Even though I do have two blogs-- one for our family and one for our adoption-- it just doesn't seem right to have such big adoption news and not post it on our family blog as well.
But instead of repeating myself, I'll just ask that you follow the link to our adoption blog to see what's going on. Thanks.
Magnet update
No, Emily has not passed the magnet yet. To our knowledge. Its really not easy to chase a 3 year old around with a plastic bag to catch her poop in so you can examine it (which was actually the easiest of the many tried methods). Nor is it my favorite new chore. AND my kids were finding it a little TOO funny and I didn't feel I was setting a good example. :) SO... we kinda gave up on it.
The nurse said that it could be up to three weeks before she passes it, so we opted for waiting the three weeks and going back in for another xray. If you are one of those kind of parents who can actually rummage through feces to find ingested items without puking, good for you. I am just not one of those moms.
The nurse said that it could be up to three weeks before she passes it, so we opted for waiting the three weeks and going back in for another xray. If you are one of those kind of parents who can actually rummage through feces to find ingested items without puking, good for you. I am just not one of those moms.
Baby boy needs home
How I even became involved with this situation is only the Lord. But now that I know, I have to get the word out for this sweet little one.
There is a baby boy in Nashville who is 2 1/2 months old. He has Down Syndrome and he needs a family. He is currently with his birth mother but is being put up for adoption and needs to be placed as soon as possible.
He is a very healthy baby and they said he has very good tone. He is bi-racial and his birth mother wants to do a semi-open adoption.
They were looking for a family in the Nashville area but found none, and so now they are open to a family from anywhere.They'd like to find a family that is "home study ready" for quick placement, but if you would be interested in taking this one in, please contact Leann at Miriams Promise 615-292-3500.
Please feel free to tell anyone whom you think might be interested.Last but not least, if you are reading this please pray that he can find a home quickly. I'm confident that God has great plans for him. :)
There is a baby boy in Nashville who is 2 1/2 months old. He has Down Syndrome and he needs a family. He is currently with his birth mother but is being put up for adoption and needs to be placed as soon as possible.
He is a very healthy baby and they said he has very good tone. He is bi-racial and his birth mother wants to do a semi-open adoption.
They were looking for a family in the Nashville area but found none, and so now they are open to a family from anywhere.They'd like to find a family that is "home study ready" for quick placement, but if you would be interested in taking this one in, please contact Leann at Miriams Promise 615-292-3500.
Please feel free to tell anyone whom you think might be interested.Last but not least, if you are reading this please pray that he can find a home quickly. I'm confident that God has great plans for him. :)
Stitches and Magnets
Two trips to the ER in two nights: one eventful weekend.
So for Emily's visit, they took one quick Xray which showed us that the magnet had successfully moved through her esophagus and into her stomach. They are saying it should pass quickly. (No sign of it yet.) We were on our way home within a couple of hours.
(All of these pictures were taken with my phone because my camera is broken. But that's another story....)
It started last Saturday evening. We were hangin' out at home and the girls were playing in the toy room (soon to be the boys' room), when we hear Emily whining about some toy. So then we hear Ashley say "OH RIGHT... you're SUCH a whiny BABY". The next thing we heard was a bonk (the best way I can describe it) and Ashley came running out of the room with blood streaming down her face, SCREAMING. Jake jumped into gear, scooped her up and cleaned off her face and newly acquired 1/2 inch cut on Ashley's forehead. And I took Emily off to talk to her and find out what exactly had happened. The weapon of choice? A wooden puzzle.
Praise God, some friends of ours were already on their way over. One of them just graduated a few weeks ago... he's a registered nurse! So he grabbed a bag out of his car and bandaged her all up. Thank you Kory!! Our friends stayed at the house with Emily and Abby so Jake and I could take Ashley to the ER.
She did okay at the ER I guess... it did take four of us to hold her down. And she pretty much screamed through the whole thing... anything she could to get them to stop. Some of my favorites were "WHY ARE YOU BEING SO MEAN TO ME?!?!", "I'm HOT, I'm SWEATING, LET ME GO!!!", and "THIS ISN'T NICE!!!" She was so pitiful I didn't know if I was going to laugh or cry. When it was done, I may have given in to the latter. Jake did great, he talked her through most of it, doing his best to calm her down. They had to hold her arms up over her head and her face was covered with a huge tissue kind of paper that had one little hole so they could do the stitches. She was NOT happy about any of it. :( This picture was taken on the way back home. The shiny part is the glue.
But she lived and we took her home. From now on she will probably be a little more careful how she talks to Emily. :) So then Sunday night, we had just put the kids to bed when Emily comes running out of her room, right up to me, clutching her chest and says "I just swallowed a magnet." Great. So after a call to the pediatrician at home and the poison control center, I put her in the van and took her to the ER, while Jake stayed home with the other two.
The difference between Ashley and Emily sitting in that little chair in triage was absolutely comical. Now granted, Ashley was in a lot of pain, but those two girls couldn't be more different. Ashley was shy and timid, Emily was a chatterbox. Ashley would barely move unless we physically moved her, Emily wouldn't sit still if I paid her. Ashley held her poor forehead in pain, Emily sat with her legs crossed at the knee like she was at a business interview. My girls crack me up.
But she lived and we took her home. From now on she will probably be a little more careful how she talks to Emily. :) So then Sunday night, we had just put the kids to bed when Emily comes running out of her room, right up to me, clutching her chest and says "I just swallowed a magnet." Great. So after a call to the pediatrician at home and the poison control center, I put her in the van and took her to the ER, while Jake stayed home with the other two.
The difference between Ashley and Emily sitting in that little chair in triage was absolutely comical. Now granted, Ashley was in a lot of pain, but those two girls couldn't be more different. Ashley was shy and timid, Emily was a chatterbox. Ashley would barely move unless we physically moved her, Emily wouldn't sit still if I paid her. Ashley held her poor forehead in pain, Emily sat with her legs crossed at the knee like she was at a business interview. My girls crack me up.
