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I am gonna be closing this blog since most the people I keep up with are on facebook. I am gonna have another blog where I can write and chat about adoption and life...

http://littlebodiesbigblessings.blogspot.com/

It wont get into identifying info about my kids - I'll save that for facebook. But I love following adoption blogs and I love to share my experiences and how God is putting our family together :)

email: kcg2005@gmail.com

3 months already??

I love this little man - LOVE HIM! Can't believe how fast he is growing!! :) When he was first born he looked like his first daddy - but more and more he is looking like his first momma :)

Gage - 2 months old!

Okay so I have totally slacked off on any update with Gage. Really, these last two months have been crazy and difficult but its slowly getting better. See, I was blessed with two incredibly easy babies to start off with so I was not prepared for the craziness a tad more difficult baby can bring :)

For the first month Gage would just cry and cry it seemed. He would be up all night needing to eat every hour and a half to two hours. We were in New Jersey with him for the first three weeks (two weeks longer than originally expected) and there was a ton of us in one little hotel room. That just spells MISERABLE right there.

We decided to bring the girls with us to New Jersey - I wanted them to be there during that special time and I didn't wanna be away from them that long. We also brought my sister and her boyfriend along to watch the girls while we spent time in the hospital (since we couldn't bring the girls). So that had us at four adults and three babies in one hotel room. Kyle left after one week and he took Kinsey home with him. After another week my sister and her boyfriend left and we flew my grandma out to stay with me, Gage and Cali.

We had all driven out together and so on the drive back it was a little bit smaller of a group - me, grandma, gage and cali. The highlight was those few days with my grandma. I loved it - spending time with her and having her there with me.

Back to Gage - turns out the formula was upsetting his stomach and nt settling well. A couple weeks ago we switched his formula to something the doctor had me try and he has been doing so much better! I had orginally planned to breastfeed him - I had been breastfeeding Cali until he came along for the purpose of having my milk supply - but I just couldn't stick with it. I breastfed him a handful of times - maybe 15 times - but I just couldn't stick to it. There are a couple factors that went into that but either way - its just not happening. He will eat now and go back to sleep (typically) instead of staying away for hours in the middle of the night. His crying spells are alot less than they use to be which is a plus.

The girls have been amazing with him. I think that has kept me sane. They love him dearly and shower him with kisses - sometimes too many kisses and hugs. They help me out alot - its amazing how nice it is to make a bottle and ask Kinsey to hold it and feed him so I can get something done. Sometimes it takes some bribery - but isn't that necessary sometimes in parenting?

No one can make gage smile like Kinsey can. She says the sweetest things to him:

"I love you mister!" or "Its okay Gage, mommy will keep you safe" or "I love you very so much" or "you don't have to be scared" or "Do you love me gage? Do you love me?"

They love him so much :)

I'll post more sometime on how everything came together :)

We welcome Gage!

June 15, Tuesday, at 11:31am our son Gage was born!
We arrived to meet him the next morning :)

We love this little guy!
Still here waiting for ICPC to be cleared!
I will update more when I have some more time :)

On our next adoption

We have been looking into two other agencies to sign up with in addition to Project Cuddle and our own agency that places kids from the foster care system. Both agencies are small and located in our home state... they only do a few adoptions a year (each do about 6 a year) but I am hoping that between the three we are on with that something will happen. I have the applications filled out - just gotta mail them in this week. The fact that we are pretty open - open to race & gender alone should make a placement quicker - but thats not always the case. I would think that a placement in our home state would make things SO much easier - but I also know that I would go through all the stress and inconvienece of an out of state adoption to have my beautiful Kinsey in a heart beat. Since when is life suposed to be easy and stress free? :) Kinsey's adoption and everything surrounding how it went was pretty much perfect. I am not counting on the next one to go as smoothly but it would be nice :) Things never go the way you want anyway, no matter how close to home they are. I have no clue the direction God is gonna take us and I can't possibly guess. I play out scenarios in my head of when and where but I know it will be nothing like I imagine... and I think that is a good thing :) We keep trying to figure out if Kyle will stay home with the girls, if all four of us will go, if we will leave the girls with my parents... but really we can't know what to do until we get the call and the situations surrounding it. As far as our budget we are applying for grants and trying not to worry. We know God can provide the funds needed - and I just assume he will provide through grants... but what if he doesn't? Its a little harder to trust when he doesn't provide the way you want him to. I don't know.. just rambling a bit. I think adopting the second time around is alot easier than the first... at least I seem to have more patience this time. I am content where God has me and who he has entrusted to me. I am excited about the future but I am excited about the present too. I'll keep ya updated!