I have been waiting to write this blog post for a very long time, a whole year to be exact! There is just this sense of " we made it" about hitting the one year anniversary of becoming parents. In truth do you ever really "make it"? I think you are never done parenting or learning or working on your marriage or your relationship with Jesus or any other thing in life but I will allow myself this one small victory of making it one year as a mom. And wow has it been a year to remember! There have been many happy moments, tons of firsts, lots of tears, and all of them add up to memories. After a whole year of looking forward to this post I'm finding myself wondering what to write, what pictures y'all would want to see.
So I'll just start by saying Kai is SO different than he was a year ago! He is so secure with his life and for the most part just seems happy happy happy. He is comfortable being naughty(oh yes he is), he is comfortable getting out of bed(oh yes he is), he is just comfortable period. He is very much a follower. It actually concerns me quite a bit. He loves kids and would follow a group of them right off the side of a cliff no questions asked! He really would, he looks to others to show him how to act, very scary. Something to work on. He is obsessed with Dora, for real he is. He is obsessed with electronics, anything with a screen and buttons. One of his favorite things to say is " Kai look phone?" He still loves to sing twinkle twinkle little star and the ABC song. Other favorites are The Ants Go Marching, You Are My Sunshine, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, This Little Light of Mine and the list goes on and on. He would let me sing to him 24/7 and he still likes to be rocked but does go to sleep in his bed by himself. His favorite food are chicken, shrimp, noodles, chips, smarties, cupcakes, yogurt, bananas, clementines, fresh pineapple, and popcorn. Other saying Kai is famous for " Doin?"( meaning what are you doing) "Mommy", "Kai see em", "check it out", "Mommy", "whew!", "Dooroo stop!"( meaning Drew stop!) " Mommy". Do you see a pattern there? HA. Kai goes to preschool a half a day a week and LOVES it! He also enjoys Sunday School too. He is our social butterfly but can pretend to be shy from time to time. He talks to everyone and is very offended if he says Hi to someone and they don't answer(even the gas man). I heard a shocking story about Kai on school picture day through a third party( Thanks Ruth). He is an extrovert but this was completely out of character for him as he is verbally very outgoing but not physically, as in he doesn't let strangers pick him up or hug random people etc. So anyway I get a message on Face book that on school picture day when it was Kai's turn to go in and get his picture taken he marched into the room with no fear, said "Hi Martha!" (photographer's name) and went straight up to her, grabbed her face and kissed her straight on the mouth! He never met her before in his life! Oy vay am I in trouble.
Kai is very excited about Christmas this year and so am I. I was in total zombie mode last year and didn't even really enjoy it. So in other news for the coming year, we are planning on building a house in the late spring. Oh I am so excited! I like my little house but its just that, little. We need some room to put things and not feel so on top of each other. We will have two bathrooms, central air, a nice new basement and an open concept that will make me not feel like some kind of outcast when I'm working in the kitchen. So you can tell what I'm looking forward to the most! We will also be in the East Holmes school district and Kai will get to go to Berlin Elementary and that's where I went. That was our biggest goal.
We are also hoping to start on adoption #2 as soon as we move into our new house and get settled. Is that taboo to say that we are planning to start another adoption? I know most people don't say anything until they are under way but hey, I don't care. My life is an open book and I'm too excited to keep my mouth shut! lol Lots of things could change between now and then but that is what we are hoping for. We still haven't decided what type of adoption we are being led to do this time, we switch back and forth almost daily between domestic and China Special Needs. Time will tell!
Well here are a few pictures of little man, I'd be lying if I said the last year was easy and that it was always fun but all I can say is that it was worth it! Because this little guy calls me Mommy! (a lot)
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| Mommy's Big helper folding laundry |
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| sitting on a bucket drinking water |
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| Wearing Daddy's slippers |
