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Guns Up, I'm a little Red Raider!

Whitney is all ready for the game to start! Thanks Aunt Becca for the cute onsie!

Whitney and Adoption Update!

Big owie, right in the middle of her forehead. She smacked right into the sidewalk!

She is getting so big, not a baby anymore!

Snuggling next to dada.

So many teeth!!

Whitney is doing very well. Our goal now is to get her to gain as much weight as possible. She is on a high fat diet and is now 18 lbs! She is saying lots of words and doing just about everything that the big kids do! We are having so much fun with her, all she does is smile and laugh!

The adoption process is coming along very well. We still are in shock that we are adopting again. Its so very hard but so exciting and wonderful too.

Tomorrow we have our last interview and then our home study can be written up and completed. We met with the birth parents last weekend, our first time meeting them, and it went well. We had a lot of our questions answered about Whitney and about them, it was really good. I was invited to the next doctor's appointment for birth mom, I am excited to get to go. I think at this appointment we will get to pick a day for the scheduled c-section. As of now she wants us at the hospital for the birth and me in the delivery room if the hospital allows. It's all becoming more real for us now and we are starting to prepare and be more excited!!

We will update more when we get closer to the birth. Thank you for all your support!

"Accidental Adoption"

"Accidental Adoption"
Have you ever noticed that you hear all the time about "accidental"pregnacies, but never about couples who experience "accidental" adoptions? Can you imagine:

Honey, sit down. I have some news for you.

What is it?

Well, I don't know how to say this, so I'll just come out with it. I went to the mailbox today and... well, we got a 171-H.

A what?!? A 171-H? As in, we're going to have a(nother) baby?!?

It looks that way.

But how? We've been so careful! I put away all the blank I-600A forms. Didn't you hide our home study update?

Of course I did, but don't forget, there was that one night...

What night? (pauses) Ohhh, that night, But it was only once. We were just messing around. I didn't print clearly. I didn't even use ink! (pauses again) But it was kind of fun. (giggles).

It was, wasn't it? I'll never forget how cute you looked getting your fingerprints.

So now we've got our 171-H, eh? But that doesn't always mean you'll adopt, does it? I mean, shouldn't you see the agency or something, make sure everything's okay?

I already did.

And?

I'm five documents along.

Five documents! And they're all notarized, certified and authenticated okay?

Just great. There was one small scare when the agency couldn't see the Notary's middle initial but it showed up just fine under the magnifying glass.

Thank God. And you, honey? Are you feeling okay?

I'm feeling fine. As long as I know you're happy about this.

Happy? I'm thrilled! It's always a shock at first when something like this happens, but of course I'm happy.

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Evening at the lake!

Getting ready to run down the big hill!

Oops....fell down!

Back up again running down the hill!

Daddy giving Whitney a ride back up the hill!

We went to the lake on Saturday evening to see if we could find some deer and turkey. We didn't have much luck, just saw one young buck! Whitney had a great time even though it was really cold!

Halloween!

She did not want her picture taken!! She was too busy trying to get to the next house!

Daddy and the Little Flower!

Whitney and Colton getting ready to go out for candy!!

The cutest little flower and fireman EVER!!!

Mommy and Whitney!

Halloween was definitely one for the record books! The day started out very eventful. Whitney decided that she did not want her mic-key button anymore so she went to her room, alone, and pulled it out. She didn't even make a sound when she did it, then she went on about her morning playing. Mommy noticed a little while later when Whitney had milk dripping all down her shirt. Milk that had come out of her tummy through the hole!! So after a few minutes of panicking...mommy could not get it back in because the hole was already too small. So off to the ER we went. Poor baby girl was in so much pain as the Dr tried to put it back in without surgery. After dilating the area with steel rods and after 30 minsof trying to cram the button in a hole that was too small the button was back in. I have to tell you that that was the most painful thing I have had to do in my year of being a mother. Whitney cried and screamed for a full two hours after we got home. It was so sad. She now wears onsies under her clothes at ALL TIMES!! But she took a long nap and was ready for trick or treating that evening. She loved it and everyone loved her as a little pink flower!!