Our Little Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

Parental Rights and a busy September

WOW! It's been awhile since I have posted here, but life has just been SO busy! After having about 4 very slow months with the business, September brought about nearly FIFTY orders just on the digital side of the business! Praise God!

We are excited to announce that the parental rights of Sir E's birth mom has been terminated. We are sad for her, but we know that she loves Erick, and she understands that he is now in a home where he will be well taken care of and loved too. We now have to wait 60 days to see if she will appeal the ruling. If she doesn't, the adoption finalization process will begin, and the adoption should be finalized in early 2009...like January or February. YAY!!!!!!!

Here are some recent pictures of the family, including Poppaw's birthday party, and a visit from the Queen's sister (my sister). I hope you enjoy.

I Love Digital Scrapbooking!!!

I have been scrapbooking since Sir C was about 3 years old. We started scrapbooking because he had had some strokes that took away his speech and hearing (hearing came back, but speech did not), and a lot of his comprehensive abilities. So we wanted a way for him to re-learn things. We started with pages of him, and also worked on pages of zoo animals so that he could learn his animals again.

I've come a LONG way from those scrapbook pages of old. I'll have to post pictures of them some time after we get a scanner.

Here are some pages of recent activities we've done as a family, or things we've had going on around here. I hope you enjoy them.

(For the credits on each layout, please click on each picture.)

Sir E Is Learning to Feed Himself

I can only allow him to feed himself when the food is thick, but Sir E is now learning to feed himself! If the food is thinner, it just gets flung everywhere, and I don't really have the patience for that! As it is, he is exploring what it is like to have both hands in the food, and holding the spoon in both hands! I guess for now, he is ambidextrous. Here are some pictures from this morning's breakfast time...yogurt, baby oatmeal, and fruit dessert mixed together.

Family Camping Trip 2008