We are moving up!!!!

In adoption world, the first of the month and at times the first of the week are exciting times!  We tend to stalk our emails, checking them every 5 minutes to see if our monthly update has come in yet.  I don't know if it is like this with all agencies, but our agency sends us a monthly update at the first of every month.  They let us know how many referrals there were, how many people traveled, how many kids came home, how may referrals are coming up....that kind of thing.  We have a large group of families that are part of a private FB group as well, so we try to predict where we are on the list.  This month we moved up a little to #57!!!!  It's not much at all, but it is still exciting to see the number change!  There are approximately 25 referrals coming up.  That is very exciting!  It takes time to get a child referral ready so these could come up within a couple months or a few months, but there are children that need families.  

We spent the weekend on phase 1 of preparing for more kids.  We took a trip to West Chester, OH to visit the IKEA store!  Aden and Kaitlyn are very excited to be moving their rooms.  They both were able to pick out a new bed, dresser, desk, and tables for their new rooms!  Kaitlyn will be moving upstairs (once Jason gets a wall built) and Aden will be taking the bedroom downstairs.  Our new daughter will then get Kaitlyn's room and the furniture she has now and our little boy will take over Aden's room.  I'm ready to have our little ones here but we definitely need the time for these changes to get finished!  I have a lot of work to do in this house to prepare!  I LOVED IKEA by the way!  It was huge!  I'm already thinking once we get the rooms set up, I need to go back to buy some decor for them.  We just bought the furniture this time.  I was so overwhelmed!!!!  

We also had some family fun time while we were in Ohio.  We stayed at The Great Wolf Lodge in Mason.  It was so nice!  There was a HUGE indoor water park.  Kian had the time of his life!  He was not about to leave to come home!  As we were shopping at IKEA, he was asking to go back to the hotel instead of home.  It was a great family hotel.  Lots of things to do and the food was good.  We spent quite a bit of time in the water park.  They had several different slides, a lazy river, hot tub, pools, and a huge play area.  We played mini golf and did some bowling.  The arcade was a big hit too.  Kaitlyn, Kian, and I spent about 4 hours playing the MagiQuest game (Aden and Jason helped too but not for the entire four hours!).  We bought a magic wand and it is a huge scavenger hunt throughout 3 floors of the hotel.  I was exhausted!  My legs were so sore from climbing up and down stairs!  Kian had a blister on his little foot too.  It was fun though.  Aden defeated the dragon for us in the end.  We are Master Magi!!!!!  I have become a terrible mom and never carry my camera anywhere so I have no good pictures.  I took a few with the phone but it is just not made for action shots so they are pretty blurry.  I need to do better!