Wordless Wednesday - Ragdoll?

Hat Swap

Jody at Our Forever Journey of Adoption is hosting a hat swap/ornament!! I have joined many bow swaps for our Little Miss but this will be the first swap for our BB!! I am so excited, his little bald head is going to need to be covered. If fact last week I picked up the adorable Gymboree numbers. I am a sucker for Gymboree clothes and I could not resist.


So it does not matter if you have a little one home, or are waiting for a little one. Boy or Girl any age, join the fun. Just think of all the fun hats, stocking hats, hand made hats, ball caps, dress up hats... I know I love getting something in the mail for my little ones. The more we have join in the more fun it will be!

I guess it has been a while.

Has it really been a week since I posted. Wow, time flies! Here is a quick recap with picture of Saturday. We went to the Perry's on Saturday for a Scentsy open house. So much fun, we love Scentsy products. Then we ended up staying for dinner and games, that was even more fun.

Other than that I have been busy with work. I had an audit yesterday and one more next week. Not a lot of fun but I want to get them out of the way in case a miracle happens and we can travel.

We have also been having the great Thanksgiving debate. I hate holidays for this, where do we go, do we have something here or do we just run away? Why does it always seem to be a struggle? Or is it all in my head? I think next year we might leave town.

How does your family handle Thanksgiving?

Wordless Wednesday

Burundi Baby Blog

Most of you know that we are waiting for our little Burundi Baby, probably toddler by now. I have a beautiful Blog that Diana kindly made for us to chronicle our journey to BB. It has been private and I had hoped to make it public when we got final approval for adoption, however that has taken a lot longer than I thought. A lot of the posts will be cross posts and I will still post what ever I can to to this blog as well. However, I have decided to open the blog to friends and family. I can only invite 100 people but I think that should cover most people that I know want to follow the blog. I will still make it public when we get approval (or travel) because I know a lot more of you will want to follow our travels. If you wish to be included in the email list please Email Me and I will try and add you. Family comes first so if I reach 100 and can't add you please do not be upset, I will open the blog to the public when we get that final approval.

Halloween Fun

Jim and I had a good day carving pumpkins playing games (which I won the majority of the time :0) and watching Dead Like Me on Hulu. Jim also made some awesome fajitas with out using a packet from the store! I was impressed I don't think we will buy those anymore this recipe was great. We ended up with a few trick-or-treaters, my favorite being the Who's and the Present from across the street and the Ninja following them ( I sure hope they noticed him:)

I also roasted pumpkin seeds for the first time boy they were yummy! better than the ones you buy by far.

Forget French

I posted a few days ago that I was looking for toddler appropriate DVD's that had a French language track. I assumed that since that was one of the official languages of Burundi that would be the language that BB was used to hearing. Well, you know what happens when you assume. After speaking with the Bishop we learned that he is hearing Kirundi. Now try and find a Kirundi language DVD for toddlers I dare you :0)

There is not much out there on Kirundi, there is a book or 2 but they are more than I can afford to spend right now and I have no way of know if they will do me any good. The Bishop is working on a phrase book for adopting parents so that we can at least communicate the basics. He also taught us a few words while we were there. It will be interesting to see what we are able to pick up once we are in Burundi for a week or two.

In the mean time I have located an online translator for Kirundi. Check it out if you are interested. It is Amajambo. I am in love with it, I hope to be able to butcher a couple phrases so I can at least say good morning, thank you, and where is the bathroom (avoiding doing the potty dance in a foreign country is a noble goal).

Oh and if anyone knows someone that is teaching their baby French, I have this that I will sell cheap, :o) It is opened but never used.

PS Thanks Debz for your offer to get me some DVDs in French, I am now thinking it was a sign that I could not find much in French around here.