I’ve been collecting Digitreats ABC Kits, pretty much since she started them.  I have a few that I am missing, and will collect those when the series is done and I can do a one stop shopping venture.  I’ve been wanting to scrap some pictures of Mister with Digitreats kits, but have been waiting for the "Z."  I know, I know!  But, her alpha’s are really cute and I wanted to put his name on them!

 

She recently reopened her personalized sets offer (information here), so I took the dive and got some.  I was going to wait to use them, but just like a kid on Christmas morning, when I got my zip file from her, I had to tear it open and start scrapping!  Here the a page that I stayed up until 2AM to finish and post!  LOL.  

 

Thanks so much, Pam!  I love my sets and can’t wait to save up enough to get the personalized elements!!!

Credits:

Jump ABC Kit by Digitreats

Personalized Sets by Digitreats

Grunged red paper is from a kit in progress by me.

The boy charm is from a kit in progress by me.

Font: Free font Euphorigenic by Ray Larabie

 

I can’t wait to use the rest of the papers that I got from her!  Poor Mister, I subjected him to an hour and a half of "picture time" so that I could get that shot! 

He is still tossing the sippy cup around like it is a toy, but the spout is making it into his mouth more frequently!  Progress?  I hope so.

He is also using his pincer grasp now!  He’s actually picking up cheerios with his thumb and forefinger instead of scooping them with his palm.  I know, pincer grasp doesn’t seem so awesome, but it is a major milestone as far as I am concerned!

Well, I have to go to sleep now, cause I only get to sleep in so late on Saturdays.  Thank God for my DH, Brian, who takes Z duty on Saturday mornings.  LOL. 

Be blessed. 

Lady V

We had friends over for dinner this evening.  They have two kids, one of which is adopted, the other is homegrown.  We wanted a chance to talk with them about their adoption experience.

The evening was so much fun.  I made the cranberry chicken, which they enjoyed.  They brought chocolate cake, which I enjoyed.  LOL.

It was great to get to hear about their experience with the adoption process.  They had quite a few ups and downs, and I think that their friendship will help us get by as we go through the process ourselves. 

It was so neat to see Mister playing with their kids, although he currently has NO concept of sharing.  LOL.  It’s a good thing that they do, because they did so well!

They also gave us the number of the attorney that they used for their adoption.  I have a feeling I’ll be making some phone calls tomorrow. 

We finished up our Autobiographies for the home study.  Now we just have to photocopy everything so that we can get it mailed. 

Be blessed!

Lady V

Puzzle Dumper

My friend, Amanda, gave us some wooden puzzles for Mister.  You know, the kind with large alpha’s and numbers and stuff. 

Mister likes to pull the puzzle pieces off of the puzzles.  So, I sit on the floor with him and put the pieces back in as he takes them out.  He generally pulls a couple off, and drops them as I am putting others in so that he can pull more off.  It’s kind of funny, because he furiously tries to get more off as I am putting pieces back in place. 

Well, as we were playing this new game, I thought it would be funny to see what he would do if I started putting the pieces in faster than he could pull them off… He grabbed the puzzle by the corner and dumped it.  LOL.  All of the pieces were off.  

I guess I lost.

Sippy Cup Update

The sippy cup experiment is going well.  He actually put the spout of the sippy cup to his mouth tonight.  I removed the valve so that he could actually get some juice out of it, and it appeared that he may have gotten a dribble or two in his mouth as the stream ran down his chin.  Daddy wasn’t so impressed when the sippy cup became a flying object and the stream of apple juice ran down his leg!  Ah well, the thrills of teaching new skills to a baby. 

Scattegories

My Aunt sent this Scattegories e-mail to me, and I thought it would be interesting to post it, and see if anyone would leave their answers…

Here is a fun game to play after having a stressful week at work,
SCATTERGORIES …… It’s harder than it looks! Erase my answers and enter yours. (Hit forward and change answers in copy to be forwarded–send to 10 people including ME!) Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things, nothing made up!
Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question. Okay,
here goes:

1.  What is your name? Virginia

2.  4 letter word?  Verb

3.  Vehicle? Vespar

4.  TV Show? V: The Series

5.  City?  Vale

6.  Boy Name? Vincent

7.  Girl Name?  Victoria

8.  Occupation? Vicar

9.  Something you wear? Victoria’s

10. Food? Veal

11. Something found in a bathroom? Vanity

12. Reason for being late? Vacillate

13. Something you shout? Victory

14. One letter word to describe the person who sent this? Valuable

It’s not easy coming up with all of those “V” words!

Anyway, leave yours if you like!

Be blessed,

 

Lady V