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Morgan has been in Gymnastics for several years but latley she has been really getting into it.  It’s kind of nice seeing a competitive spirit in her coming out.  Anyway getting ripped is when you get a blister on your hands from working on the bars and the blister pops.  Here’s a photo of our proud girl.

Well it’s been 981 day since we started our second adoption and I must admit we or I have been through some ups and downs about continuing, but we decided to keep on going.  We are too close to give up now.  I say that knowing that at the current pace we won’t get our referral until June 2011 meaning we will have waited 1750 days or 250 weeks or 58 months or 4.8 years.  In the grand scope of things it took us 8 years to get Morgan from a failed pregnancy to IVF to adoption.  So I guess for us it just takes longer, a lot longer and it cost more.  If I had it to do all over again I wouldn’t want to change a thing.  Morgan was well worth the wait and we cherish every moment we have with her.

Look at that face.  We picked her up from her Grandparents Friday night and she said that she wanted to go some place she had never been before this weekend.  We’ve been meaning to take her to Beaufort where Becky grew up, so the next day we made a weekend trip.  As you can see from the attached pictures she had a blast this past weekend.

I’m sorry we haven’t been writing but 981 days of waiting has been emotionally draining and depressing.  Believe it or not Morgan has been the driving force for the second adoption she has it in her head that she wants a baby sister from China.  She says that she want to teach her everything she knows but she won’t change poopy diapers.  We explained to her that she had some real winners and she loves knowing that I had to deal with some of the award winning diapers.  She thinks it’s funny that I’ll have to change award winning diapers Isabelles.

Oooo favorite catch phrase “tighty whities” as well as talking about “tooting”, “burping” etc…  She’ll make some boy very happy one day.  I’m so proud.

23 Months and counting we’ve been waiting for almost 2 years and I was worried that the Olympics were going to be a problem for us, Ha Ha silly man.  Morgan keeps asking when is her baby sister going to get here.  What do you say to that?  Saying “I don’t know I wish she was here to” only goes so far.  Now Morgan is asking about birth parents and where babies come from and at times it’s hard to answer those questions.

Ok, back to details it’s 23 months and counting since our LID (Log In Date) of 10/09/06. The last referral group waited for 31 months or 939 days from LID to referral. Yes, it sounds like it is so close but in reality at the current rate its close but yet sooooooooo far away.  At this rate it will be June 2011 when we get our referral.  I may post my super duper spread sheet so that you can see the Horror of the reality I see and get depressed with me.  Waiting still SUCKS!!!  I think I’ll make a T-Shirt that says “Waiting SUCKS” in english and Chinese.

Pete’s Chart of Depression (or Doom)(or Gloom)

Yes, usually charts like this mean good things, something is growing. Unfortunately this chart means that our wait time is growing and growing and growing.

22 Months and counting we’ve been waiting for almost 2 years and I was worried that the Olympics were going to be a problem for us, Ha Ha silly man.  Morgan is growing like a weed, straight up with no end in sight and still as cute, smart and active as can be.  We’ve considered abandoning the adoption and raising Morgan as a single child, trying another country (I hear Taiwan has an adoption program), or just sticking it out.  As you can probably tell we decided to stick it out.  We’ve been holding on to the hope that maybe after the olympics that things will speed up but deep down know that it probably won’t happen.  Really we are torn

Well it’s 22 months and counting since our LID (Log In Date) of 10/09/06. The last referral group waited for 30 months or 919 days from LID to referral. Yes, it sounds like it is so close but in reality at the current rate its close but yet sooooooooo far away.  I could walk to China and still be waiting for our referral, and I walk slow.  At this rate it will be May 2011 when we get our referral.  I may post my super duper spread sheet so that you can see the Horror of the reality I see and get depresed with me.  Do you realize that if this adoption went as fast as Morgans we would have had Isabelle for over a year now.

Waiting still SUCKS!!!

Pete’s Chart of Depression (or Doom)(or Gloom)

Yes, usually charts like this mean good things, something is growing. Unfortunatly this chart means that our wait time is growing and growing and growing.

I’ve always hated paying Microsoft $100 to upgrade to their new OS.  I’ve been paying for upgrades since the early DOS days.  Now there’s a FREE alternative and we’ve taken it, so far so good.  I only needed an OS so that we can surf the web and send email on an 8 year old laptop and ubuntu was thew solution.  It was the easiest install I’ve ever had not like Windows where you have to answer questions for hours and you still have to tweak it so your there behind the computer for hours. 

We actually installed xubuntu since our laptop was an older machine and resourses were slim.  xubuntu is so easy even Becky learned how to use what she needed quickly.  The best part is that it’s FREE and works Great…  Yes, it’s linux and it’s simple, stable and we love it.  If you have an old PC and wat to just surf the web try this.  Your web browser is Mozilla FireFox and your email program is Mozilla Thunderbird.  Both were easy to set up and run.  Long live Linux.

Well it’s 21 months and counting since our LID (Log In Date) of 10/09/06. The last referral group waited for 29 months or 896 days from LID to referral. Yes, it sounds like it is so close but in reality at the current rate its close but yet sooooooooo far away.  I could walk to China and still be waiting for our referral, and I walk slow.  At this rate it will be April 2011 when we get our referral.  I may post my super duper spread sheet so that you can see the Horror of the reality I see and get depresed with me.  Do you realize that if this adoption went as fast as Morgans we would have had Isabelle for over a year now.

Waiting still SUCKS!!!

 Pete’s Chart of Depression (or Doom)(or Gloom)

Yes, usually charts like this mean good things, something is growing.  Unfortunatly this chart means that our wait time is growing and growing and growing.  Take two rulers and line each of them up with one of the lines on the chart.  They intersect off the computer screen and I’m talking about a widescreen monitor, how sad.  One of the things that this Chart is also telling us is that the age diffrence between our two girls is growing.  Morgan will be in College and Isabelle will be starting Kindergarden.  Ok I may be exagerating but they won’t be in the same school together.

Yep, that’s right the Creighton’s went Strawberry Picken and Morgan’s friends (9 families) joined us.  We went to “The Patch” and had a blast.  Afterward almonst all went to Antonina’s for lunch.  Morgan picked 2 baskets full of strawberries.  It’s a good thing she did since she will eat about a basket a week the other strawberries went to Morgan’s Nana, Pa, Ma & Da.  We may have to go back next weekend to get more.

Next month Blue Berries.

I’m trying some new plugins.  One of witch is a SPAM Comment Filtering plugin.  Some of the others include a Contact Form (below), a Weather Widget, a Rotating Quote Widget and a Recent Comments Widget.  Oh, I guess that means that the Comment section is now OPEN!! again and I’m also allowing search engines, etc to crawl my site so you may soon be able to find us on Google, etc.  Oh, and to keep things interesting here’s a picture of my beautiful daughter Morgan

“Contact Us”  Go on try it…  [contact-form 1 "Contact form 1"]

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