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Our newest family member

March 31, 2009 Posted in  All posts No comments

Meet “Rojo,” or affectionately known as “Rojito.”  

(that’s “Red” in Spanish – hey, we’re having a hard enough time finding a name for a small human, so we can forget getting all creative and cute in naming a fish. But at least we didn’t name him “Nemo” or “Fishy” or “Splashy.”  Sorry if any of you have named your fish one of those.  We were gonna let Eddy name him since he’s her fish, by picking the first thing she said about him when she saw him, but since it was “Wow!” and then “Beautiful!” we decided that it would just confuse her to tell her that we were going to feed “Wow” or that she would just start thinking of fish whenever she heard the word “Beautiful.”  So, “Rojo” it is.)  
While hanging out in the pet store (i.e...
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“We should go on a date tonight.”

March 26, 2009 Posted in  All posts 5 comments

That’s how Tuesday afternoon/evening started.  Nathaniel texted me from school and I went to work securing our babysitter.  We’ve recently discovered that one of the women in our church was just liscensed to do respite work (as in, she’s liscensed to babysit foster kids, even over night), AND the state gives us 23 free hours a quarter to use her as needed!  So, she was able to babysit, I had taken the time to look nice that day, and Nathaniel was so burned out from sitting in class all day that he was totally up for having a date night.

Something was bound to happen…

As we were getting ready, Eddy came running in our room in her new Dora the Explorer Crocs...

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Bring on the Blue

March 24, 2009 Posted in  All posts 7 comments

Baby G is a boy!

I had an ultrasound last Wed. to take all those measurements and make sure all is well with the little one.  At the end, the tech asked if we wanted to know the sex, which of course we said, “YES!” and low and behold, there is a little boy in there.

I was shocked.  I was convinced that we were having a girl.  I had planned the nursery (it was going to be so cute, and so fabulous!), we had a girl’s name, and I had a ton of little girl clothes from when Eddy first lived with us and still wore baby clothes.  So, I’ve had to re-work my brain a little to re-think everything baby girl, and start thinking boy.  But I am SO excited that there is a little guy in there.  Oh, and you can only imagine how the father feels about all this…he said all along that it was a boy.

I thi...

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