Wednesday, April 25, 2007

1st Post Placement, Busy Life and Funny Kids

Sorry it's been so long since the last update.
We're all doing fine here except for the colds that have been hanging around for over a week now. We had our first post placment meeting with the social worker. She watched Chloe and asked us lots of questions. She write a long report which will be sent to our agency, translated into Russian and snt to Russia. We do another one when Chloe's been home for 11 months, then another at 2 years and the final one when she's been home for 3 years. She'll be 4 1/2. It seems like that is a long way off, but I know it will be here before we know it.

We've been very busy getting the house ready to put on the market. I showed the kids the pictures of the house on the website that I put together and Wyatt said, "That doesn't look like our house." So, I went to the next page of pictures and he still insisted that it didn't look like our house. So, I finally asked what looks different. He waves his hand over the picture and says, "Look, it's all clean. That's not what it looks like." I had to laugh because he is exactly right.
Jake was asked recently how he know that God is a man. He quickly replied "God's a man's name." Hehe. You know, Doug, Bob, God... MAN names.
This is a perfect example of the boys loving Chloe. She's saying, "No, Wyatt, Jakey, NO." She likes them to play with he and be close by and they like to snuggle, touch and cuddle her like she's a puppy.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Hey, that's Coco's

Chloe is soooo ready to be 2. Her favorite word has been "mine" for quite a while. Now she's also quite fond of correcting you when you tell her something belongs to someone else. This makes us all laugh, especially the boys. She calls herself Coco which we also think is so cute. Here she is in action: (Don't forget to pause the music)











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She also looooves to answer, "no." So, the boys use her as their own Magic 8 ball and they ask her things like, "Should I do my homework? or "Do I have to drink my milk?" because they know they will get an emphatic, "No>"

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Where is Spring?

I'm so done with this weather! The past couple weeks have been as cold or colder here than in St. Petersburg, Russia! Here's a picture of the boys in the way into school on Thursday.
Here's Chloe saying, "cheeeeeese." Only 50 days until summer vacation!

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Baby Tyce

Introducing....

Tyce Justin Michael Bucy

Born April 4, 2007
8lbs. 6oz. 20 in.


What a beautiful baby!

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Happy Easter

Here we all are on our first Easter as a family of five.

We started the weekend by decorating eggs. It was just the kids and I since Justin was out of town for the day. Chloe decided that she should lob the hard boiled eggs across the table. This was very unlike her, but she was bound and determined that she should do it, so after 3 eggs she was done. Jake was very sad that three of his broke and he had little funerals for them. Wyatt just really, really liked the feel of them and has broken several since decorating them. I think next year we'll paint rocks. Haha.
On Saturday we visited with the the Phillips family and Chloe got to play with Justin's cousin's baby who is 8 months younger. Here they are in their first face to face meeting.
Justin's Grandpa Pete got to meet Chloe for the first time. Here's all three kids with their only living great grandpa. These 3 three lucky kids have 8 grandparents, 4 great grandmas and 1 great grandpa. Wow!
This morning they were very excited about their Easter baskets and enjoyed hunting for eggs.
Here's the best picture of Chloe's outfit. It was so much fun to get her all dressed up. The boys were very good sports about dressing up. It's not their favorite thing.
They were also very good in church this morning. Everytime the congregation is told to please stand, Chloe would say, "Kay." very loudly and hop to her feet, it was so funny.
We ended the day with a stop at Grandpa George and Grandma's house. This week was also a very big week for the Bucys. Jay and Erica had their baby on the 4th. I'll be posting all the info as soon as they email me a picture.

The other exciting news this week was that Jake ran into someone in gym and hit his nose very hard. I'm afraid he broke it. We are following up with the ENT next week and then we'll see what else we should do. Poor kid! As if he doesn't have enough sinus troubles.

Oh, just had to add in that the next 10 days in St. Petersburg, Russia are going to be warmer than here in Chicago. What is that about????