Surprise / Thanksgiving

I cleaned our foster room the other day and decided to snap a photo because it looked so good  :-)  Little did I know that a few days later, we would have both of the beds full!  We always thought we would take just 1 foster child at a time but we got 3 phone calls in 4 days for siblings.  After the 3rd day we decided to accept a placement of a 1 year old girl and a 2 year old boy.  I have gone through the whole range of emotions when thinking about this crazy life we are living.  There were two surprises, 1) I missed our foster baby more when we got the new kids.  There is just something about snuggling a baby.  2) There was almost a sense of mourning over the holidays and how our life in general was changing.  A baby can be transported almost anywhere.  A 2 year old and 1 year old, not so much.  Our now family of six had to and will continue to make adjustments that are outside our normal routines and traditions.  All that being said, everything is really going well.  They have been with us for just a week and a half but are already picking up on the routine and seem to be doing well.  

They arrived at 10:30 on a Monday night and our hearts just broke because we learned that the next day was her 1st birthday.  We quickly got a few presents together and had pizza and cupcakes for her birthday.  Thankfully, she is just turning 1 and doesn't know any better.  

I don't have many pictures from Thanksgiving that don't include our foster children but we had a good time.  We went to Lindsay's house and enjoyed dinner with the family.

The kids played like crazy...

 Grand-dude was a good sport and played superwoman with Libby!  

We got a family picture.  

The Friday night after Thanksgiving we got our Christmas tree and spent some time decorating.  

And then enjoyed some cookies and books by the lighted tree.