Referral Update

In my latest email from my family coordinator regarding paperwork, she told me that they had word the family ahead of us should be receiving their referral in the next few weeks – hopefully sooner. They have already received word of a referral available for them but we have not officially received it yet.

WooHoo!!!!!! That means we're coming up.....it could still be several weeks, but still good to know one is picked out for them :)

Home Study Update

Since it's almost been a year since we completed our home study we are required to do a home study update. Our social worker is great, and she came over last week to visit our home. $471 later......we should have a 2-3 page update ready soon. Crazy huh? The good news is that she will be able to have it ready in a couple of weeks, so we could take it on our first trip to include in our court paperwork. And, we've completed all other possible regional/court paperwork, so that we will also have that ready to take as well. All in an effort to shorten the time between trips......once we get a call, all we'll have to do it have it apostilled (county and state level here in TN).

I think we'll have to do our medicals before trip 1 now as well....which would be good. One less thing to worry about before trip 2. Hopefully, we'll hear something in September :)

Song in my head

God has his funny ways of making me laugh sometimes! Every time I pray for our future little boy, I start to think of how far away he is and how I hope that the Lord is watching over him...ALL the way OVER there in Russia. And then it happens......

that song "Somewhere Out There" pops into my head (remember the song from the movie An American Tail?), and I can't help the words running through my head. The words are very sweet and very applicable to the situation, so you might ask why it makes me laugh...........all I can think of is trying to learn the music when I played the piano (years and years ago) and how I don't think I ever mastered that song very well at all :) It cracks me up. See lyrics below:

Somewhere out there,
Beneath the pale blue night,
Someone's thinking of me,
And loving me tonight.
Somewhere out there,
Someone's saying a prayer,
Then we'll find one another,
In that big somewhere out there.

CHORUS
And even though I know how very far apart we are,
It helps to think we might be wishing
On the same bright star,
And when the night will start to sing
A lonesome lullaby,
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the
Same big sky.

CHORUS
Somewhere out there,
If love can see us through,
Then, we'll be together,
Somewhere out there, out where dreams, come true.

I'm a dork....I can't help it! :)

Whenever Kate plays in the kitchen with her tennis shoes on, the velcro on her tennis shoes inevitably gets stuck to one of the rugs. She pitches a little squealing fit as Kate likes to do, b/c she gets very frustrated that she's stuck to the rug. It's kinda funny to see it in real life....anyway, this happened around lunch time today. So, I went in the kitchen and helped her take her shoes off, and I then told her to take her own sock off. This is to protect her from slipping and busting on our slick hardwood floors. I came into the kitchen later, and the pictures above is what I saw................She is a girl after my own heart.......she put her socks inside her shoes, JUST LIKE ME! How cute?! That's why I'm a dork :)

She also recently got two new toys. We got her a little tennis racket, and she got Disney Princess roller skates from her Aunt Heather, Uncle Ryan, and cousins Buck and Theodore. See pictures and videos below.