Happy New Year and then Some!!

It became obvious to me just now that I really haven't been taking pics very well. I didn't even take pics on New Years Day. That was really remiss of me, not that we did anything spectacular cuz we didn't but I didn't mark it very well either!! Anyway, Brayden has been busy with getting back to preschool and having Will over three days a week. He loves to have lots going on. Its not always good for him, but he would rather be busy than not enough to do. Must be like his Daddy that way.

He got some tinker toys for x-mas and has been building airplanes with them and flying them outside. I will put a video on of it pretty soon. Its nice to see his imagination and creativity and then the accuracy of his ideas. He really is a smart little cookie. If we tell him no for some reason, he will ask why and when we tell him why, he will think it through and come up with a different way of doing it so it will be ok.

I learned this week that our son is very observant and that I have taken him with me to the chiro way way toooo many times. :-) He and Will were playing this week and I quietly walked back to see what was going on, he had Will lying on a pillow on his back and told him "I will fix it Will" and then he took his head and very gently moved it side to side. It was cute, but I told my "little chiro" it was time to find something else to play.

There isn't anything really to report on the next adoption at this point. We are still waiting for the powers that be to come back from Christmas vacation. They should all be back in the offices by the 22nd or so. There is another region that will be opening up the end of January and if we don't have our referral from St Petersburg by then, they will pull our papers and put them in the other region. The cost of living in the other region would be 1/2 the cost of St Petersburg, so we would like to go there, but if we get our referral from St Petersburg, then we go with that and just pay more. Tourist regions are quite a bit more costly. For now, we just wait. We have all our paperwork in order and I have started filling out the rest of the main dossier, but lots of it is time sensitive. It has a 6 month expiration on lots of it, so from date of notary to court date has to be within that six months. So we can't print those documents out and have them finished until we have a better idea on time frame. They recommend that those documents not be done until we return from our first trip. I like to be in more of a hurry than that but don't want to do them twice either.

We have no snow and in fact its been rather warm here. I don't know that I have ever hung clothes outside to dry in January but I did it yest and they dried rather well. It doesn't make for good sledding, but it does mean that one can be outside and enjoy it. That has been nice.