MY FOOT

for those of you who know me well this won't shock you. YES, I am sooooo clumsy, have been all my life. I was always the kid walking around with crusty knees (yuck) I wasn't really into watching were I was going, fell down a whole lot not much has changed HAHA!!! Well for about the last month and a half I have had some pain in my foot. I waited until about 2 weeks ago to go to the Dr. (yeah, I work in a hospital :) she instantly put me in one of those boots-Yes, all the way up to my knee-UGHHH, we did an x-ray and there are no broken bones but she thinks I might have a tear in my tendon!!!! I FINALLY go to get my MRI on Thursday to see what is truly wrong with it.......I tell you what, 2 12-hour shifts and then two 8 will kill you WITHOUT a boot on-I think I might die.....my foot hurts...............OUCH,OUCH,OUCH!!!!!!

Matt has been jokingly calling it my "sympathy boot" until this weekend, when he saw me take it off and said " Geez honey your foot is really swollen" Um, DUH!!!!!!!!! Hopefully we can get this taken care of before going to China!!!!! My boot is open-toed....LOL!

Our Family

Here is a picture of our Family. We are just waiting for Skeeter and then we will take another one. :)

Aleaya and Cousin Audrey painting

Dont even ask why my baby is wearing white :) not the smartest move on Momma's part.

Here is Grandma holding baby Emmerson. What a cutie pie.

FAMILY

My Grandma is here visiting from Pennsylvania. We drove to Vancouver to visit my little brother's family, his new addition to the family is Emmerson Rae Haney. She is the cutest little thing you have ever seen. She looks a lot like my little bro when he was a baby. We had a good time and the girls had fun playing together. They only had a few disagreement's :) you know, that SHARING thing is tough when you are only 2.

Sami's moving in

We found out this weekend Sami is moving in!!! I'm going to have a 16 yr old in the house...YIKES, no, really we are excited and feel this is the best thing for her. We joked about never seeing her again after buying her a car for her birthday in July(ofcourse, THIS was Matt's idea NOT mine, way too scary for me) Aleaya can drive when she is 40 LOL!! but now we will be seeing her everyday....Aleaya loves her sister so much and will be soooo happy to have her here!!!

DTC

Our Dossier is finally done. CHI sent it to China on Aug. 6th. It arrived there on the 9th. FINALLY all the paperwork is
done...........now maybe my brain activity can return again. no more mush brain.
now come on LOA!!!!! We hope to travel in Nov. or Dec.

PA

OOPS, forgot to tell everyone. We finally received our PA on July 17Th. We are now able to send Skeeter a care package. I will be doing that sometime next week.

FINALLY DONE

I haven't posted in a long time. I have been busy with our paperwork for China. We are finally done and will hopefully be DTC by next Friday. We are very excited about this.

I also cleaned out Aleaya's room and we are getting ready to paint it again. And here is the BIG NEWS-we bought a toddler bed. I'm not looking forward to this but I guess our baby is growing up. We will be working on Skeeter's room next.

Fairy Princess party

Aleaya went to a birthday party today!! She had a blast and dressed up like a fairy princess!! sorry about the quality of the picture. I dont know what is wrong with my camera.

We have a name

It took lots and lots of badgering but we finally have a name. Skeeters official name will be Tyler Sheng-Le Callahan. I'm sure we will still call him Skeeter-and I know for sure Aleaya will be calling him Skeeter. Every time she sees his picture she yells out "skeeter". It's so cute!! I'm not sure if she really understands who he is yet, but she will soon! Especially when he comes home and starts invading "her" space. I cant wait!!!

Skeeter-Sheng Le

Skeeter-Sheng Le

Yes, its a boy!!! He still looks pretty in pink!!

Speaking of names

While thinking about a name for this blog, I just kept thinking of sugar and spice and snips and snails and puppy dog tails!! I then came up with the name "snips and snails and little pig tails" but since someone already has a blog named "snips,snails and pigtails" I change the name to Slugs & Snails & little pig tails!! I figured it was fitting since we live in Washington State!!! I remember my little brother being fascinated with slugs when he was a little boy!! He thought it was fun to follow the slug trail!! UGHH!! I'm sure Skeeter will be fascinated with them too. So hence the name :)

Names

Sheng Le's nickname is Skeeter, that is the name that CHI gave him. I think Skeeter is a cute nickname but we don't think we want to call him Skeeter forever. Matt and I can't seem to agree on a name. He wants Nicholas-keep in mind our dog's name is Nicky. I want his name to be Shae or Shayne or maybe Tyler........... Shayne means a "gift from God" and with the passing of Scotty, it seems fitting!!! We know Scotty is surely smiling down on his little brother right now!! Hopefully we can agree on something before we leave for China :)

My little Artist

This is Aleaya at the Children's Museum in Olympia. She had so much fun, she cried when we left. Not just crying, a throw yourself on the ground type of crying. Isn't two fun?? I think we will be making lots of trips down to Olympia to get our paperwork authenticated to send to China. Hopefully a tantrum won't happen each time we leave the museum. You know we can't go to Olympia without going to the museum.

Kong Sheng Le

This is our little boy!! We are adopting from China again. His DOB is May 16,2006. He is from Guizhou Province and is living in Foster care. We sent in our LOI for him at the beginning of May and are now waiting to receive our PA. We can't wait for him to come home.

My First Post

I can't believe I'm doing this. A blog of all things-I love reading other peoples but not sure about keeping anyone entertained with mine-We will see!!! As my adoption friends will tell you, Im not so handy with the computer!!!