Well I've decided to try this blogging thing again. I don't know how many followers I will have, but I just think this is such an awesome way to motivate me to record my daily (or every other day) activities with my children.
Most blogs that I read do not name their children by their actual names - they have cutesy nicknames for them. Unfortunately I'm not that creative so I'll be referring to my children as N and F. Oh and my husband will be referred to as hubby (pretty creative, right?). My goal is to write about the activities I try out with my boys during the day - mostly N. since he's older and F. doesn't do much other than pull things out of my cupboards, unroll the toilet paper, eat, poop and sleep! You'll also probably read quite a bit about adoption since this is my passion and on my mind 24/7. I know most people would think our family is complete after 2 successful adoptions, but I can honestly say I (and hubby) have more love to give and can't wait to start yet another adoption process (whether internationally or local). We have really been talking about local adoption but I'm always open to international if the opportunity arises. While I'm on this topic I might as well mention my findings last week. It was at first exciting news and my heart skipped a beat, but by the end of the day I felt quite sad. For Quebec there is a list of countries that are open to adoption. I always thought these were the ONLY countries available. But as I did more and more research (my favorite passtime) I discovered an adoption agency that worked with the Dominican Republic. I was immediately interested. I could just picture a beautiful little girl from the Dominican and I knew hubby would go for it since the flight is a lot less than 30 hours! I emailed them right away and the Dominican Republic was in fact open for adoptions. WOOT WOOT! I emailed more questions, such as criteria and if having 2 other adopted children would be a problem. The only criteria was that we had to be married for at least 5 years (check) and we both had to be over 30 (check). The wait period was ~2 years which is great since Fredrick is so young right now, 2 years was a perfect timeframe. And then the not-so-perfect part...we would have to stay there for TWO months! TWO months in the Dominican is not about to happen. Maybe if this was our first adoption it would have been duable but certainly not when we have 2 kiddos and the cost...oh my the cost! Ok realistically it would be duable if this is where the Lord really wanted us to go...I guess we'll have to wait and see if He leads us in that direction. Jon REALLY wants to start the process again but I figure we better wait until F's adoption is actually finalized (NOVEMBER 2 is the court date) and then I'll start contacting people again. Ahhhh let the paper work begin!
Next topic...Since I'm home all day with N. I like to look up different activities he might enjoy. I found this one on a blog a friend referred me to. I have gotten several ideas from it...www.icanteachmychild.com. I HATED science in school and it wasn't until I started to work in a microbiology lab that I discovered my interest in bacteria, petri dishes, agars etc... so I figure I should try and instill some sort of love for science and experimenting in my kiddos while they're young. While reading the icanteachmychild blog, a found a recipe for a mixture of flour and baby oil. I figured this would be pretty cool to try out. Unfortunately I didn't have enough oil on hand so we did a very small mixture. And N. loves playing with food coloring and mixing colors...so we added some food coloring.
N loved mixing the colors and discovering what color he'd get when mixing the different colors. We then thought of adding water to see what would happen to the flour/oil mixture.
N was getting water, mixture and food coloring ALL over...even on my floor. Most moms would probably freak out but I didn't care because we're getting a new floor put down next weekend. So who cares?!?!? In the end our project was one big blob of mess - all for the sake of science!
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