Step In Time

 So of course, we love music in the Bogner family!  We introduced Aaron to Mary Poppins a few week ago and he now loves to "Step In Time" with the chimney sweeps.  And Daddy now lets Aaron "play" his guitar under supervision.  But just playing a guitar is not fun enough!

We also have to sing in the microphone while we strum, and for more background instrumentals we press a button in the book behind us for a specific song to play.  Never a dull moment, and loving it!

The adoption paperwork is now pretty much done, and we wait...thank you for all of your prayers!

Oh, 2012 what do you have in store?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Our holidays were nice and quiet and relaxing, which is just what everyone needed.

We have decided to finally jump into the crazy world of potty training. I'm in no big rush, so we are going slowly and trying to focus on our successes. He really enjoys his one Skittle that he receives for each successful deposit. It will be interesting how long he makes this process last. One day at a time.

We are near finishing our paper work for our adoption. And soon we will be having a conference call with our agency to give us an idea of how long our wait might be. One day at a time.

Moving along

I am so thankful that finally the week before Christmas, life is slowing down a bit. We have been busy the past six weeks with Thanksgiving (yummy!), classes to maintain my teaching certificate, practices and performances of Christmas concerts and dramas, and birthday parties! Thank you to Beppe for the fabulous "Under Construction" cake! I can't believe that Aaron is 3! When I look at him now I notice that this face is getting thinner and has lost pretty much all of his baby face. He's my big boy now.

There is still a sense of loss during this time as someone is definitely missing.

"God has a plan for my life!"

Has anyone has felt that God speaks to us through our children? Today we were going to the zoo and Aaron is in the back seat singing at the top of his lungs, "God has a plan for my life!" over and over again for about 10 minutes! Alright, God, I hear you!

The second half of October has flown by. Craig and I celebrated 5 years of marriage, while Aaron spent some quality time with Pake and Beppe for the weekend. Everybody wins!

Aaron went in for a visit with eye doctor as we monitor his exotropism. The doctor was happy to say that it looked better! He couldn't see it at all when Aaron was focusing on something close, and he saw it just a little bit when focused far. Keep praying!

We are trucking right along with our adoption paperwork. It is kind of a 2 steps forward, one step back kind of process, as I find out that things were done incorrectly and need to be done again. *deep breath*

Many Halloween activities happened this past week, and none was more excited than Mickey Mouse who seemed to join us for each one of them! If you tried to refer to Mickey as Aaron, he wouldn't respond to that name, but would quickly remind you that he was Mickey.

I have so much for which to be thankful!

The Race in On!

Well we are now neck deep in paperwork as we pursue an adoption of a child from China! It doesn't give me much time to get excited yet, but that time will come during the waiting period. I am so thankful that Aaron is still taking a good nap because that has become my time of focused attention each day to the paper chase. It is definitely a marathon!

Aaron is doing well. I'm getting the feeling that we might be ready to start potty training. We've been "practicing" and so one day I asked him when he was going to put ALL his pee pees in the potty and he told me when he turns 3 on December 6th. Alright, buddy, I'm holding you to that!

My mind has been starting also to get some ideas going for Christmas, so the other day....

Me: Aaron what present should we get for Daddy?

Aaron: (long serious pause) A backhoe!

Hmm.....I wonder what Aaron wants for Christmas?

Puzzles

One of Aaron's passions is puzzles. He loves them and will even do them upside down so you can't see the picture. I'm thinking that we have a little engineer on our hands here.

Our meeting on Friday went really well. We feel very comfortable with America World Adoptions and also have several friends who have used them and love them. The next big step is to choose the country from which we will be adopting. Looking at just the travel requirements that each country mandates, we have narrowed it down to Ethiopia or China. The other countries require us to be out of the country for longer than we can do. Please pray that the Lord would make it clear to both Craig's heart and mine what direction He would have us pursue.

Practice

Ummm....so evidently we need to practice a little more with the use of the utensils, but it was Chef Boyardee spaghetti!

Craig and I are very excited as tomorrow we take our first official step toward a dream that God placed in both of our hearts before we were even married. We will be meeting with an adoption agency! It is such a big decision that we want to be able to sit down with a representative to better determine what might be a good fit for our family. Please keep us in your prayers as we start this new journey!