Fresh Life

If you have read last year's blog about our anniversary then you know that 1.) we follow the traditional gifts for anniversaries and 2.) we cheat horribly with it. This year is no different. With the crazy busy time of year that we chose to get married in the first place our anniversary usually gets a little lost in the shuffle but, add in a three year old that is just too cute and you've got a marriage problem on your hands. There are nights after we get K-Bug into bed that I sit down and think - Hey wait - wasn't there a rather attractive man I call "Boo" hanging around here somewhere. We really have to make an effort to spend quality time just the two of us - and that's hard when it's the last two hours before our bed time and we can barely keep our eye lids open.

We are working with K-Bug on being respectful and not being so bossy. We even read a book today about it - "I am Respectful." Well - tonight at dinner Daddy and I were talking and K-Bug said, "Excuse me." I said, "What's up baby?" K-Bug responded, "Alligator." Apparently our stimulating adult talk was just not that interesting to K-Bug. She was respectful about it!

This is what K-Bug told me this morning when she woke up. Now this wasn't new news - I listened to her stuffed nose and weezing all night. Poor little K-Bug has a bug - runny nose (we call it Naughty Nose - we've put it in the thinking chair but it hasn't done any good), weepy eyes, and fussies. Its no fun but what is fun - bed day! We've got movies, pillows, blankets, kleenex, and animal crackers in Mommy and Daddy's bed. We're staying here until we feel better! Thank goodness for Uncle Jarred and Aunt Mimi's video library or we'd be stuck watching the Lion King five times in a row. We did watch the new Tinkerbell movie (a must have for all little girls).

Lately K-Bug has been calling everyone "Sweetie" or "Honey" or "Sweetheart." Now its important for you to realize that she only does this when she wants to tell someone to do something or to stop doing something. Here are a few examples;

We are now the proud parents of the cutest, sweetest, and most hilarious three-year-old. K-Bug has come into our lives and has made us so very happy. We go to bed each night still giggling about the funny things that K-Bug did throughout the day. We owe everything to our social worker who suggested calling a local lawyer before starting the international adoption that we had previously decided upon. Boy are we glad that we did. The lawyers worked hard and fast on matching us to a birth mom and within months we were flying down to Louisiana to meet our precious girl! I was so superstitious that I didn't want to jinx the adoption by writing about it too soon but now that it is finalized I feel comfortable announcing our wonderful news (to those of you who don't already know of course).