Updated Photos. The baby's room is all done!!!

Well we finished the baby's room. Its complete. The rocking chair, dresser and diaper changer, shelf and window treatments are all up now! I am so happy with the way it turned out. Once he is born I have an adorable picture frame (well 2) to put up of him. :) So excited! Hope you enjoy! I do have one more picture to include. I just need to retake it. So look for it later today or tomorrow!

Due Date

The baby is due October 7th at 8:30am via c-section. Floyd and I are excited and nervous all the same. Still worrying about the homestudy review by someone else.

Not a lot of time...

but things went great. Birthmom, birthdad, Floyd and I do need to talk about her birthplan. And today I should find out the c-section due date after her drs appt.

A little nervous about our homestudy going into someone elses hands at the office to "review". It doesnt seem fair to have another person review a homestudy we passed. I just hate having others review things and adding in their 2cents to what they think something should be or do. I dunno, nothing to worry about I suppose we passed, but there always seem to be something more to add into our pot. And I, as most know am I worry-wart.

Off to daycare the daycare kids :)

Nervous Wreck

Well today is the day Floyd, birthmom, birthdad and I meet with the adoption attorney. I can't imagine how birtmom and dad are feeling but I know I have been sick to my stomach with worry and I assume they are feeling just as nuts too.

I will update when we get back....this is the start to our new additional family. Birthmom, Birthdad, older sibling and new baby. We are adding in four new people to our family. I am excited and nervous.

Names and rocking chairs.

Everyone keeps asking us if we have a name picked out. The answer is no. We don't have a name for him. We have several names picked out and we agree on several. I just think we need to wait and see his little face and decide then. Floyd and I each wrote a list and put them in the diaper bag to go home. Since a name tells a lot about a person and I don't think we could just name someone we have never met. So, no he doesnt have a name. Right now we just refer to him as " Lil' Peanut" and that works.....for now. Don't worry he won't go to school being called Lil' Peanut.


My mom went to Babies R Us with me on Saturday and bought "our" rocking chair. I refer to it as "ours" because I know we will spend many a nights rocking out in there. I sat in probably 8 different chairs that were in my price range (well my moms, she bought it for us!) before my mom even offered to purchase it for us. I did not realize how much a rocking chair really needs to speak to you. It really does have too. I mean there will be many nights we will have to rock him sleep, sing to him, rock him when he is sick or teething I needed this chair to be perfect. I hope I found it!

More pictures

Kinda the same things but just a few different angles. The last picture is right when you walk into the room. Under that sunshine will be our rocking chair. The cradle will go into our room or downstairs. We havent decided yet. Middle picture is of a couple pictures Michelle and I found while perusing Target a few weekends ago. And the top picture is once you walk into the room towards the back. Maybe I will have to do a live tour on the camera.

Pictures...so far

There are some of the pictures of the room. We are going to be adding a few more odds and ends here soon.

:) Enjoy

Nicole

The room is almost done...

Well the muralist came today....and finished. Well almost :) Once this kiddo has a name she will come back and paint it on the wall and we want to add a few more things on the walls, more on that below. Floyd and I also were able to get the Monkey's up on the wall. Over our lunch with the birth parents we found out baby's dad loved monkeys. She put two up there. Floyd and I talked and we really want this child to have his birth parents incorporated into his life. Unfortunately over our lunch I didn't get to find out what mom loved or liked. So that will be my next question for her. During lunch it was awkward, but so exciting! I finally started asking mom questions (last night) about the baby and I feel a little better, I just didnt want to be baby stalking her! I want her to know we are already so in love with this baby and we don't even know him yet. Is that possible?! Is it possible to love someone that you know NOTHING about or have never met? He seems so real, yet so out of reach. God sure is awesome. I do have to say this wouldnt be happening without a friend we (the birthmom and I) have in common. This friend, (you know who you are) really was God's path walker. God made the path and our friend helped carry us down it. She is an important piece to all this too and I could never discount that. Amazing how things work out. Amazing how God makes things so real. It makes me cry to even think about it all. I am so thankful to these two people and I don't even know how to show my thanks and love to them. These people WILL BE family now, Floyd and I will be forever grateful and will forever love them. And this child will know who these people are....

My goals over the next two weeks are the following:

* Post pictures of the murals....so far! Remember I don't have a darn camera charger! Mary will be here tomorrow

* Find my camera changer, or convince hubby we just need a new camera. Mary has a NICE one!!

* Get the dresser up in the baby's bedroom

* Talk to birth mom and find out her loves and what she would like incorporated into the baby room.

* Buy a rocking chair

* Complete my address list for Michelle, it is NOT as easy as it sounds. I should keep a phone book!

