Thanksgiving 2009 around the corner! Wyatt 5 months- November 11th

WYATT 4 months

It's been a little while since I've posted...Lots going on in the last couple of months. Wyatt is growing-growing!! He had his 5 month Birthday last week! Oh my has our little man changed and he's not so little anymore! He was 16lbs, 13 oz. at his 4 month visit and in the 90th percentile! He's a little chunker and a smiley happy little man. He's become fascinated with the dogs in the last month and is finally not protesting during his tummy time. He's very strong and loves to grab everything and put it into his mouth...Especially mommies cell phone! :) When Auntie Jill came to visit a couple of weeks ago she got him a Mickey cell phone that he eats regularly now instead. When he's on his tummy he's pushing up now and if there is something behind him, he will push off of it to scoot toward a toy he wants. We got the clear from the Dr to start cereal so....a few weeks ago we had several comical experiences where the spoon full of cereal went in Wyatt's mouth and ended up on mommy and/or daddies face! :)) Since then, we've gotten a little more coordinated with our tongue and LOVE to eat!!! The first week we did rice cereal, this week we did oatmeal cereal. We think he likes the oatmeal better...When he sees that spoon he grabs my hand, opens his mouth, leans forward and pulls my hand toward his mouth. It is so funny to watch!! Of course we can't wait until the baby food starts next month!!

B and I are both doing very well....I went back to work at the end of September, only for us to decide it was time for me to stay at home. My last day at Cardinal is this coming Friday and actually just in time for family to arrive this weekend for Thanksgiving week. Brandon's season has come to a close and there will hopefully be some time for hunting and R&R in the coming months! Nana (Brandon's mom), my mom and dad and Aunt Jilly will be here to celebrate Thanksgiving! We are SO excited!! And I even had Brandon pull out the Christmas decorations so we could decorate right before Thanksgiving....Not something we typically do but we thought it would be nice to have most of it done before everyone comes in.

On the adoption front...Brandon and I have both been chit-chatting about adopting again. I'll keep this as short as possible but a couple of months ago we had an absolutely beautiful 4 year old girl from China brought before us through one of our friends. We fell in LOVE with her sweet little face and everything we learned about her. Unfortunately, the timing was just not right. I heard a statement made during a sermon that truly resonated as we were processing the possibility of adopting this little girl...."The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing". She was so-so sweet but in the end we realized we weren't her mom and dad. I don't even know how to put it into words other than to tell you we literally labored over her for about a month, as we prayed for her, in hopes that it would feel right but it didn't as much as we wanted it to. In the end, we made the decision to wait until we had the tug towards starting the process again. God gave us the desire and yearning and so while we know we aren't quite there yet...We are beginning to stir inside. We went to breakfast this morning with a group of friends and it really struck me when I watched as Wyatt kept smiling and smiling at my friends little girls!! I just watched as his little face literally lit up!! That caused me to think even more about how sweet it would be for Wyatt to have a little (or big) brother or sister...In the right time, Gods timing again! :)

I hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!! Happy Turkey Day!!!!

XO

Love, Brandon, Robin & Wyatt