The Rest@n Z@@

I've been totally slacking on the blog lately, so these are long over due!! Anyway, a while back Margi and I took our boys to the zoo. This is a really great little neighborhood zoo and Brady has been there several times and he really seems to like it. This particular day the weather was perfect and we had a great time......until Brady got something in his eye. I never did figure out what exactly it was, but I did consider taking him to the DR or the emergency room when it was still bothering him after more than hour. Fortunately after a nap he ended up being fine, but it made for a somewhat difficult morning/afternoon. At least we had fun for a little while!!!

this little piglet was so stinkin' cute!!

it was right after this picture that the eye problem started so I'm not sure if these little goats spit at him or if something just blew into his eye or what. I think this is a super cute picture!!

the boys checking something out!!

the really liked looking at the turtles

Too Cool

For the last month or two Brady has been all about his sunglasses, even in the house!!! It's a good thing he has about 4 pairs of them, because they end up all over the place!! LOL Here's a few cute pics of him in the house with his shades on.

He thinks he's cool, even if they are on upside down!! :-)

CIVIL RULING!!!

Just found out we had our Civil Ruling on October 4th!!! Yippee!!!! So, this means that we could receive our Final Ruling as quickly as 10 days from now or as long as 6 weeks from now. Obviously I'm hoping we're closer to the 10 days than the 6 weeks!!! Emily, we'll be there SOON!!

TIRED OF WAITING

I think I am officially getting discouraged with how long the courts are taking with Emily. I'm finding this time around MUCH more difficult and I think that's because I have something to compare it to. Brady's entire court process from Hearing to Final only took 42 days and we've currently been waiting 54 days and still don't have a First Ruling for Emily. I'm just getting this horrible feeling that we've been assigned the judge who takes his sweet old time and we won't have Emily home by Christmas. I was really hoping to have her home by Thanksgiving and given the fact that we had our Court Hearing August 12, there was a chance we could have had her home by Halloween but now that's virtually impossible. These are the times that I wish we were given some more information. If I knew what was going on or why it was taking so long I think I could take the waiting better, but this not knowing anything is just killing me.

I have been obsessing over my Yahoo Group's database and of the 6 families who listed their info or had all of the info, the average wait time from Hearing to First Ruling was 63 days, but the longest wait was 99 days, which means hopefully we'll hear something between October 14th and November 19th. Then the average wait time from First Ruling to Final Ruling was 26 days with the longest being 47 days. This would mean we would hear something between November 9th and November 30th, but it could actually be later than that if we're at the long end for both rulings.

Now I'm feeling even more discouraged!!!! UGH!!!

With any luck my next Emily post will be good news about a ruling!!!!

Video!

I absolutely LOVE this video!!! It's so cute!!! I have to say that I also think is funny how, about half way through she starts yawning, like she's so bored with the whole thing!!! LOL And I LOVE that they are showing her our photo's and telling her who we are!! ENJOY, I sure have!!! :-) Remember to turn the music off so you can hear the video.

September Pictures!

OH MY GOODNESS, could these be any cuter???? She is SO adorable!! I cannot wait to go over there and scoop her up and give her some love!!!! We also got growth information and at almost 5 months she was just 12lbs and 22 inches long, which seems little to me, but what do I know?? LOL I'm also happy to say that she is again wearing an outfit we sent (although I did not send the hair bow/headband). It's time to get that second care package off in the mail so she has some other clothes to wear!!! :-) ENJOY!!!

7 Weeks

*** EDIT*** Okay, so those of you that know me well, know that math has NEVER been my strong suit and it's just come to my attention that it's only been 5 weeks since our Court Hearing!!!! While that is still longer than we waited for news with Brady's process, that somehow doesn't seem that bad!!!! Now hopefully the judge won't make the rest of this post come true!!! :-)

Today marks 7 weeks since we had our Court Hearing. I don't really want to complain because I know people have waited MUCH longer than this to hear about a First Ruling, but I have to say it's especially hard since Emily's timeline is the same time of year as Brady's. I can't help but think that two years tomorrow marks the day we got our travel call for Brady, but we still don't have a first ruling with Emily. It's just frustrating not knowing ANYTHING!!!

The good news is that I have a million and one things to keep me busy most of the time so I'm not dwelling on the wait (or at least I tell myself that!!). Emily's room is not 100% finished yet, but we've made good progress. We basically have the "decorating" left to do, so that will be fun!! Then there's the rest of the house that is in desperate need of attention...of any kind!!! LOL Of course there's Brady and he's definitely keeping me busy these days. He's definitely at "that age", that's for sure!! LOL Most days are still fun and that's what's important. We seem to be pretty busy the next month or two so that will also help with the wait, but nothing is SO important that we won't be able to drop everything and go to Taiwan!! :-)

Hopefully I will have another post soon with good news!!! And I'm sorry for the lack of blogging lately, not sure what my problem is, except that I'm spending WAY too much time on F@cebook!!LOL