It's Official!

We had our court hearing today. The Judged asked us some questions, we verified that we were who we say we are, and that we wanted to adopt Kyan as our son, and the judge signed the degree and now we are OFFICIALLY Kyan's parents!!

Here are some pictures, the first two are with the judge and the last 2 are with the 2 Grandmas (Jason and my moms) Who were able to be at the hearing with us.

Now all we have to do is get Ky's citizenship worked out!

Say Hello to Spike!

Here are some pics of Ky's new spikey do!



He also has a bit of a summer cold so there are some boogies in the pic too.

The cutest laugh ever!

I took a video of Kyan laughing a little while ago and thought I should post it for your enjoyment! (This is Ky's real laugh I did not dub any sound on to it.)


Is that the BEST? So cute!

My Little Cutie Pie!

Here are some pictures of my little boy being cute!

Here he is wearing one of my hats... of course when I tried to take a picture he had to take it off and than say "cheese!"

Our court date for Ky's adoption finalization is set for this Friday (7/31)! It will be nice to have that done with and than we need to work on his citizenship!

Tuggy the tug boat

Kyan got a tug boat sand box from his Auntie Anna.  It is so CUTE!  It says “Tuggy” on the front of it.  I filled it with some water the other day and Ky had a blast playing in it!  Thanks Anna!!

    

He loves the steering wheel!

He also loved to splash and throw rocks into it (and the hose attachments)!

We Have A Winner!

The winner of the beach bag with personal monogram is....

Justin!

Congrats Justin, now you just have to decide on what letter and what color you want the monogram... maybe Ola can help if you are still having trouble!

Post 101- A Lot Can Happen in 100 posts!

WOW! I cannot believe that we have been blogging for almost 2 years and we have posted 100 times (well, 101 times) . I am going to take us on a little trip down memory lane.

This was our first post! We had just started to look into adoption agencies!
Here is where we made our decision to go with Children's Home Society. And we have LOVED working with them and hope to continue!
This is when we got approved for our Home Study . and started our wait for our referral.
This was some of the best news of my whole life! Followed by this news Which also really made my year! Here is a post about out trip to Korea. We came home with Kyan on Nov 5th 2008... about 8 months ago.

We have had a lot of firsts:
Kyan's first Thanksgiving
Kyan's first Christmas
Kyan's first birthday
Kyan's first hair cut
Kyan's firts steps video of Kyan walking is here and here
Kyan's first 4th of July

Jason and I also had our first Mother's day and Father's day!

Ok, now that I have linked to myself about 100 times, we are all caught up to the here and now!


AND

To celebrate our 100 posts, I am having a GIVEAWAY!!!!!

Here is what you can win:

A homemade beach bag with extra long handles! I will also iron on a monogram in your choice of letter and color (I think that black, red or brown would look good but it is you choice if you win!)

Just leave a comment below for a chance to win. Only one entry per person. I will ship anywhere. If I don't have your address already, please leave a way to contact you. You must comment before Monday, July 13th (my mom's birthday!) I will pick a winner on Tuesday, the 14th!

Good luck!

The ONLY firework I saw was...

This litte guy!
The full story why is here, but long story short is Kyan was crabby so we stayed home.

We still had a great 4th of July none-the-less! My parents (Mima and Pepaw) came over and babysat Kyan for us while we went to an afternoon showing of Transformers 2. We really enjoyed the movie. We came home and BBQ'd some hamburgers and brats and they went home to watch fireworks from their porch. We were planning on going to Stillwaterto see the fireworks, but ended up staying home. We got some cute shots of us in our red, white and blue!

I have been looking for a bike and bike trailer to go riding with Kyan. I found a bike at a garage sale that my SIL Sherrie was having, and I found the bike trailer on Craigslist. TOTAL price for everything was $90! Woo hoo! We took it out for a spin this weekend. Kyan loved it. It was a short ride, becuase I have not ridden a bike in probably about 10 years, and I had to go up and over a small hill. Pulling a 30 pound weight behind you makes hills much bigger deals than when you are riding alone! I am looking forward to more bike rides, I think it will be a nice way to break up the day! Here are some pictures of that!

Also, today marks the 8 month-a-versary of Kyan coming home!

I am going to do a giveaway for our 101st post (the next one) but here is a sneak peek of what you could win! I hope everyone's 4th was wonderful!

Not much to say...

but I feel like I should give some kind of an update so here goes.

Jason called the Ramsey County Juvenile Court to set up a date to finalize, but were informed that they have not processed our paperwork yet and they are scheduled out into August and they will call us back. So it looks like we wont here any news until than...

Kyan is walking EVERYWHERE now. I am happy about it and he likes his freedom! It is nice that he is not on he hands and knees all the time now. He is such a boy! He loves trucks and balls and to bang and throw things, it is quite amazing how it is really ingrained into them! He points to things and says "That!" when he wants it, and when he had it he says "This!" he also says Cracker, cookie, cheese, (hmmm all food things!) Everyday I feel like he is getting to be more and more a little boy and less and less of my baby boy.

We have Kyan sleeping his is crib all night now. He is NOT too happy about it! He still cries for a bit when we lay him down and will sometime wake up in the middle of the night and cry himself back to sleep but overall it is getting better. He is sleeping longer and better so I think that is good. It is good for me and Jason to have some time to ourselves in the evening as well!

Here are some update pictures from today!

This is Post 99! so I was thinking of doing a giveaway for post 100... but I want to know if anyone would enter! If I did a giveaway, what would you most be interested in? Homemade soap. Homemade cards or stationary, Homemade purse or tote, any other ideas? Leave a comment to let me know.

If I get enough interest than I will do the giveaway, if not than, post 100 will just be a regular post!

Happy Father's Day!

Today is Jason's first Father's Day! We are so excited! He is an AWESOME Dad (Just like I knew he would be!)