So for Emily's visit, they took one quick Xray which showed us that the magnet had successfully moved through her esophagus and into her stomach. They are saying it should pass quickly. (No sign of it yet.) We were on our way home within a couple of hours.
(All of these pictures were taken with my phone because my camera is broken. But that's another story....)
TEIS
Can I just boast on the state of Tennessee for a minute?
I LOVE TEIS. Tennessee Early Intervention System. It is a program for families with children with disabilities or developmental delays, from birth up to age 3. They have been a goldmine for us, as far as Abby is concerned. When she was smaller, they would send someone out to our house once a month to work with her on different developmental milestones, and now that she's a little bigger (and a little more delayed), they totally cover her to have one on one therapy 3 days a week (in speech, occupational and physical), as well as a speech/occupational group with other little kiddo's on Fridays! The way it works is that they first go through our insurance, but anything after that, they COMPLETELY cover.
She even has little "orthotics" which are basically foot braces that give her more stability and strength in her feet, and a walker, which she's not super crazy about yet, but just using it a little a day, I can totally see a difference. She's grown out of the first orthotics, and now they are ordering her some bigger, a little different, foot braces.
NOW, they are offering me mileage reimbursement as well! Which is AWESOME. Driving to Franklin 4 days a week is no walk in the park, but of course, as a mom, you do everything you can for your babies. So this will help SO much!
Anyway... I just had to share. :)
She even has little "orthotics" which are basically foot braces that give her more stability and strength in her feet, and a walker, which she's not super crazy about yet, but just using it a little a day, I can totally see a difference. She's grown out of the first orthotics, and now they are ordering her some bigger, a little different, foot braces.
NOW, they are offering me mileage reimbursement as well! Which is AWESOME. Driving to Franklin 4 days a week is no walk in the park, but of course, as a mom, you do everything you can for your babies. So this will help SO much!
Anyway... I just had to share. :)
Say it like it is contest
Today was my day."WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO PORTRAY YOURSELF AS A GOOD MOM"
1. Do not wake up at 7:15 when you need to be at a very important doctors appointment at 8:00.
2. Do not waste your money and order a hot caramel latte from sonic thinking it will be cheaper than starbucks, it WILL NOT taste like starbucks.
3. Do not forget the week before to have your doctor do a TB skin test when you are doing an adoption physical, or they will call you back in to the office at 7:45am on your husbands day off.
4. Do not try to take fingerprint cards printed on PAPER to the police station, because they will send you to go print new ones on cardstock and you will have to go to Target at 8:30am after your stupid TB skin test.
5. Do not forget to keep cheerios stocked in your house at all times if it is your children's only breakfast of choice, or you'll have to get that at Target too.
6. Do not wake up your bed-ridden sister-in-law at 9am to print fingerprint cards because you don't have the time to fix your own printer.
7. Do not assume that the local police station knows what they are talking about when they "schedule" you for a 10am fingerprinting.
8. Do not let your three children yell, jump and scream while you are waiting for an officer to come in "off the street" to do your fingerprints.
9. Do not bring your children at all.
10. Do not tell your children that you are doing "fingerprints" because it sounds a lot like "finger pricks" and you've already terrified your children of those at their pediatricians office previously.
11. Do not assume sippy cups will keep children quiet.
12. Do not waist time checking email once you are home and your husband has gone to his adoption physical because you will regret the rest of the day not cleaning your house.
13. Do not wait until the last minute to dress your children for THE NEXT THREE appointments you have after that.
14. In fact, DON'T EVER schedule that many appointments in one day.
15. Don't forget your kids gymnastics leotards at the house and remember them AFTER you've driven 30 minutes down the road, dropped off your husband to tutor and dropped off your youngest for Occupational therapy. You'll have to spend the entire 1 hour therapy driving back to your house to get TWO LEOTARDS and drive back.
16. Do not wait until the last minute to get gas when you are late, you'll have to be even later to stop and get the gas.
17. Do not try to save money by packing your kids a lunch and feeding them in the car while you are on the go. Do not EVER give them peanut butter sandwiches in the car. You will find peanut butter in all sorts of interesting places in the van... and on your children.
18. Don't assume that while you are making stops that your children are leaving their clothing ON in the car. Sisterly shouts of accusations of nakedness from the backseat should be taken seriously.
19. Also do not assume that your children will leave their seat belts on at red lights. You will have to pull over to put them back on.
20. When you take your kids to gymnastics in the pouring rain, whatever you do, DON'T walk to quickly into the building. YOU WILL SLIP AND LAND ON YOUR BUTT IN FRONT OF EVERY PARENT WAITING ON THEIR CHILD. And a near broken tailbone hurts for hours. Trust me.
21. Don't pretend you're fine, the hand you land on will start swelling when you've broken two blood vessels under your palm. Get some ice instead.
22. Don't assume that because things are in the same area that you can run errands quickly. It will take you all of the 1 hour gymnastics lesson to make 1 trip to the bank and 1 drive through for dinner.
23. Don't tell your husband he can go watch football next door when you get home even though you are completely exhausted and not entirely sure you haven't broken your tailbone and have one big swollen hand... if you don't mean it.
24. Do not go a whole day with out allowing your kids to nap... it DOES NOT make them more sleepy at bedtime.
25. Don't stay up until 10:30 writing blog posts... it won't really accomplish anything but help you wallow in your own self pity!! :)
If this day doesn't make any sense to you... its okay, it didn't make any sense to me either!!!
But if you've ever had a day like this... a day of everything NOT to do if you're wanting to look like a good mom... check out this blog. You're not alone!
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