Of course we started the month with a trip to Riley Children's Hospital and an MRI for Meadow. She looked pretty stickin' cute in her baby hospital gown but I didn't take any pictures. Here's one from the original trip to the ER that started all this craziness.
As you know we received the news the following morning that the MRI report showed no calcifications on her brain! You can read all about that and how I became the crazy adopting urine mom here. Man, this has been a LONG month.
On August 2nd we had the Third Annual Wallace Home Study. It's never comfortable when someone you barely know comes into your home, asks you a bunch of questions and evaluates your ability to parent, especially when you have two living breathing specimens on display. However, by the third time you're almost use to it. Almost. Also, we love our case worker and she's super easy to talk to. That helps.
We went to the zoo three times this past month. I'm not a big fan of summer, but for some reason I felt the need to take advantage of the last few weeks of it. Not sure why, the first day of September is supposed to be 99 degrees...
Of all the choices, Moses choose the bench. Poor kid. He got mama's scared-of-fast-moving-things gene.
Some nice woman offered to take a picture of all four of us - it's a rare one!
William went with us one day, can you guess what his favorite part of the trip was??
Last day at the splash park:-(
I started homeschooling Moses earlier this month. We are doing the Sonlight 3/4 Core, an alphabet add on I found that focuses on service, a "worksheet" book I got at Costco for $8 and some of Lisa K's Raising Kids with a Heart for Orphans stuff. It sounds like a lot but it's really not. It helps that we're only doing 2-3 days a week. He loves it so far.
This day we read a book about Noah's Ark. Here's our ark - what do ya think?
Yes she's eating a raw squash. She's a freak of nature.
Meadow is 100% girl and has a new infatuation with shoes. We keep all three pairs of her shoes in a basket in the closet and she opens the door, carries the basket over and then hands me each shoe and grunts. It's ridiculously cute.
The last week of the month our Family Group (community group, small group, etc.) has a meal together. Here are Moses and Meadow with their favorite older cool kid buddies. (hence Meadow not looking at the camera but staring at Judah instead.)
A few (half?) of the kids in our date night co-op. If you do not go on regular dates with your man you need to start. The co-op idea is awesome! There are four families that participate in ours so we get three dates a month then, one Friday night it's our turn to watch all the kids. Brilliant. (And FREE!)
And we exposed all the kids in the last two pictures to hand, foot and mouth disease. Whoops.
Another month is over. Adoption update coming soon.
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