Santa or no Santa?

So we still haven't decided how to handle the whole Santa thing with Christmas. I suppose we have another year to decide as Essie recognizes him this year, but doesn't know about the presents and so forth. So, the debate will continue.

I will try to post some Christmas pictures tonight or tomorrow. We are leaving Saturday for a quick trip to visit the PA family. If you think of us, please say a pray for safe, happy travelers.

Have a Merry Christmas!!!!

Funny girl!

Essie has been cracking us up lately!! My favorite is when she's taking a bath - she hates having her hair rinsed. When the water runs down her face, she looks at us and says, "are you okay, are you okay." This means we have to ask her if she's okay. We do, and she says, "I'm fine." HA! The other day, she was playing in the living room and I heard a crash. I went in to see what happened (she had knocked one of her toys off the table) and she looked at me and said, "Are you okay pumpkin?"

She has also learned how to climb in the high chair by herself! It's quite fun to watch, but she makes me so nervous!!

Going to the grocery is quite a treat now! Essie loves to sing - very loudly! - as we go up and down the aisles. Her favorite songs? Jingle Bells and the ABC Song. We ran into a friend of mine a couple weeks ago and she heard Essie from half way across the store!!!

I absolutely love this age!!! It's been hard to restrain myself as Christmas approaches! I know the grandparents will certainly make up for any gifts mommy and daddy don't buy.

The Adoption Process revisited

Well, we are officially waiting for Hoover #2!!! Our current home study expires in January, so we've been working on our update - which, thankfully, is only about half the paperwork of the original. We have a couple minor things left to do. In the meantime, I updated our family profile book and sent it to the agency about 3 weeks ago. The current wait is anywhwere from 9 to 24 months. Although, the wait with Essie was supposed to be 6-12 months, so who knows what to expect this time!! :)

As our agency receives requests from birthmoms, our profile book will be shown. If any unique situations come up, we may receive an email explaining the situation and asking if we'd like to have our profile book shown to the birthmom. We received 2 of these emails Friday evening. One we said yes, the other we are still not sure about. Nothing may come of it, but it's exciting to think it could happen quickly for us again - especially since we'd love about 2 years between kids :-)

I'll keep you posted!!!