Life just keeps on moving right along

Besides plugging along with our home study to adopt from Ukraine, this is what our week has been like.

Monday, after helping out in Andrew's class, I quickly drove up to the courthouse to file paperwork to get a court date to finalize Rachel's adoption. They pleasantly surprised me when they asked if we could bring the whole family this Friday. The judge that did our other girls' readoptions specifically asked if she could be our judge for Rachel too. She also had one request ---that we bring in all the kids so that we can make it a whole family occasion. Hopefully, we can accommodate her, but a couple of the kids (believe it or not) want to go to school because of something going on in their class. Oh well, we'll just have to wait and see who ends up going with us. As it is, I am not sure what we are going to do if we take everybody because that means we need to take the van, and sometimes it is very hard to find parking since we can't park underground. I guess we can go early and park further away from the courthouse and just walk.

So, after zooming back to the school to get Andrew, I met with his teacher for the first of 10 parent-teacher conferences. It went well, and the only thing that she would like to see improve is his willingness to retell stories or answer questions about the story she just read. His answer too many times was, "I don't know!" We both know that he does to know. ;)

Tuesday, just a trip to Walmart and the eye doctor to pick up Jonny's new glasses. I would post a picture of him sporting his new spectacles but they are exactly the same as his last pair. :( Jonny really wanted red ones.

Wednesday, Anna went to the dentist. No cavities, so I took her and Jonny to McDonald's for lunch. I let them place in the play place for awhile before I took her back to school. It's at times like these that I see just how "little" Anna still is. She is still making up for so much lost time, but there is no rush because we will let her take as long as she needs.

When I took Anna back to school, I stopped by the book fair to buy some new books for the kids. Out of at least 100 books, the one Annalyn wants most is titled, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid."
When I bought her the book, I had a chance to thumb through it, and it made me a little sad to think that she will probably relate to a lot of what's in it.

Thursday, Jonny has speech and I have five parent-teacher conferences.

Friday is Rachel's readoption date and more conferences in the afternnon.