UPDATE FINALLY :) WOOHOO :) and other news :)

Just got new pictures of Jeremiah and some translated Nursery updates! :) I am soooo excited :) One of them they got him to smile! Woohoo :) Noah has a fit every time he sees the pictures and is talking to him :) heehee and kissing him. SOOOO CUTE :) So they said he is 18 pounds and 28 and half inches and his head circumference is 15 inches! Not bad for a 14 month old! It hit me today that Jeremiah is 2 and half months younger now than Noah was when we got him. Wow!

They also said he is eating well :) I was shocked by all he can eat :) see:
formula: 1150 cc a day
supplemental foods: Rice cereal, mashed rice, mashed fruits /veggie, mashed egg yolk and mashed rice. Steamed eggs and dessert egg custard.

These words were nice :)


"He likes to be held"


These worried me a bit for him but its ok :)
They said his hands and legs are rigid.
I can't wait to get him home and work those muscles myself and see what we can do to help them :)

Anyway, here are the pictures :)


I LOVE THIS SHOT! I LOVE THE SMILE! :) He is gorgeous :) I can't wait till that smile is directed at me :)



the picture of innocence here! For some reason that is what I thought when I saw this one! He just looks angelic here :)

awww so sweet :) I love these little things :) I have seen one with Noah in video when he was there, they have wheels. I would love one for when Jeremiah is home :)

In other news things here have been hoppin :) Lots goin on in our world and Panda Boy Noah is a busy busy bear! He is into everything, trying everything, trying to say everything! Busy busy :) He is more adorable by the day :) He is such a cuddly guy which I had worried about because with adoption and bonding and all you never know but he definitly is attaching and bonding and loves to give hugs, kisses and cuddles. He is so funny. I love his personality :) As do most in our world :) He will pick up a book with a picture of an animal or person face and kiss it. Everytime he sees Jeremiah's picture he kisses it and is now "talkin" to it :) SOOO cute :) I often wonder WHAT he is telling Jeremiah! heehee He has been such a helper and it is neat when we are out sitting selling candy bars in front of a business or whatever and I have Noah with me and folks come by and are like, we prayed for Noah too! He touched and still does touch so many! :) We have been blessed lately with 2 candy sales and one raised $183 and we were there from 3:30 to 8:30 and the other raised $254 and we were there from 12:30 till 8:30 :) Not bad huh! :) I had an opportunity to babysit a 3 month old for 3 weeks all the pay from that little one is going towards the adoption.

Noah's therepies are going well. He has it 3 days a week and has pretty much wrapped all 3 ladies around his little finger :) so cute :) Found out today they will come into the home and work with him till he is 7 so that is good :) then a diffferent program will take over if he still has needs :)

We are busy bees this summer trying all kinds of new activities. I will be posting in the next few days about our Dallas trip and a first that happend while we were there. Today we went to Noah's first movie. There is a place here doing a free movie 3 mornings a week so we went to see madagascar 2! This was Noah's first time to go to a movie for him! I did try to take him to one we adults went to when we first got home and thought he would sleep through but he didnt. lol but anyway we go in and at first we get this:

doesnt he look so big :) They have a booster seat thing and he sat in there with his mum mums and was find at first.

But the peace did NOT last. He wanted to get down and run around and he would cry and throw a fit and we had to take him out and eventually stayed out. He did NOT like this. So we ended with this:

the shot is not a good one for some reason but he was cryin and cryin. He is definitly two! LOL He will get there :)

We went to a local hands on science place after that. I will share some pics from that later :)

I wanted to show you the matching shirts I got my BOYS! I love that I will have BOYS! :) They wont wear these till winter but aren't they cute? Got a good deal on them :)

Here are a couple of cute Noah shots for you :)

this was a shot from our trip :) I said cheese and he smiled! yippee now if we can get him to keep that up :)

and this was a cute shot :) I love it :)

Please keep our fundraising in prayer. Things are going well, its just he needs to be home quick as possible and so they need to go better than good! :) Jumpin with iJeremiah will be the 19th here locally and I am praying that one does very very well :) I am workin on lots of other ideas. IF YOU HAVE AN IDEA, PLEASE let me know :)

Froggie boy Mama loves you soooooo much! I can't wait till you are home smiling and playing with your amazing big brother Noah! :) We are working sooo sooo hard sweet boy! HANG ON!!!!! until we get there catch my kisses in the wind!

