Her First Doctor Appointment :-)

Today was Kinsey's first appointment with Dr. Chandler! (This is Dr. Chandler & Kinsey) Dr. Chandler is Kyle's family physician and actually delivered Kyle almost 23 years ago! Kinsey weighed 7 lbs., 10 oz. at birth and today she weighed 8 lbs. 10 oz. - just two weeks and one day after her birth :-) He said she was completely healthy - as perfect as any baby could be! He also suggested that we take a picture of her hairy body because it will fall off and he thought when she is a teenager that she may want to know how hairy she was lol :-) Anyway... so it is exciting.... she had her first check up! * * Last night was so much better than two nights ago too. She actually stayed on schedule and woke up every three hours (almost to the minute). It was a nice change from the night before. I would wake up - feed her - and she would go right back to bed. She had a big day yesterday though so I am sure that helped too. I went to Warsaw yesterday, took my final, had two evaluations and had lunch with my sister Shauna, brother Johnny, mom and grandma. It was a nice time together and I enjoyed it! Neither Johnny nor my grandma had met Kinsey yet and so they loved being able to hold her :-) We took a four generation picture and now tomorrow we will have to take a five generation pic with my great grandma who I turned into a great great grandma with Kinsey. On the way back from Warsaw Kinsey cried the whole way home...but once we got back to grandma Joan's she was alright and we snuggled together before grandma got her :-) Grandma Joan has just been cuddling and cuddling with her :-) We have been over there everyday and its been so nice for us all. I love spending time with the inlaws... they are amazing. I love to mention that they are the inlaws because I think it magnifies how amazing our relationship is lol... I have heard such terrible inlaw stories but I am SOOO VERY BLESSED!! * * Yesterday we got a call about David too. David was the young boy who we were planning on adopting prior to Kinsey. Then we had decided to adopt both... well we hadn't heard anything about him in a month a now all of a sudden - BAM! Anyway... all different kinds of thoughts running through our minds now... David is an eleven year old boy from Texas. He has been wanting to be adopted for a long time and has actively taken a role in selecting a family to adopt him. Out of the homestudies that he read with his case worker of families wanting to adopt him - he wants us to be his parents. They asked if he wanted to move all the way to Indiana - he doesn't care as long as we adopt him :-) He has no behavior issues, he has no health problems, he has no delays ... his only "special need" is his age. He has had many people tell him (old foster parents) that no one loves him and thats why he doesn't have any parents. He longs to be loved and be part of a family... and said he would be so excited about being an older brother! Anyway, as many of you may know - older children are on our heart and adopting an older child was our desire when beginning this process. Project Cuddle, our agency and david's agency all are perfectly alright with us adopting both - so now we must decide. There is plenty of love in our hearts for both Kinsey and David.... we love children and love being parents! We feel like God has blessed us with an amazing love for these "fatherless" children. We just want to make a wise decision. We will see where God leads us... so keep us in your prayers!! We really need God's direction! :-)