Happy Birthday

Well, another year has come and gone, and Jaynee is one more year older. Or as I like to remind her for the next several weeks, she is 5 years older than me. (I know I will get it for saying that). Anywho, it is amazing that she looks just as good as the day we first met. I was such a loving husband, that I did not plan any activity, no special gift, and I didn't even make breakfast for her. In fact I let her get up first and get the girls out of bed. I need to do a better job next year, and maybe even next week if I want to climb out of the hole I have just created.

The girls are doing great. Sofia now has an appointment for surgery to have tubes placed in her ears. The surgery will be on 1 March. Also, we think we had our last home visit for Sofia this week. It really depends how long it will take for use to appear in court before we know for sure. Luckily, we had original court documents from Oklahoma and we were able to provide them to our case worker. This should speed up the process of finalization by about 2-3 weeks.

Looking at recent pictures taken of the girls, one of them is at a restaurant where Emma is reading the menu just like a newspaper. She did not want to put it down even when the food arrived. When we tried to snap a photo of her, she would look away or move so the photo is not the sharpest.



Also this week, we had pancakes for dinner. I love to have peanut butter on mine. Sofia saw me spreading it on my pancakes and wanted a taste. So I got a spoon out and gave her a bit. She loved it so much that between her and Emma they helped me finish yet another jar of some of the best tasting stuff in the world.




I wanted to meet the girls for lunch one day at the new park recently built on post. There are a lot of things to play on and the entire play yard is built on a large sponge that feels like a really really soft track. The girls loved every minute there, and it looks like we will try to do this about once a week just so the girls get out and run for a little while. Jaynee mentioned that we bought a slide so here are some pictures of the girls playing on them as well.