Zoe's 1st Day of School

Tues Sept 9th was Zoe's 1st day of preschool. I have added the only pics I have above. She was so excited and nervous about going to school. I had to draw hearts on her hand so she could look at it and remember that I am thinkig of her and will be there when she gets out of school to pick her up. This is the first time she has ever went somewhere on her own. She has stayed with her grandparents or my brothers family for a few hours but this a first to go with strangers and she has been a little anxious, but she is overcomming her fears. We have started week 3 of school and I am still drawing hearts on her hand to help her feel safe and secure. She informed me yesterday that she now has a bestest friend and her name is MS. It was so cute. She also informed me that she no longer needs hearts on her hand. We will see what she says tommorrow when we get ready to leave. I just Love the stories she comes home with now about her day at school. We have started a new bedtime routine about talking about our day and what was good and not so good. Then we talk about how to make things better for the next day. For a 4 yr old Zoe is very mature and insightful. I am floored by her wisdom. Zeb is enjoying his Zoe free afternoons. He gets to watch Thomas and actualy now cuddles up with me. He is all about doing his own thing any other time. Things are very busy but I can say I am starting to enjoy the routine and life with 2 kids 18 months apart is getting easier. Zeb starts testing in 2 weeks for transition from 1st steps to preschool, and we meet with his pedicatric orthopedist for his 9 month check on his leg. I am praying he tests out of needing therapies for his sensory issues.

My computer crashed last week. I lost all our pictures from both kids, and everything for Noahs adoption. I am just sick about it all! I thought snapfish had backed up all our photos I had it set up to download to both places when I download photos to our computer but it didn't!!!!! I was looking at a fellow adopters blog when a virus attacked and in a matter of minutes I had lost everything. I have all the spyware and virus protection and check things daily but this new virus goes in and wipes out your security. I guess we all need to be more cautious and boost the security and I now need to learn how to back up my files!!!!! So if anyone wonders why I haven't been on your blogs recently I lost my favs with all your blog addresses!!!!

On the adoption front, No NEWS!!! I really thought we'd have LOA by now. The average was 70 days up until we got in line! It has been over 11 weeks now day 80 now to be exact. I am trying to keep busy by cleaning the house and scrubing walls etc... I have a toybox my dad made to paint for Noah and 1 comming to paint for Zeb. We decided to tear out part of the flower beds and redo them and anything else we can do to keep our minds busy. I so want Noah home yesterday!!!!! He has to be home for the holidays at least! Please Dear God!!! Everything here is set up for God to perform spectacular Miracles in all areas of our family's life. I am excited to see what God does to get Noah home and everything else taken care. It will be beyond perfect and beyond spectacular. The anticipation is really overwelming some days!!!!

Thank you everyone for your prayers and well wishes!!!!

Be blessed!!