The winner of the target gift card is:

We gave a winner of the Target Gift Card :) Thanks to EVERYONE who donated towards the Jeremiah Fund :) I pray is some small way these giveaways give back to those who support us and Jeremiah :) The $50 Target Gift card giveaway generated $92 in funds towards Jeremiah after paying for the card! :) Thanks everyone :) Without further ado




The winner of the





IS:


see drawing video below and PLEASE forgive the appearance of the house and me! You can't see my shorts in this. I will not wear my spring cleaning lay around the house clothes next time!



Congrats to Miriam! :) I pray you enjoy your $50 gift card :) Please contact me with mailing address so I can mail out your gift card to you :)

Our Baby blessing Package Giveaway is still running and I will have a few more giveaways coming soon :) I am still waiting on my button to be made to do my spread the word giveaway but please be watching :) and please keep our Jumpin for Jeremiah Fundraiser on the 19th of June here locallyand our home and garden party fundraiser on the 6th and out Tastefully Simple online fundraiser in your prayers..

Thank you all for caring :)

We have a Winner for the True Glow Gift Set!

Morning All! :)

This morning was the drawing for the Avon True Glow Gift set! :) I had an adorable Assistant to help me draw! :) heeheee We raised $65 total in entries from this giveaway! That is $65 dollars more than we had to begin with! God is so good! :) The first time I told my helper to draw he grabs a handful instead of 1 :) heehee So without further ado here is the drawing! :)

Congrats to DENISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Denise is over at Millers Miracles and is adopting Jaxson who also has CP. Her blog is private or I would link yall to it so you could see her sweetie! :) Denise, I will need you to email me (childofmyheart@aol.com) your mailing address sent to me so I can give it to Heather who so graciously donated this prize set :)

Thanks to ALL who donated toward this giveaway, other giveaways or just because. Remember we are drawing for the $50 target gift card next monday so if you donate between now and then your name will be added to that drawing and our "Baby Blessings Package" Giveway is still goint on as well :)

God bless

Happy Memorial Day...news on things with us

Happy Memorial day to all of you out there! We visited a church yesterday that had an AMAZING Memorial Day Celebration and was very touching. We were quite blessed! Tonight we will eat some bar b q and just enjoy each other :) Noah and I will run and get some things for me to cook here in a bit and also make some copies of our Jumpin for Jeremiah flyer! I am getting so excited about that fundraiser. I am praying now very hard, please join me in prayer. I want to adverise it up and prayerfully it will do VERY VERY WELL :) Here is the flyer I made. I doubt you will be able to see it too good but you can get the gist on here!

If you live anywhere close and would be willing to pass out or put up flyers for this event PLEASE let me know and I can get a flyer or flyers as the case may be! I think this is gonna be a wonderful and fun night!

Noah seems to be maturing by leaps and bounds as of late and it is totally amazing to me! :) He is still talkin and talkin. He is tryin to say most things we say, even if he doesnt say it right he makes a sound to try and mimic us :) It is funny the things he can say that even strangers understand and then the things he can't seem to say. For instance he can say his version of Hallelujah! Now complete strangers can understand that is what he is tryin to say! :) Aint that a blip! :) this little bitty guy and a big word like that :) But then other small words he can't say. and some things he says like down is more just the d sound. and eat is the e sound. and more is MO lol :) and sometimes ma not sure with that. He says mama very well:) YIPPEE :) was a time I feared I would never hear those words! now he does not say it all the time but he can say and say it well :) He says Daa ee for daddy! :) sooo cute :) He is still signing some words and it so cute! He is INTO everything and he is tryin to climb everywhere! He still seems to have some major depth perception issues. he steps out on the front steps and we have to hold a hand because he wil just leap off! He does not and will not walk down a step at a time. He just seems to think he is gonna land where he is suppose too. This has happened when he has climbed up a bolster thing at Kid City. He turns around and expects to just step right back where he started, not climb back down. weird! lol and on the edge of my bed, he seems to NOT be able to understand that beds and chairs have ends to them and you will fall off! I am gettin good at running and catching!

