Welcome

We set up our adoption blog so you can get to know our family a little better. I started blogging back in 2007 and have kept up with it over the years. At the end of every year, we print off our blog for that year and give it to Daniel's mom for her Christmas present. She keeps all of her children's yearly journals in a notebook that we will get back one day to pass down to our kids. I try to keep it up to date as much as I can.


When we decided to start the adoption process, I decided to make an identical blog for birth mothers to read. Everything that I write about my family on our personal blog, I copy it over to my adoption blog. I understand that an adoption profile only gives limited information about us and we want you to have the opportunity to really get to know who we are and what we like to do as a family. Our adoption blog will show you who we were even before we adopted our boys. Feel free to read as much as you want or click on the links up above!

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Command Station

This is our formula and medication station. Carter gets half a pill of medicine in the morning. It has to be 2 hours after his last feeding and at least 30 minutes before his next one. Talon gets his medicine morning and night. After Daniel ruined a can of formula by accidentally mixing two formula's together, he insisted on writing initials on everything. At first it was like we were still in the hospital having to check bracelets before every medicine or formula feeding. It has been helpful to have a reminder of which container belongs to each boy and how much formula we have measured out.


Side note: both cans of formula cost about $20 but Talon's lasts a week while Carter's only lasts about 2 days.
Preparing bottles for the coming night and following day is now our nightly ritual. We feed the boys, change the boys, put some pajama's on them, and then put them down in their cribs. Daniel and I then get to spend some quality time with each other rinsing bottles, cleaning nipples, and measuring out formula and water for the day to come. Meanwhile we like to talk about the day's crazy events and laugh. Then comes the daily wrangling of who gets the nighttime duty. I get it most of the time.


I like to keep things nice and organized and Daniel tries his best to meet my standards. He got pretty close here, but the yellows go with the greens, not the purples. We go through about a gallon of water every other day.

As a general rule, we have found that we need to be pretty organized to keep up with everything. Luckily there is a great app for my iphone that easily lets me track separate feeding schedules, poopy diapers, heights and weights, baths, as well as a bunch of other things. It sure beats the paper and pencil we were using before.