Aug

9

almost 4 Months Down

Filed Under Morgan 

I just had too many thoughts to put down in writing to wait till the end of the month. Let’s see we finished registering for baby stuff, Thank God!!! We went to 4 stores and spent at least 2 hours in each deciding on brands, is it too big or too small, do we want this or that. I guess being a guy I saw the process as a breeze to only have to find the cool stuff scan it and get out. You know, go for the fancy packaging because that’s gotta be the good stuff. Hey, I’m a guy. THE BABY’S ROOM IS COMPLETE, almost. The only thing left is touch up stuff like stenciling the table and chairs and getting a better organizing system in the closet. We have spare wire shelving so we just need to decide where we want what so we can optimize the small closet space. Pictures of the finished room will be updated soon, I promise. Of course we met with Kim and EmmaLi several times this past month. Poor EmmaLi ate Mexican food with us one night and paid the price the next day. We did go exploring abandon batting cages next to the Mexican restaurant that was fun, hot but fun. After that it hit me we need to go to a mall where it’s cool inside not 98° 85% humidity and do our exploring there. We also met Kim, EmmaLi, Kathy, and Lizbeth at the Riverbanks Zoo. Becky and I ended up being very late to the Zoo making Kim and EmmaLi wait for us (We felt really bad about that). Becky found out that Kathy graduated from Clemson the same year she did and that they had more in common that they had originally known. Lizbeth is a little older than Emmie and is a million miles an hour. I hope we are as laid back as Kathy when Morgan gets here. Just to clarify Kim is Emmie’s Mom and Kathy is Lizbeth Mom. We had a blast both EmmaLi and Lizbeth who are both adorable. After the zoo, Kim, EmmaLi, Becky and I went to eat at the mall (aahh! Air Conditioning). I ended up not paying enough attention to EmmaLi as I fed her Chicken nuggets and fries and she fell off her chair bumping her head and I thought, “Oh my God! I broke someone else’s kid”. It really wasn’t that bad, I hope. EmmaLi seemed to bounce back in a few minutes being her cute self again. As we sat there eating with Kim and EmmaLi, I noticed that Kim was right that Morgan is going to rule Becky and me. EmmaLi was teething that day and was in a mood, not a bad one but not her normal self. Becky and I wanted to do anything to fix the problem. I found myself offering to get an Icee, different food to eat or what ever it would take to make EmmaLi eat and feel more comfortable. I was proud of Kim. She was a rock demonstrating something I’m not sure I will ever be able to do when Morgan gets here, Tough Love. Maybe, I can practice on the cats. We also got to spend some time with Fred and LaWanna for the first time in months. We had a great time and hope we get to spend more time with them before the girls get here and after. We got our new bills for our trip, $5,000.00. You know $5,000.00 in $100.00 bills doesn’t feel like a lot of money. I was tempted to hand the money back and ask for it in ones. I wanted it to feel like, “WOW! $5,000.00 that’s a lot of money!”. Oh well, at least it will be easy to carry. Now to get travel money in cash and travelers checks before we go. Got my second round of Hepatitis A & B shots. That was uneventful. Becky is still going strong on the buying of baby clothes, diapers, wipes and more diapers. Did I mention that Becky keeps buying diapers? Unfortunately, Kim broke the news to us that we only have enough for two months so I guess we need to keep on buying, and buying, and buying,… We went to my cousin Jim’s wedding last weekend and had a Great time. I know my family was probably thinking all these two talk about is the adoption. We’re at a wedding, it’s not about the adoption, it’s about Jim and Kerry. So Jim and Kerry, I hope we didn’t boar you with our adoption tales and we wish the very best for both of you. Talking with my family and seeing just how excited they are about this adoption once again helped charge our excitement about the adoption. Thanks Creighton family. It has recently just hit Becky and me that we may get our referral much sooner that we expected. We are now in the “WHAT DID I DO?” Stage of the game. I know I’m beginning to start thinking will I have enough money saved up for this? Will I be ready to have a baby in my life? Up until now, we could just give the kid back if they were upset. This isn’t like having a cat where I’ll sit there and ponder is the cat mad at me? No, the cat’s not mad. It’s a cat, that’s just the way they are and they’ll get over it. Note to self: Cats can’t dial a phone; therefore, Cats can’t call DSS. Now I’m rambling so I’ll end it here. Bottom line we can’t wait to get it over with and have Morgan home.

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