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, March 11, 2012

Thing 1 & Thing 2

Daniel was able to come home from work again early on Friday and so we headed over to visit Carter and Talon's cousins. Daniel's mom was also still in town helping out Emily so our boys were also able to hang out with their Nana.

Emily didn't have names for them until after they were born so she always referred to them as Thing 1 (boy) and Thing 2 (girl). Max weighs around 7 lbs and Violet is finally 5 lbs. She is so tiny and Max is still lighter than Carter or Talon ever were. I'm still so surprised at how well Carter and Talon act around babies. When we were leaving, Carter went over to their little beds and gave them hugs. It was so cute!


Carter and Talon's new favorite word to say is "oh wow." Everyone there got a kick out of them since they are talking a lot more now. Usually when we go over to someone's house, they don't say a word. They also got to practice going up and down the stairs and both of them have it mastered. Although I would never let them do it without someone right there making sure they don't fall. Since we don't have stairs in our house, we try to let them practice every time we are around stairs.