Waiting on baby

   

Just want to chronicle our journey with waiting for baby!  So here goes- I talked with our birth mom last thursday 12/13 and she let me know she was feeling really bad and was going to go to the hospital. Later that night we found out she had the flu- I sent out texts to everyone I could think of to pray for her.  The doctor told her that they were going to keep her and induce her since the fever she was running was not good for baby.  I booked a flight for friday morning and tried to get a little bit of sleep before heading out.  I arrived in Miami at 9:30 on friday morning and went straight to the hospital.  The doctor had began giving her Tamiflu and since her fever had come down he didn't want to induce her.  She fought back and forth with the doctor trying to get him to induce her but they thought it would be more risky to deliver her with her having the flu.  They discharged her on Saturday.

Our God of awesome planning had orchestrated one of my friends Katie to be in Florida at the same time adopting their new little one.  They were about 2.5 hours away and were staying in her mom's house- they invited me to come and stay with them so I packed my bags and headed that way.  I am SO thankful that I did.  It was wonderful to be with friends not stuck in a hotel all by myself!!  Katie's mom is an awesome cook- I was spoiled with yummy food and hanging out with them!  They were heading out on thursday so I came back to Miami on Wednesday.

I am staying in a hotel- waiting for our birth mom to go into labor.  She is feeling much better from the flu but is ready to have the baby.  She went to the hospital on thursday night (her due date) and they checked her out.  She was not in labor :(  They did an ultrasound to check on the baby and everything looked good so they sent her home.  We are thankful for the ultrasound and that everything looks good!!  The hospital staff told her to come back when she is in labor.  So we are waiting for just that!!  We know God is in control and has the perfect time for our baby to be born.  We are trusting in Him and praising Him for His provision so far.

I am so excited to introduce our new baby to you all soon!!!

Christmas Preschool Performance

Every year the preschool has a Christmas performance- the girls were really excited about singing on the stag!  Izzy’s class was first.  She did an awesome job singing loud and doing all the motion! She had a blast!

Piper was excited too!

She sang and did the motions for the first song and had a special job to play the cymbals for the second song.  She was SOOOO proud to have a special job!  And she did awesome!!

She closed her eyes every time she hit them together

My cute reindeer!

The girls got to visit Santa afterwards and both told him what they want for Christmas.  Piper- “Doctor Mommy” and Izzy “Easy Bake Oven”.

This weekend Tim made gingerbread houses with the girls.  They used graham crackers and left over Halloween candy.  I was super impressed with how good they looked!!

Cell phone pics

As I’ve mentioned before- my girls are all about photo-ops.  I usually don’t have our big camera so the cell has to suffice.  Recently my phone won’t stay connected to the computer so it is VERY difficult to get these pics transferred from the phone to the computer.  It took about 15 times and me sweaty and about ready to throw the phone out the window but I finally got them transferred!  Yay!  I want to be able to have these pics when my phone kicks the bucket (or gets thrown in a bucket) one of which will probably happen soon! 

The library had a Halloween event with games and treats.  The girls had a lot of fun! Piper modeling a coat Daddy found at work

Mommy & Izzy date

I LOVE this pic   Crazy craft time!

Photo-op at Carter Brothers

Making chocolate suckers

Sometimes I can talk Izzy into napping with me

Holiday Oreos!!

Tree is up!!

 

Playing/learning on the computer at the library!

Daddy snuggles every morning!

Christmas parade

Feeding the ducks

Piper is learning her name- she did both of these by herself!!  Started out as Pipipipi and now she has figured out the E- she is SO proud of herself!!

The Nutcracker!

A friend asked me awhile back if we would like to go to the Nutcracker with them on school day.  It is a shorted performance- about an hour and is for younger kids.  We were so happy to join them!  The girls and I have never seen the Nutcracker before so it was cool to see it for the first time together!  They were really excited!

 

It was a great performance.  The girls especially liked the fairies dancing and also when the mouse king and boy were fighting!

So much fun!  Thanks for inviting us Amber!!

Holiday Parade!!

I love memory making, fun things to do with our family   Kind of an obsession!  The local holiday parades are lots of fun!  We headed out today in our cold weather gear and had a blast!  Although is was 55 there was a mean wind- the girls stayed nice and cozy under their multiple layers and blanket.

We get this look a lot- silly girl!

She’s so happy Daddy’s home!

Lots of snuggles!  Looking forward to all the fun holiday celebrations coming up!

Thanks mom!

This past week Tim went out of town to a conference for work.  I DO NOT like staying by myself.  I have never lived alone (I married Tim the middle of my high school senior year).  So I asked my mom to come and hang out with us while Tim was gone.  We had a great week together!  The girls enjoyed having Grandma here to color with them, read them books, take them shopping and just hang out with them!  We stayed busy all week with trips to the grocery store, Target, Lifeway, dance class, and dinner out (I’m kicking myself for not taking any pictures!!)!  While the girls were at preschool Mom helped me fold and put away all our clean clothes- woohoo!  The girls are NOT used to Tim being gone and missed him pretty bad but having Grandma here helped to keep them entertained!  It helped me not be scared with someone else in the house too!  On Friday night we went to a fundraiser at Tanglewood.  Every year they have a Christmas lights display you can drive through.  We have never been because I’ve always heard the lines are too long- so when a friend sent me an email about this event I was really excited!  We got all geared up and headed there with a wagon to pull the girls in.  It was beautiful!!  We had a good time and got a great workout!!

The lights were SO cool!!

Santa was there along with refreshments!

Thanks again for coming and staying with us this week mom!  It was a lot of fun!!