In case anybody remembers/wonders about me and mine...
Dd is 9 years old and still a mini-me to my secret delight. She just finished a glass fusing workshop at the art museum and made an ornament for Santa there.
Ds #1 is 7.5 and a great cartoonist. He stopped kissing me cold turkey but is still a great snuggler.
Ds #2 is 3.5 and is loving preschool. Sings the Lion King soundtrack at the top of his lungs and cracks me up.
Ds #3 is 1.5 and is so, so, so cute and charming and so, so, so naughty. He has just been declassified as medically fragile (having shed all the maternal antibodies for HIV and Hep-C) I still drive him to visit his bio parents every other week. It was such drama at first, so hard for me, but has turned into such a blessing. We have a good rapport. We are happy to see each other. I am working up my nerve to ask her some big questions--especially because this won't last forever. Come April there is a trial to terminate their rights to him (with several possible outcomes but most likely we'll be adopting him some time in 2010) Now I hate to think of our last visit together. I hope to always stay in touch but I don't know how that will pan out.
Oh and E's begun to have some realizations about what being adopted means and talks a lot about his bio-siblings. Wish they weren't so far away.
As for me, besides being busy with four kids and the puppy we got last Xmas (and the cat and the house and the yard and the cooking more-more-more from scratch and making gifts and being crafty in general)...I'm my dd's Brownie leader and Iove it and am now the President of the diversity organization I've been involved with for several years and we are doing a lot of great stuff together.
Winter's descending which means fires roaring, bread baking, kids getting on my nerves by 5:30. Need to adjust my attitude and dust off my winter survival techniques.
And that's my update 
Here's Z loving a goat at the Zoo in October
