Birthday fun--girl style!

D and I had a fun day celebrating my birthday! I took her to get her hair trimmed and ready for the first day of school on Monday! We then met my friend Melissa and one of her sons at Jungle Java for a lunch play date. And the icing on the cake was a pedicure!

Tomorrow is the parent orientation at preschool and then open house on Friday, D can't wait!

LABOR of love (Happy Labor Day!)

After and Before!

Our smart girl.....

D continues to amaze us everyday! She loves to sit and draw, cut, paste, and write her name and our name on everything. She is so ready to go back to school on the 13th. She will have the opportunity to see her classroom and meet her teachers next Friday.

We are working on her recognition of lower case letters, as well as writing them. She is very interested in knowing what the small letter is for all the big letters. She also wants to know how to spell everything! We are so happy she enjoys writing and creating.

Beating the HEAT!

Update on life.....

We have been in Michigan over a month now, hard to believe! We have unpacked all the boxes on the first and second floor with the exception of the picture boxes. We worked on getting the garage organized so that we could finally park the cars in there. Next up will be the basement (yuck).

This week D and I spent lots of time at the park, the zoo, and school shopping. Only a few more things to get and I think she will be set to start her new preschool on the 13th!

We contacted the local agency for foster care/adoption. We have to attend two orientations and two training classes in October. We gave them the contact information for our caseworker in NY, so hopefully they will get all our stuff sent before October. They are in desperate need of homes in our county (and Michigan) because of the economy, so hopefully we will be certified fairly quickly.

Today we went to the Dragon on the Lake festival, it was a lot of fun. There were some local food vendors, police/fire displays, bounce/slide fun, entertainment, and boat races. D got her fingerprints done, she thought that was pretty cool (she has been with us when we have had them done for foster care/adoption).

Visit from the parents!

My parents came to visit this past week. We were able to celebrate my dad's 60th birthday, do some unpacking and lots of shopping.

We visited the Detroit Zoo on Thursday. It is a very nice zoo and not a bad drive from our house. The highlight of the visit was seeing the polar bear swim and D feeding the giraffe! We decided to become members, so hopefully we will be able to get in a few more visits before winter.

Nathan took my dad to the Woodward Dream Cruise. It is a local event for people to show off their old cars/classic cars/muscle cars.

Mom and I spent several days trying to find bedding for the master bedroom. After 3 attempts, I think we have finally find a color combination that I like. I still need to find a better coverlet then I bought initially. I will be back out on the search this week.

We are almost all unpacked on the main floors. We have a few boxes left in our room, one of the guest rooms, and the dining room.

Some playroom wall ideas.....

Thoughts?