No more training wheels!

I never thought that it would happen so soon, but Sean learned to ride a bike without training wheels tonight! He tried earlier in the day, but would only ride on the grass and cried the whole time. Then later Brian and Brian Jr. went to baseball practice and Sean wanted to try again. I took the pedals off and let him coast down the driveway a few times to show him that he can balance. After a few runs he was asking for his pedals back. It took a few shaky starts, but within a few minutes he was riding!


I did get few pictures of his MJ impersonation with his tongue out for concentration. But most of the time as he was riding up and down the sidewalk he was whining and crying that it was too hard and than he couldn't do it! I kept telling him stop crying, you ARE doing it!!!! I am so proud of him!

Princess Yogurt

If you look closely you can see Princess Leia buried under blueberry yogurt! Justin was eating this for lunch and started yelling, "Mommy! Guy! Yuck! Help!" I went over to see and this picture is what I found. Justin calls all action figures guys. It is so cute!

Dog Games

I was making dinner in the kitchen and as usual, Roc was camped out in the doorway waiting for me to drop some food. Justin had been carrying around the GameBoy and dropped it while stepping over the dog. I landed right side up, and in between Roc's paws! It looked as if he was playing video games! Go Roc!

Yea for Brian!

Brian made the 8-yr. old All-Star team for baseball! He is beyond excited and we are so very proud of him. Tournament play should be interesting and I guess we are now adding another month onto the baseball season!

Slippin' and Slidin'

The boys and their friends had a great time on the Slip and Slide today. They were both so tired that night - and sore the next day! Brian woke up and didn't know why his hips and belly were sore. Maybe because he slid across the yard for over an hour? Our grass on the other hand turned into a mud pile! But it was worth the fun they had!

Sean

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Great Flowers

I saw these flowers in a neighbor's yard tonight. They are on their way out, but the color was so pretty!

Nothing New

I broke down and called our adoption agency today. Not good news. In the past when I have called, I was told there was a bit of movement for those waiting for referrals of healthy girls. My last call was almost three weeks ago. And we have not moved up the list at all since then.

When we applied the wait for a girl was about 10-12 months. We have one week left until we hit 14 months of officially waiting. I know there is nothing we can do but wait, but when you go past what was expected, well that is downright awful!

I know our agency, or any other for that manner, cannot predict the future, but it feels like the closer we get to when we expected a referral, the farther away we still are. If things don't get moving soon, we may be looking into July, or even August (gasp) for a call. Which is not too bad, but we had our hearts set on April/May. So, waiting for months longer is just torture!

Soccer Tryouts

Brian had soccer tryouts for the under nine (U-9) team tonight. And of course it was the first day above 85 degrees in a month! He did really well and we hope he makes the team. There were about 18-20 kids in his age group and only 14 can make the team. He should get a phone call soon....