Even Bella got a little time with D when we were at Grandma's and Grandpa's house. They both went for a little swim in the kiddie pool.

D loved playing with Aunt Sara at the McDonald's play place. Sara snuck in even though she was technically too big. : )

Then at Grandma's and Grandpa's house they played Super Heroes. Sara was Batman and D was Iron man. D would go up to Aunt Sara and say, "Batman, somebody's in trouble, we need to go save them!" And then they would run around the yard making sure that they didn't step in the hot lava (the wood chips in the garden).

This last week we met with the rest of my side of the family. It was really fun getting D and Lyla together. They were so cute together, Lyla would just watch D run around in circles and she would love it.

D'marion met Grandma and Grandpa at Dad's Mexican Restaurant last week. D will smile for about 2 seconds and so it's sometimes hard to get a good picture of him smiling. It took him a couple of minutes to warm up but once he did there was no slowing him down. He had a great time, and he even played hide and seek with some of the workers. He's at the age where he will hide exactly where you just hid and if you say something like, "Where are you?", he will start to giggle. D'marion looks forward to watching "Cars" with Grandma and Grandpa because apparently they have never seen it. What!? : )

So I've been a little busy and I haven't had much time to update our blog. Andrew and I got our first placement a little over a week ago.

His name is D'marion, he is 3 years old, and he is so adorable. It's definitely been an adjustment getting used to him being here, but it's been so worth it. He loves everything and anything that has to do with any superhero, but Spider-man is his favorite. He loves wrestling with Andrew, they are so cute to watch.

We are currently his foster parents but in six months we can petition for adoption. D'marion is such a good kid. He is super polite and always says "please" and "thank you". He's a good listener and he is so interested in everything around him. He actually seems just like a regular 3 year old. He falls down a lot and he asks about 1,000 questions a day. I've seen "Cars" about 20 times in the past week, I'm excited for the new one to come out.

I'll post more soon! Thanks to everyone for their understanding and welcoming.

So, I know that I posted that our RFC was going to come by a while ago. But she actually didn't come meet us until last Thursday. It turns out that she is responsible for 83 different families and she had some personal issues that got in the way of her coming sooner.

They are going over our home-study today so by tonight we will be eligible for a placement. She said that the chances are really high for us to get a sibling group of 2. That is going to be harder than 1 obviously, but she said that most of the time, they end up pulling more than one kid from a home. We told her that as long as they are both under the age of 5 we would be willing to take both kids.

We are doing some respit care for some foster families to help us get ready for a placement. Respit is available to all foster families, it's sort of a break that the parents can get, sort of like babysitting. It's a really great thing for families to get a break and for us to get a little experience. I am excited to see what the Lord has in store for our family. : )

We are meeting with our RFC on Thursday. Yay! I think that it was a blessing that we didn't get called until now because I am still working and it would just be too stressful worrying if we might get a call before I'm done.

We picked up some sheets for our crib, toddler bed, & twin bed today. We figured that we should at least have somewhere for them to sleep. We can get other stuff later when we get a call. Andrew and I took a nice little vacation this weekend. We spent some time just swimming, shopping, hiking, relaxing, & watching movies.

We watched "Waiting for Superman". A very sad and interesting documentary about the school system in the U.S. It is really sad how bad our school system is. I would recommend it to anyone. After we watched it, we looked up our school district information. Fortunately, we have a pretty good elementary school and our district seems to be pretty good. I'm still thinking that a little bit of homeschooling isn't the worst idea. We'll see I guess.