Oh and our evening gymnastic/wrestling sessions on the bed -yes I know stitches are probably in both of our futures!
And every afternoon he drags me to the stool and says "sit" and brings me all of his balls and then stands there with his bat and I pitch to him...yes we play baseball in the house! - guess it is the luxury of having tired parents that dont feel like playing baseball outside in the 100 degree heat. He will hit my ptches all night if I let him...and sometimes we do...hence the 10-11 o'clock bedtime - yeah I know - save your comments - it is what works for us for now.
He is my little buddy, my side kick and this time is coming to an end. I am crazy excited about getting Luci - she is going to be such a gift to all three of us - I know Mac well enough to know that he will love having a sister to play with and I know I am going to more than love the one on one time Luci and I will get to have doing the girl stuff. And Brian - I just think she is going to have him over a barrel in about 2 minutes - I see many tea parties in his future, maybe a pretty hat and scarf too!
Sunday afternoon Brian and I took Mac up to the Legacy Fountians at Piedmont Park. We had so much fun - played in the water, played baseball, (God he can hit a baseball - it is kind of freaky for a 21 month old), played in the water some more, fell and busted his lip...cause he is a boy and that is what they do.
This morning I was looking at some pictures taken that afternoon and I guess it just hit me that me and my little buddy were about to add one more to our posse.
The Adoption:
So last week I was getting kind of bitchy about all of this...mainly because I am new at this adoption gig and I like to do everything right and be in control of the process...HA! What a joke. Well I realized that because of trade shows and back to back Ch!na holidays that we could be on the verge of a total screw over and end up waiting until November to go get LuciQ....When we thought that we would be getting her in July...ughhh!
Well, my agency talked me off the ledge, told me that as soon as we got I800 approval that I could do this little trick to shave a couple of days off by getting the USCIS to email me the very important NVC Approval letter instead of sending it snail mail. Every day counts at this point!
Well yesterday we received our I800 approval in the mail about a week earlier that average wait time (thanks God, and sorry I was a whiney bitch last week).
So - we are still playing Red Tape Roulette at this point. I seriously need to get Travel approval on Sept 1 in order to travel Sept 15- Oct 2 - those are the only travel dates that work - IN MY MIND AT LEAST.
The week before this is a holiday - everything is shut dwn and the whole week after this is also shut down for holiday. I am really hoping that God will give us a few more winks, we aren't talking about parting the Red Sea, just motivating a few government employees.
I am hung up on getting her before her 4th birthday or at least being there for it (Oct 2). Not sure if a birthday crisis actually make Gods radar...ya never know! Maybe this is where I should start making deals like, Dear God if you just sped up this process I swear I will stop swearing!!! HA - I can literally hear God laughing at me right now! Sure Tara - you do that and I will part the Red Sea again!
We all know that as soon as one of my kids gets called on the carpet at school for cursing that I will be instantly cured of my potty mouth...just hasn't happened yet.
I sent LuciQ a care package last week:
Love the pink Crocs!
Now I just can't wait to see if Ann is able to get me some new pictures of her.
OK - so now we wait a little more - and in the mean time I am going to soak in all the Mac time I can!
Tara
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