Mama's Super Heros

After I picked the kids up from school, we went on a mission. A mission to FINALLY take some pictures of them in their Super Hero costumes I made for them for their buddy Toby's party in January. The weather was extremely windy but not too cold, and I thought it might be a good afternoon to have some capes flying in the wind! I have posted way too many photos to add captions, but I will tell you that the first few photos are with the Mr. Roger's statue, and that all photos were taken on Pittsburgh's North Shore.

The Intensity of 4.75

Man has it been hard to blog lately. I just don't have the mental energy to assemble a post. My thoughts are fragmented...what topic should I write about? Adoption progress? Preschool? Photography? The winter blahs? See? I can't really find a direction. Part of this is because SO MUCH is going on at one time. That plus the fact that the kids are awake and raring to go from 7:30am to 7:30pm with little to no down time unless I resort to using TV as a sedative.

I don't have any pictures to post because my camera is currently out of commission.

I have a lot to say about the topic of adoption, but we will know more after the 27th if we should get our hopes up or not.

Preschool is going great. I wish the kids were there 5 hours a day. They love everything about school, their teachers and their classmates. They are loving learning...it is hard to keep up with them!

I have been busy with volunteer work, shuttling the kids to school, attending adoption training classes, helping out a friend who just went through a huge loss and battling tracheitis and bronchitis for the past 12 days (this followed Jonathan having the stomach flu for 4 days.) I haven't been able to exercise for 15 days and it is driving me crazy!

Jay and I also were able to take the kids out on our annual Valentine's day date, which was fun. Jonathan and I went to his restaurant of choice (Aladdin's.) We had a nice conversation: I was asking him lots of questions about what he thought he wanted to do when he grows up, what kind of girl he would want to marry, etc. He told me that he wants to marry someone who looks like me (so sweet!) and asked if I would help him find his wife! Then I asked him if he had anything he wanted to talk about and he said after a moment of thought, "Yeah, what do you think Heaven is going to be like?"

After our dinner, and after Jay and Faith finished their dinner date, we all went to Bounce U. Jonathan was disappointed that his wheezing, coughing and barely breathing mom wouldn't bounce with him, but he and Faith seemed to have a good time together. I did do a couple of slides with him which were so fun but I really couldn't catch my breath afterwards.

A few other things to note: On February 23rd Jay and I will be celebrating our 10 year anniversary of meeting! We are really hoping to snag a dinner date even though Jay is extremely busy at work right now.

Faith has her first birthday party to go to tomorrow of a classmate. It is a girls-only party and she is really excited to go.

Faith has been sneaking up to my room early in the morning and leaving me her special blankies to help me feel better.

Faith has decided she LOVES rock climbing and she climbed to the top of the 24 foot rock wall at the science center three times in her rain boots!

Jonathan is the best kid ever to deal with the stomach flu. So sweet, so pleasant, so pleased that we let him have ginger ale. If only he handled head colds as well!

Jonathan has been so kind to me since I have been sick. He keeps saying "I am sorry you are so sick Mama."

Well, that's it for tonight! Glad to get a few of my rambling thought down because they don't stay in my mind for very long these days!

Greetings From the Science Center



Today we spent 4 hours at the science center after Bible study this morning. We found this exhibit we never noticed before tucked in the back of the robot world, where you can have your picture taken by R2D2, and then he emailed it to me! Faith and Jonathan have recently been introduced to Star Wars by Jay, so they were all into this.

I wish I had a camera with me for our impromptu visit, because Faith mastered the rock climbing wall! She has always loved that particular exhibit, but today, with extremely thin crowds, she got to practice at the wall for 30-40 minutes. I think she made it to the very top 3 times, all while wearing rain boots! The top is twenty-four feet off the ground and SHE LOVED IT!

Jonathan's favorite thing to do was play with the giant ice-hockey table. And both kids really enjoyed the planetarium exhibit, as we learned about planets, constellations, the moon, the rotation of different stars, etc. They were really into it, actually. All I kept hearing in my head was my school's planetarium teachers saying "The three stars of Orion's belt..." That is the sum total I can recall from that class. Oh how I hope my kids have a better memory for school than I do/did!