Updates...

today was a big day for us! we started off with an 8:00 meeting with cory, our lss social worker. we had a great visit with her, but it was a bit bittersweet...it was our final post-placement meeting! we are officially done with all of our adoption 'requirements'. it's kind of crazy and very hard to believe that this journey we began back in january of 2009 is complete. cory did share some sad news with us: los pisingos, cruz's first home, is closed. no one here is exactly sure why it's closed, but we have heard it's possibly a tax issue. unfortunately it's not sounding very good for them reopening. i've been thinking about this on and off all day and it makes me so sad thinking that it may not be there when we got back someday and it makes me wonder where all of the wonderful people there have gone. i hope and pray that someday they are able to reopen their doors and continue to provide a wonderful first home for more children. before cory left, i took a quick photo of her with cruz:

at lunch time, tia mel and i joined the kids at primrose for stone soup. we had a fun time seeing libby in her new room and seeing cruz with all of his friends. check out libby sitting at her table!

this afternoon libby also had her 9-month appointment. she was supposed to get her flu-shot, but we discovered that the poor girl has a double ear infection! so not shots for her, but we did get her stats: height: 28.25", 75th percentile weight: 17 lbs, 15 oz, 25th-50th percentile head: 18, 90th percentile heath is busy in the kitchen getting ready for thanksgiving. we certainly have a lot to be thankful for! happy thanksgiving to all!

9 Months!

little miss libby turned 9 months old on wednesday! what a little sweetheart she is.

all snuggled in:

if the camera is out, cruz isn't far away...a shout out to tia mel! we love you!

need to schedule libby's 9-month doctor appointment. stats to follow...pretty sure she'll be catching up to cruz soon! :)

Happy Halloween!

halloween was so much fun this year! cruz wasn't sick, the weather was pretty nice, tia mel joined us for trick-or-treating and the kids loved it! our celebrating started friday night with cruz and me going up to our church for their fall festival. he had a blast doing the cake walk, playing games, getting his face painted and dancing to a live band! we'll definitely be back next year.

on saturday we had a little break from our halloween festivities, but that didn't stop us from celebrating! we pulled off a surprise party for my mom's retirement! it took a lot of planning and a LOT of little white lies, but we did it. she was definitely surprised and had a great time visiting with several of her family, friends and former co-workers. unfortunately we didn't get many pictures...we were too busy having fun!

cruz provided the entertainment as he sang and played guitar with my aunt darlene:

monday night our halloween festivites continued with trick-or-treat street at primrose. we went to each classroom for a treat and fun game or activity.

on tuesday night, heath and cruz carved pumpkins!

finally, we had a blast trick-or-treating with tia mel on wednesday night! libby made it around our cul-de-sac and then she went home to help hand out candy with heath. we took cruz to about 10 more houses around the corner and then called it a night.

hope you all had a happy halloween as well!