10 Years and 2 Kids

We celebrated our 10^th wedding anniversary last week.  I guess we can use the word “celebrated” loosely.  We did acknowledge it.  But, we haven’t really celebrated it yet.  Dinner consisted of going to the carnival at the church next door and Evan and Nicholas bringing back hot dogs.  We hope to at least go out to eat sometime soon. 

It has been an interesting 10 years to say the least.  We had plans and dreams for our lives together.  I’m not sure much has gone according to plan.  But, thankfully, it is not my plans that prevail.  We have weathered the trials and enjoyed the good times.  God has given us two wonderful boys to love and to raise.  We’re definitely thankful for all we went through in the past ten years.  It only made us stronger and reaped a wonderful harvest.

Daniel is approaching the four-week mark.  He is awake a lot more during the day.  But, when he sleeps he has some of the cutest sleeping positions.

Just hanging out

One of his favorite positions

This is how I find him most mornings.

We had Nicholas’ speech evaluated this week.  In many areas he is fine, but there are a few weak areas.  Since he was borderline with his delay, I had the option of whether or not I wanted him to have therapy.  We decided that he will have speech therapy this summer.  It will be once a week for 30 minutes.  I think he will enjoy it though.

In adoption fundraising news, I sent in the payment for the placement fee.  We now are working on the post-placement fees.  We already had two visits out of seven (I think).  Our social worker will be here once a month until finalization, which should be in November or December.  Our other “fee” is unknown and hard to plan.  It is medical expenses (all Daniel’s expenses from the hospital) and legal.  I have no idea what the total amount is yet (We’ve only received a bill for $50 so far).  So, for now, we’re working on the $1750.00 that we know about.  Ordinary Hero has another grant contest that starts this coming weekend.  Any amount will help toward our post-placement fees.

Finally, we had Nicholas’ five-year-old pictures and Daniel’s newborn pictures today.  Both did pretty well and I think we’re going to have some cute pictures.