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I have not blogged in a little while, been busy like always. Things are still booming around here, busy life with the girlies, visits with birth parents(dislike those days) school group for Sis, family life(what little time we all have together)etc, etc!!! Life with the girls is still so surreal sometimes, I just can't believe they are here at times. I love all the little amazing moments, I just want to soak them up and I could do without the tough, stressful, hard and just down right awful times too but I know its life and no one said it would be easy! :)
The Baby is just crazy, she is such a spit fire still and getting more so I think, she is going to be a sassy Mama I tell ya. She has been taking lots of steps in a row, walked across half a room so far, she wants to be so big this kid and she is just the tiniest little thing. I can't believe she is almost one, we are putting together a little family party for her for her birthday next month and it is fun planning, although I have been so indecisive about it all, I am happy what is turning out to be. I wish we could do more and give her a huge bash, I love parties but this will be just fine and have a lot of her new fam here for her! I can't wait to see her smash that cake and go for it. Because we hope to have a HUGE celebration when the time is right for the adoption, we didn't want to do something too big now for her birthday too, one thing at a time right now, so much going on. We are getting ready to stop bottles with her and formula and move on to just whole milk, she is eating good table foods and prefers that, I just want to make sure she keeps packing on weight so gotta watch that. I am also very ready to get her in a forward facing car set too, she hates facing back, last time we checked she was 18lbs, hoping she will be 20 by her 1st birthday so we can turn her around, in hopefully a new car seat for her bday! I love this little bug so much and she loves me bunches, she is my little baby cakes an I just couldn't live my life without her. :)
Sis is doing better and better each week, she has her 2 yr old moments of course(Grrrrr) LOL but we get through it. She is learning so much, we are really working with her, her speech is really improving, in fact most days we can't shut her up, lol! She is just so loving, with an attitude sometimes and in her way but she is a cuddle bug and loves her attention for sure. I love how she just squeezes onto me sometimes and loves and kisses me. I love the love from the girls, it is the absolute best. Sis is still working on the potty thing, she will go anytime on the potty we put her on but she also has no prob going in her pants. I feel this is mainly due to birth Mom leaving them so soiled all the time, she just is so used to that. She will tell us once in a while if she has gone poopoo but hardly ever so we have to get to that point. We are out and about a lot too so it is very hard to work on it. Once the visits with birth parents get reduced we are going to go strong. She will get it I know it, she is close. We would love to not do diapers or pullups with her anymore like I have said before. :0)
Her school and KCKids is going well, she is considered Developmentally challenged like I have said before too but she is really showing so much improvement, I think with so much help this little girl is going to be ok. There are still some concerns we have at how much and what she will have challenges with as she gets older but I am so proud of her. It will be my #1 priority to give her all she needs to catch up and be what she can be.
This is such a fun time of year, I have got to get the rest of their costumes but at least I finally decided what they are going to be, I can't wait, so fun. We have a friend that is going to do a photo shoot for us, going to do 2 yr pics for Sis, 1 yr pics for baby, Halloween and pumpkin time shots and family photos too, I can't wait. So Excited!!!!
This next week we have some exciting times and some stressful times too.  We will be having our Match Meeting this week, which I am super pumped about. I remember when we got certified I remember our social worker explaining how things would go once we would get an adoptive placement, I remember hearing her talk about the Match Meeting and this was a big step in the process, so I am so glad to be at this point. They will officially ask us to adopt the girls and we will get lots of info on them, all they have. Even though they know we will adopt them and we have info it will be good to have this, I am excited. But we also have court this week too and this is making me nervous on what will exactly happen in court. Most likely we will get postponed out several weeks to a trial, so that annoys me but we will just have to see what happens with it all. This hearing is to sentence the parents and though of course we want things to go one way, they don't always do. It has been recommended now both parents be denied services and we go forward the the 2-6 hearing but it is all up to the judge to determine this and she may post pone things a few weeks before we will know all this. We have a good judge and feel she will be on the side of the girls, so lots of prayers will be said for this day and I will be so glad to get it over with. They are also going to ask for visits to be reduced and I am praying, praying we can get that granted, I hate dealing with these visit days.
Onto the start of another week in our crazy adventure, my how our lives have changed and I just want to pinch myself everyday to make sure I am not dreaming. Almost 3 months we have had the girls in our lives, so much has happened in these 3 mo. :0)