Noah is definitly mr. Music! HE LOVES music and will be found dancing anytime he hears it :) tothe delight of anyone around :) sooo cute :) we spend the evening at some friends home last night and they had some miraccas and he just had a blast making music with those!

On a not as pleasant note it appears surgery is a possibility again for Panda boy! :( Mama is less than thrilled but wantshim to be safe. Pediatician says he has kissing tonsils and there is VERY little room for him to swallow, or breath through them. He thinks this is why he snores and at times appears to gasp at night. He also thinks he might not have as many choking issues with food if they are removed. We have an appointment with his ent on the 28th so we will find out more for sure then. It scares me to think he is havin trouble breathing! I wanted into ENT sooner but it was not to be :( ugggh

I am wondering if his other issue has something to do with the tonsiles. Noah will shove his hand in his mouth and make himself throw up. It is not when he is upset necessariy, it can be anytime. very very odd :( The other day I am driving a 20 minute drive and I heard the sound and I am talkin to him and telling him take your hand out and keep lookin in rear view mirror, well when I arrive he has throw up all over him and the car seat :( he does not even make alot of noise with it. I am wondering if he feels those big tonsils and he is tryin to rub them or something.

Well, I am on my laptop so that flyer is the only picture I have for today. I will try and post again soon with some Noah delight :)

I will be drawing for the avon gift set tomorow so if you want your name in the drawing please donate today! In honor of memorial day I will put your name in drawing twice for each $5 you donate to Jeremiah!

And this is the last week for the Target $50 Giftcard Giveaway!! I will draw for it on June 1st! :) So if you want your name in that giveaway please make a donation of $10 to the Jeremiah fund! I will also do a special for today Memorial day of 2 entries per donation of $10. We covet all your help and donations with all our heart and we hope some of these giveaways are a small way we can say thank you! :)

Please be in prayer for all our fundraisers, for ideas for fundraisers and for helpers for fundraisers. We are supposed to Walk for Jeremiah on Tuesday to try and sell some on the home and garden fundraising sheets. Please pray for folks willing to come out and and walk with us ;) Also for our baby bottle fundraiser :) Anyone can be involved in that. Basically you save your change in a baby bottle and when full you donate that to The Jeremiah Fund!

I pray you all have a blessed Memorial day and a fun time with your family at least at some point on this day :)

Jeremiah sweet baby boy. Mama aches to hold you in her arms, to snuggle your sweet baby neck and just smell your precious smell :) I KNOW that the day is coming soon! I KNOW our God is able baby and just hold on! We are working so hard and we are doing everything in our power to get the money QUICK! Till we get there baby catch my kisses in the wind!

Firsts

Lotsa First have happend for Noah in this month of May! :) The first being that of course he was HERE for the first time in May! It is so overwhelming as things in life happen that are yearly and the time comes and NOAH IS HERE! and It reminds me last year at this time he was just a dream waiting in an orphanage! Waiting on a hope and a prayer for GOD to fulfill HIS miracle of bridging the ocean and bringing my baby boy HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so in awe still. WILL I EVER not be? I hope not to be honest. May we never forget what God did in gifting us with Noah and I am so blessed to be in the Journey to Jeremiah and having the honor of watching Father God SHOW OFF once again! :)

Ok, on to pictures :)


