The routine here has been exactly that...routine. Wake up Monday through Friday, get Jacob out of bed to get ready for school, send him and Jay out the door, do my day homeschooling the girls and squeezing in errands, and then feeding the family, wash 'em up for bed, read a story, and crash. As for weekends, I don't know what we've done on the weekends. Sundays are full with Sunday School, Worship, lunch, Merrilee's Chinese art class, dinner, and Ladies Bible study. Fortunately I love every one of those activities, so Sundays are my busiest but favorite day of the week. Saturdays I just go shopping or hang out at home. Last week it was shopping. :-)
We had a couple of weeks which involved dentists and doctors over and over. The kids had their dental check ups, and then I had to schedule the older two for getting their molars sealed. We didn't have that as kids, so I didn't even think of it, but the pediatric dentist highly recommended it for children with deep grooves in their molars. I guess both my kids qualified, because I had to take them both back again for sealant.
Then the following week Merrilee started with a terrible sore throat. It continued with coughing for two more weeks, and upon finding that her tonsils were once again swollen, I took her to the doctor where she was given some allergy meds, and a referral for an ENT visit. Before we could even make it to the ENT she had developed a horrible rash all over her torso. Although everything pointed to a virus, she was also given an antibiotic. To make a long story short, she is going to have her tonsils removed April 13th. Those bad boys have been causing her trouble since she was about three years old, so we've all had enough of it and we're on the road to the ol' tonsillectomy. She also gets terrible nose bleeds, so we'll see if having her adenoids out as well will help any of that. Hope it makes a big difference for her.
I haven't said much about our adoption on this blog, but we are making slow progress. We are almost done with paperwork. Some delays with fingerprints between October and January had me a bit discouraged, but once they were cleared and our homestudy was done, we've been able to make more headway. On February 25 we did the last of the fingerprinting in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a quicky trip, with an afternoon drive down there, 30 minutes at the beach, an overnight stay, morning prints, breakfast at Cracker Barrel, and a dash back home. Took about 28 hours total. Now we are waiting on our immigration approval letter. I had hoped to get it in the mail today, but it wasn't meant to be. I am still hoping to have it by tomorrow, but won't be holding my breath over it.
We do have the exciting news that two babies are waiting for us in China. They are both in the Gansu province. We do not have formal approval to adopt them, since China has not received our paperwork yet, but we have pre-approval and are excited to know we are going to be a family of seven eventually! The older child is a 19 month old boy, and the younger is a one-year old girl. Today is her first birthday. So sad to miss it, but so happy to know she'll be with us for her birthday next year, God willing.
The only other exciting news here is that Jacob lost yet another tooth, this time by chewing on his backpack. Yep, he's always chewing on something that isn't designed for human consumption, and this time it was his backpack and the little Chinese tag which was given to him as a gift from his teacher's sister-in-law who is from the same province he was born in. Unfortunately, Jacob does not value gifts, nor momentos that others consider sentimental. So the little doo-dad from China was ruined, his tooth was broken loose, and I had to see it hanging there floppily, an eerie reminder of Merrilee's nasty loose snaggletooth. When I brushed his teeth later that evening, that yucky thing started bleeding and grabbing onto the toothbrush. So I gave him a tissue and told him to yank it out. Without much hesitation on his part (but with terror in his eyes as wide as saucers), he pulled it out. Plink. It was over. Easiest tooth pull I've ever experienced with one of my kids. Yay!
The next day I discovered, in his backpack, a plastic pirate coin, bitten in half. Wonder how long it's going to be before he starts breaking out his adult teeth as well. I'm glad we've got good dental insurance. We're probably going to need it.
Last week I took the girls to the zoo for the first time since last summer. The weather has warmed up but it's still cool enough for the animals to be out and active. It was fun to stretch our legs and enjoy the time in the sunshine and fresh air.
In fact the weather has been so nice, we tried eating out on the backporch this past Saturday. It was nice, until the neighbors started up their chainsaws again, and their dogs decided to hang out around our fence begging. One even decided it was a good time and place to take a dump. So we quickly finished our dinner and ran back into our stuffy, stale aired house, and ate our banana pudding dessert. It was a nice attempt at a lovely spring dinner outside, but next time we'll do it when the neighbors are a baseball practice or something.
Next week I will be in NC with the girls visiting our timeshare. I hope to have more interesting news and photos to post then. Hope it won't be another month between updates.
Blessings,
Petrie
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