She had peanutbutter cup perfection ice cream and decided she wants a cake made out of that for her birthday.
Johnny is still all boy. He loves climbing trees (and falling out of them), throwing the football and getting dirty. We have learned that you can get him out of most bad moods by being goofy with him and chasing and tickling him. He can hardly resist it. School is a struggle for him but with the help of his teachers we are focusing on trying to get him to enjoy school so he won't dread it for next year.
Laci and Yulissa are starting gymnastics lessons tonight. Laci, aka pogo-stick Laci, is in heaven on the trampoline. We went to open gym night last Friday and that girl couldn't stop bouncing. Yulissa already flips all over the place and shows some real interest in it. We hope it will be good structure for her and help build her self-esteem. It should be fun!
I had a great first Mother's Day. The kids all made me cards with coupons to help with chores in them. Some of the coupons I got were for taking a walk with me and Charlie our dog, helping give Charlie a bath, vacuuming, cuddling, etc. Jenavi gave me a charm bracelet she made. I also got to pick out some great jewelery from the sale at church. The kids gave me a bouquet of flowers and then we went to Lowes and picked out flowers to plant. Grandma and Grandpa came over for a little bit to play in the yard and then we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner.
Before church on Mother's Day Johnny was driving me nuts by refusing to clean up his room and the toys he left downstairs. Before we left I looked at him and said something about "Didn't I tell you 20 times to clean that up???" Well later when we got home from church I think Johnny was getting the concept of Mother's Day a little better. He came up to me and said "Mom you know I think I am going to go clean up those things you told me 20 times about!" It cracked me up!
Well, thats all for now. No more complaining Kylee and Gabe!!
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Easter
Easter was quite different in our house this year! We took the kids to church this morning where they met a TON of people. It was nice but I don't expect that they will remember many names! After church we had lunch and then I hid their Easter baskets outside. They all had fun searching for them and before I knew it Laci had her mouth stuffed full of jelly beans. She looked like a little chipmunk. While they were going through their baskets I went into the kitchen and started making the deviled eggs for our Easter meal. Jenavi came and asked if she could help. My first instinct was to say no because I always make sure to make them beautiful. I even use my pampered chef easy accent decorater to squirt the filling back into the eggs in a nice design. But thankfully I thought twice and told her I would love her help. She peeled a ton of eggs with me, helped me mix the filling and squirted it back into the shells. The egg whites had chunks missing out of it, the filling was lumpy, it was blobbed into the shells, and their was way too much paprika sprinkled on top of the eggs.....but they were the most beautiful deviled eggs I have ever seen. She was so proud of them. At grandma and grandpas we had our big Easter meal and then had a scavenger hunt for little Easter treats. Then we hid all the eggs and let the kids find them. The bottom fell out of Johnny's basket and scattered eggs everywhere. We picked them up and he dropped them again and grandpa stepped on one and squished it. Johnny of course thought that was cool. So other then some minor mishaps everything went well and the kids had a blast. They were so sugared up it was hard to get them to sleep! It was fun though. I will try to put up some Easter pictures tomorrow. I am already laying in bed and didn't bring the camera up with me so I'm not doing it tonight. Tomorrow we celebrate Laci's 6th birthday and tour their new schools.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Finally an update....
Well it has been a crazy blur since picking up the kids on Wednesday. It has been a good crazy though! My alone times seems to be all but gone right now, my house is much messier, my sleep time is much shorter, but my heart seems to have expanded enough in these past few days to overlook all of that. These kids are truely a great bunch of kids. Yes, they have their problems but they are loving, helpful, and really want to please us and be a part of the family. I can't remember the last time I sat on th couch without one of them piling onto my lap or saying "mama, come look at this" or "mama will you play with me?". No way would I trade them for my clean house or extra sleep!
We have spent the last few days mostly hanging out and having fun. They love playing the Wii. They have never really had any video games. Jenavi has already taken away my title of hula hoop champion on Wii fit. She will tell you that she was able to hula 1,732 times and she likes to remind me of that. Yulissa loves to help in the kitchen and helped me make spaghetti for dinner tonight. Yulissa also said she wants to play guitar and was happy to find out her grandpa can teach her. I don't think he minded too much when she called and asked him for a lesson. Laci can hardly stand to walk anywhere and wants to be carried all over the place. She does however like to hold Charlie's leash on walks. It is quite comical watching her try to walk a 70lb dog. Good thing he listens well and is easy going. Johnny is adjusting remarkably well and is doing much better at this stage then we thought he would. He likes to help out and gives some of the best goodnight hugs and kisses.
We had fun coloring Easter eggs today with Aunt Kristen, cousin Emmie and Lucie. The kids had never colored Easter eggs before and had a lot of fun. Laci's fingers are still a bit green. They are all excited about Easter at grandma and grandpa's tomorrow. Monday is Laci's 6th birthday and she is looking forward to that. She keeps reminding us to make sure we know. Then Tuesday real life starts and they will have their first day of school. It will be interesting to see how that goes!
We have spent the last few days mostly hanging out and having fun. They love playing the Wii. They have never really had any video games. Jenavi has already taken away my title of hula hoop champion on Wii fit. She will tell you that she was able to hula 1,732 times and she likes to remind me of that. Yulissa loves to help in the kitchen and helped me make spaghetti for dinner tonight. Yulissa also said she wants to play guitar and was happy to find out her grandpa can teach her. I don't think he minded too much when she called and asked him for a lesson. Laci can hardly stand to walk anywhere and wants to be carried all over the place. She does however like to hold Charlie's leash on walks. It is quite comical watching her try to walk a 70lb dog. Good thing he listens well and is easy going. Johnny is adjusting remarkably well and is doing much better at this stage then we thought he would. He likes to help out and gives some of the best goodnight hugs and kisses.
We had fun coloring Easter eggs today with Aunt Kristen, cousin Emmie and Lucie. The kids had never colored Easter eggs before and had a lot of fun. Laci's fingers are still a bit green. They are all excited about Easter at grandma and grandpa's tomorrow. Monday is Laci's 6th birthday and she is looking forward to that. She keeps reminding us to make sure we know. Then Tuesday real life starts and they will have their first day of school. It will be interesting to see how that goes!
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Our babies are home!
Hey everybody! It's been a while since we updated this blog. Not alot to report on in the last few weeks except for the ongoing anticipation of our kiddos arrival. They landed at 1:14p.m. yesterday and it was a beautiful sight! We will update with pictures over the weekend but wanted to make sure we let you all know that they arrived and we are very thankful for all of your prayers during this incredible journey in our lives. Sorry....got to get back to playing "shopping" with my baby girl! Chris
Thursday, April 2, 2009
The kids are coming home!
We finally got word today that the kids' social worker bought their plane tickets. They will be coming HOME Wednesday at 1:14pm! God is good! Stay tuned for updates on how they are doing at home whenever I get a chance to slow down and type!
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