Here is Daddy and Noah! :) Just before goin to the first birthday party (other than his own :) heehee) that Noah has ever been too :) He actually went to 2 this month but the 2nd one the camera battery died so no pics :( the first one was taken on Celeste cell phone cuz the camera got left. I am so thinking I need a CAR CAMERA! lol that way when we are rushing I ALWAYS have a camera! heehee

Here is Noah's FIRST ICEE!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is big in our family. Celeste remembers getting an ICEE EVERY time she got poked at the doctor! heehee This was at the birthday party! He could not figure out how to get that ICEE up the straw but he loved it on the spoon :)

another shot of ICEE TIME :)

FIRST ever FAIR and Merry go Round ride. WHAT an adventure! He would have NOTHING at all to do with the horses so I tried the bench, just go get him use to is you know. Well, he SCREAMED bloody murder! We had to stop it. You can't see it here but he was havin a fit! and has a death grip on me!

First ever juice pouch. Now this looks so cute but he actually wore way more than got in his mouth! Back to sippy cup for a bit! :) heeehee

First fair food :) YUMMO

POINTING to ask for MORE FUNNEL CAKE! First time and he loved it :)

french fry in one hand, funnel cake in the other :) heehee

watchin daddy to see what HE is eating :) heeheee

Here's my Jeremiah frogie boy! :) Thanks to my friend Mel for making this sweet picture off one of his pictures! :) Is that not adorable!

Hold on Jeremiah sweetie! mama and daddy are doing EVERYTHING we can to get to you as QUICKLY as we can! God is a BIG GOD honey boy! He is SHOWING OFF already for you. He loves you and so do we. HOLD ON :) and while you wait , catch my kisses in the wind! :)

Amazing News and Home Study Visit Today! :)

I had to sing the praises of Jumpin Jupiter! They are amazing. They let me know today that they wanted to move the fundraiser from Thursday the 18th till Friday the 19th because more people could probably come on a Friday! :) Also they told me the percentage that will go to the Jeremiah Fund! EIGHTY percent of the admission and TWENTY percent of concessions! Can you believe that!!! :) Is that not just amazingly GENEROUS OF THEM!!???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are so blessed and excited! :) So please note the date change from June 18th to June 19th!

PLEASE be praying for this fundraiser!!!! Here are the details!

Jumping for Jeremiah

Friday, June 19, 20095 pm till 9pm

Jumping Jupiter

Once again, here is what it's all about!

I can't wait till that night! It will be so much fun and we will all be JUMPIN for Jeremiah! :) I am overwhelmed by their generosity! :)

We have been getting good news like nuts :) Chick-Fil-A locally is probably going to let us have a fundraising night there where we get a percentage of the TOTAL Sales! :) Isnt' that great! There is one more person who has to approve it and then we are a go. They will also do a press release to try to get it on tv and radio :) The more that come the better! :)

Tastefully Simple is also doing an online fundraiser for us that I will have a website that folks can go to and order food soon :) IF I can figure out how to get you on. I know I can send invites so send me your email address if you want invites to this site to see if you are hungry :) Looks like good food! :) Jeremiah will get 18% of all sales! :)


God is so wonderful! :)

Please keep all of these in prayer as well as more ideas and things to come :) We are trying to get into the Farmer's Market to sell Sweet Breads and regular breads every saturday morning from 7 till noon but are on the waiting list for a spot. It might still happen. PLEASE PRAY for this too! :)

If you have any ideas for fundraising PLEASE let us know!

Today is the THE DAY! Our homestudy visit is today for the update for Jeremiah's Homestudy! I can't believe I am almost done with my SECOND homestudy to my SECOND baby Boy! :) heehee I still need to get in for my physical and we are done and they can write it! I THINK thats it. :) Please keep all this in prayer :)

Jeremiah sweet frogie boy! Mama loves you so much! She is doing every kind of fundraiser she can come up with the get funds we need to bring you home sweet man! We are working so hard and Mama and Baba love you more than you can imagine! Your Gege Noah and Jie Jie Celeste love you so much too, and they are both sleeping in this morning and a world away you are sleeping at night! All my babies are sleepin safe in the arms of Jesus! Hang on my little love and keep workin hard with your Nannies! Mama and Baba are SOOOO proud of you sweetie pie! Until we get there baby, catch my kisses in the wind!

