Meet Isabella, the male Elephant Ear Betta fish

Introducing the newest member of our family...

Elizabeth really, really wants a cat or dog, but she settled for a fish...She decided to name him Isabella, even though it's a boy :) We got him on the spur of moment today after her skating lesson. Actually, it wasn't totally spur of the moment; we've been talking about getting a fish off and on for a while now. And yesterday, we had a play date at a friend's house, and we admired their little Betta fish, so today I decided it was finally time to get one of our own. Kinda fun!

 

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Another great post from "My Brown Baby"

Love this and wanted to share...for my amazing, smart, beautiful little girl...xoxoxoxo

More food to feed my obsession with all things Adoption

Late to the party as always, I discovered a series in the Huffington Post called Portrait of an Adoption.  It is 30 different stories of adoption, told by adoptive parents, birthparents, and adoptees. Love!!!! Go check it out :)

Some mail from Elizabeth!

Today in the mail, I received this letter, addressed to "Mummy K--" from Elizabeth, sent from school. :)

xoxoxoxox

 

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Snowy morning at the bus stop

E was very excited to see the snow this morning, and is hoping to go sledding. Unfortunately, the snow is supposed to change over to rain later on today, so I'm not sure that's going to happen....

 

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Ear piercing

This morning, I read this post on My Brown Baby (I love that blog!) about little girls of color getting their ears pierced at very young ages.

 

When Elizabeth came to me at 4 months old, she already had pierced ears (I assume her foster mom had had it done). So cute! They lasted until she was 2 years old and one of her earrings came out in her crib and got lost. At that point I took the other one out and let the holes close up. I decided she could get them repierced when she was older, when/if she wanted to. I wasn't going to make her wait until a certain age, but I also wasn't going to traumatize my toddler by having it done then. Well, now at age 5, she has been starting to ask to get her ears pierced, so I guess the time is coming soon...I'm actually feeling kind of excited that she wants it done!

Elizabeth on ice :)

So, thanks to my Mom, Elizabeth started skating lessons on Sunday. I think she did great for her first time on the ice! Most importantly, E really enjoyed it, and quickly made friends with a couple other little girls in her class.

 

 

 

 

Great job, Miss E! xoxoxox

 

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