LOUSY DAY TURNS TO GOLD!

So my day started reaaaalllly early today. 1233 am to be exact! Because I am a nurse in a post-anesthesia care unit I have to take call. Meaning if there are any emergency surgeries, I have to be there to wake them up. I love my job but I suppose, night time call...not so much. I go to sleep with the phone by my ear and then if there's a c-section or appendectomy or any kind of something, I have to haul my sorry little you-know-what out of bed and drive into work. Frequently I go in for C-sections and those are my favorite. If I'm not going to be sleeping, a brand new baby seems to make up for it. So I finished with the c-section and drove home at about 330 am. While I was driving I came upon one of these...

except that she was I think at least twice as big (you know how these stories grow!) So I basically slammed straight into her and that was that. I really like animals and this made made me very sad. It made my car sad and that in turn made me even more sad and well, it eventually made my husband extremely sad. Oh such sadness!! So it pretty much disabled the car and did I happen mention that I forgot my cell phone? So poor me, I am out there in the middle of the night pulled off the freeway trying to flag someone down. Any axe murderers need an opportunity? Here I am. Totally available. No axe murderers to be found, thankfully. I did however, meet my new best friend who helped me lift up the bumper, stuff it under itself and make the car at last capable of limping home. So I did creep home, having to stop every few minutes to re-stuff said bumper. Oh the humanity! So then when I got home, I slept a couple of hours and woke up feeling so fresh and kind to all those around me. Ha! We then took "Rosebud" the deer killing wonder-mobile to the body shop. And you bet there was some wonderful news at that establishment! Thank you sweet Jesus for car insurance. Then....I have to go get these...

"Oh my we saw something on your xrays this time....we're going to have to get those wisdom teeth out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I think I need to cry now. Really. Right now.

I trudge my sorry little self home, thank goodness we still have one working car!
And do you know what came in the mail? A CD filled to the brim with glorious pictures of our sweet Elias. He is gorgeous, happy, healthy and completely perfect. And all the yuck of the day just kind of floated away. Not to mention that the courts in Ethiopia opened back up today. Now every day that goes by...a little closer to bringing him home.

PEOPLE....WE'VE GOT A CHUNKY MONKEY!!!

Oh the joy of fat babies. Rubber band wrists. Wonder thighs. Kankles. Belly pudge. We are pleased to announce that we got a lovely update via email about our sweet little Elias. He was weighed a few weeks ago which would have made him around 11-12 weeks and yes, he's a fatty. 14.3 pounds to be exact. His "delicate" weight was even mentioned in a brief description of his personality. I love it. Our girls have always been pretty petite so it will be fun to have a BIG BOY in the house! We are so thankful he is growing and healthy. Now I just NEED to get my hands on those thighs myself!!

MMMMM, ME LIKEY!!!!

Look what came in the mail!!!!!!!! I am so stoked. This necklace was made by ERYN. She is a fellow All God's Children Int'l adoption blogger who is raising funds to bring a little baby girl home. You can find all kinds of lovely little goodies that she makes HERE. If you want to be oh so fashionable and cool like moi, you will definitely want to pick one up, maybe with different names though.
*Note: For those that don't know me well, you need to know that I am not fashionable nor am I under the impression that I am cool. However, I can try.

AND THE WINNER IS....

We finally decided on a name for our sweet little boy...Elias. To be clear, that is not his current name given by his birth mother. We are reserving that very special name for his middle name.

So I think crossing over the threshold of September was huge for us, WE ARE BOTH REALLY EXCITED. So excited that I started shopping for our trip. Why are those little travel things so dang cute? I am a sucker for all of it! Could I not have wadded up a bunch of toilet paper into a ziplock bag and called it good? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I could not pass up on that cute little roll of Charmin in its cute little container!

Here's the rest of the room...

Changing area (Meris was very displeased that I changed Kiera on it, "it needs to be all clean for brother!!!")sorry...


Center rug


Photo-holder bulletin board- I made this with the matching receiving blankets



The bags that are in the crib...my version of organization. I'm starting to put all the appropriate stuff in the right bag. Trying to visualize how much room for all those donations, can't wait for that!!

Thanking God today that He is getting us through this crazy wait.