Reganism. The one about a loophole

I SO HUNGRY!!!

He says (YELLS) this at me every few seconds while I am getting his lunch. I was also hearing the impatience of Kaylee and Emilo.Kaylee was asking for the time literally every minute wondering if it was lunch time yet. And Emilo was pulling on my pants yelling.

Then Jon called about Kaylee’s immunization records not being legible enough for the school and could I please call the Dr., and have him fax it over and here is all the info to do that, and I have three kids trying to climb up demanding to be fed. RIGHT.THIS.SECOND!

SO, trying to keep my cool with the children I ended up being less than patient with Jon. Telling him to just email me because the children were revolting, and I hung up. It was not one of my finer lunch time moments.

I had all three plates on the table with drinks in less than five minutes! It felt like MUCH longer. Kaylee and Emilo all but inhaled their food. Regan decided that he didn’t even want to try it. “It’s sooo gross an yucky.” What the…?!?!?

We do not wast food in this house if it can be helped. Leftovers? LOVE.THEM! My children know if they don’t eat what’s given them at meal time they will see that meal at snack time, the next meal, and so forth until they eat it. (Unless it’s cereal. Can’t really save cereal…. Eeeww.)

Mean? Maybe. Meanwhile they are not picky eaters. They will try anything once. I do not force feed them things they genuinely don’t care for. Like when I sautee mushrooms and onions for burgers or spaghetti Regan gets Kaylee’s onions, and she gets his mushrooms. Regan doesn’t care for mushrooms, and since he HAS tried them several times I don’t push the issue. Same for Kaylee with onions.

So I told him he couldn’t leave the table until he took one bite of his burrito, and one of his pineapple. Two of his favorite things. The three of us who where finished headed to the couch to read books, and Regan got real quite. And I knew, just knew he had fallen asleep.

So I grabbed the camera and went to take pictures of him before carrying him to bed. And that is how Regan stumbled into the loophole of not being allowed to leave the table without taking some bites.

He happily ate it for lunch the next day. I did feed him other food in between since it appears the boy is in the sleepy phase of a growth spurt. I am not a total meanie.

More paperwork (Foster care/Foster to Adopt)

It’s our new mantra. Helps me power through the hand cramps. I honestly find it all excessive. Why can’t we just make copies of our private home study and paperwork? And back round checks? (We’ve been told we might with some forms, so that would be nice.) BUT we know it will be worth it so we power through. And are EXCITED!

I decided to put my crazy pants on and fill out our stack of foster paper work, some new forms that needed signing from our agency, AND Kaylee kindergarten intake packet (not shown) in the same evening.

I signed my name and dated it over 40 times! Never mind filling in the info they needed. Sheesh!

Me: Sign here. And here, And here, and……

Jon: Geeze.

Me: Dude. Don’t even complain. (To be fair he was writing code for the van fund job so…)

Jon and I were surprised that the foster intake had a whole form on race, gender, and ethnicity. To each their own and whatnot and yea for people fostering children, but really? Baffled. Well not so much with gender I guess….

Our only thing was age. We would prefer the children we foster be the same age or younger than the children. We don’t think it would be comfortable or appropriate for a teenager to share a room with a toddler/young child. SO as the children grow so will our age range.

However we are signed up for sibling groups so we will see as situations are presented.

Did I mention we are EXCITED?!

I expect a call to set a meeting with the foster agency sometime towards the end of next week! Where we will go and get MORE paperwork to fill out. Hahaha!

Seriously though we are SO EXCITED! 🙂

Purple princess room. Before and After

Kaylee wanted a purple princess room for the “new” house. I knew the children would be sharing so I had a more neutral color in mind. Jon and I always shared a room with siblings, and the kids like sharing a room. So until they get older and it’s odd they will continue to share. This is a before and after of The Nursery. A.K.A the purple princess room.

My first color choice was a shade of green that ended up looking poopy like the carpet. Not good. They (I was still packing in UT.) put one coat on and then called me. We decided that I would pick a new color after seeing the green in person.

I herd nonstop about how great it would be to have a purple princess room. So did everyone else.

Josh said I should just do purple because guys can do purple and it’s a gender neutral color. I told him I’d send Regan his way in later years if I got flack about having him in a purple room. Then Kaylee and I went to the store and I let her pick from three color chips.

And here is a photo of said poopy carpet. Literal poop. I decided against posting the dookie photo. GROSS! So this is the master carpet, but it’s all the same. And I am SO happy I missed out on dealing with that beast. They cleaned the cement. A LOT.

The room was this pink color that I HATED. And came with popcorn ceilings. So those had to go.

The ugly old yellowed switches and outlets went away too. Dwayne installed most of the new floor for the house. He’s awesome like that. Pretty pretty floor.

So she got her princess room. But I did it my way. I didn’t want her to grow out of her room in a few years, and then have to do it over. So I decided to make a room that is meaningful for our family and that she can grow with.

I had her grandparents and the Greats that she knows send me a favorite wedding photo for her room. They are her princesses with their princes. AWESOME right? I also got enlargements of Temples that have special meaning for our family, and those are her “castles”. She has for years called temples “Temple castles”.

She started asking us where the baby was going to sleep. So I told her that her bed goes on top of Regan’s and turns into a bunk, and that the crib would go where her bed was. So she NEEDED us to bunk their beds NOW! (This was months ago.) Her reason being that they needed practice sleeping in bunk beds. So…..

They were VERY excited to go to bed that night.

They LOVE the beds bunked. This was the day I got them new bedding. They like to lay in bed and chat.

This is our cute crib. Shannon gave it to us since we left ours in Utah when we moved. I had planned on just buying one off Craig’s list when we decided to adopt. Well the deciding to adopt happened much faster than I thought it would. 🙂 But it timed out perfectly for scoring this sweet crib.

A little princess bling on the plain closet doors. I love all the mirrors. They add so much light to the room.

We have (left to right, top to bottom) the St. George, UT Temple, L.A. Temple, Mesa, AZ Temple, the rendering of the Phoenix, AZ Temple, and the SLC, UT Temple.And now for a side by side comparison.

We like it. More important Kaylee LOVES it. She got her purple princess room and couldn’t be happier.

And Regan LOVES his mini man cave. 😉

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