Eureka! He's Found It

Thanks to good ol' Dr. Anderson we now know why Zoe had such a horrid night sleep last night - she has a really bad ear infection in her right ear. Poor thing! Hopefully, the antibiotics will kick in quickly and we will all sleep better soon! Just to make her day even "better" she had to get two shots and three vials of blood drawn. She will quickly learn to hate the doctor's office if they keep tormenting her like this! Marcus got four shots at the doctor today. Although he cried when he got them, he was pretty proud of the fact that he got four and Zoe only got two.

Well, since the sleep last night was lousy, I better get in bed now!

So, How Did You Sleep?

Most nights have gone very well around here, but last night was an exception. For some yet unknown reason, Zoe woke up about every five or ten minutes between 12:00 and 5:30 (when we bought her into our bed) crying. Not hysterical crying, just crying. I'm not sure if she is sick (she does have a runny nose), is teething (she's getting her molars) or is just grieving in a 1 year old fashion. Anyway, they both have a doctor's appointment this afternoon, so we'll see if the dr. discovers the cause.

Nina's Made Her List

Well, Nina has finally made her list (after I tagged her) go to her blogand check it out!

Let's Play Pick-A-Pile

I was out on a friend's blog the other day and she had a post called Pick-A-Pile. Here's how it's done. You take a picture of a pile of stuff in your house and post it on your blog. Then, when you have cleaned up that surface, you take an after picture to show how nice it looks. Now, on this friends post she picked a pile that had, like, five items in it. That is NOT a pile (as you will soon see). I know a pile when I see one, and I see one about everywhere I turn around here :)

It would be nice to blame all my piles on my eight kids or my husband, for that matter, but I had piles long before any of them came into my life, as my sisters and mother can attest to. This is going to be a humbling game for me - letting the whole world see my piles, but hopefully some of them will soon be gone.

The first pile we will tackle is Chris' dresser. I told Chris that I would let you all know that 90% of the stuff on his dresser is NOT his. It is just a convenient (large) flat space that is not seen by everyone that walks in our door. Okay, here it is...
Check back later today (hopefully) to see the after picture.

OOOh, bonus! You can see another pile in the reflection in the mirror (on the nightstand). Now I have to clean up two piles!

Okay, here it is, the finished product.....drum roll please....

Events of the Day

We had our first post-placement visit with our social worker today. It went well and the kids all behaved well (you want to look good for the social worker :) ). She needs to visit once more at about six months and we need to do oodles of paperwork and finalize the adoption in court and then we are done. I lack the motivation to do the paperwork, but I know it needs ot get done. It was so much easier to do the paperwork early in the adoption process when we knew it would get us our kids sooner. Now that they are here, I am not nearly as motivated to fill out a gazillion pieces of paper (twice since we have two kids).

Tonight was family night (every Friday night) and we played charades. I think Marcus thought we were a bunch of loonies (which isn't far off), but we did get him to act out 'horse', 'snake' and 'sew'. The sew one was hard as I don't think he has any idea what that word means. After charades we had kettle corn and some leftover cheese balls (leftover from New Year's Eve - GROSS!). I should have taken pictures of the charades; particularly Molly acting like 'water.'

Emily is sick today. We have had at least one child sick for about a week now and on most days two or three have been sick - nothing serious, just normal winter crud. Anyway, even though she isn't feeling well, Emily still takes a great picture!

That's Good, That's Bad

We found out today that Zoe and Marcus are cured of their giardia - that's good.
Three of the other kids may have contracted giardia - that's bad!

Last week we received Marcus's immigration papers - that's good.
Today we received a letter from USCIS saying that they are missing Zoe's "biometrics" and so they can't process her immigration papers - that's not only bad, it doesn't make any sense since we gave them the same stuff for her as for Marcus!!!!

What SHOULD I Be Doing

Here are the 5 things I SHOULD be doing instead of blogging and checking my e-mail
1) Preparing a lesson for the science class I teach at co-op tomorrow.
2) Filling out adoption paperwork. Yes, there is more paperwork even after the kids get here.
3) Cleaning off my kitchen counters. I know I have counters under all that stuff...
4) Taking a nap. That would be productive because I will be up late preparing for co-op.
5) Folding laundry.

Okay, now I feel guilty, so I think I will go ..... eat some chocolate. You thought I was going to say " get to work on those things," didn't you????