Not Back to School

Yesterday was the first time that I haven't gone "back to school" is 26 years! Weird, huh!?! It feels like it is still summer. To be honest, I am not one bit sad about it! I love my reason for not going back! KYAN!

I am technically going "back to school", since I am teaching one day a week at a home school co-op. But it is not the same as getting ready for teaching full time. I don't have a classroom that I have to set up. I didn't have workshop week. I wont have 35+ students in each class (my new classes are capped at 12!)

It is a perfect job for me. My work week is 1 day a week, 4.5 hours for that day -FREE daycare. Yep, a 6 day weekend and 1 day workweek. PERFECT!

Norman "Pool" Party

We had Jason's family over this weekend for a pool party. The end of August sounds pretty promising for pool weather doesn't it?

Well, even though my pool looked like this:
Very inviting right?
No one went swimming (except for Brent, who got thrown in by Jason and Justin, with all of his clothes on!) because it was 65 degrees out and the water temp was colder than that!! NOT swimming weather! So we played outside instead!

Here are some of the pictures I got:

Kyan and Tate riding in the wagon.


Auntie Anna pulling the boys.




Playing with the tee-ball game Hunter got for his birthday.

Kyan getting hit in the face with a ball that Brent hit! ....He was fine!

Kyan taking the bat away from Brent after...
Callie with her Uncle Justin

Another one of Ky!

Callie girl

Matty
Matty and Kyan

Another one of Matty

Some shots of all the Norman siblings and their kids

You may be wondering.... "Were Jason's parents there? Grandma Debbie and Grandpa Steve?" Yes, they were, they are just good at eluding the camera!

How do you keep a 1 year busy while you make supper?

He did this for the whole time I was making dinner the other night, with no prompting from me. I think it could be good practice for mowing the lawn, shoveling the driveway, vacuuming the living room... : )

Winnie the Pooh

I also think he looks a bit like and Ewok! : )

9 months!

Yesterday, Aug. 5th, was Kyan's 9 month-aversary since coming home. This is a big deal to us because now we have cared for Kyan longer than any one else did when he was in Korea. Now Jason and I have had him the LONGEST! That is pretty exciting to us!

So I will leave you with this video of Ky playing with a ball I got from the Dollar Store (best buck I've spent in a while!) He played with it for the longest time! I think he may want to sleep with it tonight! He just figured out that it bounces high on the hardwood floor. Please excuse the mess... I have a toddler! : )

My Son Sorts His Food

Yesterday when I came back to check on how Ky was doing eating his crackers, this is what I found:

He had sorted out all of the pretzel ones into to cup slot. These crackers had come in a bag that had the 2 mixed up. He ate all of the cheddar ones and left the pretzels.


Than this morning I came upon this while he was eating his breakfast:

he had sorted out all the banana and than ate all the grapes. (When I put them on his plate they were all mixed up.)

The math person in me is SO EXCITED that he is already sorting... we may have a math genius on our hands... however, the picky-eater in me is thinking... he probably just is sorting his food because he is also a picky eater!

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!