As of today, we have had Meighan longer than she was in the orphanage. Tony sat down a while back and figured this out.
I often wonder what her life would be like if she had been raised by her birthparents.
Currently, she enjoys watching (parts) of Disney movies such as "The Little Mermaid," "Snow White," and "Finding Nemo." She also likes a video that was taped at Disney World with the characters and some kids doing various beach songs and dances. She doesn't quite get the non-instant gratification of rewinding the video tape, though! She has accepted it more lately but more often now she is requesting the DVD movies.
Last Monday, she and I went to our friends from church house to play with their 18-month-old daughter. Aubree usually tends to cry when someone other than her immediate family picks her up, but I caught her in a pretty good mood at one point. I picked up Meighan and said "take our picture!" Both girls (13 months apart in age) weigh the same right now -- 23 pounds EACH! I was holding 46 pounds! See the strain on my face?
(The following post was written in a notebook but not actually posted on the blog until we received our referral because we didn’t tell our family that we were in process. We waited until we had the referral for our son before we published on the blog because we wanted to do this “covertly” and have it be a surprise to as many people as possible.)
Misty Blue Eyes’ 6th Birthday! Can you believe we’ve had Misty for almost 6 years now? Wow!
Well…today we dropped off our application to Holt to start the process for a son/brother. We don’t have a name decided yet. It isn’t as clear as a girl’s name was for me. We’ve been throwing out name ideas to each other for a while now. When we heard or saw or thought of a name, we’d tell each other. We just don’t know yet, but we will probably keep it a secret until we return again. That’s something we CAN control in this crazy adoption process!
For quite some time I have been wanting a 3-column template for our blog. Finally, Google came up with a new template designer that allowed for 3 (or even 4) columns. I looked at the designs, colors, layouts and finally decided on this one with 3 columns. Our blog is now wider and I have also deleted most of our slide shows of our trip to bring Meighan home. I kept "Gotcha Day" and "Coming Home" 'cause I really like those! I also took a couple of the gadgets from the very bottom and put them on the left side. The archive is easier to get to at the top on the right side.I hope these changes make it easier to see our blog. I hope to keep adding to it for quite some time!
