Our Family Blog

I realize that not writing on our family blog since December of 2009 is completely unacceptable blogging behavior.  I am making a promise to myself that I will keep our blog more current to create this forever (I think) chronicle for my kids, something that they can enjoy as they get older.  Yes, I have baby books, but really, who am I kidding?  It is and will continue to be all about what they can share a link to and look at the click of a button!

So basically, Josh and Maya are huge.  Josh 5, Maya 4.  They are phenomenal kids and so smart and fun!  Josh is starting Kindergarten in a week (for those that joined us when we first started this blog before we even adopted Josh, holy crap!) and Maya has one more year of pre-school!  It is an amazing time and they are just continually growing into very cool people!

Here are some updated pics!

Josh with jelly fish boobs and Maya going through her Wizard of Oz phase!

What a great holiday season! We had an awesome family Hanukkah and started some nice traditions this year. We are excited about what this new year will bring for all of us! Stay tuned, I will try to keep this blog updated with new news!

The title of this post says it all.  Having not updated this blog in over a year, I have no excuses only that things like Facebook have diverted my attention away, but I am back.  I will keep this brief.  The kids are amazing, the loves of our lives and are thriving!  We just had a great Halloween and when I was downloading pictures I felt the need to update the blog!  We are all looking forward to an exciting year and will be preparing and educating ourselves for a potential new adoption in the next year.  Stay tuned, ya’ll!

I can not believe how long it has been since I wrote on our blog!!!! You can only imagine how big Josh and Maya are now!!! Josh is still 3 and Maya is still 2 and they are both in preschool and having a blast. They are so smart and loving and kind and loud. I love all of it. I got their school pictures today and wanted to put them on our site! Love to all and Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Today, Joshua turned 3 years old.  3 years since this beautiful, perfect little boy became our son.  It is so hard to believe.  Hard to believe all that he does now compared to what he used to do and how those things have evolved and become big boy things.  He is so smart, curious, energetic, athletic and super sweet and loving.  He is no problem telling you how he feels and sometimes even has a hard time letting stuff go…hmmmm…..I wonder where he gets that from.  Probably Steve :)  We wrote birthmom a letter and got pictures made, amazing to me how difficult this process continues to be however I persevere and send what I need to send.  Today we went to Josh’s new preschool that he will attend in the fall.  He is so excited to go and actually asks if he can go to kindergarten instead but then reminds us and himself that he needs to be 5 to go to kindergarten.   SO CUTE.  He is an absolutely amazing child who we are so blessed to have.  We love you Josh and happy happy 3rd birthday big boy!!!!

All our love,

Mommy, Daddy and Maya

What a great day.  I am so grateful to be a mom.  Not only that, but so blessed to be Josh and Maya’s mom.  I love them so much and they made such a special day for me.  I was greeted by hugs and kisses in bed this morning and they made me a special mommy book for my special day of great pics!  Daddy helped also, which makes it even more special.  This is my 3rd Mother’s Day and I still can’t believe I am a mom.  I used to dread this day on the years I was trying so hard to be a mom but now all of that has changed.  I love it and wouldn’t change one single thing about it.

Thanks Josh and Maya for letting me be your mom.  I love you!!

Maya is 2 years old today! We can not believe she is 2 years old and more than that, we can not believe how incredibly fast her first two years went. Maya is absolutely amazing. She is wicked smart and such a love bug. She still loves to cuddle and kiss and hug. She is doing (trying) everything big brother Josh is doing and does all of those things fairly well!! We are celebrating today with family and a cake but the real festivities will take place in June for the big Josh and Maya birthday bash with Elmo! We love you Maya and stay as cute and sweet as you are. God bless your little heart.

We had a great snow day together on Friday.  We built our first snowman together!  We named him Jaba as in Jaba the hut because that is what he looks like!  Just take a look at the picture below and you will see!  The kids were really sick all week with the flu so it was a great way to get out there and kill all of those nasty germs and they had a great time and so did we!

How do they get this big, this fast?  Every single moment of the day they are doing or saying something they never have before.  Josh is so amazing.  So smart.  So adorable.  He is just having full blown conversations about everything and anything and is so great with Maya.  He is going on the potty more and more and becoming so independent.  He loves to do everything himself.  Maya is a big ham.  She is the sweetest, most feminine little girl.  She is so advanced and into everything Josh is into.  They play really well together for the most part and if they are not playing together they are off doing their own things.  Maya is talking up a storm, she is like a little parrot, she is so mushy and sweet and growing like a weed.  We just adore them and I couldn’t be more in love.