Tea Party Fun

My mom decided to celebrate Mina's adoption by having a tea party for her last weekend. We met at a little tea place down the road from us, and celebrated a day all about Mina. She loved it. She enjoyed being pampered and treated like the Queen she already knew she was. It was a lot of fun. we had the "Duchess Tea" I believe it was called. It came with scones, soup, sandwich and dessert. Mina tried to have hot tea, but I don't think that she was a big fan of it. These tea places have little hats and furs you can wear, so after some convincing she decided to play dress-up. Here are a couple of pics from our Mina celebration.


P.S. We will be having an adoption party in late April/early May. Hope everyone can make it!

Exhausted...

Sorry for the lapse in blogging. We have had a really long week! Aidan has had a lot of very long seizures, good thing we are headed to the hospital next week for our tests. Since last Saturday, he has had at least one seizure everyday, and some days the seizures lasted anywhere from 15 minutes to 1 hour. VERY SCARY! Especially for him. He has no idea what is happening to him, it's really sad. Unlike some children, he is aware of the changes he is experiencing. He's non-responsive during them, but I think he is aware of what is happening, or about to happen, or what just happened. Make sense? Anyway, just say a prayer for him they really wear him down. In fact, we skipped church this morning b/c he doesn't want to get out of the bed, he is sooo tired. We did talk to his doctor this week, finally. They increased his anti-epileptic medication, and also prescribed an emergency drug called diastat. If he has a seizure that lasts more than 5 minutes we are suppose to administer this drug, give him 10 minutes to stop seizing, and then call 911 if he has not stopped seizing. SCARY! Anyway, pray for us as we go through this next week, hopefully it will be better than last week, and pray for us the week we are in the hospital. PRAY FOR ME!! I might need some extra patience that week! Thanks, everyone! We appreciate your prayers!

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Back tracking...Mina's Birthday Party (December)

Mina turned 5 years old in December. She has really grown up a lot since we first met her 1 1/2 years ago. She had a great birthday party, with a lot of great surprises. We had the party here at our home and rented inflatables from a friend (let me know if you want his name...He's great and reasonable). It was sooo much fun, she really enjoyed it. It was really the first birthday party she has ever been given, so we wanted her to remember it, and I know she'll never forget it. We had invited her baby sister to the party, and after 2 hours of partying it became evident that they were not going to make it. Just when I had decided to start the gift opening, we got a phone call from her biological sister's new MOM (also adopted out). They had been driving around for 2 hours looking for my house and my phone number. They finally found my number, and made it to the party with a BIG surprise. All of Mina's sisters came. Including the one she hasn't seen in 2 years. It was very emotional, I think Mina felt every emotion a 5 year old could possibly experience. She was so happy. Check out these pics! She also got great presents, a bike, a kitchen, clothes, Hello Kitty stuff, Hello Kitty socks (which she wanted so badly), kitchen accessories, a lots lots more.




These pictures will mean a lot to Mina one day, that was probably the last time she will ever see her 7 year old sister Michelle. Fortunately, we will be able to see her oldest sister Montana and her "sisterbaby" Paige pretty often. She loves them so much, and the families that adopted both of her sisters live pretty close by! We are so thankful for that!

The Purple Rental Car

I AM SO EMBARRASSED!
As I told you in an earlier post we were in a car accident on Sunday afternoon. Well, God is good, and we were able to file an uninsured motorists claim. That only set us back $250 rather than $500 and our insurance premiums WILL NOT go up. YEA! So, we had to get a rental car, and obviously we didn't get to choose the vehicle seeing as how the insurance company pays 100%. So, we got a Hyundai Santa Fe. It is truly a beauty! HAHA! The car itself isn't so bad, its the purple color that is embarrassing. Of course, my 5 year old daughter loves it! I mean LOVES IT! She is so proud for me to drop her off in carpool in this baby, she thinks we should trade in the Expedition for this one. Just wanted to inform everyone so that you might hold your laughter as I cruise through the neighborhood!

P.S. After I wrote this blog, Stacey saw the car and swears the car is gray. However, I have always wondered if Stace was color-blind and now I think that has been confirmed. Just kidding, Stace. It is definitely a GRAY/Purple color. Gray with purple undertones perhaps. Not my choice of car colors no matter what color it is!

ONE MORE DAY!

February 29th is the last day of the 10 day wait for Mina.
As of tomorrow Mina's biological mother can no longer change her mind. I am so ready for tomorrow to come and go. Even though I feel like God has reassured us time and time again that she is with us forever, it'll be nice to have that deadline pass us by. We are going to a tea party on Saturday morning in honor of Mina's new name, and she is ecstatic. Mia planned this BIG DAY just for Mina, and she is so excited it's not funny. It has been planned for several days, and Mina wakes up every morning asking if today is the day. She gets a little bummed when I tell her 3 days left, 2 days left, etc. She actually has decided that we should all wear dresses to her tea party as well as her Adoption party, I informed her I don't have a dress to wear, and she informed me that I could wear my wedding dress! She is adamant about the dress thing. She even offered to buy me one with her piggy bank money! Sweet, Sweet girl. Anyway, Thanks to all who have prayed with and for us. We appreciate it. It is almost over!

Babysittin' the nephews!

So, my sister has been looking for a house for a couple of weeks now, and I think she finally decided they might try and buy a house in my neighborhood, they met with their real estate agent a couple of nights ago, and I babysat the boys! We had a really great time. My kids love it when Fickin comes over to play, so they had an absolute blast. They pretended that they were superhero's and talked of their dreams to ride their very own Spiderman skateboards one day. Big Dreams! Mina pretends she is Wonder Woman, and basically ignores them because they annoy her. They get on her "nervous." AKA...Nerves. That is like her favorite phrase. Anyway, I played with Ebbo. He is 9 months old now, and he is super cute. In fact, I see a little of Aidan in him. He is into everything though. I think I lost 5 lbs chasing him. He also enjoyed my rather large dogs, and climbing on Uncle Emmy! Check these pics out of our fun-filled night!

P.S. I didn't just leave Mina out of these pics, she was in the shower whenever I broke out the camera! Otherwise she'd be in every picture! She is a total HAM!!