The Laird Lowdown: Recipe for making Grandma jealous

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Recipe for making Grandma jealous

Take two grandchildren; one of which lives out of town.

Layer on sauce, ham, and cheese

Bake

Leftovers can be stored in a box in the bedroom. :)

We're so happy that Katie and Caleb came and brought Uncle Kevin and Aunt Pam. Everybody had a ton of fun. Katie and Kaylee also helped to make waffles on Saturday morning.

Jen and I also had some goals for the weekend; Kaylee is, nicely put, a copy cat. She wants to do whatever everybody else is doing. So, since Katie is potty trained and sleeps in a "big girl bed", we did some setup. We had a kid seat for the main potty as well as a kid potty. We also bought a matress for Kaylee's "big girl bed" (there was a post on that about a year ago--it's been in storage since). We cleaned up Kaylee's room (seriously--it was clean before three toddlers hit it in the picture above) and we were able to get the toddler bed into the room. Not only did Katie and Kaylee have a sleepover, but Kaylee got *really* jealous that Katie was the one who got to sleep in the big girl bed.

We're not any closer to being potty trained, but (after a little work) Kaylee is right now taking a nap in her big girl bed. :)

Here's a couple more pics from the weekend, including some Wii action. I never knew Pam and Kevin had so much pent up violent frustration...

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Our Adoption Story

Everyone always wants to know our adoption story. It is a long and complicated affair, but the short of it goes like this:

Tim and I decided after long discussion to build a family through adoption. Any children we adopted would be ours but just not have his eyes, or my hair… Anyway, we started our adoption journey on September 11, 2003 in an international program to Thailand.

In late February of 2005 we received word that the Thai government had turned down our request. We were devastated. We began looking into other options. We turned to domestic adoption.

A girl at Aquinas, where I work, had a friend who was looking to find an adoptive home for her baby. We decided to go ahead and find out more about her. We then got news that she was pregnant with twin boys. Oh my… what to do? So after talking and praying we decided if that was what God meant for us, then that was great.

So we talked with her and it was progressing toward us having twins. Unfortunately, the mother went into premature labor and one of the boys was still born and the other boy was very sick. The mother wanted to keep him, which was fine with us, since to voluntarily give up a child is one thing, but to have one taken from you is another.

After much sorrow, we again started over. We had our portfolio looked at by a bunch of birth parents, but nothing came of it, so we waited… and waited… and waited. Until one day I was getting out of a meeting and my telephone rang at work. It was the social worker calling about a birth family. Finally we had been chosen. That was Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

The only downside was the baby would be here any minute, literally. The birth mother had come in on her due date to make an adoption plan… oh my, again! We said that yes of course we’d take the baby, so in a mad dash, we finished paperwork, bought out Babies R Us, and made many phone calls to parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, and the list went on.

It was Tuesday when we got the call and by Sunday, September 24th, we were a wreck, so we went to church. After church we had to do a little more shopping to get ready and so we stopped for lunch at Taco Bell. A familiar face jumped out of the crowd at Tim, it was the pregnancy counselor, Emily. He saw that she was talking on her phone and said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if she was talking about our baby?” I think I answered that it would be “scary, not funny.” So he went over to say hi. Well, it turns out he was right. She was talking to the birth mother; she had just gone into labor.

At around 7pm that evening we got to meet our little miracle, our Kaylee. Two days later we got to take her home to a house that was full of people waiting to hold her and even more people waiting to come over to the house to hold her. On, June 13, 2007, Kaylee Raquel Elaina Laird became officially ours and we are so happy to finally have an “official” complete family.