April

This has been a busy month. I had my spring break, which was wonderful! I want more free time!
Several weeks ago CPS called us to see if we'd be interested in fostering two siblings that were likely to go up for adoption. When we prayed about it we felt very peaceful and excited. We said yes, but we weren't licensed yet and their current foster mom has had a hard time with the idea of parting with them. We were also thinking it would be great to take them when I'm off for summer break, but beggars can't be choosers.

We got to babysit C & D on a Saturday about two weeks ago and got to know them a little bit. They are adorable and D was the easiest baby I've ever taken care of. C didn't stop moving until bedtime - 4 hours of constant movement! 16 month olds have energy I'm envious of.

Last week they called again and said this was for real and so we started getting ready like crazy (and losing sleep) for two babies in our house. Our ward(s) has pulled stuff out of the woodwork to help us get ready, they are amazing. Some friends even bought us new stuff because they were so excited for us! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! We are now almost fully equipped and we've completely rearranged two rooms of our house to accomodate the extra storage needs and furniture (two cribs).

The current foster mom asked us to babysit D. last Sunday which was right during church. I said yes, then had a 4 month old to take care of for three hours while trying to be in all my meetings and do my calling. That was fun but hard to do! Eat - sleep - daiper - sleep - eat... Everyone thought he was the cutest. I really enjoyed getting to know him better.

When the licensor came over to finish the process on Wednesday we found out that we have to ALSO get a background check from Washington since we've lived there in the past five years. WHAT a bummer! That can take anywhere from a couple days to a month! So, there was a mad rush and now waiting. We were sad but I still feel like everything is going to be okay. Their current foster mom has decided again that she is going to try to keep them. Maybe if she changes her mind again in a few weeks we'll be licensed by then. Although we know it would be really hard work to take on two kids at once, we are really excited to finally have kids in our home.

Ian had his birthday this last week as well. We had a couple families over and that meant about 20 people in our little apartment! And over half of them were kids! Our poor cats were scared out of their wits as the kids chased them around the house then jumped on our bed when they tried to hide under it. One of them made a mad dash for safety and scared a kid to tears who was in their way!
Ian got his german chocolate cake and I finally got him his replacement wedding band yesterday...late but with all the baby prep I had no time within business hours!