The Diet
It's going super well! I feel a whole lot better than I used to, and I'm down 13.5 lbs! Woot, woot! Going out to eat isn't very fun--I feel sick. :( It's not new, it's just that I feel so much better at home these days, so when I get sick, I reeeaaallly notice it. Before, I'd feel yucky--but I often felt kind of yucky, so I didn't know what it was. Now I know! ;)
My Girlie~~
Her language is EXPLODING! Some recent examples~~
Me: Want to watch a show?
Ruby: Yeah! Mickey Mouse! Where 'mote contol? Oh, there it is. I push a button!
Ruby: Wass fer lunch?
Me: You mean dinner?
Ruby: No, lunch
Me: We're having fish for dinner.
Ruby: I ont want fish. Mommy, I ont want fish. No fish. I hungy. No fish.
Me (after several of these): Do you want me to call it chicken?
Ruby: No, no chicken. No fish. No chicken. I hungy.
(she ate her fish just fine--and wanted seconds!!) :)
Today after her nap, I decided to tease her. I pushed her door open and hid, to see what she'd do. She said "Come in!" in her cheerful voice. I just waited...Then she said "Who are you?" :) I jumped out, and she said "ooh! care me!" (scare me) It was cute!!
Every time she wakes up, she asks "where boters?" (brothers), and then she goes through each one: "where Noah? where Keyub? where Idaac? where Daddy? where Kizzie?" (our dog), and after each one, she says "oh." And then--"wass fer lunch?" :)
Her favorite time of day = snack time. "Mmm, a nack! Cheese and apples, cheese and apples! Oooh! Yummy!" :) or "Mmm! Punpkin seez!"
Tonight she wanted to get her jammies on. I said "you do it yourself," and she tried to get her arm out and said so clearly "I can't" (and then proceeded to do it ;).
Whenever I start to cook, she pushes a chair over, and says "I help! I help! I cack da egg!" :) The poor girl got a burn on her arm from a pan the other day--she LOVES helping cook!!
Tonight she set the table (she does a GREAT job for a 2 year old!!). Whoever sets the table gets to choose where the kids sit. Isaac asked who set the table, and she started to say "Ruby di--" and she caught herself and said "I did." WOW! She called herself "I" instead of Ruby--this is a BIG step!! :)
She's also been more cuddly, which is fun! I love having a two year old! I want a whole bunch more! :)
Speaking of kids...
We're praying about which route God wants us to go in adopting next. We'd love to go to Haiti and at least keep one (or 2? or 3? :) kiddo from sleeping on the street one more night...It's the dumb government that's stopping it all. ;) We could get an international homestudy done and then just wait until the doors open again--but who knows how long that will be. I took a "Webinar" today about China adoptions. And then, also, I've got an e-mail out requesting info about Japanese adoptions (I love Japan--I would love the excuse to travel there!! And then what a fun culture (I think) to teach our kids about!). There aren't a lot of adoptions from Japan taking place (I think 36 per year is what I read). These kiddos stay in the orphanage until they age out--they just never get adopted (Japanese people do not usually adopt--it is changing, thankfully--but if they do adopt, it is in private and they pretend they had a baby..blood relations are very important to them)....I wanted to call Japan today, but I figured I'd be patient and wait for an e-mail response. ;) Oh, and one more adoption option--we could get a homestudy done and then go straight through the agency we went through to get Ruby in Georgia. (But when we adopted Ruby, we used an agency here, who "found" the agency there--thus costing us a whole lot more...this time it would be cheaper...NICE). :) We want to go to Georgia to visit Karry's sister and her husband, too....So there you go.....Lots of options. Where will you take us, God? We'll see!!!