Update, double, shaving and exciting news!

Today I got the most precious gift a mother who is adopting can get short off an announcement of a decree! NEW PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so excited and the timing was amazing! I actually prayed in my prayer journal this morning Lord please let me get new pictures and updates TODAY! THANKS LORD! :) I do not have updates yet as they are waiting for them to be translated but I do have pics :) Here is one of them :)


This is the closest up on his beautiful little face! :) Isn't he just gorgeous! I can't WAIT to hold him in my arms and rock him and tell him just how loved he is! :) Isn't it amazing how you fall more and more in love with them EVERY picture? And how you just sit on the edge of your seat as you scan email praying for just a glimpse of a new picture, or some developmental update or something on your baby that is a world away! This process of adoption is hard in so many ways but oh the joy those moments bring when you connect with the newest photo or hear the newest word about your baby! :)

Well, I was totally blessed this week with an AMAZING deal on something that I will DEFINITELY need when Jeremiah comes home! A DOUBLE STROLLER! :) heeheee I got a beyond amazing deal on this that a lady close by was selling! :)

Here is Noah checking it out! :) He wants the top back :) heehee

the picture did not come out very good but you can see it is a double stroller :) I can't wait tilll I can post a picture of BOTH my sonS in the stroller TOGETHER! :)


This is so cute! Whenever Celeste sits in the chair to do her nails, Noah comes runnin and has a fit for her to file his too! :) lol :) Isnt that a precious shot!!! ??

Tonight while Bobby was shaving Noah decided he wanted in on the action :) So Bobby put some shaving cream on him :)

not too good a shot in this one.


There you can see it better! :) Then Noah decided that DADDY had his shirt off so Noah had to have his off! LOL

There he is all manly! heehee The shaving cream came off with the shrit for the most part. You can see Bobby's bad bruise on his side where he fell on the front steps the other day in the bad weather. OUCH! It looks dreadful!

I wanted to share some EXCITING new with yall! A local place here that has all kinds of bouncy houses and such INSIDE is going to do a fundraiser for us! :) It wil be in June and it is called JUMPIN FOR JEREMIAH! I am so excited about this. A certain percentage (they have not decided just yet) of all sales for entry and concession for the night will go towards The Jeremiah Fund! I really PRAY this will be a BIG fundraiser and will go VERY WELL! We are going to make up flyers to get the word out to folks to come and all. It is a fun night for them and helps raise money for Jeremiah! :) We have it scheduled for June 18th because we wanted to allow as much time as we could to advertise it up! :) Also please be in prayer that I can get in touch with the local lady for our Farmer's Market. I want to see about signing up to sell baked goods there on Saturday Mornings once it starts :) I am having difficulty getting the information I need.

We have several other fundraisers in the fire so please pray that they will work out well too! Also we will be doing some candy sales in front of a business as well. We also have a home and garden fundraising party coming up in early June! That shoudl be fun and there are fundraising sheets we can take soon and start trying to sell off them :) And we have an online fundraiser possibility through a company that sells food. EVERYONE has to eat so I am hoping that will be good for folks :)

PLEASE keep all our fundraising efforts in prayer as we work to try and raise the money QUICKLY as possible to bring home our Jeremiah! It is overwhelming sometimes but we just have to look on that face above and remember our frogie boy is waiting for us. Lots of love, lots of prayers and lots of relying on God will get us through this. Praise God HE knows where it is all coming from!

Jeremiah sweet frogie boy! Mama loves you with all her heart! I am working as hard as I can to get there darling! PLEASE hadg on precious and until then, catch my kisses in the wind!