Elizabeth at Five and a half

Just thought I'd bust out the bullets and give an E update...

-her favorite food continues to be Fried Rice

- her favorite movies are Brave, Cinderella, The Lorax, Beauty and the Beast, and now Star Wars at Maria's house

- Her favorite color is purple

- She still sleeps with me :)

-She is working up her courage to get her ears pierced

-She loves school, and her teachers

-She has some sight words that she can read

-She loves to snuggle on the couch and hold hands when we walk

-She loves our iPad and has pretty much taken it over :0

-She has great manners, and is really good about saying "please" and "thank you"

She loves listening to Top Forty music in the car

Her mommy is is incredibly proud of her :)

 

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66 months and a rambling post...

So, yesterday my girl turned five and a half. How did that happen? I know it is such a cliche, but in retrospect, it really does seem like it's gone by fast. I love watching her grow, and become more mature and independent. I love how much she loves school. It is so awesome watching her turn into this amazing person. However, I have to say, I love the baby stage, and kind of miss it..l always thought I'd adopt again by the time E was 4 or 5, but as I've mentioned before, that is most likely not going to happen...Actually, what I'd really love to do is stay home and be a foster mom to a baby or toddler. However, since I kind of need to work to pay rent and feed us, I guess right now, that's not an option either...I've really come to a place where I'm obsessed with passionate about foster care and adoption and I feel like I want to become more involved with it, at both a professional level, and a personal level. I like my current job (Substance Abuse Counselor), but I would really like to work with children and families around Foster Care and Adoption. One of my goals for 2013 is to make that happen.

The other day, E said to me, "I wish God would put a baby brother into your belly." Then, a few minutes later she said, "Actually, I don't wish that. We don't have room for a crib here." (Actually, we do. It's not like a certain person uses her bedroom to sleep in, anyway...ahem...)

 

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Winter stuff

Sorry this pic is so blurry, but I love how E rocks her new earmuffs :)

She had seen them at the store back in November and asked for them. I said no at the time, and she forgot about them. But I did end up getting them and sneaking them into her stocking for Christmas. She cracks me up when she wears them!

In other winter related news, E will be starting skating lessons this Sunday. My mom signed her up for a class, yay!!! I got her a nice pair of skates at a used sporting goods store yesterday, so she's all set. E has never ice skated before, so this should be fun. She is super-excited about it:)

 

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Through her eyes...

Thanks to the gift card my (awesome) sister sent us for Christmas, I got Elizabeth a kids' digital camera. Since she is always wanting to take pictures with my phone, I knew this would be a hit. Here are just a few of the pics she's taken over the past few days...

Me:)

The doggie she got for Christmas, who she named Isabella:

At the grocery store:

Self-portrait:

 

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Back into the routine (and a Grey's Anatomy rant...)

Our Holidays were great, but I think Elizabeth is glad to be back to the routine, and back to school. I think she missed her friends and her teachers. I love that she is liking Kindergarten so much!

Playing outside at Grandma and Grandpa's yesterday afternoon...

On another note...(very) late to the party as always, I started watching Grey's Anatomy on Netflix. I never watched it before, but I'm on the third season now. So addictive! And Dr. McDreamy...oh, yeah...:) There was one adoption related storyline on the show that bothered me though. It was the one where Izzy revealed that as a teenager, she gave up a child for adoption. When Izzy was treating a pregnant girl in the hospital, she was actually trying to talk the girl into giving up her baby, even when the girl was saying she loved her baby and wanted to keep it. Izzy trotted out the whole tired argument about the girl not being able to give her child "the kind of life it deserves" because she lives in a trailer park and the girl's mother works in a factory. As if having a low income makes someone an unfit parent. Ugg...ok, enough of my rant. I know it's only a TV show, but it just bothered me to see that kind of coercion and the idea that she isn't good for enough for her own baby being put into that girl's head.

 

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It's that time of year...

and I'm thinking a lot about what goals (I don't really like calling them resolutions for some reason) I have for this year. Yesterday's post in the excellent blog Daddy doin Work had a great way of looking at goals/resolutions, so I thought I'd share it. Go check it out!

 

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And it's a wrap...

See ya, 2012...

Welcome, 2013! Hope your new year is filled with lots of joy and love.

xoxoxoxox

 

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