Preschool, Prayers, and Nationwide Coverage!

I have no pictures actually related to this post so we'll have to make do with an assortment of pictures I've been meaning to blog about...

First, nationwide coverage!! Our profile went live today on ParentProfiles.com. You can check it out by clicking here. This site is the adoptive parent piece of Adoption.com and a few other big adoption sites. This is a big step as far as "expanding our exposure" (adoption lingo again). We're hoping that this will help to connect us with the right birthmom or help to connect us to someone who will connect us with the right birthmom. Check it out--I'd love any feedback and constructive criticism. Putting all of these profiles together is a very strange experience...trying to sell yourself without sounding like you're selling yourself...sounding good but not too good, real not fake, positive but not obnoxious. Anyway, I'd love any feedback! After awhile, I feel like it's impossible for me to objectively compile all of the information they want. :)

Old Town sculpture with Kennedy

Last week the kids and I spent the day with Summer and her girls again and we had so much fun. We showed them around Old Town Fort Collins, ate some yummy lunch, and headed up to Cheyenne to the Sierra Trading Post outlet. The highlight of the day for me was hearing Isabel and Kennedy trying to talk over one another and ending their exchange with this:
Isabel: "UGH! Would you just hang on a minute?!"
Kennedy: "Blah! Blah! Blah!"

They are definitely well-matched. ; )

Isabel and Kiana cuddled up at the Rockies game

Preschool continues to be the greatest adventure of their 4 1/2 years. Milo loves every single second of it and can't wait to get there. He's made friends (BEST friends if you ask him) with a cute and sweet little boy named Jack. Milo is soooo thrilled to have a friend who is A BOY and who likes to play firemen and marbles and doesn't (that I know of) try to make him dress up like an Asian Prince two or three times a day.

Spencer and Milo...Milo loves watching the games and shouting "You're out!"

Isabel also loves preschool but, for her, it's been a completely different experience than I imagined. I thought she would jump right in, make 50 friends, and then proceed to have her bossiness tamed a little by Mrs. Bonnema (the all-knowing-and-completely fantastic teacher). I was totally wrong! For the most part, she completely sticks to herself, doesn't really talk, and hasn't really made any tight friends yet. She is so enamored with the dressup clothes (tons of them) and the art projects (many, messy, and very creative) that she doesn't really seem to have time for anyone or anything else! We'll see how things go over the next few weeks...:)

Milo trying to love cotton candy. He really, really tried. But, sadly, he thought it was disgusting. It was sooo funny watching him try to love it. Finally someone (grandma) lets him taste it (his mom is a cotton candy hater) and he couldn't believe he didn't like it!

We also went to a Rockies game with my whole family (minus Ethan). It was so fun, perfect weather, and we had awesome seats (thanks Mom!). The Rockies lost but, really, it's more about the peanuts and Crackerjacks isn't it?

Once again, I ask, what is going on in this picture?? Note the layers, the "throne", the "crown", and the other jewels. She is SO funny. :)

Isabel has taken to saying the prayer by herself before dinner and during family prayer before bed. She has treated us to some seriously awesome little nuggets such as:

"...and please bless that Aunt Stacy will finally get a husband." (Sorry, Stace I have no idea where that came from.)
"...and please bless that Maycee (our neighbor) will not be sassy to me." (For the record, Maycee is so not sassy in a bad way.)
"...and please bless that Milo will finally start saying prayer like me sometimes."
"...and thank you for all of these blessings that are lovely and thank you for all of these lovely blessings."
"...and please bless that Milo's bed will not look so RIDICULOUS anymore with that pink poodle pillow on it!" (Said with eyes open & giggling. After Dad gave her a "be more reverent" poke on the leg, she poked him back and repeated the same thing just in a deeper voice!!)