May 2014 - Crafty Nester

Our baby J is terrified of bugs. Flying bugs, specifically, are the most frightening…the smaller, the scarier. He is also scared of the dark, or an unlit room. Even if there is light coming in through the window, if the lights are off, he won’t set foot in the room. Remember when little M used…

My little M has just two more short weeks, and her school year will be done. Doesn’t it seem like a long school year?! Anyways, two weeks left… I can do that… I am so excited for Summer, and so thrilled to have my girl home with me all the time for a couple months!Â …

Our baby J will be four (four?!) years old in a couple of months… Technically he is old enough to be in pre-k, and he would be old enough to start kindergarten next year when he turns five, which pretty much just gives me heart palpitations. And while we think that he may be ready…

Adoption will change, shift, slow down, hit snags, be weird, be difficult, take longer than you think, take longer than you can stand. This will happen. This is the normal thing. When someone gives you a timeline, say, “Thank you for that cute little sentence. Flush.” Potential adopters, let me tell you this: Get your…

It’s a name I have loved for a while, and (possibly because I used this name to refer to our newest incessantly), the husband came around. So, her name will be Paisley Fei… Paisley, because I love it, and Fei, because it’s part of her Chinese name.

Favorite blog posts this week… I love Jami. Her sense of humor always has me cracking up. I also think this party she threw for her daughter is adorable. Go. Read it and laugh with me. I have followed Suzy’s blog since before they even knew who their little boy would be…and now they are…

So we decided before Christmas that we were ready to adopt again…if we were able to move quickly, we would be able to adopt a special focus child in China by reusing the dossier we used for baby J. If you adopt within a year, China allows you to reuse your dossier. We needed to…

Our family is growing…by two feet! Yes, you read that correctly! We are expecting!Sometime late this Fall we will be heading back to China for our precious little girl. We received our pre-approval on May 9th, and we hope to have our dossier in China very shortly…more details will be coming soon. Hurray!!

I wish I could stay with you all day, mommy, but I have to go to school. I have a job to do. ~ little MWhat job are you doing today? ~ meLearning, mommy. Learning is my job! ~ little M. Duh. That’s so pretty on you mommy! You look just like a giraffe! ~…