* Find a pediatrician we LOVE for this baby. We had to switch insurance so we will now be looking for a new pedi for Nathan, Breonna and baby....and we LOVE our current one :(

* Find out when baby will be due. Funny huh? Mom is supposed to have a c-section so we hope to find out the date and then I can schedule time off!! WOOHOO!!!

Oh, I am sure there are more I need to list, but no such luck tonight. I promise I will post pictures of the baby's room as soon as Mary gets over here tomorrow morning and takes them, oh and loads them!!

Wordle

Thanks Michelle! I have been having a great time with this site. Here is my first WORDLE




Check it out herehttp://wordle.net/ Let me see what you come up with!

Update * pictures*

Here are the pictures of the before room, the carseat and closet. Over the course of the week I will be sure to update pictures of the baby room while she is painting it.

OH! And the birth mom called this evening at 7:24pm. I will be calling her tomorrow to let her know when our appt is at the lawyers.

:)
Nicole

Nervous..

Well we are still patiently waiting to hear from the birthmom so we can get paperwork in order. I am so very nervous and I know Floyd is trying really hard to make sure he keeps things under wraps and low key for me. I know what can happen, I just pray it doesnt. I have no reason to think it all won't go as planned....however, well not hearing anything is disheartening....but, then again this cannot be easy on her or him. They truly do seem like sincere, genuine people. So I hope everything goes as planned. It is hard when the ball is in someone elses court and you are sitting on the sidelines. We have waited 7yrs, I guess a few more weeks won't kill me will it?!?!

We have a muralist coming Wednesday to start painting the baby room. I am super excited. I will post some before and after pictures. I can't find the battery charger to my camera so I will have to bug my neighbor to bring her fancy, schamcy camera over and snap a few shots to load up for everyone.....so you'll have to wait for the "before" shots..


Nicole

Life and some updates...

Well it has been a long time and today I finally felt the "need" to blog some. Hopefully this will get some things off my mind....or I dunno.

September 1, 2008 -

Breonna started her period. She started it while out with her dad and of course didn't tell him. Got home several hours later and told me all about it. So off Breonna and I went in search of some pads. While out shopping and talking I decided to get Breonna a ring. I dunno why, maybe because she really is taking this huge step into teenage hood and womanhood. But, man your period does suck! Today (8/3/08) was the first day she complained about a headache and cramps. Hopefully this will be over soon for her!

September 2, 2008 -

The kids started school. Nathan is in 8th grade. He has joined the football team and is having a bit of a hard time with one of the 9th grade coaches, but nothing he can't deal with. Breonna is entering her last year of elementary school. She started 6th grade.

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Going to back track a little and update all of you on the adoption stuff. We believe we have found a birth mom. She is due in early October. Honestly she seems wonderful. The baby's father does too. They both seem to be genuinely caring people and very laid back. A lot of you know how I feel about adoption and if you don't here it is :" I truly believe parents who are able to place their child into another home are some of the most selfLESS people and it is such a gift, not just anyone can or will do this. It truly does show how much they love their child. Floyd and I are so happy and we are praying within every inch of our bodies this all works out.

Floyd and I have decided to do an open-adoption, which thankfully these parents want for their child as well. Quite a few people have asked us several variations of "why" ?
These are our reasons for doing so:
*When this child looks in the mirror, we want our child to know themselves. It's hard enough to face the world when you don't know where your face came from.
* We don't want our child to have the cabbage patch mentality. The truth is, this child's life won't start the day we adopt them. Like us, their history and ours began a thousand lifetimes ago.
* We believe in a birthmother's right to choose, if she has the courage to place her child with us, she has the wisdom and right to choose her childs parents. Our childs birthmother is his first Mother.
* We wanted to do a domestic open adoption so our child could know their birthfamily. Our adopted child's birthmother/father chose not to abort them, how could we abort our childs birthmother/birthfather/siblings from our lives.

There are plenty more reasons why we want an open adoption, but these few sum it up nicely I think. While Floyd and I will be this child's parents, this child will have other parents, his first parents... and one day this child will want to know about those parents and we *want* to be able to tell him about them.

As for family and friends. They are excited and happy and nervous and scared. So are we!

The nursery is almost finished. We have the crib up, clothing and some basics. I have a muralist coming to paint the nursery or mural on the wall area. The theme of the baby is "surf". I want some waves on the walls, a big sunshine, a surf board, the baby's name, and a monkey (in lieu of the birth father LOVING them) on the surfboard or up in a coconut tree swinging... Here is the website of the lady coming to give us her ideas! http://www.muralsbyjayme.com/ I will be sure to post pictures as soon as I can.

My best friend has offered to throw us a baby shower! How exciting for us. I pray we are not getting too far ahead of ourselves and that this will work out.













OH! We passed our homestudy :) WOOHOO!!!