Monday, October 25, 2010

Going to the Pumpkin Patch

We made some new friends at a Families Supporting Adoption (FSA) Activity. Left to Right Juliet, Kingston and Aaron-and then us. We went together to a pumpkin patch


Here's the Pumpkin we took home :) Okay, Just Kidding! We don't own a chain saw big enough to carve it. Who knew they got that big.












It took forever to get Kingston and Ezra to sit still for this pose. Asking them to smile at the same time would've been too much.










Apparently the corn maze was really growing corn. Not just that normal stuff you see in the produce section but the really cool decorative kind. After tasting it we realized there's a reason we normally eat the other kind.






They had real bowling balls and pins which we found surprisingly difficult to pry our boys away from.





Miniature Golf. You can't tell but they put shoes on the end of each "golf club". It felt a little like kicking the ball.






After taking advantage of the myriad of activities the place had available we decided the pumpkins themselves weren't really that great. We never actually bought one but we sure had fun.

It was also great to get to know another family going the adoption route. Even though their experiences are very different. Everyone's experiences with adoption are different, even the trials and blessings for another family can be different.

Some of us struggle with failing the mission of every living organism on earth-to reproduce, or pass on that red hair, or never experiencing pregnancy or giving birth, or never parenting a child that looks like you, or never fitting in with other new mothers who talk about labor, delivery and breast-feeding, and the list could go on and on...

The blessings can be different too. They hopefully will all eventually include children. Some of us are blessed with an open relationship with the birth family, a stronger relationship with your family, Heavenly Father, and of course not having to experience the pain of labor, delivery and breast-feeding :) And you get to meet other great people like you :)

Saturday, October 2, 2010

No baby :( but we still have a cute little boy


Some adoption blog posts are hard to capture with a picture.

It's high time we updated everyone on our birth mom/baby situation....it didn't work out. The birth father changed his mind. I feel a little like we had a child die but we have no pictures to look back and remember no memories to cherish and thereby no pictures to post. No one wants to see pictures of us mourning the loss of this child-the unwashed dishes and sleepless parents looking frumpy.

Fortunately we still have Ezra being as cute as ever. He had a birthday and that was a good distraction for us to plan a celebration. We decorated cupcakes for his party. The cupcakes weren't much to look at but apparently they were delicious.